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B&B Dredging Offers

Color Brochure On

New Dredge Design

B&B Dredging, Greenbush,

Mich., sales representative for W&S

Development Inc., has announced the publication of a full-color bro- chure on their latest dredge design, the Model D-18, submersible-pump cutterhead dredge.

According to the brochure, the

Model D-18 offers several features to facilitate dredge portability and productivity. The B&B dredge is equipped with a rugged cutterhead assembly with replaceable teeth; a submersible pump with instant priming; fixed or fold-up pontoons; and windows made of virtually un- breakable Lexan.

In a letter to B&B Dredging,

Woodbury & Associates, P.A., con- sulting engineers, said of the Model

D-18, "this dredge configuration provides the ultimate in portability and productive capability. The hull pontoon arrangement, with the con- tinuous hinge connection, allows the width of hull required for good sta- bility while afloat and a simple method of width reduction for over- the-road transport without de- mounting any part of the structure or machinery."

The color brochure contains sev- eral photographs of both the dredge and its equipment accompanied by clear and concise text. For a free copy of the brochure from B&B

Dredging on the Model D-18 sub- mersible-pump cutterhead dredge,

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Moss Point Marine Converts Tanker

Into Oceangoing Grain Barge

Moss Point Marine, Inc. of Esca- tawpa, Miss., has converted the

American Gulf I (shown), a former 520-foot T-2 tanker, into an oceangoing bulk grain barge for

American Gulf Shipping of New Or- leans.

The extensive modification re- quired the relocation of longitudinal wing walls and the installation of tank tops to make a double-skin barge. The five-hold vessel features grain repose slopes—slanted bulk- heads that permit direct pour load- ing and eliminate the use of costly cargo trimming machinery. The ves- sel was also modified to transport 60 empty 40-foot containers on her hatch covers.

The American Gulf I was original- ly a 520-foot World War II tanker built in Seattle in 1945. Her new dimensions are 383 feet in overall length, 68 feet in beam, and 38 feet in depth. Loaded draft is 30.6 feet.

Moss Point Marine president

John Dane III said the ex-T-2 is the largest vessel his shipyard has worked on to date.

Current contracts at the Moss

Point yard include: construction of two 135-foot landing craft (LCU) for the U.S. Navy; conversion of a 171-foot supply boat into an oil spill recovery vessel for Clean Seas Cor- poration of Santa Barbara, Calif.; construction of twenty-six 110-foot lighters for the Navy; and construc- tion of two 88-foot fireboats for the

Port of Long Beach, Calif.

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Marine's shipyard,

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Grow Group Announces

Merger Of Devoe Prufcoat

And Napko Corporation

Grow Group, Inc. has announced the merger of its Devoe Prufcoat

Division and Napko Corporation, effective February 1, 1986. The merged entity is Devoe Napko Pro- tective Coatings, a Division of Grow

Group. Napko was acquired by

Grow Group, Inc. from The O'Brien

Corporation on May 3, 1985.

Commenting on the merger, Rus- sel Banks, president and chief ex- ecutive officer of Grow Group, Inc. stated: "This merger will allow for a highly efficient operation for the manufacture of high-performance, advanced technology paints and coatings directed at the petroleum, chemical, power generation, off- shore and heavy-duty industrial market segments." According to Jo- seph M. Quinn, Group vice presi- dent responsible for Devoe Napko

Protective Coatings: "We are espe- cially excited about the opportuni- ties presented by this merger, par- ticularly the introduction of Grow's technology into the existing Napko marketing channels."

Corporate offices for Devoe Nap- ko Protective Coatings will be lo- cated in Houston, Texas, and Baton

Rouge, La., sales and service person- nel are located strategically throughout the United States. De- voe Napko Protective Coatings will also be served by an international licensee network.

Lou Vincent, vice president and general manager of Devoe Napko

Protective Coatings, will be located in Houston and can be contacted at 1-800-231-6415. Andy House, vice president of marketing, will contin- ue to be located in Baton Rouge at 1-800-535-8076.

Grow Group, Inc. is one of the nation's largest producers of spe- cialty chemical coatings and paints, with subsidiaries located around the world.

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Bethlehem Yard Completes

Repairs To MSC Craneship

Bethlehem Steel Corporation's

Sparrows Point shipyard near Balti- more recently completed repairs to the craneship USNS Keystone State (T-ACS-1) under a $550,000 Mari- time Administration contract. The 668-foot ship is a former Marine

Class vessel built in the early 1950s that was converted last year to a craneship by Bay Shipbuilding un- der the Military Sealift Command's

T-ship program. Formerly the Pres- ident Harrison, she is the first of 10 auxiliary craneships being procured by the MSC to be held in reserve until needed to unload cargo from commercial containerships and breakbulk freighters in the event of a rapid deployment. 10 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News