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A completely integrated full-service ship repair yard with total in-house capability to accomplish all types of ship repair work. • 5 Graving Docks to 100,000 D.W.T. capacity • New large capacity dock to be completed

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Radcliff Materials Orders

Its Third Steermaster Unit

From The Waterways Company

Walter Todd, president, The Waterways

Company, Pass Christian, Miss., has announc- ed the signing of a contract with Radcliff

Materials, Mobile, Ala., for that company's third Steermaster bow steering system. The vessel is under construction at Bayou Steel

Corporation in Gulfport, Miss.

The new Radcliff Materials Steermaster is a Model 54, powered by a D346 Caterpillar diesel engine and housed in a vessel 45 feet by 35 feet by 12 feet. The bow steering system will operate with a three to four barge shell tow on the Alabama River, and should increase the tonnage handling capability of Radcliff

Materials on that river.

The Steermaster bow steering system is a maneuvering assist device mounted in a lead barge at the head of tows on the inland water- ways, and is designed to reduce appreciably underway time and river accidents through its capabilities of steering a tow at its front.

New Hatch Cover Crane

For Bulk Carriers

Illustrated specifications literature describing their new hatch cover crane for bulk carrier cargo vessels has been developed by Marine Travelift,

Inc. The new material includes large pictures showing both the entire crane and a close-up view of major components. Typical operating specifica- tions are also listed.

Travelift's crane of this type was installed on

American Steamship Company's self-unloading bulk carrier, the Charles E. Wilson. This single belt self-unloader is 680 feet long, with a 78- foot beam and a 45-foot depth. It has a 28,000- long-ton cargo capacity for handling stone, iron ore pellets and coal. The Travelift crane is used to handle the ship's 50-foot by 11-foot 6-inch hatch covers, weighing about 5 tons each.

Besides their new hatch cover crane, Marine

Travelift also builds straddle-type mobile hoists for boat handling and transport in marina and boatyard operations. There are eight models in this line of hydraulic-powered boat hoists. They range for 10 through 50-ton capacity. Most models are open-end design for fast handling of flying bridge or sailing type vessels.

Copies of the new hatch cover crane literature are now available from Marine Travelift, Inc. at 49 East Yew Street, Sturgeon Bay, Wis. 54235.

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