Delaware Marine Launches Pilot Boat For Port Of Monrovia

The pilot boat Ducor was recently launched at Delaware Marine & Manufacturing Company shipyard at Milford, Del.

Those on hand at the launching included Delaware State Senator Thurman Adams, Milford Mayor Herman S. McNatt, Kurt Schneider, who represented the National Port Authority, and State Representative Ruth Ann Minner, who christened the vessel.

The vessel was built f o r the National Port Authority, Liberia, for use at the port of Monrovia.Principal dimensions of the Ducor are 52 feet 4 inches length overall, 16 feet molded beam, and 4 feet loaded draft.

The vessel is of all-welded steel construction, having twin Detroit Diesel model 8V-71 propulsion engines which are cooled by R.W.

Fernstrum keel coolers. A Speich clear-view screen is fitted in one of the forward pilothouse windows, all of which are by the Cornell-Carr Company. Fiberglass seats are by the American Seating Company.

Electronic equipment consists of a Seascan radar, Raytheon single sideband radiotelephone, Raytheon VHF-FM radiotelephone and Benmar depth sounder. An 8-inch-diameter Ray-Line searchlight is also fitted.

Upon completion, the vessel will be run to Baltimore, Md., and put on a ship bound for Liberia.

The vessel was designed by Richard R.

Taubler, Inc., naval architect of Dover, Del.

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