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; m 1 1 • - „ 12 feet 6 inches. Displacement at full load is 404 tons. The boat's two

Detroit Diesel 12V71TI diesel en- gines develop a total of 850 shp and can drive the vessel at 11 knots.

Accommodations for a crew of two officers and 12 enlisted men are provided.

Moss Point Marine, Inc., is one of the Trinity Marine Group shipyards which are owned by Trinity Indus- tries, Inc., Dallas, Texas. Other shipyards in the group are Halter

Marine Inc.'s facilities at Moss

Point, Miss., and Lockport, La.,

Equitable/Halter shipyards in New

Orleans and Madisonville, La., and

Gretna Machine and Iron Works in

Harvey, La.

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The LCU-1680, powered by twin Detroit Diesel 12V71TI engines, was recently delivered by

Moss Point Marine, Escatawpa, Miss., to the U.S. Navy.

Moss Point Marine Delivers

First Of Two Navy Landing Craft

The first of two 135-foot, Landing

Craft Utility (LCU) vessels being built by Moss Point Marine, Inc.,

Escatawpa, Miss., under an $8.6- million contract with the U.S. Navy, has been delivered.

The all-steel, twin-engine landing craft, designated LCU-1680, is capa- ble of carrying three M-48 tanks and other vehicles or artillery and their associated personnel over hinged bow ramps directly on to the beach.

After a beach landing or loading, the boat is able to retract from the beach under its own power.

The LCU is 134 feet 9 inches in length, with a 29-foot beam, and a molded draft (to top of bulwark) of

Unitor Completes

Refrigeration Service

Division Revitalization

Unitor Ships Service has recently completed a scheduled revitaliza- tion of the Refrigeration Service Di- vision after five years in operation.

Kenneth Arntzen, who has just completed his first year as the Re- frigeration Service manager for

North America, says that there is a need for specialized support on most vessels today due to an in- creased demand on the reduced crews and the special skills required to maintain refrigeration systems.

Mr. Arntzen also states that

Unitor's Preventive Technical In- spection/Service and Repair (PTI/

SAR) program is widely accepted as a means to reduce operation costs and increase system reliability.

A refrigeration course for marine engineers will be taught at Unitor's

Houston office in the near future

For information on the course, con- tact Kenneth Arntzen at (212) 732-4245.

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