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Houston Ship Repair

Busy With Work —Literature Available

Houston Ship Repair, Inc., head- quartered in Channelview, Texas, operates facilities at Brady Island (Port of Houston), Galveston,

Orange and Corpus Christi, Texas.

The company's Houston Ship

Channel berth on Brady Island ac- commodates ships up to 780 feet, with full utilities, a 25-ton-capacity tower crane and complete work- shops.

The Brady Island facility just completed topside repairs, lay-up and systems draining on the Chesa- peake under a $299,985 contract from the Maritime Administration.

Additionally, the facility completed work on the tanker Mount Wash- ington under a $549,000 contract awarded to Houston Ship Repair.

The Orange, Texas, facility offers two working berths that can accom- modate ships up to 700 feet in length, has full utilities, a 50-ton- capacity floating crane and com- plete fabrication and machine shops.

The company's Galveston facility handles full topside repair, cleaning and oil spill clean-up services.

At Houston Ship Repair, experi- enced and reliable personnel handle all phases of ship repair, diesel re- pair and reconditioning (the compa- ny is a licensed service representa- tive for MAN B&W Diesel and Sulz- er engines), electric motor rewind- ing and trouble-shooting, cleaning, exterior painting, and tank lining.

For free literature fully detailing the ship repair and service facilities offered by Houston Ship Repair,

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Gotaas-Larsen Sells

Two Large Tankers

The sale of two very-large crude carriers to an unspecified buyer de- scribed as a substantial London- based Greek company was recently announced by Gotaas-Larsen Ship- ping Corp.

Both vessels, the 1972-built Golar

Kansai and the 1974-built Golar

Kanto, were built in Japan and have a capacity of 215,000 deadweight tons. They will be delivered to their new owners during the second quar- ter of 1988, after completion of their current voyages. Gotaas did not dis- close the sales price.

Gotaas-Larsen is an international shipping group with a fleet (existing and on order) of 32 modern vessels, including nine cruise ships, five liq- uefied natural carriers, and 18 other cargo vessels.

ZF Introduces Trolling

Valves For Transmissions

ZF of North America, Inc., recent- ly announced the introduction of trolling valves for models BW-250 (-S) and BW-255 (-S) marine trans- missions.

The trolling valves provide the ability to obtain slower than normal propeller shaft speeds than what are normally available at engine idle speeds. Consequently, operation in "no wake" zones is easier.

The BW-250 family of marine transmission includes a propeller shaft-driven auxiliary lube oil trail- ing pump as a standard feature. The feature can allow ZF customers to obtain longer cruising ranges in multiple engine boats by permitting operation under single engine pro- pulsion while the other engines are stopped.

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