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The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Mackinaw underway on trials after completion of repairs and renovations at Bay Shipbuilding.

Bay Shipbuilding Completes Repairs

To USCG Cutter Mackinaw

Ahead Of Schedule

Bay Shipbuilding Corp. of Stur- recently completed, ahead of geon Bay, Wis., a subsidiary of schedule, extensive repairs and

The Manitowoc Company, Inc. renovations to the U.S. Coast

Guard cutter Mackinaw. The

Mackinaw spent a total of 151 days at Bay Shipbuilding.

Repairs to the Mackinaw in- cluded dry docking for complete below waterline maintenance, an overhaul of the main propulsion generators, along with the re- placement of the four existing ships service diesel generator sets with three owner-furnished 420-kw Caterpillar diesel gener- ator sets. A new lube oil purifica- tion system by Alfa-Laval was installed to service the six main engines, three main drive motors, and the three ships service gen- erator sets.

Six fuel tanks were converted to ballast tanks. The tanks were white-blasted and then painted with a three-coat epoxy paint system supplied by International

Paint Company, Inc.

A portion of other miscellane- ous work included the removal and replacement of the wood decking on the bridge deck; re- placement of stern fenders; new windows in the quarter deck shacks and pilothouse; installa- tion of six new lube oil pumps on the main propulsion motors; and removal of the airplane cranes on the main deck aft.

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