Halter Marine Delivers Crewboat For Service In Arabian Gulf
A new offshore crewboat, eighth in a series built for the same owner, has been delivered by Halter Marine Services, Inc., Chalmette (La.) Division, to Gray Mackenzie and Company, Ltd., Bahrain.
The new vessel is the Grayflier, a 78-foot crewboat whose home port will be Dubai. It was built to Lloyd's 100-A Arabian Gulf Service classification.
Grayflier can carry 40 passengers and its six-man crew is accommodated in a two-man officer's cabin and a four-man crew's quarters.
There is a full galley with mess for six. The vessel, for shipping to the Arabian Gulf, was fitted with a custom-built shipping cradle and loaded on deck of a freighter bound for Dubai.
The crewboat is powered by two General Motors 12V71 TI diesel engines that develop 510 bhp each. Controls are Morse manual at two stations, one in the wheelhouse and one aft. The vessel has a fuel oil capacity of 1,000 U.S. gallons. Reverse/reduction gearing is Twin Disc 2.0:1 and steering gear is Halter Hydraulic.
The crewboat is equipped with an emergency diesel-driven iy2-inch pump connected to two fire stations for fire protection, two Westinghouse air compressors, a Fairbanks Morse sanitary water system, four tons of Carrier heating and air-conditioning, and two 20-kw generators. Deck machinery includes a Skipper Hydraulic orbitrol-driven anchor windlass; communications equipment includes a Decca 48-mile range radar, an Intech VHF radio and a Ross fathometer.
Halter Marine Services' main shipyard is in New Orleans, La. The company owns and operates five other fully equipped shipyards in Louisiana and Mississippi, and is the world's largest builder of support vessels for the offshore oil and gas industry. These include crewboats, anchor-handling, rigtowing and supply ships, ocean tugs and vessels for the inland waterway industry.
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- MarAd Approves Title XI To Finance $23.2-Million Barge/Towboat Program page: 8
- Bethlehem Appoints R. Newcomb Treasurer Shipbuilding Operations page: 8
- Schedule And Papers— SNAME Spring Meeting In Philadelphia, Pa. page: 10
- Russians Buy Oil Barriers From U.S. page: 12
- Todd To Build Six Guided Missile Frigates For Navy At Base Price Of $295 Million page: 13
- Marketing Expert Joins Oil Mop As Executive VP page: 14
- GAO Wants To Know Why Navy Is Not Using Commercial Tugboats page: 20
- Vancouver Shipyards Moves 457-Foot Ferry To Launching Position On Film Of Water page: 23
- Northern New England Section Of ASNE Elects Officers For 1976 page: 24
- Three-Year Navy Salvage Contract Awarded To Crowley page: 25
- Samson Ocean Systems Names R.H. Blanchette Regional Manager page: 25
- Evergreen Marine Corp. Announces New Ships And Plans New Services page: 27
- American Club Elects Officers And Admits Central Gulf Lines page: 27
- Navy Awards Bath Iron $224-Million Contract For Five Missile Frigates page: 28
- N.Y. SNAME To Hold Tanker Symposium At Kings Pt. April 23 page: 32
- Connecticut Company To Represent Swedish C-P Propeller Firm page: 33
- AWO Elects Geary Chairman Of Board —Directors Named page: 34
- Dual Keel-Layings Mark Submarine Tender Construction At Lockheed Shipbuilding And Construction Company page: 36
- Canadian Yards Building For Export page: 37
- 2nd International Symposium On Ship Operation Automation Set For Washington In August page: 37
- Tubbs And FitzGerald Named Vice Presidents At Donhaiser Marine page: 39
- Halter Marine Delivers Crewboat For Service In Arabian Gulf page: 41
- First Swedish-Owned Oil Rig Commissioned At Bethlehem-Beaumont page: 42
- Far East Levingston Names Lovie & Co. U.S. Representative page: 43
- Shipbuilders Council Elects Officers page: 43
- Halter Marine Names A.J. Rizzo Director Of Public Relations page: 44
- McDevitt Named President Of Three Maritime Firms page: 44
- SNAME Los Angeles Section Hears Of Conversion Of Existing Schooner Hull To Brig Pilgrim page: 45
- SNAME San Diego Section Hears Discussion Of Engineers' Tasks page: 46
- DeLaval IMO Pump Division Publishes Illustrated Bulletin On Pumps For Gas Turbines page: 48
- SNAME Philadelphia Section Discusses The Why And How Of Offshore Oil/Gas Drilling page: 48
- ARCO Installs Unit To Evaluate MARISAT page: 49
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- R.T. Greene Forms New Marine Company page: 50
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