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VHF radio, and Drake Model TRM-12 SSB radio, all accessible while sitting in a custom- designed swivel armchair.

Woodwork and cabinetry are of teak and mahogany plywood. The teak is finished with teak oil, the mahogany is stained and coated with six coats of marine varnish yielding a yacht-like finish.

The Lady Blackie, on standby for Chevron

Oil Company, is captained by Austusio Mejia, a 20-year man for E.B.B., and relieved by his son David Mejia. Capt. Noles Bouffanie, 15 years with E.B.B., pilots the Lady June; he is relieved by Capt. David Seven, another 15-year veteran.

E.B.B. Company's other vessels include crewboats 80-foot Lady Betty, and Lady

Joan and Lady May, both 65 feet.

LAUNCHING NEAR FOR FIRST OF SIX

BARGES —When completed at Bethlehem

Steel Corporation's Sparrows Point, Md., shipyard, this barge will be connected with its tug to form a 691-foot-long oil-carrying unit. It will be the first of six such units contracted to the yard in 1979 for an ag- gregate price of more than $320 million. The tugs, being built by Halter Marine, Inc. of

New Orleans, La., as subcontractor, will be connected at the stern of each barge in a rigid position. Each tug-barge unit will have a beam of 95 feet, depth of 611!. feet, and a deadweight tonnage of about 47,000 at a draft of 401 L> feet. They will be classed for unrestricted ocean service. The keel for the barge above was laid in August 1979. Its launching from the building way at the Spar- rows Point shipyard will be sometime this summer, with delivery scheduled for fall 1980.

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