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McDermott Building Two

Bulkfleet Marine Tugs

Custom-Made For Future

Two vessels now under construction for

Bulkfleet Marine Corporation of Houston,

Texas, at McDermott Shipyard-Morgan City (La.) Division are being custom-made for the future.

Designed to burn heavy fuel oil, a fuel expected to be abundant when other fuels are scarce, the two 140-foot oceangoing tugs are seen as a realistic and innovative tech- nological adaptation to an energy-restricted future. Though similar craft have been built, these are the first such tugboats to be built in the United States. "McDermott feels fortunate to be the first shipbuilder in the country to apply this technology to oceangoing tugs," said V.J.

LeBlanc, head of the McDermott Shipyard

Group. "We're proud we will be building these vessels for Bulkfleet Marine Corpora- tion's fleet."

According to J. Barry Snyder, president of Bulkfleet Marine, the tugs have been ded- icated for service in the Gulf of Mexico, the

Caribbean and the Atlantic Ocean. They will be used with specially designed barges that will carry 203,000 barrels of bulk petroleum each.

The new tugs will each have 8,000 avail- able horsepower, generated by twin 4,000-hp

MaK engines that develop their rated power at a low 425 rpm. The vessels will be 140 feet long, have a 43-foot beam and a depth of 22 feet.

The McDermott shipyards at Morgan City and New Iberia, La., specialize in the con-

HANDSHAKE FOR THE FUTURE — Contract signed for building the first vessels in the fleet of Houston's

Bulkfleet Marine Corp., J. Barry Snyder, left, presi- dent of Bulkfleet, and V.J. LeBlanc, head of J. Ray

McDermott & Co., Inc.'s Shipyard Group, seal the agreement with a handshake. The two oceangoing tugs, to be built by McDermott's Morgan City Divi- sion, will burn heavy fuel oil, a fuel expected to be abundant when other fuels become scarce. struction of large tugs, supply vessels, fish- ing vessels, jackup and package rigs, dredges, oceanographic research and oceangoing work vessels. The yards also construct workover and drilling barges, derrick barges, pipelay- ing barges, crane barges and workboats.

National Marine Seeks

Title XI For 5 Towboats And 46 Barges Costing $36 Million

National Marine Service, Inc., 1750 Brent- wood Boulevard, St. Louis, Mo. 63144, has applied for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of 46 double-skin petroleum chemical tank barges and five diesel-powered towboats. The vessels are expected to be operated on the inland wa- terways of the United States.

The proposed builders for the barges are

Hillman Barge & Construction Co., Browns- ville, Pa., Nashville Bridge Co., Nashville,

Tenn., and Jeffboat, Inc., Jeffersonville, Ind.

The proposed builders for the towboats are

Dravo Corp., Pittsburgh, Pa., and Arthur

Ortis Boat Building, Krotz Springs, La. The vessels are expected to be delivered between 1980 and 1981.

If this application is approved, the Title

XI guarantee would cover $30,700,000 of the total actual cost of $36,390,352.

Ariadne To Build

Tanker At Newport News —Title XI Approved

The Maritime Administration has ap- proved in principle an application by Ariadne

Company, 2001 Marcus Avenue, Lake Suc- cess, N.Y., for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of a 39,700- deadweight-ton tanker. The ship is to be owned by an owner-trustee, bareboat char- tered to Ariadne, and time chartered for approximately 81 - years to the Amerada

Hess Corporation.

The completed vessel will have an overall length of 644 feet 9 inches, a molded beam of 102 feet, and a speed of 16 knots. Plans call for using the existing stern section of the Cities Service Norfolk, a tanker origi- nally constructed by Bethlehem Steel Cor- poration at Sparrows Point, Md., in 1956.

Newport News Shipbuilding has been se- lected to build the new tanker, with delivery estimated for June 1, 1981. The Title XI guarantee is to be for $25,408,000, which is 87' - percent of the estimated actual cost of the ship. Ariadne is a limited partner- ship affiliated with the Berger Group.

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