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the upper deck. The diesel-pow- ered skiffs were purchased from

Mauricio & Sons of San Diego.

The Lady Marion is also fitted with a Red Fox model 750M bio- logical treatment sanitation sys- tem.

The vessel is equipped to stay at sea for as long as three months before bringing her payload of tuna back to San Diego.

Burton expects delivery of the seventh tuna vessel, the Judith

Carol, to be in early 1983. The purse seiner was designed by

Rados International of San Pedro.

The seiner Lady Marion is powered by a turbccharged EMD marine diesel engine.

Burton Delivers 224-Foot Seiner,

Sixth Of Seven Foir Van Camp

Burton Shipyard, Inc. of Port

Arthur, Texas, recently delivered the 224-foot tuna vessel Lady

Marion. The steel-hulled tuna purse seiner is the sixth of a seven-vessel contract awarded to

Burton by Van Camp Sea Food

Co., a division of Ralston Purina

Co. The purse seiner will operate primarily with the Pacific fleet, docked in San Diego, Calif., and will fish for skipjack and yellow- fin tuna.

The Lady Marion measures 42 feet wide, with an 18-foot draft, and cruises at 16 knots. The ves- sel is designed to operate with a crew of 21, and is capable of carrying a 1,200-short-ton pay- load of frozen tuna.

The vessel will travel through the Panama Canal to San Diego, fishing the eastern Pacific waters after being introduced to the San

Diego tuna fishing community.

The new tuna seiner is pro- pelled by a turbocharged EMD marine diesel engine developing 3,600 shp at 900 rpm. The 20- cy'iinder engine drives a 132-inch- diameter, five-blade stainless- steel propeller, built by Avondale, through a Falk 5.033 :i reduction reversing gear. Shaft speed de- velopment is rated at 179 rpm.

Auxiliary power is provided by three Caterpillar D-353 TA die- seis with 300-kw Kato brushless generators. The ship's bow thrust- er is a Bird-Johnson model 10 ' 35 FP with direct Caterpillar drive.

A passive stabilizer has been incorporated into the hull struc- ture and was engineered by John

J. McMuIlen Associates. Fishing gear and hydraulic equipment are by Marco and include a model

WS444 pur.se seine winch and the Puretic power block model

B56-61990-185. A Whaley model

B-102-K hydraulic ring stripper is also provided.

The ammonia systems utilize

Vilter components which were subcontracted by Refrigeration

Systems of New Orleans, La.

Navigational aid and commu- nications equipment, provided and installed by Marine Electric of

San Diego, consists of a Magna- vox 1102 SatNav receiver, Furuno

FRJ-100 and DRA-1064 radars,

FE812 depth sounder, FDK-245

ADF and scanning sonar. Other nav com gear includes Sperry

MK 37 gyrocompasses, gyropilot,

Furuno weather recorder model

FAX 143, and a broad assortment of radio communications equip- ment.

A helicopter rides on the pad located on the wheelhouse top.

A private stateroom is provided for the pilot and his mechanic, who also have a workroom on the boat deck.

Five outboard chase boats are stored on both the boat deck and

LADY MARION

Major Suppliers

Main Propulsion EMD

Reduction Gears Falk

Propellers Avondale

Shaft Burton

Bearings Waukesha

Generators Kato

Generator Engines Caterpillar

Engine Controls Mathers

Steering Sperry

Bow Thruster Bird-Johnson "hruster Engine . Caterpillar

Separators Alfa-Laval

Pumps . Pacific

Air Compressors Quincy

Sanitation System Red Fox

Radars Furuno

Radios Raytheon

Deoth Sounder Furuno

SalNav Magnavox

ADF Furun

Gyrocompass Sperry

Gyropilot . . . . Sperry

Weather Fax Furuno

Sc

Winch Marc

Fower Block Puretic

Rirg Stripper Whaley

Windlass . Marco

Fisiing gear Marc

Coatings Proline

Haqgiund Products Division

Opens New Texas facility

The Hagglund Products Divi- sion of ASEA recently announced the completion of a new U.S. headquarters office and manufac- turing facilitv located at 9425

Pinecroft Drive, P.O. Box 7949,

The Woodlands, Texas 77380.

In addition to Hagglund, other

ASEA divisions and subsidiary companies represented in the

Woodland facility include ASEA

Industrial Systems, Inc., Power

Systems Division, Relay and Con- trol Division, and the Control

Equipment Division.

Stone Manganese Offers

Technical Reports On Fuel

Economy And Propellers

A technical publication called "Paper No. 20," featuring two reports on the role of the propel- ler in economical ship operation, is being: offered by Stone Manga- nese Marine Ltd.

One report, by L. Hawdon, technical director of Stone Man- ganese, and G. Patience, techni- cal manager, is titled "Propeller

Design for Economy." Presented before the Third International

Marine Propulsion Conference, it examines important factors con- tributing to substantial reduc- tions in fuel consumption. These include special propeller devices, reduce power operation, changes in propeller design, changes in reduction gear ratios, the num- ber of propeller blades, and serv- ice and maintenance.

The second report, "The Con- tribution of the Propeller to

Energy Conservation in Ship

Operation," was written by G.

Patience. It was presented to the 1982 Conference on Priorities for

Reducing the Fuel Bill which was sponsored by The Institute of

Marine Engineers, The Nautical

Institute, and The Royal Insti- tution of Naval Architects.

This report describes various means by which a propeller can assist in reducing fuel consump- tion. Particular attention is given to roughness, maintenance, and the servicing of propellers in op- eration. Different options avail- able to shipowners with regard to conventional propellers as well as other propulsive devices are outlined and assessed from the energy conservation viewpoint.

For a free copv of "Paper No. 20,"

Write 48 on Reader Service Card

Pan-American Naval

Engineers To Hold 1983 Meeting in D.C.

The Eighth Congress of the

Pan-American Institute of Naval

Engineering (IPEN) will be held in Washington, D.C., at the Hyatt

Regency Hotel, Crystal City, Ar- lington, Va., September 11-17, 1983.

In announcing plans for the meeting, Rear Adm. James W.

Lisanbv, U.S. president of the

Western Hemisphere organiza- tion of naval architects and ma- rine engineers, said several hun- dred government, university, and private industry representatives from maritime nations through- out the Americas are expected at the conference. Observers from a number of other world maritime nations will also attend. It will be the first time the Pan-Ameri- can professional maritime group will hold its congress in the U.S.

IPEN is a nonprofit organiza- tion dedicated to the promotion of technical advancement in na- val architecture, marine engi- neering1, and water transporta- tion. Members of the society are engineers, architects, technicians, and management personnel, both government and private industry, engraged in maritime activities.

Headauarters of the organization is in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The congress is structured to promote learning and resource ex- change in the areas of shipbuild- ing and repair, ocean and inland water transportation, naval sci- ence and research, standardiza- tion, information processing, off- shore construction, fishery man- agement, and maritime educa- tion. The five-day business ses- sions will include the presenta- tion of professional papers, tech- nical discussions, exhibits, and displays.

Visits to the U.S. Naval Ship

Research and Development Cen- ter and to the U.S. Naval Acad- emy have been arranged. A va- riety of social activities for visi- tors are planned. The U.S. Navy's

Ship Systems Command, and the

U.S. Societv of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) will serve as hosts for the inter- rational gathering.

Information concerning regis- tration and hotel reservation may be obtained by writing to IPEN

Registration Center, P.O. Box 1741". Dulles International Air- port, Washington, D.C. 20041.

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