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Southwest Marine Wins $14.8-Million Contract For

USS Mt. Vernon Overhaul

Southwest Marine, San Pedro Di- vision, Terminal Island, San Diego,

Calif., was recently awarded a $14,878,000 firm-fixed-price con- tract for the overhaul of the USS

Mt. Vernon (LSD-39). The work, which is expected to he completed

February 26 of next year, will be performed in Terminal Island. Con- tract funds would not have expired at the end of the current fiscal year.

There were two bids solicited and two offers received. The Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and

Repair, Long Beach, is the contract- ing activity (N00024-85-H-8222).

Sembawang Orders

Bardex Hydranautics

Loadout Systems —Literature Available

Sembawang Engineering Pte.,

Ltd. has contracted with Bardex

Hydranautics, Goleta, Calif., for an additional hydraulic system for module loadout for Sembawang En- gineering in Singapore. The new system consists of push/pull gripper jacks and the latest Bardex Hydra- nautics-designed redundant power unit. Installation of the new system will allow the Sembawang Shipyard to more than double the capacity of its existing Bardex module system.

The new system will be first used in mid-September to loadout four new modules for Aramco.

Bardex Hydranautics has offices in London, Singapore and Houston.

The company designs and manufac- tures heavy-load moving equipment for offshore and shipyard-related activities, including systems for ap- plications ranging in size to over 50,000 tons.

For more information on Bardex

Hydranautics and their products,

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Racai Wins Contract

From State Of Louisiana

For Marine Simulator

The State of Louisiana has awarded a contract to Racal Marine,

Inc. for an advanced marine radar and electronic navigation aids simu- lator. The Racal MRNS 9000 simu- lator will be installed later this year at the Louisiana Marine and Petro- leum Institute (LAMPI) in Houma.

The system will meet the recom- mendations of the International

Maritime Organization's STCW

Convention on standards of train- ing, certification and watchkeeping for mariners.

The Racal MRNS 9000 simulator system includes a comprehensive in- structor's console with processor- generated graphics, exercise situa- tion display, simulated communica- tions and intercom facilities. The simulator ordered by LAMPI has eight stations capable of training up to 16 persons simultaneously. Two stations have simulated vessel con- trols for maneuvering training to 14 avoid dangerous conditions. Full video, audio and hard copy record- ing of exercise data is provided.

The simulator software package includes five geographical exercise areas of coastline and offshore re- gions from Mobile Bay entrance to

Galveston Bay entrance, including an area of the Mississippi River within the Port of New Orleans.

This will provide realistic courses in radar plotting, blind pilotage, colli- sion avoidance, radar interpretation and radar navigation in local con- fined waters and areas of high-den- sity shipping traffic.

The electronic navigation soft- ware package is linked to the geo- graphical exercise areas to provide real navaids training with Loran C, satellite navigation, Omega naviga- tion, radio direction finding, depth finding and VHF procedural train- ing.

The versatility of the system per- mits training a broad range of stu- dents on simulated vessel sizes from 70 tons to 200,000 tons deadweight with single or two-screw maneuver- ing capability.

Racal Marine, Inc. is a unit of the international Racal Group, which provides products, systems and ser- vices in data communications, radio communications, security, defense radar and avionics, marine and en- ergy electronics, and specialized electronics.

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Ropes of Kevlar offer at Vs the weight topside

At 430,000 lb. minimum breakstrength, this 2'/2-inch diameter rope of KEVLAR is comparable to steel in strength and elongation, and it won't rust '