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PNEUMERCATOR

MARINE GAUGES: gauging quality from the hog islanders to the latest roll-on/roll-offs

Over 50 years experience have made "Pneumercator Quality" the specification standard for both naval and commercial shipbuildings.

For marine applications, Pneumercator offers manometer-type liquid-level gauges and alarm systems. They are manufactured to your precise requirements.

Pneumercator has a commercial gauge or system for virtually every application includ- ing corrosive fluids. Our dial gauges include both hydrostatic and float-operated self- contained hydraulic models. Available with pointer travel from 5"-291/2", and no outside source of power is required at the tank.

For further information, please call or write our Mr. Wicks.

Call or write for Bulletin #16

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World-Wide Shipping

Orders 170,000-Dwt

Tanker From IHI

IHI (Ishikawajima-Harima

Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.) re- cently received an order for a 170,- 000-dwt tanker from Wt>rld-\Vide (Shipping) Ltd., Hong Kong.

The tanker will be built at the

IHI Aioi Shipyard, with delivery scheduled for July 1975. She will have the following approximate di- mensions: a length of 915 feet, a breadth of 146 feet, a depth of 81 feet, and a draft of 62 feet.

A 32,000-hp IHI-Sulzer 8RND- 105 marine diesel engine will be in- stalled as her main propulsion ma- chinery.

Mitsui Zosen

Completes Superdock

A superdock capable of construct- ing tankers of between 400,000 and 600,000 deadweight tons has recently been completed by Mitsui Zozen, one of Japan's largest shipbuilders. The new dock, located at Chiba City near

Tokyo, is intended for bisectional hull construction.

The dock is about 653 feet long, 236 feet wide and 41 feet deep. Con- struction of the superdock. started in the fall of 1971, cost more than $26.6 million.

Oil Transport Barge

Requests Title XI

For Towboats/Barges

Application for Title XI mort- gage and loan insurance in connec- tion with two double-side barges and two twin-screw towboats has been filed with the Maritime Ad- ministration by Oil Transport

Barge Lines, New Orleans, La. A contract to build both the barges and towboats has been awarded to American Marine Corp., New-

Orleans. The cost of the towboats will be $1.3 million each, and the barges will cost $450,000 each.

Title XI Approved

For Construction Of 19 River Barges

A Title XI application from 1973

Barge Leasing Corp., 1 Rockefeller

Plaza, New York, N.Y., in connec- tion with 19 dry-cargo river barges has been approved by the Maritime

Administration. Dravo Corporation,

Pittsburgh, Pa., will build 12 rake- type barges at a cost of $1,549,632, and seven box-tv]>e barges will be built by Twin City Shipyard. Inc., St.

Paul, Minn., at a cost of $917,000.

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Elmsford, N.Y. 10523 phone: (914) 592-4710

Thrige-Titan winches were bred and tested in the North

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