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Jet Barge No. 3, owned and operated by J. Ray McDermott & Co., Inc., New Orleans, La,
PIPE DREAM
The pipe-burying barge you see above is now doing yeoman service in the North Sea.
It is unusual, unflappable, and unparalleled.
Seventy-two men can live on it in air-conditioned comfort. It has a helicopter platform. And it con- tains a multitude of equipment and machinery, the most newsworthy of which is a sled of high pressure jets which trench out underneath the pipe previ- ously laid: as they traverse the ocean floor, they are powerful enough to even break rock structures.
Jet Barge No. 3 is the last word of its kind. It is classified by the American Bureau of Shipping fA-1, for unrestricted ocean service. We like to think that one of the reasons it is such an outstanding vessel is that Todd Houston built it. lofeloTODD
TOOD SHIPYARDS CORPORATION: New York • Brooklyn. New Orleans • Galveston • Houston • Los Angeles • San Francisco • Alameda • Seattle
Executive offices: One State Street Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10004. (212) 344-6900. Cable: "Robin" New York.
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