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SEATTLE ENTERPRISE

Equipment List

Main engines EMD

Bowthruster engine Caterpilllar

Generator sets KATO

Propellers Berg

Bowthruster Bird-Johnson

Hydraulic system Deleva

Cranes Alaska Marine

Winches Rasmussen

Refrigeration System Sabroe

Sewage Treatment System . . . Red Fox

Fresh Water Maker .... Atlas Danforth

Net reels Rasmussen

Gilson winches Lantec

Codend winch Pullmaster

Process equipment Baade

SUPERAMERICA

Quality Shipyards

In the spring of this year, Houma,

Louisiana-based Quality Shipyards delivered the SuperAmerica, the third in a series of three new 4,200- hp pushboats built for Ashland Oil,

Lexington, Ky.

The SuperAmerica, with an over- all length of 150 feet and breadth of 45 feet, is powered by a pair of Cat- erpillar 3606 diesel engines fitted to

Falk 24MR40 reduction gears with a ratio of 4.48:1 turning 105-inch Co- lumbian Bronze five-bladed propel- lers. For additional low-speed pow- er, the SuperAmerica's propellers are fitted with Kort nozzles.

Electrical power is provided by two 155-kw generators each pow- ered by a Caterpillar 3306TA diesel engine.

Some of the navigation and com- munications equipment featured aboard the pushboat includes two

Standard Horizon VHF radios, a

Motorola SSB radio, two Sperry

Marine radars and an Elac depth sounder.

The SuperAmerica along with her sister vessels, the Paul B. Blazer and the Valvoline, cost $10.5 million.

The three pushboats replaced tow- boats in the Ashland fleet that were all more than 40 years old.

SUPERAMERICA

Equipment List

Main engines (2) Caterpillar

Generator engines Caterpilla

Propellers Columbian

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

Searchlights Carlisle & Finch

Airhorns Kahlenberg

Fuel meters Tokheim

A/C Carrier

Fire detectors EMI

U.S. ENTERPRISE

Halter Marine

Besides its delivery of the con-

November, 1988 verted Northern Enterprise to Arc- tic Alaska Fisheries, Halter Marine,

Inc., New Orleans, La., also deliv- ered the first American vessel de- signed and built to catch pollock and process surimi to the Seattle- based company.

The 224-foot U.S. Enterprise is a floating factory vessel, which is able to catch up to 250 tons of pollock per day and process 50 tons of surimi.

The boat, which was built at

Halter's Moss Point, Miss., yard, was originally intended for use in the offshore oil and gas market.

However, while the vessel was still under construction, Francis Mil- ler, chairman of Arctic Alaska, saw the boat's potential use as a catcher/ processor. Mr. Miller and the Halt- er design team redesigned the U.S.

Enterprise for her present use.

Powered by two GM-EMD 16- 645C diesel engines developing a total of 3,900 hp through Reintjes

WAV 2660 reverse/reduction gears, she has a beam of 42 feet and a (continued)

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