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Bethlehem Steel Plans

Sales of Shipyards

In Texas & Singapore

Bethlehem Steel Corporation re- cently announced plans to sell three of its shipyards and consolidate its shipbuilding operations at Sparrows

Point, Md.

According to Walter P. Wil- liams, chairman and chief execu- tive officer of Bethlehem Steel, the

I firm plans to sell its yards in Singa- pore and Beaumont and Port Ar- thur, Texas. The company will use its Sparrows Point facility to market and produce offshore drilling plat- forms, ships and other marine prod- ucts, as well as to perform ship repair, conversions and modifica- tions.

At present, the Bethlehem Steel-

Sparrows Point yard is constructing two oceanographic survey ships for the Navy under a $130-million con- tract. 1 (IIEGRTOn mnninE pumrc

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The pushboat Valvoline, sister vessel of the recently delivered SuperAmerica, shown in operation near New Orleans. Both pushboats were built by Quality Shipyards for Ashland Oil

Co. as part of a series.

Quality Shipyards Delivers

Third Pushboat In Series of Three

To Ashland Oil Company

Quality Shipyards, Houma, La., recently delivered the 4,200-hp pushboat SuperAmerica, the third in a series of three new vessels built for Ashland Oil, Lexington, Ky. The three pushboats replaced towboats that were all more than 40 years old.

Ashland invested about $3.5 mil- lion for each boat to modernize its fleet. Ashland already operates the largest fleet of tank barges on the inland waterways.

The SuperAmerica has an overall length of 150 feet and breadth of 45 feet and has accommodations for 17.

Her normal crew complement is 10.

The 4,200-hp inland towboat is powered by a pair of Caterpillar 3606 diesel engines. The Cat 3606 is one of a series of new large displace- ment engines that are offered in six, eight, or 12-cylinder versions. De- signed to operate on number two or heavier grade fuel oil, the 3606s are making their new boat debut in the

SuperAmerica and her sister ves- sels, the Valvoline and Paul B. Blaz- er. Intake air for the two main engines is filtered by high-efficiency

Amer-Kleen filters.

Two 155-kw generators, each powered by a Caterpillar 3306TA, insure ample electronical power for the boat.

The rest of the drive package con- sists of Falk 24MR40 reduction gears with a ratio 4.48:1 turning 105- inch Columbian Bronze five-bladed propellers. For added low-speed power, the propellers are fitted with

Kort nozzles.

Some of the navigation and com- munications equipment featured are the SuperAmerica includes two

Standard Horizon VHF radios, a

Motorola SSB radio, two Sperry

Marine radars, and an Elac depth sounder.

The SuperAmerica has impres- sive tank capacities, holding about 100,000 gallons of fuel oil, 10,000 gallons of potable water, 10,000 gal- lons of wash water, 3,000 gallons of lube oil and 30,000 gallons of ballast water.

The SuperAmerica along with her sister ships, the Valvoline and the

Paul G. Blazer, should help Ashland

Oil meet their customer demands in a very competitive market.

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SUPERAMERICA

Equipment List

Main engines (2) Caterpillar

Generator engines Caterpilla

Propellers Columbian Bronze

Reduction gears Falk

Steering system .... Skipper Hydraulics

VHF radios Standard

Radars Sperry

SSB radio Motorola

Depth sounder Elac

Deck winches Nabrico

Fuel purifier Alfa-Laval

Search lights Carlisle & Finch

Airhorns Kahlenberg

Fuel meters Tokheim

A/C Carrier

Fire detectors EMI 201-656-5654

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Oil Purifying Equipment —Brochure Available

Centrico, Inc. offers state-of-the- art equipment for cleaning even the lowest grades of fuel and lube oil.

Two technologically advanced units offered by Centrico are the self-cleaning Westfalia OSA-type oil purifier and the VESA-EC-2 preci- sion timing and monitoring device.

OSA-type oil purifiers are widely used in shipboard applications for the purification of fuel and lube oils.

Centrico offers a number of OSA centrifugal purifier models which remove impurities from heavy oils at rates ranging from 350 to 6,075 gph.

The VESA-EC-2 automatic tim- ing unit is designed to control and monitor OSA-type centrifuges when purifying high-density oils. This

VESA unit, coupled with Westfal- ia's latest self-cleaning centrifuges, offers the optimum in technology for fully automatic, two-stage treat- ment of heavy fuel oil with densities up to 1.01 g/ml.

Westfalia oil-purifying centri- fuges offer efficient utilization of heavy oils as well as improvement of engine performance, reduction of engine wear and breakdowns and the lengthening of lube oil life.

For a free brochure on Centrico's

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