Three Drum Seiners Delivered By RivTow Straits Limited
RivTow Straits Ltd., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, announced the recent delivery of three identical drum seiners to B.C.
Packers Ltd. in time for the 1981 herring and salmon fishing season.
The Van Isle, Mary Isle and Pender Isle (shown above) are the first three vessels of a six-boat order. The remaining vessels are scheduled for delivery in January 1982, June 1982 and January 1983.
The 76-foot drum seiners, built at Riv- Tow's John Manly Shipyard, feature a fish hold with 4,000-cubic-foot capacity and are suited to the Pacific salmon and herring fisheries.
With steel hulls and aluminum wheelhouses, the vessels have Caterpillar 3412 main engines and Mitsubishi 6 D14 auxiliary engines. Fuel capacity is 3,000 Imperial gallons. The vessels are equipped with a Wagner steering system and Wagner MK 4 automatic pilot. Furuno supplied two radar subsidiunits and the FH105 depth sounders. Lifesaving gear for the crew of seven is supplied by Beaufort Canada, a division of RivTow.
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- Navy Buys Six SL-7 Sea-Land Containerships In $207.5-Million Contract page: 7
- $5-Million Contract To Burrard Yarrows For Vessel Lengthening page: 8
- NASSCO Delivers First Of Three New Carlsbad Class Product Carriers To Union Oil page: 8
- Bartell Named GM Of Texaco's International Marine Sales Department page: 9
- Amsterdam Drydock To Rebuild Ro/Ro Passenger Vessel For Irish Line page: 9
- Dravo SteelShip Delivers The 'Bud Weber' page: 10
- NASSCO Lays Keel Of 44,000-Dwt Product Carrier For American Trading page: 10
- OCEANS 81 page: 12
- Gibbs & Cox Names Ford Chief Engineer page: 16
- Literature Available On Devflex 1, Fire Retardant Finish From Devoe Marine page: 16
- John Chandler Named York Vice President page: 18
- Announce Personnel Changes In Marine Branch At Phillips page: 18
- Griffin-Alexander III Commissioned At Beth Baltimore page: 20
- Skully Bros. Delivers Omaha Arrow, Second Of Six Supply Vessels page: 24
- Iowa Marine Delivers M/V Tony H page: 24
- Curtis S. Townshend Appointed Vice President Of Mobil Marine Sales page: 25
- Lease MARISAT Satellites For Use In Three Oceans page: 25
- 55th Annual PROPELLER CLUB CONVENTION page: 26
- Bayou Black Shipyard, Inc. Delivers 'Delta Christie' page: 34
- HBC Barge Installs New Launchways-First Phase In $4-Million Expansion page: 34
- Name O'Leary Marine Development Manager At Dillingham Ocean page: 36
- Tracor Marine Announces Production Appointments At Port Everglades Yard page: 38
- Literature Available From Gems Sensors On New Flow Transducer page: 38
- Vancouver Shipyards Launches Log Barge On A Film Of Water page: 41
- N e w V e r s i o n O f N a t i o n a l S u p p l y J a c k i n g System — L i t e r a t u r e A v a i l a b le page: 50
- Anschuetz Hosts Exhibit For Major Manufacturers Of Marine Equipment page: 52
- 'Petromar Bravo# Delivered By Halter —Third Of Six Ordered page: 52
- Launch Two Stern Trawlers At Halifax page: 54
- IHI To Employ New Hull Form On 223,000-Dwt Bulk Carrier page: 55
- Levingston, CNC Sign Agreement To Build Jackups At La Ciotat page: 56
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- New Towboat Design At St. Louis Ship Results From Two-Year Research Program page: 60
- Alfa-Laval Publishes Corporate Brochure page: 60
- Sperry Introduces New Doppler Navigation Sonar —Literature Available page: 61
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