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Dravo SteelShip Delivers Coastal

Tugboats 'Sioux' And 'Maya'

Dravo SteelShip Corporation,

Pine Bluff, Ark., recently deliver- ed two 75-foot by 28-foot by 12.5- foot steel coastal tugboats to

Apex Oil Company of St. Louis,

Mo.

The tugboats, the Sioux, and the

Mava (shown above), are powered by twin Detroit Diesel 16V-149TA engines rated at 2,200 hp. The engines are equipped with Reint- jes Model WAV800, 6:1 ratio re- duction gears. Fernstrum D-1672 keel coolers provide for main en- gine cooling.

Twin Detroit Diesel 4-71 en- gines with 75-kw generators sup- ply ship's power. One Carlisle and

Finch 15-inch, 1,000-watt incan- descent searchlight and one 19- inch carbon arc searchlight have been provided. Kahlenberg air horns are pilothouse mounted.

Electronics include a SBA Model 312B single sideband radio, a

Necode 321AR Digital Encoder/

Decoder, two Motorola Triton 55/ 75 VHF and two Epsco Model 310/6 radar and were supplied by

ITT Mackay Marine.

Main engines and generator sets were supplied by Western

Diesel of St. Louis. A telephone booth supplied by Acoustical De- velopment is located in the engine room.

The Wagner steering system was supplied by H.H. Hough

Company, and the engine controls are Wabco.

Each vessel is equipped with two Kahlenberg four-blade, stain- less-steel, 80-inch propellers.

Tank capacities onboard each vessel are: fuel, 20,000 gallons; potable water, 5,000 gallons; clean lube oil, 500 gallons; and dirty lube oil, 500 gallons.

New facilities at the Nashville

Bridge Company (NABRICO) A.

I. Myhr Plant, Ashland City,

Tenn., were officially dedicated recently. Bill Sanders, the senior employee at the plant, cut the

Each tugboat is designed with four staterooms to accommodate a crew of eight. Each stateroom is furnished with built-in double wooden bunks, double hanging lockers, and desk and chair.

Dravo SteelShip Corporation is currently building seven 85-foot towboats, two 65-foot towboats, and several other pieces of marine equipment. large ribbon linking two cranes to open the company's new fabrica- tion building. AI Zang, president of NABRICO, presided over the ceremonies, which attracted near- ly 800 employees, families and friends.

Reviewing the growth of the

Ashland City plant, which open- ed July 29, 1974, Mr. Zang noted that the first barge was launched there in December of that year.

Through September 1980, a total of 560 barges had been delivered at the Ashland City yard. For 1981, he projected that 205 barges will be launched at the plant. Mr.

Zang also noted that when the first barge was launched, there were 75 employees at the facility. To- day, there are 295.

According to Mr. Zang, the Ash- land City expansion "increases the company's production there by approximately 15 percent, and provides NABRICO with the cap- abilities of producing oceangoing vessels there. The expansion pro- vides NABRICO with the added flexibility necessary to meet the ever-increasing market demands for hopper barges, tank barges and oceangoing vessels," he said.

Construction, which required some 18 months, was planned in phases so as not to interfere with the regular operation of the Ash- land City facility.

The $2-million expansion added some 30,000 square feet to the fabrication and assembly areas, representing a 100 percent in-

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New facilities at the Nashville Bridge Company (NABRICO) A.I. Myhr Plant in Ash- land City, Tenn., were dedicated recently. From left are Raymond Cotten, plant manager at Ashland City; Bill Sanders, senior employee at the facility; and AI Zang, president of NABRICO. The $2-million expansion was designed to meet the ever-in- creasing market demands for hopper barges, tank barges and oceangoing vessels.

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