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OUTSTANDING WORKBOATS &

MILITARY SHALLOW-DRAFT VESSELS OF 1987

A special review of some of the most notable and important inland and coastal workboats and shallow-draft military craft delivered during 1987—selected by the editors of Maritime

Reporter and Engineering

News for their high standards of design or performance.

AVENGER

Peterson Builders

The USS Avenger (MCM-1), the lead ship of the Navy's newest class

Photos (top row from left): LCAC (Textron)

Island Queen II (Munson); Tahoma (R. E.

Derecktor); (bottom row from left): Avenger (Peterson Builders); East Coastal Intercep- tors (Tempest Marine); Eagle (Moss Point

Marine). of mine countermeasure vessels, was commissioned at the yard of her builder, Peterson Builders, Inc. (PBI), this year.

The Avenger Class MCMs are the

Navy's largest wooden ships, mea- suring 224 feet long and 39 feet abeam. The Avenger is powered by four 600-hp Waukesha diesel en- gines with three diesel generators.

AVENGER

Equipment List

Main engines Waukesha

Electric motors . . Hansome Electric

Reduction gears IMO Delaval

CP propellers Bird-Johnson

Shafting Bird-Johnso

Bowthruster Omnithruster

Ship service generators Tech Systems

Generator engines Waukesha

Machinery control system GE

Ship control system Henschel

Switchboards Nelson

Anchor windlass and capstan . . . . New England Trawler

Steering system . . Jered Brown Bros.

Anchor chain Baldt

Minesweep generator

Minesweep machinery

Sonar system ....

Navigation system . .

Mine neutralization

Siemens-Allis . A.C. Hoyle

GE . Magnavox . Honeywell

She displaces 1,300 tons and carries a crew of 81 officers and enlisted men.

The introduction of the new

Avenger Class into the Navy's active fleet will greatly enhance its surface minehunting, minesweeping and mine neutralization capabilities due to the vessel's sophisticated mine- warfare equipment, which was sup- plied by Honeywell. A.C. Hoyle supplied the vessel's minesweeping machinery and Siemens-Allis, her minesweep generator.

BLAIR MCCALL

Gulf Craft

The 155-foot aluminum crewboat

Blair McCall was delivered last year by Gulf Craft, Inc. of Patterson, La., to McCall Boat Rental, Inc. of Ca- meron, La. According to Gulf Craft president Scott Tibbs, the Blair

McCall is the world's largest alumi- num crewboat.

The unique, five-screw Blair

McCall, which has a beam of 30 feet and loaded draft of 8 feet, is pow- ered by five Cummins KTA 1150M diesel engines that develop a total of 3,400 horsepower. She is U.S. Coast

Guard-approved to carry 92 passen-

BLAIR MCCALL

Equipment List

Main engines (5) Cummins

Reduction gears Twin Disc

Propellers Columbian Bronze

Shafts Aquamet

Generator Detroit Diesel

Clutch Twin Disc

Generator controls .... Power Panels

Steering Charlynn Orbitrol

Engine controls Kobelt

Radar Furuno

Loran & VHF Raytheon

SSB Stephens Engineering

Depth sounder Data Marine

Compass & autopilot Comp-Nav

Stuffing boxes Gulf Craft

Keel coolers Split Pipe

Freshwater pressure set Sears

Bilge pump Barne

Fire pump Berkley

Crane-Demmings

A/C & heating Carrier

F/O transfer pump Rope

F/O transfer meter Tokheim

Air compressors Quincy

Anchor winch McElroy Machine

Horns Buell-Air

Search lights Carlisle & Finch

Running lights Perko

Lifesaving gear Billy Pugh 26 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News