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Aluminum pilot boat Carolina, designed by C. Raymond Hunt Associates and built by Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, was delivered recently to the Charleston (S.C.)

Branch Pilots Association. High-speed vessel is powered by twin Detroit Diesel 8V92 turbocharged engines.

High-Speed Pilot Boat

Delivered By Gladding-Hearn

The Carolina, a 55-foot alumi- num pilot boat, was christened recently by Mrs. Ernest F. Hol- lings, wife of South Carolina's

Senator, for the Charleston

Branch Pilots Association. The ceremonies at the Carolina Yacht

Club in Charleston were attended by the Senator and more than 200 guests, and were followed by a reception hosted by the pilots and their wives.

Prior to the christening, the

Carolina had been delivered from

Massachusetts where it was on display at the American Pilots

Association convention in Boston.

The boat was built by Gladding-

Hearn Shipbuilding of Somerset,

Mass., and designed by C. Ray- mond Hunt Associates of Boston.

George Duclos, Gladding-Hearn vice president, and Winn Willard of Hunt Associates represented the builders and designers at the christening ceremonies.

An identical boat, the Palmetto

State, is nearing completion at the Gladding-Hearn yard, and will be delivered this year. The two all-aluminum, high-speed boats will allow the pilots association to provide upgraded service for the port of Charleston, according to

Association president E. Randall

Swan Jr.

The boats' design is based on a high deadrise or deep-V hull for safety and comfort offshore in all weather. They are the first high- speed, all-aluminum boats built by

Gladding Hearn in its 25 years of pilot boat construction.

The boats are powered by twin

GM Detroit Diesel 8V92 turbo- charged engines yielding a 23.5- knot top speed on trials.

The boats are divided into five watertight compartments with ac- cess via watertight doors. For- ward is a crew's quarters and toilet compartment with shower.

The pilothouse is midships for- ward of a pilots' lounge with com- plete galley. Aft is the pilots' sleeping quarters.

Carolina and Palmetto State share many modern features, in- cluding cabin top boarding plat- form, automatic Halon fire-extin- guishing system, housetop plexi- glass dome for 360 surveillance from the helm, reverse cycle air- conditioning, radar and three

VHF radios, full perimeter rub- ber fendering, microwave cook- ing, tinted safety glass, red night lighting, and thick, resilient rub- ber flooring.

Sperry Gets $2 Million

In Orders For Collision

Avoidance Systems

The Sperry Division of Sperry

Corporation recently received or- ders for 50 CAS II collision avoid- ance systems, totaling more than $2 million, from several Japanese shipowners, bringing the total number of Sperry collision avoid- ance systems sold worldwide to more than 500. The CAS II sys- tem was introduced by Sperry in

September 1979.

Sanko Steamship Co. Ltd. of

Tokyo was the largest single pur- chaser of the CAS II systems, or- dering 30 of the 50 units after conducting a three-month at-sea test of the system aboard a 172,- 000-dwt oil tanker. All the sys- tems will be installed on oil tank- ers. The orders came through

Tokyo Reiki Co. Ltd., an affiliate of Sperry Division in the Far

East.

The Sperry CAS II system is a compact cabinet which uses state- of-the-art microprocessor-based electronics, providing simple and reliable operation even under ad- verse environmental conditions.

The system also uses built-in test equipment (BITE) to allow rapid localization and repair of faults.

Sperry offers training to ship- board personnel on the operation and repair of the system. In ad- dition, Sperry provides a world- wide network of more than 250 service centers with trained en- gineers for servicing Sperry ma- rine products.

R. Barker Price Named

Manager Of Contract

Administration At Jeffboat

R. Barker Price has been named manager of contract administra- tion of Jeffboat Incorporated, one of America's largest inland ship- builders.

R. Barker Price

Mr. Price started work at Jeff- boat in December 1978 as a con- tract manager and has been serv- ing in that capacity since joining the company. Previous to his em- ployment at Jeffboat, Mr. Price worked as a project engineer at

American Commercial Barge Line and was owner/president of his own small boat company.

As manager of contract admin- istration, Mr. Price will report to

Wayne LaGrange, vice president of production. 1 ^nqineeretl f~\oducti an ervicei

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