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TPM Awarded $2.5-Million

Navy Contract

Turbo Power and Marine Sys- tems, Inc., Farmington, Connecti- cut 06032, has received a U.S. Na- vy contract for $2.5 million to sup- ply two marine gas turbine engines of an advanced design and to con- duct an 18-month operational at- sea demonstration program. Wil- liam J. Closs, TPM president, said the Navy purchased the turbines and were supplying them to Turbo

Power and Marine Systems, Inc., as Government furnished equip- ment.

The two turbines will be install- ed in the Seatrain Lines' container- ship Asiafreighter, and will in- crease the shaft horsepower from 30,000 to 35,000 horsepower. Ship modifications and a portion of the equipment installation will be ac- complished over a seven-day pe- riod when the Asiafreighter goes into dry dock in Rotterdam this month. Since the gas generators can be changed in a matter of hours, the mating of the advanced gas generators and the free tur- bines will be accomplished on a subsequent visit to a UJS. port while the freighter unloads and loads cargo. Other specialized

First, judge a shipbuilder by what it's done.

Since 1921 we have been designing and building marine equipment and systems for operation all over the world. 1. We built the world's first offshore drilling tender. It brought in Louisiana's first tideland oil discovery. 2. We built the first self-propelled drilling ships in the world. Four of them.

They continue to set standards of oper- ational success. 3. We built a tug/barge container system for the distri- bution of products to shallow-water ports in the Caribbean. Then we built a 208-foot roll-on/roll-off trailership to make the first system even better. 4. We built the world's first LASH barges and we built the world's first

SEABEE barges.

Now we are the largest builder any- where of these major components in a new trans- portation system that is changing the living habits of millions of people.

And we continue to create change in the ocean industries.

Then, judge it by what it's doing.

We are one of the largest builders in the world of a great variety of vessels and marine equipment. 1. We're building offshore towing and supply ships for major companies working in oil fields throughout the world.

Ships designed and constructed for efficient anchor handling and rig towing and the carrying of bulk and liquid cargo. 2. The crewboats we're build- ing are in operation in every offshore oil and gas producing area. Lake Maracaibo. Cook

Inlet. Southeast Asia. The

Persian Gulf. The Gulf of Mexico. High- speed vessels meeting drilling, exploration, and production schedules every day carrying men and cargo. 3. We're building oil barges, deck cargo barges, liquid cargo barges, pipelaying barges, dredge tenders,

LASH switch- ing boats, ocean-going and harbor tugs, fire tugs, and staging tugs. Offshore quarters units and derricks. 4. We have improved and expanded our facilities to build bigger and better vessels, and to stay on the leading edge of change.

We built the marine equipment and systems that the ocean industries grew up on..« .

We're continuing, to buiM theni to keep • the ocean industries growing.

Equitable Equipment Company, trie. • P. O. Box 8001, New Orleans, Louisiana 70182 504/947-0631 • Cable: EQUITY • Telex:. 058-'354

A subsidiary• of Trinity Industries, Inc. . ~ , equipment, including a new de- mister system to minimize salt air in the vessel's inlet stacks, will be installed by December, at which time a 12,000-hour demonstration program will be conducted.

TPM marine gas turbines have already accumulated over 40,000 hours in a Navy-related program aboard the roll-on/roll-off ship,

Adm. Wm. M. Callaghan.

Mr. Closs said the Asiafreighter will use FT4C-1 gas turbines in place of the FT4A-12 engines now installed. TPM has sold over 100 of the improved performance FT4s with 50 units now in operation in electric utility applications, but the

Navy installation will be the first marine application.

The United States Coast Guard has a 12-vessel fleet of TPM-pow- ered high-endurance cutters and is currently building two icebreakers, each powered by TPM furnished equipment.

TPM is a subsidiary of United

Aircraft of East Hartford, Conn.

Nippon Kokan Receives

Order From China For

Eight Large Dredges

The China National Machinery

Import and Export (Corporation of

Peking has concluded a contract to purchase eight large-capacity self-propelled bucket-type dredges from Nippon Kokan (NKK), Ja- pan's only integrated shipbuilder- steelmaker-fabricator and the na- tion's number two steel producer.

NKK's New York shipbuilding department said the 26,500-cubic- feet per hour capacity dredges are to be delivered in 1974 and 1975.

The order is the largest of its kind booked by a Japanese shipbuilder for China, according to NKK.

Initial negotiations were com- pleted when a group of NKK ship- building division specialists, head- ed by Koichi Toyama, was invited to Peking to exchange technical information on shipbuilding, in- cluding dredges. This visit pro- duced an inquiry concerning three dredges.

Later, NKK sent a business and technical group to Peking to final- ize negotiations. This development led to the order for eight dredges.

Everett Stevedoring

Names Drinkwater

General Manager

Everett Stevedoring Co., Ever- ett, Wash., has named Harry G.

Drinkwater as general manager, succeeding Glenn E. Crout who re- tired June 30. For the past several years, Mr. Drinkwater has been vice president and operations man- ager of the firm.

Having been connected with the stevedoring business all of Bis life,

Mr.- Drinkwater first joined his fa- ther at the Empire Stevedoring Co. at Vancouver, British Columbia, prior to World War II. • He joined Empire Stevedoring as -superintendent in 1962, and worked in various departments pri- or to relocating at Everett.

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