Marinette Marine Completes $8-Million 20-Vessel Gunboat Contract On Schedule
Marinette Marine Corporation, Foot of Ely Street, Marinette, Wis. 54143, has delivered a total of 20 gunboats under order by the U.S. Navy. The $8-million contract was completed with the recent acceptance of the final vessel at Pier 6, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Naval Yard. All 20 vessels are being transshipped to Iran.
The gunboats are 65 feet in overall length, with an 18-foot beam. The maximum draft is 5 feet 10 inches. They are rated at 82,500 pounds displacement, and powered by three 545-hp 8V71TI General Motors engines.
Operating speed is approximately 30 knots.
Marinette Marine reports that contract delivery date has been met—extending a five-year record for the shipbuilder.
Marinette Marine cites it as one of an unprecedented number of concurrent major projects to be constructed under roof at their expanded facilities in Marinette, Wis. Still in varying stages of production are nine LCUs for delivery to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; 19 LCMs and eight Mini-ATCs.
Completion of the gunboats follows recent announcement of the shipbuilder's signing of a contract for manufacture of the two largest Artubar tug/barge systems ever built. The order marks Marinette Marine's first venture as a supplier of vessels for foreign commerce. It was placed by Coordinated Caribbean Transport, Inc., a division of Transway International Corporation.
The contract is among first major results of Marinette Marine's announced plan to assume a substantially greater role as a supplier of specialty vessels to commercial markets.
In line with this program has been the addition of three new building bays, a 53,000-squarefoot enclosed, heated warehouse, and new NC burning and support equipment—all in the past three years.
Other stories from January 1977 issue
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- Sulzer Receives Order For Combined LPG/LNG Reliquefaction System page: 4
- MarAd Approves Title XI For Two Barge Operators Valued At $10.3 Million page: 6
- American Heavy Lift Requests CDS To Build Two $14-Million Vessels page: 6
- Marinette Marine Completes $8-Million 20-Vessel Gunboat Contract On Schedule page: 7
- $12.5-Million Contract Awarded For Tampa 900-Foot Drydock page: 7
- Atlantic Marine Delivers Unusual Tug To Lago Oil To Handle VLCCs At Aruba page: 7
- DOT Approves Two Offshore Superports For Large Tankers page: 7
- Scindia Lines Plans $122-Million Ship Building Program page: 7
- MSB Approves States And MorMac Exchange Of Vessels page: 8
- Whitehall Club Elects J.J. Henry President page: 8
- Giant Aluminum LNG Sphere 12 Stories High Arrives At General Dynamics Quincy Yard page: 8
- Suderman & Young Towing Elects Rayzor President page: 9
- S/S United States Offered To High Bidder —Minimum $5 Million page: 9
- NASSCO Delivers 90,000-DWT Chestnut Hill- Lays Keel For Fourth San Clemente-Class Tanker page: 9
- Marine Section, NSC, Presents A w a r d s - Elects Officers At National Convention page: 10
- CF Industries Names R.A. Wilson To Head Transportation Group page: 10
- Exxon Awards IMODCO Contract To Construct Offshore Facility page: 10
- Some Aspects Of Large Floating Docks page: 12
- Uniflite, Inc. Delivers Four High-Speed Patrol Boats page: 12
- Prudential Lines Signs Contract For MARISAT Terminals For Entire LASH Fleet page: 12
- Sea Container Affiliate Signs Letter Of Intent For Four Containerships page: 14
- San Diego Sections Of SNAME And ASNE Hear Description Of SUBDEVGR1 Functions page: 14
- Steel Style Delivers Jumbo Floating Drydock page: 14
- N.Y. SNAME Section Hosts Port Engineers And Institute Of Marine Engineers At Technical Meeting page: 14
- Tankers To Install AIRFILCO Engineering Inert Gas Systems page: 16
- Manfred Krutein Opens Marine Consulting Office page: 16
- Offshore Jackup Systems Available In Kit Form From Baker Marine page: 18
- M / G Transport Services Announces Major Senior Management Staff Changes page: 19
- Drillship To Install Sperry Marine Systems Sensing Equipment page: 19
- MSB To Compute Estimated Foreign Cost Of Bulk Carriers page: 19
- SNAME Chesapeake Section Hears Paper On Level Flotation—Research To Regulation page: 19
- H.P. Drewry Reports On The Market For Medium-Sized (70-175,000 DWT) Tankers page: 20
- Gamlen America Names Joseph Nolet Manager Marine Development page: 20
- Halter Marine Services Delivers First Boat To New Company page: 22
- Tanker Built In Spain First To Use New Litton Navigation System page: 23
- Northwest Marine Gets $1.4-Million Contract page: 24
- Sun Releases Analysis Of World Tanker Fleet page: 24
- American Waterways Operators Approve Budget For 1977 page: 25
- Brochure Features New Murphy 232 Marine Diesels page: 25
- Adm. Ralph Cousins Elected President Of Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. page: 25
- Two Farrell Lines Containerships Being Lengthened 144 Feet By Avondale page: 28
- Henry Diercxsens Named Vice President Atlantic Overseas Corp. page: 28
- Worthington Pump Appoints S.V. Ardia page: 29
- Microwave Indicator Tells Level Of Liquid Cargoes Aboard Ship page: 29
- Port Of Houston Terminal Installs Three LeTourneau 50-Ton Straddle Hoist Cranes page: 30
- Dravo Launches 40th Viking-Class Towboat page: 30
- C-E Marine Power Systems Names Robertson And Sabo page: 31
- Diamond Delivers Revolving Crane Trucks To N.C. State Ports page: 31
- TMT Adds Two Double-Deck Barges To Florida-Puerto Rico Operations page: 32
- Equitable Launches First Of Two Ferries For Louisiana Department Of Highways page: 32
- Don Macauley Joins Atlantic Cordage Corp. As Marketing Manager page: 32
- Apelco Announces New Marine Radiotelephone page: 32
- Second 'Catug' Unit For Hvide Shipping Christened At Galveston page: 33
- Coast Guard Orders ENVIROVAC Systems page: 33
- Mangone Ship Delivers 150-Foot Tugboat To Norwegian Owners page: 34
- GE Appoints Noonan Ma nager Of Marketing For Marine Gas Turbines page: 34
- MMC Introduces New Continuous Reading Tank Gauging System page: 34
- CF Industries Names David Titus Manager Seagoing Operations page: 34
- Maritime College Alumni Name Norman Lee 1976 Man Of The Year page: 36
- Saudi Arabia Bars Old Ships From Ports To Reduce Congestion page: 36
- Samson Ocean Systems Describes Pierside Mooring Systems page: 37
- Crowley Appoints Three In Caribbean Division page: 37
- Empire Abrasive Describes Improved Blasting Nozzle page: 37
- Seatrain Appoints Magee To New Executive Post page: 38
- ADDSCO Promotes Bitowf And Roy page: 38
- Walter Kidde To Sell U.S. Lines To WUI, Inc. page: 39
- Bath Iron Launches Fourth Ro/Ro Ship For States Steamship page: 39
- New Waste Oil Dehydrator Operating On Houston Channel page: 40
- Canada Extends Subsidy To Include Conversions page: 41
- Jurong Shipyard Wins $13-Million Contract page: 41
- H.P. Drewry Reports On Tanker Owners' Future page: 41
- Drew Chemical Announces New Chemical Fuel-Oil Additive page: 42
- Northwest Marine Christens Barge Alaska page: 42
- The Cordage Group Promotes W.S. Stroud And P.S. Bowes page: 43
- Keppel Shipyard Converting Ships To Livestock Carriers page: 43
- Halter Delivers Versatile 195-Foot Offshore Supply Vessel page: 43
- Alabama Docks Buys Land For Expansion page: 43
