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Model of the 70,000-grt Sovereign of the Seas being built at Chantiers de I'Atlantique,

France, will be outfitted with approximately 500,000 square feet of Rockwool TNF panels.

Rockment To Supply Rockwool

TNF Panel System For Cruise Liner

New Ship Repair Facility

At Port Of Portland

Douglas Watson, president and general manager, has an- nounced the formation of West

State, Incorporated (WSI) and the opening of their new facility at the

Port of Portland Ship Repair Yard on Swan Island, Portland, Ore.

This full-service ship repair com- pany was founded, according to Mr.

Watson, in order to provide quality ship repair services to the commer- cial ocean going vessel owners/oper- ators at a price more competitive than was formerly available in Port- land. Several of WSI's shipping company customers have indicated that the new repair firm is very wel- come and will certainly be given the opportunity to participate in the competitive process.

WSI's management nucleus con- sists of Mr. Watson, formerly oper- ations manager for Dillingham Ship

Repair in Portland, general superin- tendent Michael McDougall and assistant general superintendent

Edward Yeager, both also former

Dillingham supervisors. There is over 50 years of ship repair experi- ence combined in this team.

For more information on the new ship repair facility,

Circle 72 on Reader Service Card 300-Page Fishing Vessel

Safety Manual Published

The Vessel Safety Manual, pre- pared for the commercial fishing industry in conjunction with the

North Pacific Fishing Vessel Own- er's Association (NPFVOA), the

U.S. Coast Guard and the National

Marine Fisheries Service, was re- cently published.

Some 300 pages long, with more than 300 illustrations, the manual represents one of the most compre- hensive sets of operational recom- mendations ever prepared for the

U.S. commercial fishing industry.

The Vessel Safety Manual is priced at $30 per copy (Washington residents add $2.37 per copy state sales tax) with proceeds used to sus- tain the NPFVOA Crew Training

Program and related safety activi- ties. In 1987, the NPFVOA Safety

Program intends to create a set of video tapes devoted to fishing vessel safety, to complement the manual and the training program.

To order copies of the Vessel

Safety Manual, telephone: (206) 283-0861 or write: NPFVOA Vessel

Safety Program, Building C-3,

Room 207, Fishermen's Terminal,

Seattle, Wash. 98119.

MarAd Awards Contracts

For M&R Work On Two

Academy Training Ships

Contracts for maintenance and repair work on two training vessels operated by state maritime academ- ies have been awarded by the Mari- time Administration.

Houston Ship Repair of Channel- view, Texas, will get $406,800 to per- form work on the Texas Clipper, the

December, 1986 training ship of the Texas Maritime

College at Galveston. The other contract, for $525,979, was awarded to Service Engineering Company of

San Francisco for repairs to the

Golden Bear, operated by the Cali- fornia Maritime Academy at Valle- jo.

The Texas Clipper work is to be completed in 30 days and the Gold- en Bear in 45 days.

TDI Catalog Now Includes 100-MM Chart Recorders —Literature Available

TDI Catalog Sales of Plainville,

Conn., now includes compact pro- grammable 100-mm recorders in either 1-, 2- or 3-pen models in the

TDI Catalog for Sensors and Con- trols.

Input can be DC voltage, or nine types of thermocouples or RTDs when used with temperature trans- mitter. In addition to analog data writing, they also provide digital and bar graph monitoring displays, and digital monitoring printout.

Programming is through a multi- function membrane keypad. And all controls slide into a short-sized case for protection. For long life, non- contact servo elements are used.

The swing out digital display allows viewing from different angles. Chart speed can be set at 1 mm/hr. steps;

Z-fold paper is used.

Dimensions of the 1-pen model are approximately 5U/16 inches square for the fact and 10^-inches long. The 2- and 3-pen models are 2% inches long; the face is same as the 1-pen model.

For literature containing more in- formation,

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Rockment, manufacturers and marketers of the Rockwool TNF joiner system, recently received the accommodation order for the Royal

Caribbean Cruise Lines ship Sover- eign of the Seas, the largest cruise liner to be built since the Frances and the United States.

The Sovereign of the Seas, with a 2,276-passenger capacity and 70,000 grt, will require approximately 500,000 square feet of Rockwool

TNF panels. All panels between staterooms will feature an extra high noise reduction factor, 44 decibels.

Chantiers de I'Atlantique, St. Na- zaire, France, who is building the

Sovereign of the Seas, has often uti- lized the Rockwool TNF panel sys- tem, such as on the Holland Ameri- can Cruise Line vessels, Niew Am- sterdam and Noordam.

For free literature containing de- tailed information on the Rockwool

TNF panel system,

Circle 66 on Reader Service Card

Technology for High Performance

Compact Heat Exchangers

SPHERE MATRIX •SPHERE MATRIX a

The heart of the SPHERE MATRIX

Technology consists of nesting the tubes in a regular matrix of solid spheres around the outside and utilizes fluted spheres, properly spaced, on the inside. The spheres interrupt the boundary layer growth and thereby enhance the heat transfer performance.

Fluted sphere inserts or solid sphere bundles can be used separately depending on the needs of the application.

Call or send for complete information on SPHERE MATRIX or assistance in applying this new technology on your next heat transfer application.

Vapor Corporation - Heat Exchange Products 6420 West Howard Street, Chicago, Illinois 60648 Telephone 312/631-9200

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