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Dravo SteelShip Delivers Towboat

To Pleasants Power Station

Pushboat Pleasants "K", powered by twin Detroit Diesel engines, was delivered re- cently by Dravo SteelShip. Vessel will be operated on Ohio River at Willow Island,

West Virginia, by Pleasants Power Station.

Dillingham Forms New

Subsidiary To Operate

In Gulf Coast Area

Dillingham Corporation has an- nounced the formation of Ocean

Transportation Services, a new subsidiary of Honolulu-based Dil- lingham Corporation's maritime group, to be located in the Hous- ton area.

In making the announcement,

David B. Ballash, Dillingham group vice president-maritime, said: "Ocean Transportation Serv- ices will be active in inland wa- terways and coastal towing, barg- ing, and related marine services within the Gulf Coast area. The company will offer worldwide shipping operations, but will put special emphasis on the handling of cargoes bound to and from

Central and South American countries."

William Abbott has been named general manager for Ocean Trans- portation Services, and will be headquartered at company offices in LaPorte, Texas.

Donald McElroy will be in charge of the company's market- ing operations and will be located in Dillingham Maritime's New

York City offices at 122 East 42nd

Street, Suite 1700, New York,

N.Y. 10017.

Hydranautics Awarded

BP Magnus Field

Platform Contract

Hydranautics, Inc., Santa Bar- bara, Calif., has been chosen by

Matthew Hall Engineering Ltd. of

London to provide the hydraulic heavy load moving equipment for use on British Petroleum's Mag- nus Field platform in the North

Sea.

The contract calls for four 260- ton, push/pull piston gripper jacks, two 80-ton lift systems, a power supply, control unit and remote BOP list system control panel. The Hydranautics equip- ment will be used for rig skid- ding and lifting/lowering the blowout preventers on this north- ernmost platform in the North

Sea. The Hydranautics equipment has a maximum moving capacity of 2,600 tons at 20 percent co- efficient of friction.

The equipment is scheduled to be shipped late this year and will be installed and operating on the platform by the end of 1981.

In awarding the contract, Mat- thew Hall Engineering stated that

Hydranautics provided the best track record capability and price for performing the rig-skidding and lifting functions in the Arc- tic conditions on the platform.

Matthew Hall Engineering is re- sponsible for the management of the platform topside design.

Hydranautics rig-skidding sys- tems have been used continuously on all four BP Forties platforms since drilling began in 1974.

Collins Elected President

And General Manager Of

Houston Systems Mfg.

T. Jay Collins has been elected president and general manager of

Houston Systems Manufacturing

Company, a wholly owned subsid- iary of The Offshore Company, following the resignation of Wil- liam F. Haley.

Mr. Collins, who in 1972 joined the Corporate Planning Depart- ment of Southern Natural Re- sources, Inc., the parent company of The Offshore Company, previ- ously worked for Shell Oil Com- pany as a chemical engineer. He was manager of the Corporate

Dravo SteelShip Corporation of

Pine Bluff, Ark., has announced delivery of the M/V Pleasants "K" to Pleasants Power Station of Allegheny Power System for operation on the Ohio River at

Willow Island, W.Va.

The vessel is a standard Steel-

Ship design, 56 feet long by 20 feet wide by 7 feet deep. She is powered by twin Detroit Diesel 12V-71N, keel-cooled marine en- gines developing 340 bhp each, driving two Coolidge 60-inch-di- ameter, four-blade, stainless-steel propellers.

The engine room, designed for easy maintenance, is equipped with 4-inch I-beams to facilitate moving of main engines and light plant, and there is a large remov- able section in the engine room top so that principal machinery can be hoisted from the vessel in a minimum amount of time.

The vessel is fitted with two steering and four flanking rud- ders. Equipped with two pumps, one electric motor driven and one

Planning Department of The Off- shore Company from 1974 to 1976.

Since that time, he has served overseas as a division engineer and division manager for The

Offshore Company's operating subsidiaries.

Houston Systems Manufactur- ing Company is primarily en- gaged in the fabrication of ma-

The 22,210-dwt, multipurpose cargo vessel Sarita, built at the

Hiroshima (Innoshima) Works of

Hitachi Zosen, was delivered re- cently to her owner, Callisto Ship- ping Limited, Liberia. She is the last of five sister ships constructed in series at Hiroshima.

Designed to carry general and bulk cargoes and containers, the

Sarita is equipped with a 250-ton, heavy-duty derrick to handle plant equipment and other kinds of heavy cargo. Two of her five cargo holds are specially designed to carry ex- tra-long items such as columns and towers for chemical plant or re- finery use.

Sarita is powered by a constant- main engine driven, the steering and flanking systems are sepa- rate, yet the pumps are automat- ically paralleled for fast steering when desired by the pilot.

The electrical system is pow- ered by a Detroit Diesel 3-71, 30- kw generator, which produces power for all shipboard use. This includes three 10-ton Beebe deck winches, two 14-inch Carlisle &

Finch searchlights, four flood- lights, and numerous other pieces of equipment.

The heavily framed and braced hull is fabricated of %-inch plate except the after bottom which is %-inch, and the headlog, bow and stern corners which are %-inch.

The hull is divided into five wa- tertight compartments and carries 11,700 gallons of fuel.

Dravo SteelShip Corporation currently has two 110-foot spud barges, two 75-foot tugboats, two 60-foot crane pushboats, three 88- foot pushboats, and several other pieces of marine equipment under construction. chinery and equipment used in the oil and gas industry. Its par- ent company, The Offshore Com- pany, is one of the largest oper- ators of mobile offshore drilling equipment in the world and a member of the Southern Natural

Resources group of companies en- gaged in various energy and na- tural resources related businesses. pressure, turbocharged Hitachi/

B&W 8L67GFC diesel engine that offers fuel savings of about 6 per- cent compared with a convention- ally designed engine. A bow thruster is fitted to facilitate ma- neuvering in port.

The vessel has an overall length of 178.27 meters, beam of 26.5 me- ters, depth of 14.2 meters, and de- sign full-load draft of 10.41 meters (585 by 87 by 46.6 by 34 feet).

She is built to Lloyd's Register of Shipping Classification.

Maximum continuous output of her main engine is 15,000 bhp (11,000 kw), which produced a maximum trial speed of 20.524 knots.

Multipurpose Cargo Vessel 'Sarita' Delivered By Hitachi *; \ - \ '•f

Hitachi Zosen's Hiroshima yard recently delivered the cargoliner Sarita to Callisto

Shipping Ltd. Vessel is powered by fuel-saving Hitachi/B&W 8L67GFC diesel. 34 ZIDELL Maritime Reporter/Engineering News