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Halter Marine Launches 180-Foot Vessel For Martin

Halter Marine Services, Inc., the largest builder of offshore support vessels in the world, has launched the offshore supply ship

Ted Martin, being built for Martin Offshore

Boats, Inc. of Golden Meadow, La. The com- pany operates vessels in support of the oil and gas industry offshore, towing drilling rigs and furnishing vital material to offshore production operations.

The Ted Martin, built at the Moss Point,

Miss., division of Halter Marine Services, has principal dimensions of 180 feet in length, a breadth of 38 feet and a depth of 14 feet, with a normal operating draft of 12 feet.

Normal displacement of the ship is 1,500 long tons.

She is equipped with two General Motors

Electro-Motive Division 8-645-E6A diesel en- gines with 975 bhp each at 900 revolutions per minute. Electrohydraulic steering is by

Sperry Marine Systems, propellers are 78- inch diameter, four-bladed stainless steel, and reverse/reduction gearing is from Reintjes with a 3:1 ratio.

The vessel is American Bureau of Shipping classed A-l, Maltese Cross, Full Ocean Serv- ice, and meets United States Coast Guard requirements for the oil and mineral industry.

Auxiliary and other major equipment in- cludes a Murray Tregurtha bow thruster driven by a 300-horsepower 8V-71 diesel

ATLAS 6500 BCA

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Speed/Time/Distance table. Precise and fast range and bearing measurements displayed on digital readouts make careful target evaluation simple. Threatening target is kept under surveil- lance by gyro-stabilized electronic marker.

Exceptional picture presentation and target discrimination are achieved by advanced power- ful solid state transmitters with four pulse lengths (25kW for X-Band, 30kW for S-Band) and rugged narrow beam antennas (.8° for X-Band, 1.7° for S-Band). 16 inch display includes nine ranges from .3nm to 72 nm, "ships head-up" or "North-up" presentation and gyro driven True

Bearing Scale.

All readouts and important control settings are conveniently displayed on an Information Panel around the PPI.

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TYPE OF VESSEL(S) - engine, a double wildcat anchor windlass,

Gardner Denver mud compressor, two 99-kw generator sets, and an 11-circuit alarm panel for engine monitoring. Fire protection capa- bilities are USCG approved, sanitary water system is by Barnes, and air compressors are from Quincy. Galley equipment includes a triple stainless steel sink, dishwasher, elec- tric range with oven, and a 29-cubic-foot refrigerator/freezer.

The Ted Martin was built at Moss Point, Miss., in one of the seven shipyards operated in the United States by Halter Marine Services, Inc.

The Ted Martin is also equipped with a set of SSB radios, a Decca radar and a Konel radar KRA-136 and Konel radar KRA-1064, a Loran C type, a Raytheon depth recorder and a Raytheon digital depth indicator.

Halter Marine Services, Inc. operates seven shipyards in the United States and is the world's largest builder of offshore support vessels. The company is known throughout the world for its well-proven variety of crew- boats, supply boats, ocean tugs, production vessels, and pilot boats, as well as river push- boats, military patrol boats and custom- designed vessels for specialized services.

FROM TEXACO — The Maritime College at

Fort Schuyler Foundation, Inc., has been pre- sented with a $2,000 unrestricted contribu- tion from the Marine Department of Texaco

Inc. The gift was presented by Charles J.

Gay, assistant general manager of the Texaco

Marine Sales Department and a 1943 grad- uate from the College, to Cadet Richard K.

Kurrus, 1/c, Regimental Commander, repre- senting the Foundation. Looking on is Adm.

Sheldon H. Kinney, president of the Mari- time College and the Foundation. The Mar- itime College at Fort Schuyler Foundation,

Bronx, N.Y., was established in 1976 to assist the College in its academic scholarship pro- grams. This was Texaco's second unrestricted gift to the College under a special $4,000 grant program. 26 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News