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Bethlehem-Built barges to help supply

Alaska's North Slope

Our San Francisco Yard builds barges right along with its ship repair work. By this fall, it will have delivered the eighth of a series of 16 ordered by

Crowley Maritime Corporation for its majoroperat- ing subsidiary, Puget Sound Tug and Barge Com- pany, Seattle, Washington. Some of these barges will be outfitted by the yard to carry rail cars; the others will carry miscellaneous deck cargo. All will bolster Crowley Maritime's capability to trans- port material between the American mainland and the Alaskan oil fields.

Each barge measures 400 ft by 99 ft, 6 in., by 20- ft deep, and requires the fabrication of more than 2,800 tons of steel. It is built to three-quarter width on the yard's building ways, then launched and floated to the yard's large drydock where side shell assemblies are installed and the completed barge is outfitted and painted. The yard has put on additional workers to expedite the project, which is scheduled for completion in mid-1975.

The Crowley Maritime barge project requires

Is stiffeners by the hundreds.

BETHLEHEM STEEL

Shipbuilding

Executive Offices: Bethlehem, PA 18016

Telephone: (215) 694-2424

Sales Offices: 25 Broadway, New York, NY 10004

Telephone: (212) 344-3300 Cables: BETHSHIP

Bethlehem Shipyards:

Drydocks in Baltimore, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco Harbors, and at Beaumont, Texas.

Building Ways at Sparrows Point Md.; Beaumont, Texas; San Francisco, Calif.; and

Singapore.

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