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EMD-powered twin screw tug Chessie sliding down the ways at Jacobson Shipyard.

Jacobson Delivers Shipdocking Tug 'Chessie' To Chessie System system was supplied by Hough

Wagner.

Jacobson Shipyard is a full-serv- ice facility that specializes in the design, construction, and repair of tugs, ferries, fishing boats, oil skimmers, workboats, and other craft up to 235 feet and 1,500 long tons displacement.

CHESSIE

Major Suppliers

Main engines & controls (2)

General Motors EMD

Reduction gears (2) Reintjes

Propellers (2) Columbian Bronze

Kort nozzles (2) Kort Propulsion

Steering system, RA indicator

Hough Wagner

Main engine accessory racks EMD

Lube oil filters Michiana Filter

Lube oil coolers Young Radiator

Governors Woodward

Pumps Aurora/Goulds/Taiko

Valley Group/Vickers/Weiman

Valves Vickers

Strainers . . . Kraissl/Michigan Fluid Power

Tate Temco

Filters American Filter/Donaldson

Engine silencers Maxim

Air compressors Curtis Toledo

Air receivers Kahlenberg

Air start motors Ingersoll Rand

Main switchboard Seaboar

Energy Control

Distribution panels ITE Gould

Transformers Federal Pacific

Aux. gen. sets Detroit Diesel/

Int'l Electric

Heating systems Electromode/Valad

Electric

Hot water heater State Industries

Pressure set Gould

Air conditioning . . . York div. Borg-Warner

Electric motors Baldwin/Goulds/

Sieman Allis

Oil/water separator Microphor

Supply fans Buffalo Forge

Radar Furuno

Depth finder Datamarine

Compass Ritchi

Nav. light panel Henschel

VHF radio Cybernet

VHF monitor Electro-Monitor

Constavolt Newma

Air horn Cunningham

Searchlight Carlisle & Finch

Capstan New England Trawler

Doors & hatches Dupont Mfg.

Heated windows Singer Kearfott

Deck coverings Asbestolith

Coatings International Paint

Jacobson Shipyard of Oyster Bay,

N.Y., recently delivered the twin- screw tug Chessie, first of two un- der construction for the Chessie

System. Specifically designed for shipdocking, they will service

Chessie System's coal facilities at

Newport News, Va. The tug Ches- sie has an overall length of 105 feet, beam of 33 feet, and design draft of 15 feet. The vessel has demonstrated a bollard pull in ex- cess of 130,000 pounds.

The new tug is powered by twin

GM Electro-Motive Division diesel engines, model R16-645-E6, each with an output of 1,950 bhp at 900. Each engine drives a Colum- bian Bronze propeller through a

Reintjes reduction gear having a ratio of 4.947:1. Twin Kort nozzles and oversized rudders provide ex- cellent maneuverability. The noz- zles and propellers were designed by Kort Propulsion of England;

Kort built the nozzles and Colum- bian manufactured the propellers.

The Chessie has a special Morse

Rubber tendering system to han- dle submarines. The tug's steering

Latest Europort Exhibition

A "Resounding Success" ?

Europort 83 was officially opened by H.M.

Macleod, chairman of Lloyd's Register of

Shipping.

Europort 83, the 21st Interna- tional Maritime Exhibition that was held recently at the RAI In- ternational Exhibition Centre in

Amsterdam, was a resounding success in all respects, according to the organizer. At the close of the exhibition, many companies that had exhibited confirmed that they were well satisfied with the results they had achieved.

Europort is said to be the larg- est maritime exhibition in the world. The latest show, organized for the first time by RAI Gebouw

BV, attracted just under 55,000 visitors from 74 countries.

The Europort Congress on Inter- national Maritime Finance was also attended by financial and maritime experts from all over the world. The many other special events held during Europort 83, such as the Maritime Technology

Meeting Day, the meeting of the

Royal Netherlands Shipowners

Association, the CEDA Dredging

Days, and a combined dinner and symposium for the fishing indus- try, were all regarded by their re- spective organizers as extremely successful.

The last day of the exhibition was known as the Inland Water- ways Day. The masters of more than 500 inland waterways vessels took part in a visit to the exhibi- tion and a program on reducing fuel costs and other matters.

The next Europort exhibition will be held at the RAI Halls No- vember 12-16, 1985.

Grow Group's Coatings

Will Be Manufactured

In Saudi Arabia

Two divisions of Grow Group,

Inc.—Devoe Marine Coatings

Company and Devoe-Prufcoat— have recently concluded an agree- ment for the manufacture of their complete product lines by the Saudi

Industrial Paint Company, Ltd. (SIPCO) of Dammam, Saudi Ara- bia. SIPCO's associated company,

Saudi Paint Company, Ltd. of Ri- yadh, is also a party to the agreement.

To support this major strength- ening of Devoe's presence in the

Middle East, Albwardy Marine

Engineering of Dubai, United Arab

Emirates, has been appointed as representative for the southern

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