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Portside profile of the Mobil 2, dressed for her christening, in New York Harbor.

Latest Addition To Mobil's Tug Fleet

The Mobil 2

The tug Mobil 2, the newest ad- dition to Mobil Oil Corporation's fleet of tugs, towboats and barges, was christened on November 1 by

Mrs. A.E. Fischer, whose husband is manager of Mobil's U.S. fleet.

The ceremonies were held at Bat- tery Park Seawall in New York

Harbor.

The Mobil 2 was built by South- ern ShipbuildirigCorporation of Sli- dell, La. It was designed by South- ern Shipbuilding and the technical staff of Mobil Shipping and Trans- portation Company.

Henry J. Luck Jr., general mana- ger of marine transportation at

Mobil, said that Mobil 2 would op- erate in coastwise service between

PaulSboro, N.J., and northeast ter- minals, and in New York Harbor.

The Mobil 2 has an overall length of 108 feet, a molded beam of 30 feet and a draft of 13 feet. The all- welded tugboat is transversely framed and single decked. The hull form incorporates a slight tunnel stern. The American Bureau of

Shipping classification for the tug is Maltese Cross A-l for coastwise towing service.

This latest addition to the Mobil fleet is a twin-screw vessel powered by a pair of General Motors Model 12-645 E2 diesel engines. Each en- gine develops 1,500 blip at 900 rpm.

The engines drive four-bladed stainless-steel Coolidge propellers through a Lufkin, Model RS-2524, reverse-reduction gear and Fawick slip clutches. The propeller shafting was provided by the St. Louis Ship

Division of Pott Industries. The stern tubes and the strut bearings are fitted with Johnson demount- able stave-type bearing surfaces.

The electric power for the tug is provided by two Detroit Diesel engines driving Delco 75-kw gen- erators.

The entire power plant is auto- mated. The Smith Meeker Engi- neering Company developed and supplied the automation system which provides for start, stop and complete monitoring of the main engines, start-up of the diesel-gen- erator sets with automatic starting and switching of the units in case of power failure, and monitoring of other vital machinery functions.

The system also includes the steer- ing-gear supervisory circuits.

Power Products supplied the main switchboard. A Hose McCann telephone system is fitted through- out the vessel, including staterooms.

The Mobil 2 is fitted with a Car- rier Corporation heating and air- conditioning system. Capacity of the system is 13 tons.

A Sperry hydraulic-ram type steering gear actuates the twin rudders. Rockwell supplied the 500- gpm foam fire-fighting system.

The pilothouse is fully outfitted for the services intended. It is equipped with a Sperry Mark 37 gyrocompass and autopilot. The radar is a Decca RM 426. The radio equipment includes one Benmar

SSB radiotelephone and one Intech

VHF radiotelephone, plus two monitoring receivers for distress, ship-to-shore and bridge-to-bridge communication.

View of engineer's control room shows auto- mation/ monitoringpanel; ma in switchboard.

Detroit Diesels drive the Delco generators for electric power.

View of the GM-EMD port main engine, looking aft.

December 1, 1973

Arthur E. Fischer, manager Mobil's U.S. fleet (on left) and

A.R. Seligman, president, Southern Shipbuilding (far right), watch as Mrs. Fischer breaks the bottle naming the Mobil 2. Shown in the background are Mr. Fischer's son-in-law,

Howard Frankel, and grandsons Alan and David Frankel.

Pilothouse, showing steering station and control console. Engine room, looking forward over Lufkin gears. 23