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Omnithruster

More Than Just

A Bow Thruster » Thrusts Underway • Thrusts While Pitching • No Reversing Impeller to Change Directions > Minimum Buoyancy Loss » Smaller Hull Penetration » Fuel Savings

OMNITHRUSTER DOES IT ALL! » Thrusts with nozzles out of water in rough seas: vertical systems only. • No protrusions ... no change in hull shape, t Small nozzles reduce drag . .. save fuel and passage time. » Easily retrofitted.

Micro-Processor Control

System, Model 1200A with gyro input . . holds vessel's heading. System also accepts compatible

NAV AIDS lore aft and slow speed propulsion and positioning.

MODULAR THRUSTER SYSTEM. .

OMNITHRUSTER ship control systems* utilize individual module thrusters of up to 1500 HP in any combination to produce desired forward or lateral net thrust. Prime movers for the

Modular Thruster System may be electric, hydraulic or diesel powered in conjunction with manual/automatic or integrated control networks.

ADVANTAGES FOR LARGE VESSELS... • Incremental Thrust Capability • Multiple Module Reliability • Ease of Installation... Retrofit • Minimum Maintenance

Write for: OMNITHRUSTER Modular System

Technical Data Bulletin XX

PV950 800HP

MODULE THRUSTER •Covered by U. S. Patents;

Foreign Patents Pending

OMNITHRUSTER INC. 15418 Cornet Avenue, Dept. 31-D12

Santa Fe Springs, California 90670 213/802-1818 Telex 194265 OMNI SFES

Cable Address Omnithrust

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ON THE COVER

Shell's Cognac Platform — OTC Award Winner —

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OTC '82 — A Preview —

PAGE 49 $166-Million Amphibious

Assault Vehicle Contract

To FMC Corporation

FMC Corporation, Ordnance Di- vision, San Jose, Calif., has been awarded a $166,719,542 cost-plus- incentive-fee contract for fiscal years 1981 and 1982 conversion and modernization of 167 LVT7

Amphibious Assault Vehicles to

LVT7A1 configuration plus the procurement of associated equip- ment and the procurement of two new production LVT7A1 vehicles.

Work will be performed at San

Jose. The Naval Sea Systems

Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity. (N00024- 82-2010)

Gulf Intracoastal Seeks

Title XI For 3 Barges

Costing $3 Million

Gulf Intracoastal Marine, Inc., of Baton Rouge, La., has applied for a Title XI loan guarantee to aid in financing three tanker barges.

The vessels are 304, 285, and 280 feet long, respectively. They were delivered last year by St.

Louis Ship, a division of Pott In- dustries, Inc., St. Louis, Mo., and were designed for operation on the U.S. inland waterways. If approved, the guarantee would cover $2,397,000, or 75 percent of the vessels' combined total cost of $3,196,000.

NOC-

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FRAMO CARGO PUMPS will quickly and efficiently dis- charge any cargo tank down to a few gallons without resorting to special priming or stripping devices such as stripping lines, vacuum pumps, recirculating valves, educators, stripping pumps, etc.

Avoid dangerous pump rooms, long pump shafts with cargo lubricated bearings, pumps seized from dry oper- ation, expensive repairs, crane service, alignment prob- lems, etc., by using FRAMO, the ULTIMATE CARGO/

BALLAST SYSTEM.

EMMI Corporation

USA Sales Distributor

P.O. Box 955

Flemington, N.J. 08822

Phone (201) 788-3913

Telex - 138175 m FRAMO Manufactured in the U.S.A. and Norway

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