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WESTERN

BLOCKS

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CARGO / CHEEK

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WEIGHTED

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WIRE ROPE

BLOCKS

TACKLE

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Malleable Iron

LIFEBOAT BLOCKS

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SNATCH

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SHEAVES

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SteelShip Delivers

River Towboat To

Eby Construction

The twin-screw Little Rock, powered by a pair of GM

Detroit Diesels, has push knees 12 feet high and a pilot eye level of 25 feet.

Jim Greer III, vice president of Martin K.

Eby Construction Company, recently accepted delivery of SteelShips Hull #32, which was christened the M/V Little Rock.

The M/V Little Rock will be operating out of Eby's Little Rock, Ark., office managed by

R.E. Fanning. With the addition of this new

SteelShip vessel, Eby is now operating three diesel towboats out of the Little Rock area, serving the Arkansas River and its tributaries, building bridges, docks, and other waterfront projects.

Robert L. Kappler, vice president/general manager of SteelShip Corporation, says the

M/V Little Rock, SteelShip's Hull #32, is powered by twin 12V 71N General Motors De- troit Diesel workboat engines supplied by the

Wilkerson Diesel Engine Company of Little

Rock. The vessel is also equipped with a Koh- ler 12.5 KW diesel generator set which pro- vides power for the living accommodations.

Quartz floodlight, switched direct from the pilothouse, completely floods a 500-foot radius circle around the vessel for safe night operation around locks, dams, and other construction sites. The vessel is equipped with two Iva-Lite

LD-22 seal beam searchlights mounted fore and aft on the cabin top for 360-degree one- mile beam operation.

Like all other SteelShip 50-foot push'boats, the M/V Little Rock has four flanking rudders, and two main rudders with Vickers steering.

She isequipped with hydraulic Nashville Bridge deck winches, remote operated from the pilot- house or the fore deck. Other equipment in- cludes four-blade heavy-duty Federal propel- lers, four-inch steel propeller shafts with stain- less steel bushings and_ Johnson rubber bear- ings.

Standard on all SteelShip push'boats is the remote greasing lubrication center which allows the engineer to service all lubrication without leaving the engine room.

For more information concerning any of

SteelShip's products or designs, write Steel-

Ship Corporation, Route 4, Box 167, Pine Bluff,

Ark. 71601.

Teleflex Completes

Acquisition Of Capilano

Teleflex Incorporated, North Wales, Pa., has announced the completion of its acquisition of the hydraulic steering systems operation of

Capilano Engineering Co. Ltd. The Capilano operations are located in Vancouver, British

Columbia, Canada.

The acquired line of proprietary hydraulic steering systems are used primarily in com- mercial and large marine craft and complement

Teleflex's existing lines of mechanical steering and control systems. Teleflex is a multimarket manufacturer of mechanical and electromech- anical controls for marine, automotive, indust- rial, aerospace and nuclear applications.

CARRINGTON SLIPWAYS Pty. Ltd.

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