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Photo-Port Allen Marine Service

The riverboat SS President in drydock at PAWS

PAMS's main plant located on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway Canal.

Diversified Capabilities Offered By

Port Allen Marine Service — Literature Available

The S/S President, one of two old-fashioned riverboats recently brought to Port Allen Marine Ser- vice, Inc. (PAMS) for repairs, makes regular sightseeing runs along the

Mississippi River. The last side- wheel packet boat to be built in this country, the 60-year-old Pres- ident measures 290 feet long by 83 feet wide and is operated by the

New Orleans Steamboat Com- pany, a subsidiary of the Lake

George Steamboat Company.

The repair work included re- placing bottom plating, sandblast- ing and painting the hull, and working on the rudder, shaft, bearings and other underwater gear. The project cost approxi- mately $140,000.

Although PAMS normally works on more modern boats, repairing historic vessels is well within the capabilities of the shipyard.

Walter Rodv, president of

PAMS, said: "We at Port Allen

Marine take real pride in the fact that we are a 'total service' ship- yard and have earned a reputation for quality work and a quick turnaround."

With modern and efficient facil- ities on the Gulf Intracoastal

Waterway and in the Port of Ba- ton Rouge, PAMS is among the most diverse shipyards on the lower

Mississippi.

PAMS's main plant is located on 750 acres with 7,500-foot frontage on the Gulf Intracoastal Water- way Canal. Also at this site is the new construction facility with the capability of producing over 200 barges per year. During the past year, in addition to constructing open hopper coal barges and cov- ered grain barges, this facility constructed and delivered two sul- furic acid barges to Stauffer

Chemical Company of Dobbs Ferry,

N.Y.

Also at this location is the main yard repair department featuring five drydocks ranging in size from 500-tons to 2,500-tons lifting ca- pacity. Over the past three years the repair department has dry- docked and repaired an average of

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In these days of fuel scarcity, leaky oil lubricated bearings waste energy and pollute our waterways. With Cutless water lubricated rubber bearings designed by

Lucian Q. Moffitt, Inc., there's no oil seal to fail. No lube oil to leak out and pollute the waterways. Any water will lubricate the

Cutless bearing ... fresh water, salt or sand-filled.

Exclusive "Water Wedge" channels molded into a tough BFGoodrich rubber liner keeps plenty of lubricating water flowing through the Cutless bearing.

Cutless bearings are available world- wide from yards and marine stores in a full range of shaft diameters and load capacities. Write us for engineering data.

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P.O. Box 1415, AKRON, OHIO 44309 765 vessels (boats and barges) per year, replacing some two and one- quarter million pounds of steel per year. These departments, sup- ported by a fully equipped ma- chine shop, electric shop, and paint/ sandblast facility, allow PAMS to have a multitude of projects un- derway at the same time.

PAMS's River Plant, located on the Mississippi River three miles south of Baton Rouge, houses a top side repair facility with over 600 feet of repair dock space as well as capabilities of performing mid- stream repairs to deep draft ocean- going vessels. Also at this location is PAMS's gas freeing and clean- ing plant which is equipped to handle 100 barges per month, treating and disposing of all wastes, including acids, alkalis, chemical residues, halogenated organics. and oil sludge with strict adherence to all regulations established by the

Louisiana Department of Natural

Resources as well as the U.S. En- vironmental Protection Agency.

For free information on Port Al- len Marine Service facilities, and services,

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Rauma-Repola To Build

Hydrographic Vessels

For Soviet Ownership

Rauma-Repola's Savonlinna

Shipyard recently signed its first export contract for two hydro- graphic echo-sweeping vessels for

Soviet owners. The contract was signed after a long international competition for the most effective specialized vessels with computer- controlled positioning, echo-sweep- ing, and navigation equipment of the latest technology. Together with shore stations, the vessels are scheduled to be delivered by the end of 1985.

Each of the sister vessels will have an overall length of 107.94 feet, beam of 29.85 feet, and draft of 7.22 feet. Propulsion will be by twin diesel engines, each with an output of 295 bhp. Sweeping speed will be 1—4V2 miles per hour. 12 Circle 313 on Reader Service Card Maritime Reporter/Engineering News