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bert, said the 1,960-gt dredge had been tested for 22 working days in Chesapeake

Bay, and had worked nine days on the Co- lumbia River. It was while in the latter lo- cation that the bearing problem developed.

The Yaquina is the newest dredge as- signed to the Portland Corps District, and is destined to replace the old Pacific, built around 1937. Yaquina has a hopper capacity of 825 cubic yards, compared with the Pa- cific's 500, and is 200 feet long with a beam of 58 feet. She is powered by two 1,125-bhp diesel engines driving twin screws, and is fitted with a bow thruster with a 500-bhp diesel turning a 48-inch propeller.

HUDSHIP To Build Four Big

Towing/Supply Vessels For Zapata

Wendle W. Huddleston, president and chief executive officer of Hudson Shipbuild- ers, Inc. (HUDSHIP), recently announced that he and K.W. Waldorf, president of

Zapata Marine Service, Inc. of Houston have signed a contract for the construction of four large offshore supply/towing vessels. The

Pascagoula, Miss., shipyard will deliver the first vessel during the second quarter of 1982.

The 203-foot vessels will be powered by twin GM Electro-Motive Division 16-645-E2 engines, each with a maximum continuous rating of 975 bhp at 900 rpm, driving through 3:1 reduction gears. They will be fitted with Schottel bow thrusters powered by Detroit Diesel 12V-71 engines, Akron fire monitors, and towing winches.

With a beam of 40 feet and depth of 14 feet, each vessel will carry both liquid and bulk mud, as well as fuel and drill water for servicing offshore rigs. They will join Za- pata Marine's 75-vessel offshore fleet.

The four vessels will be built at HUD-

SHIP's new West Bank facility, which is located on a 16V>-acre site just north of the

Ingalls yard in Pascagoula. HUDSHIP re- cently acquired that property from H.B.

Marine, Inc., and has begun a major expan- sion and upgrading of the facility, which will become the new headquarters for the

HUDSHIP operation.

The expansion includes the construction of fabrication buildings, craft shops, ware- house, and utility buildings, the installation of bulkheads, rail transfer system, and side launching facilities. New heavy-lift cranes, and rough terrain and overhead cranes are being installed.

According to Mr. Huddleston, the facility will utilize the most modern equipment found in the industry today, including numerically controlled, plasma arc cutting equipment, a plate shear, and press brake for cutting and forming steel plate. The new machine shop has been fitted with a large capacity lathe for manufacturing shafting.

HUDSHIP will continue to operate its fa- cility on the Pascagoula River East Bank for construction of vessels under 165 feet long, including tugs, pushboats, and utility vessels.

The recent contract with Zapata Marine

Service is HUDSHIP's second order from a major operator since purchasing the new facility. Construction of four 185-foot off- shore supply vessels, which are being built

Kenneth W. Waldorf (left), president of Zapata Marine

Service of Houston and Wendle W. Huddleston, pres- ident and chief executive officer of Hudson Shipbuild- ers, sign contract for four big supply/towing vessels. for Gulf Fleet Marine Corporation of New

Orleans, is already under way, with the first vessel scheduled for delivery in November 1981.

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