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The Willkate, a harbor supply vessel built by Delaware Marine & Manufacturing yard, was delivered recently to Marine Launch Company of Baltimore.

Harbor Supply Vessel

Completed By Delaware Marine

A recent delivery from the ship- building yard of Delaware Marine & Manufacturing Company was the harbor supply vessel Will- kate, which was built for Marine

Launch Company, Inc. of Balti- more. The all-welded steel vessel has been placed in service in Bal- timore's Inner Harbor where it is being used to carry provisions and lube oil, in sealed containers, to ships using the port.

The Willkate has an overall length of 64 feet 11 inches, a beam of 18 feet 6 inches, and a loaded draft of 6 feet 4 inches.

The vessel is certificated by the

U.S. Coast Guard to carry 28 con- tainers of lube oil containing 500 gallons each. All cargo is carried on the vessel's flat afterdeck.

The husky workboat is powered by a 270-bhp Cummins model NT- 855-M marine diesel, which drives a 42-inch-diameter, 28-inch-pitch three-blade propeller through a 3:1 reduction gear and 2%-inch- diameter stainless steel propeller shaft. Service speed is about 12 knots. The main cargo pump is a 200-gpm Viking driven by a four- cylinder Chrysler diesel engine.

Delaware Marine & Manufac- turing also designs and builds tugs, barges, crewboats, and fish- ing vessels at its shipyard in Mil- ford, Del.

Brochure Lists Variety

Of Rig Components Built

By Derrick Service Int'l

Masts, derricks, and other rig components to meet a wide vari- ety of applications are described in a brochure available from Der- rick Service International, Inc< of

Tomball, Texas.

Dimensions and capacities are listed for 14 different mast de- signs, including four for trailer mounting, and two derrick de- signs fcr offshore platforms. The company's three locations—Tom- ball and Conroe, Texas, and Ed- monton, Alberta, Canada — also can custom engineer and build rig substructures, trailer-mounted rigs, and specialized products for equipment handling, such as bridge cranes for offshore oper- ations. The brochure is illustrated with photographs demonstrating the firm's versatility in structural engineering.

For a free copy of Bulletin No. 640MR, write to Derrick Service

International, Inc., P.O. Box Z,

Tomball, Texas 77375.

ASNE Delaware Valley Section

Hears Paper On Large Gas Turbines

The laigsst builder of small ships in Australia

Our modern flow-line shipyard has all the extras:

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Officers and author at recent meeting of ASNE Delaware Valley Section (left to right): Capt. Ray E. Pierce, Section chairman, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard; George

B. Manning, author, U.S. Department of Energy; and Eugene P. Weinert, Section vice chairman, Naval Ship Systems Engineering Station, Philadelphia.

The American Society of Naval

Engineers, Delaware Valley Chap- ter, Philadelphia, Pa., held a re- cent meeting at the Officer's Club,

U.S. Naval Base, Philadelphia.

Following a social hour and din- ner, Chapter chairman Capt. Ray

Pierce formally opened the meet- ing and turned over the technical session to meeting coordinator

John Siemietkowski, Naval Ship

Systems Engineering Station,

Philadelphia, who introduced

George Manning, Department of

Energy, Washington, D.C., pre- senter and author of the evening's paper titled "Multiple Fuel Capac- ity for Large Gas Turbines."

The author reviewed the gas turbine fuel system, which pres- ently burns liquid fuel. However, it was noted that there is a great amount of interest in gas tur- bines which would use a coal- derived fuel. The paper described a most interesting current re- search and development program on the largest coal-burning gas turbines being developed by the

Department of Energy. A lively question and answer and discus- sion period concluded the techni- cal presentation.

Captain Pierce presented George

Manning with a Certificate of Ap- preciation for a timely and out- standing presentation.

WILLKATE

Designed for off shore oil rig supply work, built of steel welded construction, tested and approved by the American

Bureau of Shipping Regulations for Classification plus A1 (E) and AMS and ACCU. The two main engines are EMD General Motors marine diesels, each developing 2144 KW at 900 rpm. ,

Fully air conditioned accom. for 23. $$

L.O A. 59.75m. Displacement: 1850 tonnes.

Speed: 13.65 Kn<

LADY ANN 60.53m Offshore Supply Vessel powered by 4 x 1,600 Daihatsu engines. All instrumentation is mounted in central console in wheelhouse, giving 360° visibility. 34 ZIDELL Maritime Reporter/Engineering News