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Riverway Completes Second

Drydock For Its Own

Repair Division

Riverway Shipyard Company of Grafton, 111., recently com- pleted its second in-house dry- dock (shown above) for the re- pair division of the shipyard. This drydock is the fourth built by the shipyard in the past two and one- half years and was built in a rec- ord 86 calendar days. It went into immediate service drydocking two harbor boats.

The drydock is 80 feet long by 72 feet wide, with 62 feet between wing walls. The hull is 7 feet deep and has four watertight compart- ments. The wing walls are 18 feet high. Lifting capacity is 1,000 tons.

Mechanical equipment includes four Byron Jackson 12-inch deep- well pumps with 10-hp electric motors, and four Beebe 5-ton hand winches. The dock is low- ered by four 8-inch gate valves and raised by four 12-inch gate valves.

The drydock is outfitted with two watertight pump rooms, 1- inch pipe handrail, six fir timbers 24-inch by 24-inch by 20 feet, four 1,000-watt floodlights, piping for air, oxygen, and acetylene, 372 feet of protective fender re- inforced with 3-inch I beam, and one landing tower.

An additional outfitting in- cludes two deckhouses for inclem- ent weather, one 208-volt trans- former for towboat shore power, and one Miller 750 203-volt power source with six 250/250-ampere twin operator welders.

The hull is painted with coal tar epoxy and the wing walls are coated with vinyl paint.

With the addition of its second drydock, Riverway Shipyard has added a third shift to its repair division for improved service to its customers. With the new im- provements and additions, River- way is a viable asset to the entire barge industry and is actively seeking business from all barge lines.

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