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Avondale Plans Purchase

Of Lockheed Shipbuilding's

Gulfport Marine Division

Avondale Industries, Inc., New

Orleans, La., has signed a letter of intent for the purchase of Lockheed

Shipbuilding Company's Gulfport

Marine Division, Gulfport, Miss.

The purchase price has been set at $21,000,000.

At present, the Gulfport facility has U.S. Navy contracts to con- struct nine Landing Craft, Air

Cushion (LCAC) vessels with a backlog of about $115,000,000 ex- tending through 1991. Avondale in- tends to continue to produce the

LCACs at the existing Gulfport fa- cility.

The transfer of ownership is ex- pected to be completed sometime this month if it is approved by the

Government and both companies' boards of directors.

If approved, the Gulfport acquisi- tion would further enhance Avon- dale's stated intention to be a signif- icant factor in the boat construction market.

Avondale Industries serves the marine, defense and industrial sec tors. The divisions of the company build and repair ships and boats, offshore oil platforms and bridges, operate a steel service center and produce steel castings and a variety of industrial fabrications.

For free literature on the ship- building and ship-repairing services offered by Avondale,

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HURRICANE GLORIA

SEPTEMBER 1985

MARINEFAX IS PROUD TO HAVE BROUGHT YOU

SOME OF THE WORST WEATHER IN HISTORY.

Hurricane Gloria, September 29,1985. Eighty knot winds and hundreds of boats damaged or destroyed. But some mariners had an Alden Marinefax® weather chart recorder aboard and had prepared for the storm.

For over a decade Marinefax has been bringing you the weather-in advance. Charts that help you plan your course around the worst weather-or into the best.

Over the years, Marinefax has changed with the times.

Today's Marinefax TRI has fully automatic chart reception, and features an exceptionally precise radio which locks onto the frequency, eliminating the "drift" common to most other radio receivers. Our dry-paper charts are big and bright, with exceptional resolution, even in multi-contrast satellite photographs.

At Alden we specialize in the weather-only weather. So each Marinefax is built to the same standards of performance as our professional meteorological equipment. Standards which have won Alden Marinefax seven consecutive NMEA awards for performance and reliability.

For more information on how Marinefax TRI can bring you the weather, contact Alden Electronics, 136 Washington

Street, Westborough, MA 01581. (617) 366-8851.

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ALDENMARINEFAXTIR! 0 $7.6-Million Contract

Awarded To CDI Marine

Naval Ship Systems Engineering

Station, Philadelphia, awarded a $7.6-million contract to CDI Marine

Company to provide engineering and technical services for the devel- opment and maintenance of NAV-

SEA Hull, Mechanical and Electri- cal technical documentation for submarine antenna and hull/deck machinery. The CDI Marine engi- neering office in Blackwood, N.J., managed by John Bond, will pro- vide technical and support services to review, analyze, define, and rec- ommend change and/or revision re- quirements necessary to update and upgrade the technical manuals.

Free Color Brochure

On Safety Release Hook

For Rescue Boats

The Danish company Norpol

Technic A/S of Grinsted has intro- duced a totally new type of release hook for all kinds of single-point suspension rescue boats and life rafts.

The Norpol Safety Release Hook is a new concept, consisting of a male and female part, which, when put together, automatically lock.

However, the great advantage of the

Norpol Safety Release Hook is that release automatically takes place when the rescue boat is floating on the water. Additionally, the hook has a safety stick for manual emer- gency release.

The Norpol safety release hook, type MOB, satifies SOLAS 86,

Chapter III for single-point suspen- sion safety release hooks. It has received classification approvals from Det norske Veritas, Lloyd's

Register of Shipping and German- ischer Lloyds and from maritime authorities in Denmark, Norway,

England and West Germany. Nor- pol Technic expects approvals in the near future from the U.S. Coast

Guard, as well as French, Dutch,

Italian, Finnish and Swedish au- thorities.

Patented worldwide, the safety release hook is produced in three versions—IRB, ILR and MOB. All of these types have safety working loads (SWL) of 1.2 t, 2.1 t and 3.3 t.

The company is working on a sim- ilar two-point supension simulta- neous release system for larger boats.

Norpol Technic A/S is offering a free color brochure detailing their safety release hook. For your copy,

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