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Coppus Adds FMV

Inert Gas Systems

To Marine Products

Coppus Engineering Corporation,

Worcester, Mass., has signed a li- censing agreement with Fredriksstad

Mek, Fredriksstad, Norway, for the exclusive sale and manufacture of

FMV Inert Gas Systems in the Unit- ed States, Canada and Central Amer- ica.

FMV Inert Gas Systems are de- signed to prevent fire and explosion in cargo tanks of crude oil and ore/ oil carriers. FMV Systems make it possible to prevent an explosive gas mixture from forming at any time during the operations of the vessel by using inert flue gas from ship stacks, or separate Inert Gas Genera- tors, to lower the oxygen content in cargo tanks to a point where the tank atmosphere is below the explo- sive limit.

Coppus Turbine Fan Packages draw the flue gas from the ship stack through a scrubber, where it is clean- ed and cooled before being supplied to the cargo tanks. The system con- tains extensive control and alarm devices to assure safe, reliable op- eration.

Coppus Engineering has long been a manufacturer and supplier of prod- ucts for marine applications: hori- zontal and vertical turbines, pump and engine room ventilators, portable gas freeing ventilators, turbine fan pack- ages for central system gas freeing of tankers through cargo lines, Sax- lund Incinerator Systems and Golar

Stripping Ejectors.

Fredriksstad Mek, founded in 1870, is one of the leading shipbuild- ers in Norway. They build a variety of ships up to 140,000-ton capacity in their fully equipped yard, which em- ploys 2,000 people. Fredriksstad Mek pioneered in the development and in- troduction of the FMV Inert Gas

System, delivering their first plants in 1963. Since then, some 300 plants have been completed or are on order, leaving Fredriksstad Mek as the world's most prominent supplier of

Inert Gas Plants.

This new alliance between Coppus and Fredriksstad Mek will permit

Coppus to offer more complete sys- tems to shipyards and shipowners for the protection of tankers and the safety of crews by combining the

FMV Inert Gas Systems with Cop- pus cargo tank ventilation systems.

United States Lines

Names Captain Kolbe

Marine Superintendent

Capt. Wm. F. Kolbe Jr.

Capt. William F. Kolbe Jr. has been appointed marine super- intendent at United States Lines, according to K.W. Gundling, vice president-marine operations.

Prior to his new post, Captain

Kolbe was assistant marine super- intendent at U.S. Lines, which he first joined in 1941 as a third offi- cer. A graduate of the State Uni- versity of New York Maritime Col- lege, he has served as master of cargo vessels, and was also chief officer and executive officer of the passenger liners America and Unit- ed States. He is a lieutenant, re- tired, in the United States Naval

Reserve.

United States Lines operates a fully containerized Tri-Continent service between Europe, the United

States, Hawaii, Guam and the Far

East, utilizing an all-modern fleet of 16 high-speed high-capacity con- tainerships.

Esso Orders Four

Tankers From IHI

Contracts have been signed between

Esso Tankers Inc., an affiliate of

Exxon Corporation, and Ishikawa- jima-Harima Heavy Industries Co.,

Ltd., Japan, for the construction of four 34,000-dwt fuel oil product car- riers.

The diesel engine powered tankers, which are scheduled to be constructed by IHI at its Tokyo shipyard, will be delivered in 1975. They will be used in international tanker service.

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HYDRAULICS

STEERING GEARS

SERVI steering gears fit boats from 8 to 80 meters- rudder stock diameters up to 300 mm.—rudder torque up to 20 tm.

The actuators are one- or two ram types—also twin rudder actuators in the same sizes are available.

We are looking for new contacts where we are not represented before.

We deliver power packs driven by the main engine via

V-belts, or driven by electric motor, AC or DC. In both cases it is possible to obtain two rudder speeds. One slow speed for normal steering and steering by auto- pilot and one speed for fast maneuvering.

SERVI steering gears—simple-safe and spacesaving.

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