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Skully Bros. Delivers Omaha Arrow,

Second Of Six Supply Vessels

Arrow Marine, Inc. of Houston,

Texas, recently took delivery of the Omaha Arrow (shown above), a 120-foot by 26-foot by 10-foot 6-inch, 1,200-horsepower, supply utility vessel built by Skully

Bros. Boat Builders, Inc., Ste- phensville, La. She is a sister ship to the Navajo Arrow delivered earlier this year, and the second of six vessels scheduled for de- livery in 1981.

The vessel is powered by twin

GM 16-V-92 diesel engines through Twin Disc MG 527 5:1 gears and has a maximum speed of 12 to 14 knots. The Omaha

Arrow has a 66-foot by 20-foot clear deck space with a cargo ca- pacity of 80 long tons. Her fuel tanks have a capacity of 31,000 gallons (U.S.). In addition, she is able to carry 44,200 gallons of fresh water and 2,700 gallons of potable water.

Arrow Marine, Inc. entered the supply/utility market three years ago and has plans underway for two additional vessels in the 140- foot class.

Iowa Marine Delivers M/V Tony H

Iowa Marine Repair, Keokuk,

Iowa, recently delivered the M/V

Tony H (shown above) to Morris

Harbor Service, Morris, 111. The

Tony H is the first of a new model developed by Iowa Marine and designed by Marine Power Inc.,

Gulf Breeze, Fla. She is partic- ularly suited for the rough con- ditions of harbor work and eco- nomical operation.

The Tony H is named for Tony

Hoenig, shipyard superintendent for Iowa Marine at their Keokuk shipyard, who has been with the company since its founding over 10 years ago.

The vessel is 50 feet by 20 feet by 7 feet with a 24-foot eye level.

The hull is 5 /16-inch steel with a headlog of H-inch and all out- board corners of %-inch. Bow

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Hull construction is of side tank design, giving her a 6,000- gallon fuel capacity in three tanks on each side. Fresh water capac- ity is 1,000 gallons and lube oil capacity is 300 gallons.

The twin Cummins NT-855 main engines were supplied by

Great Plains Diesel of Cedar Rap- ids, Iowa, giving her a total of 570 hp at 1,800 rpm. The Twin

Disc MG-514 gears, with a 5:1 ratio, turn Columbian 52-by-46- inch stainless steel propellers.

Power is supplied by a single 15-kw Lima generator with a

Duetz two-cylinder air-cooled die- sel engine. The vessel is designed to operate completely without power if necessary or desired.

She has 10-ton Nabrico winches which can be converted to hand operation. She is equipped with two Carlisle Finch 14-inch incan- descent searchlights, one of which is operated on the 12-volt system.

Steering is a mechanical over hydraulic follow up system de- signed by Iowa Marine with two variable volume Vickers pumps driven off the main engines.

The Tony H is also equipped with a Regency Polaris MT-5500 radio-scanner, Ray Jefferson 312 hailer-intercom, Dayton air com- pressor, Well-Troll fresh water pressure system, Teel bilge and fire pump, Jabsco 12-volt auto- matic diaphragm bilge pump from stuffing box segregated from deep bilges, Morse cutlass bearing,

Kahlenberg stuffing boxes, Sturm bearings, and Microphor septic system.

She has an open bar grating fleet deck allowing for easy ac- cess to empty barges. Since the

Tony H is used strictly as a har- bor vessel, the lower deck cabin as well as the Texas cabin are utilized as deck lockers, but are so designed that they could quick- 24 Write 259 on Reader Service Card Maritime Reporter/Engineering News