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Blount Delivers The New Spirit

To Holiday Cruises of Norfolk

Operating out of Norfolk's Inner Harbor for dinner excursions, the New Spirit is powered by two General Motors diesel engines.

Blount Marine Corporation of Warren, R.I., has delivered the New Spirit to Holiday

Cruises, Inc., of Norfolk, Va.

The 134-foot by 31-foot by 6-foot dinner boat will operate from the new waterside develop- ment of the Norfolk Inner Harbor.

The New Spirit is capable of carrying 600 passengers on dinner cruises on its two com- pletely enclosed and panelled decks and a third open deck. Interiors are finished cabaret style with wall-to-wall carpeting and air-con- ditioning. Holding tanks insure that the ves- sel complies with pollution standards.

Admeasuring under 100 gross tons, the ves- sel was built under U.S. Coast Guard super-

NEW WATERTIGHT DOORS

Steel Dogs 6-Dog right and left hand hinged doors with frames. Constructed of 1/4" steel plate and meet Coast

Guard regulations for above deck as well as below deck use. All dogs are bronze bushed. Also available with 8" bronze portlights.

SIZE 26"x48" 26"x66" 26"x60" 30"x60"

EACH DOOR

IMMEDIATE DELIVERY

NEW 7" RADIUS

PANAMA CHOCKS (MEET PANAMA REGULATIONS) 14" X 10" CLEAR OPENING

With extended legs for welding to deck. 14" Wide on base — length 28" - height 27Vi". IM-

MEDIATE DELIVERY FROM STOCK. 16", 24" POLISHED BRASS 4-DOG MARINE PORTLIGHTS

WITH GLASS

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Two General Motors 8V-71 diesel engines pro- vide the main propulsion, and ship's power is provided by two generators totalling 110 kw.

The New Spirit is the third Bay Queen type vessel contracted this year and the eighth of this class pioneered and built by Blount.

HONORED—Clarence L. French (left), president of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, presented a certificate of appreciation to Dean Champlin, chairman of the SNAME Philadelphia Section at the section's recent 33rd annual dinner-dance held at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel. More than 300 persons attended. $5-Million Navy Parts

Contract Awarded To Rockwell

Rockwell International Corporation, Auto- netics Group, Anaheim, Calif, has been awarded a $5,030,032 unpriced delivery order under a basic ordering agreement to provide various quantities of spare parts including signal data connectors, control panel, test panel, network display, etc., in support of the

Electrically Suspended Gyro Navigator (ESGN), AN/WSN-3A (V) 2, to be used on- board ships. The Navy Ships Parts Control

Center, Mechanicsburg, Pa., is the contracting activity (N000104-80-G-0004).

SNAME Southeast Section

Elects Officers And Hears

Tracor Barge Salvage Report

The Southeast Section of The Society of Na- val Architects and Marine Engineers held its final meeting of the year recently in Fort Lau- derdale, Fla. The meeting featured the results of the election of officers for 1983-84, and a presentation by William K. Lane, chief engi- neer of Tracor Marine.

Elected to office were: John W. Shortall

III, as chairman; Comdr. William E. Remley,

USCG, vice chairman—North; Chet Swen- son, vice chairman—West; Klemme, M. Jones, vice chairman—South; and William L. Lane, secretary-treasurer.

Dr. John Sainsbury was elected to a three- year term on the executive committee and

Bob Hobbs to a one-year term.

Mr. Lane presented an informal report on the salvage of 13 barges that had become im- paled at Dam No. 2 on the Arkansas River in

December 1982. The hazardous operation, which removed a potential threat to the entire

Arkansas River flood control system, was done by Tracor for the U.S. Army Corps of Engi- neers through the office of the U.S. Navy Su- pervisor of Salvage.

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Model 12 LNS-21, 18" x 12"

Requires 1300 HP @ 1635 RPM 6,200 GPM ffi 280' Head Worthington

Model 10 LNS-22, 14" x 10"

Requires 700 HP @ 1425 RPM 5,360 GPM @ 280' Head Ingersoll-Rand

Model 10 HLV, 14" x 10"

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Bettis Model T20 & T30 Valve Actuators

Taylor Pressure Transmitters

High level alarms

Float gage remote level transmission

Control consoles, etc. Also Spare Parts

SULZER MAIN ENGINE 8-cylinder, RD90 (dismantling for parts)

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