Halter Marine Delivers Supply Boat 'Tara Alyene' To Briley Marine

Halter Marine, Inc., New Orleans, La., has delivered the Tara Alyene, a new supply boat, to her owners, Briley Marine of Lafayette, La.

The new vessel, built with the cooperation of Stewart & Stevenson Services, Inc., is 180 feet long, with a 38-foot beam and 14-foot draft. She can carry 3,600 cubic feet of mud in her four bulk mud tanks and 1,700 barrels of liquid mud in four liquid mud tanks.

The Tara Alyene has a speed of approximately 12 knots, and is driven by two GM16V149NA engines developing 900 hp each at 1,800 rpm. She swings two stain- less steel 74-inch four-bladed propellers turning through Twin Disc 540 reverse/reduction gears with a ratio of 6:1. Her station-keeping capability alongside offshore platforms is enhanced by a Murray Tregurtha 400 bowthruster driven by a GM8V71, 375-hp diesel engine.

Two GM8V71, 125-kw generator sets provide electric power for auxiliary services. Bilge, ballast, and fuel transfer pumps are Aurora model 344; f r e s h w a t er and sanitary water pressure sets are Barnes model 1400. The offship firefighting system is a Feecon DM 750 turret-mounted nozzle atop the pilothouse with a Berkley-type "C" pump driven by the bowthruster engine.

Some of the pilothouse electronics include Two Decca RM916A radars, an I T T Decca Marine STR-25 VHF/FM radiotelephone, a Simrad Loran C model LC123, and a Raytheon DE 726 depth sounder with a 7041 transducer.

She is outfitted with an HBL double wildcat anchor windlass working two 2,000-pound anchors with 1,800 feet of high-strength stud link chain.

The Tara Alyene is ABS classed A - l , Maltese Cross, AMS full ocean towing, U.S. Coast Guard Subchapter I, USCG NVC 1-78, and U.S. Public Health Approved.

She was built at Halter's Moss Point (Miss.) Division, one of 10 shipyards owned and operated by the company in the Southeastern United States.

Halter is one of the world's largest builders of support vessels for the offshore oil and gas industry.

Maritime Reporter Magazine, page 44, Apr 1980

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