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ASMAR Of Chile In Joint Venture

To Build $13-Million Shipyard

ASMAR Shipbuilding & Dock- ing Company, Chile's largest ship repairer and shipbuilder, is to build a new joint venture shipyard at a total cost of around $13 million near Punta Arenas on the Strait of

Magellan in southern Chile.

The project is a joint venture be- tween ASMAR and the South Af- rican shipbuilder and repairer

Sandock-Austral, and a new joint company—the Strait of Magellan

Shipyard Limited—has been formed to build and operate the yard.

The yard will be built at Bahia

Catalina just 4.5 kms from Punta

Arenas where ASMAR already has an existing, complementary ship- yard. ASMAR's two other yards are at Valparaiso and Talcahuano.

It will be equipped with a ma- rine railway, designed by Crandall of Boston, Mass., which will be ca- pable of lifting vessels up to 4,000 tons displacement.

The railway's dimensions will be 393.72 feet in length, 85.30 feet in width, with a depth of 19.68 feet, and it will be capable of docking the deepsea fishing fleet operating in the South Pacific and Antarctic, cargo and passenger vessels and most of the supply ships currently working on the offshore oil drill- ing program off the southern Chi- lean coast.

Construction of the yard will start later this year and is sched- uled to become operational by the end of 1985. The total cost of around $13 million is covered by funds from the two partners and a long term South African loan.

The new yard will complement

ASMAR's existing yard at Punta

Arenas which can lift vessels up to 1,000 tons on its slipway and is well equipped with steel, mechan- ical, electrical and electronic workshops.

Richard Rice Joins

Morgan Crane As

Operations Manager

Richard Rice has been named operations manager for Morgan

Crane Company of Santa Ana,

Calif. He was formerly service manager at Nautilus Crane &

Equipment Corporation of Re- serve, La., and operations man- ager for Offshore Crane & Equip- ment of Jefferson, La.

Mr. Rice will oversee all marine and offshore installation and ser- vice work for Morgan, as well as assist in design and production on special projects.

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Describes Maintenance

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Manufactured in West Germany and recently introduced to the

U.S. market, Sonnenschein batter- ies are maintenance-free, sealed lead acid units that have such a low rate of self-discharge and such high performance on float that they are said to be ready for a sud- den power demand when a power outage occurs even after up to 10 years on the job.

Sonnenschein batteries meet

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RCA Service Awarded $3.8-Million Contract

For Engineering Services

RCA Service Company, Spring- field, Va., is being awarded a $3,809,800 cost-plus-fixed-fee con- tract for engineering services in support of the Japanese ship DDG- 2312. This contract is in support of a Foreign Military Sale to Japan.

The Naval Sea Systems Com- mand, Washington, D.C. is the contracting activity.

TWO FROM MOSS POINT—The Nicor Guard, a 97-foot by 30-foot by 12-foot 3-inch triple-screw tugboat, and the Nicor Safety, an 82-foot 6- inch by 24-foot by 11-foot 3-inch twin-screw line launch vessel were re- cently delivered to Nicor Marine of New Orleans, La., by Moss Point

Marine of Escatawpa, Miss. The vessels were loaded aboard the heavy lift ship Titan Scan for shipment to Nigeria.

Hydra Scrub, Inc. Renamed

Underwater Ship

Maintenance Specialist

Terry A. Forest recently an- nounced the formation of his new firm, Underwater Ship Mainte- nance Specialist, Inc. located at 5027 River Road, Harahan, La. 70123; telephone (504) 734-1045.

Formerly Hydra Scrub, Inc.,

USMS offers complete hull weld- ing and repair services, ABS in- spections, and Lloyd's Registry of

Ship Surveys in addition to its professional hull cleaning services.

Mr. Forest stated that "our name change reflects our corpo- rate growth and expansion from a specialization in hull cleaning to one that is far more diversified.

Our objective is to offer the widest possible range of professional ser- vices within our field." $7.7-Million Contract

To Engineered Air Systems

Engineered Air Systems Incor- porated, St. Louis, Mo., is being awarded a $7,764,103 firm-fixed- price contract plus an option to furnish 273 air conditioning units, integrated logistics support and related data. The Naval Regional

Contracting Center, Philadelphia is the contracting activity.

Oil-free Cutless® rubber bearings stop water pollution, conserve oil.

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

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