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The Happy Buccaneer, shown above, is a heavyweight cargo carrier recently completed by

Hitachi Zosen for Amstel Tanker Management B.V. (Mammoet Transport) of the Nether- lands.

St. Augustine Trawlers Awarded

Contract To Build Cat-Powered Vessel

Charles H. Rains, president of

St. Augustine Trawlers in St. Au- gustine, Fla., recently announced the signing of a contract to con- struct an 85-foot by 24-foot steel trawler for Salvatore and James

Bramante of Boston. Designed by

John W. Gilbert Associates, Inc. of

Boston, the vessel will be powered by a Caterpillar 3508 diesel engine with a rating of 775 bhp at 1,600 rpm, and will have two Northern

Lights 40-kw generators. The trawl winches to be supplied by Pine Hill

Equipment Company will be driven by power takeoff from the main engine via Marco air clutches.

Mr. Rains said this will be the second vessel delivered to the Bra- mante family in less than a year.

The new vessel is scheduled for delivery by the end of October this year. He also announced the com- pletion and successful sea trials of the 80-foot by 40-foot Small Water-

Plane Area Twin Hull (SWATH) vessel Charwin.

The SWATH craft is a prototype developed by Mr. Rains, and is believed to be the first vessel of its class engaged in commercial fishing in the world. The vessel's stable platform allows it to carry a large deck cargo and work in sea condi- tions in which conventional vessels could not operate. The Charwin is currently shell stocking scallops out of St. Augustine. Mr. Rains is very optimistic about the adaptability of the SWATH vessel to search and rescue and seismographic applica- tions.

Heavy Lift Cargo by Hitachi Zosen ing of 5,220 bhp at 580 rpm. Twin controllable-pitch propellers are driven through reduction gearing; a bow thruster is also installed. To- gether they provide the ship with efficient propulsion and enhanced maneuverability.

The Happy Buccaneer has an overall length of 439.6 feet, beam of 92.85 feet, depth of 48.56 feet, and full-load draft of 27 feet. She is built to Lloyd's Register of Shipping clas- sification. Outboard profile of the steel vessel to be constructed by St. Augustine Trawlers

Most Powerful

Ship Delivered

The 13,740-dwt Happy Bucca- neer, said to be the most powerful heavy lift cargo carrier in the world, was delivered recently by the Hiro- shima yard of Hitachi Zosen Corpo- ration in Japan to Amstel Tanker

Management B.V. (Mammoet

Transport) of the Netherlands.

The vessel is fitted with two heavy lift mastcranes (HLM), a new development of Blohm + Voss of

Hamburg, West Germany. Each crane has a lifting capacity of c50 tons, and operated in tandem they can lift loads of up to 1,100 tons at an outreach of 35 meters (about 115 feet). Unlike conventional cranes, the derrick of the HLM slews around a fixed mast. Because of this design, the mast diameter as well as the diameter of the slewing bearing can be relatively small, thereby re- ducing deck space required.

The HLMs' design and their ar- rangement at the starboard side of the ship make it possible to provide a continous and very wide hatch opening for bulky heavy lifts. At sea the derricks will be lasbed in a near- ly vertical position, permitting the carriage of bulky deck cargoes.

Open hull construction has been adopted for this ship, and no longi- tudinal bulkheads are present in tbe cargo hold, thus allowing large-size cargoes of various shapes. The cargo hold is divided into two compart- ments, upper and lower, by pontoon type hatch covers. The hold is de- signed so that the vessel can sail while her upper-deck hatch covers are removed. In addition, heavy- weight cargoes can be rolled on and off via the ship's stern ramp. As an alternate cargo, the vessel has a car- rying capacity of up to 1,058 twenty - foot containers.

Main propulsion is provided by two Hitachi/Sulzer 6ZAL40 diesels, each with maximum continuous rat-

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