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National Marine Gets

Title XI Approval On $38.5-Million Orders

The Maritime Administration has approved in principle an ap- plication from National Marine

Service, Inc., St. Louis, Mo., for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of 46 double-skin, petroleum / chemical tank barges and five towboats.

The towboats, one built by

Dravo Corporation and the oth- ers by Albert Ortes Boat Build- ing, Inc., all have been delivered, as have 22 barges. The remaining 16 are scheduled for delivery dur- ing the first quarter of 1981, with dates not yet assigned for the others.

Hillman Barge and Construc- tion Company was selected as the builder of 16 barges, Nashville

Bridge Company of 26, and Jeff- boat Inc. of four. Eight of the barges are to be 297.5 feet in length, with molded beams of 54 feet. The others will be 195 feet long with 35 foot beams. One towboat is 140 feet by 42 feet and the others, 65 feet by 26 feet.

The total estimated depreciated cost of the vessels is $38,481,765.

The approved Title XI guarantee amount of $32,396,000 represents the total of 87.5 percent of the cost of the barges, plus 75 per- cent of the cost of the towboats.

Booker Joins Marinette

Marine As Manager

Of Steel Trades

James R. Derusha, vice presi- dent of operations, recently an- nounced that John Booker has joined Marinette Marine Corpo- ration as manager of steel trades.

He came to Marinette Marine from the Key Highway Yard of

Bethlehem Steel in Baltimore,

Md., where he was ship superin- tendent.

John Booker

Mr. Booker's shipbuilding ex- perience goes back to 1967, when he started at the General Dynam- ics-Electric Boat Division. His ex- perience there was in areas of planning, production control, ma- terial control, and supervision.

At Marinette Marine, Mr.

Booker is responsible for the di- rection, coordination and manage- ment of hull construction from the initial plate processing to hull completion.

Simrad Named Exclusive

Market Representative

For Taiyo Electronics

Simrad, Inc. of Armonk, N.Y., is now the exclusive marketing distributor for Taiyo Marine Elec- tronics in the United States. Both firms, which have long been close associates in Europe, worked to- gether to develop new concepts, creating a unique line of profes- sional quality marine electronics for the U.S. fishing, workboat and yachting communities. Built for dependability as well as fast, easy use by busy skippers, the new line is said to be both economical and durable.

The new Simrad/Taiyo com- puter-controlled VHF and MF/

HF automatic, digital, direction finders; Loran-C receivers and plotters, weather fax receivers, and radio buoys expand Simrad's established lines of echosounding, radar and sonar equipment to give U.S. customers profit-making electronics for every marine use.

Serviced internationally, the new line is marketed in the United

States under the Simrad/Taiyo label.

For further information on the

Simrad/Taiyo line,

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Or should we say our boats deliver. A Hudship boat is built with a dependability recognized through- out the industry.

Pushing barges up river or hauling supplies to offshore drilling rigs is a demanding job for both crew and vessel.

It's up to you to supply the crew to meet the demands of the in- dustry; it's up to us to build a dependable boat that can deliver.

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