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Ports to call for York 24-hour service.

Factory-trained air condition- ing and refrigeration experts for 24-hour marine service. A full stock of York parts for anything you have on board. A complete range of York units to order without weeks of waiting. You can expect it all around the free world from York — from these York marine experts. 1. ADRICK COOLING CORP. 30 B. Remington Blvd.,

Ronkonkoma, NY 11779 . .(516) 585-4231

Branch: Adrick Marine Corp. 77 River St., Hoboken, NJ 07030 (201) 420-1339 2. BAILEY REFRIGERATION CO.,

INC. 74 Sullivan St.,

Brooklyn, NY 11231 (212)855-3958

Branches: 2323 Randolph Ave.

Avenel, NJ 07001 (201) 382-1225 524 N.E. 190th St.

North Miami, FL 33179 . . .(305) 651-4160 3. BAILEY CORPORATION 632 Alvar St., New Orleans, LA 70117 (504) 943-2461 4. GENERAL MARINE

REFRIGERATION 1100 N. Front St., Philadelphia, PA 19123 (215) 922-6293

Branches: Chesapeake Marine

Refrigeration Corp. 2626 Cromwell Rd.,

Norfolk, VA 23509 (804) 853-6856

Key Marine Refrigeration, Inc. 1625 Fleet St., Baltimore, MD 21231 (301) 563-2880 5. JW MECHANICAL SERVICE CO. 6540 Federal Blvd., Lemon Grove, CA 92045 (714) 582-6320 6. PSER, INC. 3441 17th Ave., West, Seattle, WA 98119 (206) 283-3200 7. QUALITY REFRIGERATION 533 North Fries Ave.,

Wilmington, CA 90744 . . (213) 549-1532

Los Angeles, CA (213) 775-2735 8. TOMLINSON REFRIGERATION

AND SUPPLY CO. 324 Broadway, Elizabeth, NJ 07206 (201) 351-1350

For any kind of marine air con- ditioning or refrigeration service, call the experts in every port.

York Division of Borg-Warner Corp., P.O. Box 1592, York, PA 17405 ^^ BORG^WARNER

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May 15, 1981

Great Alaska Boat Asks

Title XI On $3.58-Million

Inland Cruise Vessel

Great Alaska Boat Company, Seattle, has applied to the Maritime Administration for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of a 150-foot cruise vessel for operation on the inland waters of the West

Coast of North America. Nichols Brothers

Boat Builders, Inc., Freeland, Wash., was listed as the proposed builder, with delivery scheduled for November 1981.

The requested guarantee is for $2,685,000, which is 75 percent of the vessel's estimated cost of $3,580,000.

IHI Delivers Japan's Biggest

Helicopter Destroyer

The Kurama (shown above), a 5,200-ton (displacement) helicopter destroyer for Ja- pan's Defense Agency, was delivered re- cently at the Tokyo Shipyard of Ishikawa- jima-Harima Heavy Industries Company,

Ltd. (IHI). The new ship, built as part of the Fourth Defense Buildup Program, is the largest destroyer in Japan's Maritime Self

Defense Force, and is able to accommodate three helicopters.

The Kurama is equipped with the Sea

Sparrow sea/air missile (SAM) system to improve her antiaircraft, self-defense capa- bility; Bear Trap, a special landing system for helicopters; and a fin stabilization sys- tem to minimize the rolling motion of the ship in rough sea conditions, enabling heli- copters to land safely.

The ship has an overall length of 521.6 feet, beam of 57.4 feet, depth of 36 feet, and draft of 17.4 feet. She is powered by two

IHI steam turbines producing a total of 70,000 shp and a service speed of 32 knots.

Total complement is 350.

The Kurama's armament includes two 54- caliber, 5-inch, rapid-fire guns; an ASROC launcher: and two 3-barrel torpedo tubes. showed a significant fuel savings during a tow from the U.S. Gulf Coast to Halifax,

Canada. Preliminary studies show that ves- sels could realize as much as a 30 percent fuel savings with a sail system used in con- junction with the existing main propulsion.

Both companies have indicated that systems can be prepared for vessels from under 100 feet long to medium-size vessels (approxi- mately 70,000 dwt).

For further information,

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TRACOR ADDS TWO DOCKS—Tracor Ma- rine has put two additional floating drydocks into service at its Fort Lauderdale (Port

Everglades), Fla., shipyard. The drydocks— one 220 feet, 2,100-ton capacity; the other 250 feet 3,300-ton capacity — both measure 87 feet between wingwalls and complement

Tracor Marine's existing 350-foot, 4,200-ton

Syncrolift marine elevator and transfer sys- tem. The addition of the new drydocks more than doubles Tracor Marine's capability to offer shipowners operating in the Caribbean and Southeastern U.S. waters timely haul- out and repair service.

Sail Systems For Commercial

Ships Could Cut Fuel Costs 30% —Literature Available

Ratsey and Lapthorn Inc., sailmakers since 1790, and Syner-Tech Inc., suppliers of rigging and control mechanisms, have announced the availability of sails and their related controls and rigging for commercial vessels of various sizes and uses. Both David

Vietor, president of Ratsey and Lapthorn, and William L. Banks Jr., president of

Syner-Tech, said that their systems can be used on existing vessels on a retrofit basis as well as vessels for new construction.

Colin E. Ratsey, chairman of the board of

Ratsey and Lapthorn, and Mr. Banks had recently been involved with the installation and use of Ratsey's large sail (over 6,500 square feet, the world's largest) of the

Rowans Company's jackup oil rig, which

FOUR PORTAINERS DELIVERED—Long

Beach (Calif.) Harbor Facilities Corporation recently accepted delivery of four Paceco

Modified A-Frame MACH (modular auto- mated container handling) Portainer® cranes (two shown above). Paceco, Inc., is a sub- sidiary of Fruehauf Corporation. Two of the 40 Long Ton lifting capacity cranes will be used at Pier C, site of California United

Terminal, Inc., while two are located at Long

Beach Container Terminal, Pier J. The four

Portainer cranes have identical characteris- tics such as boom outreach of 115 feet and backreach of 50 feet. Each is equipped with telescopic spreaders to handle 20/40-foot containers. All four units were fabricated at Paceco's Gulfport (Miss.) plant and shipped by rail to the Long Beach port.

Bickerton Iron Works, Inc. erected the cranes under supervision of Paceco field representatives. 33