M a r t i n a c - B u i l t Tug For Boyer P o w e r e d By Stork Diesels

Boyer Towing, Inc. of Ketchikan, Alaska, will take delivery in April this year of a new 86-foot, twinscrew tug under construction at Martinac Shipbuilding Corporation in Tacoma, Wash. The 1,800-bhp vessel, with a beam of 25.5 feet and depth of 15 feet, was designed by Glosten Associates of Seattle.

Two six-cylinder Stork-Werkspoor FHD-240 diesel engines will each provide 900 bhp at 900 rpm.

They will drive twin propellers via Masson reverse/reduction gears.

The engines were sold through the Seattle office of SWDiesel Gulf, Inc., which is headed by West Coast sales manager Charles Garman.

The French-built Masson gears were supplied through Diesel Power International of New Orleans.

Last year Boyer had an existing tug, the Brenda H., repowered with a Stork-Werkspoor 9FHD-240 diesel with Masson reverse/reduction gears. Since then that vessel has been operating in barge and log raft towing in Southeastern Alaska.

Electric power for the new vessel at Martinac will be provided by a 30-kw Ford/Onan generating set and a Lister 8-kw auxiliary generator.

The tug will have a capacity for 28,700 gallons of fuel oil, 800 gallons of lube oil, and 2,000 gallons of fresh water.

For free literature on Martinac Shipbuilding facilities and services, C i r c l e 1 2 o n R e a d e r S e r v i c e C a rd For literature on Stork Diesel Engines, C i r c l e 1 4 o n R e a d e r S e r v i c e C a rd

Maritime Reporter Magazine, page 101,  Apr 1986

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