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Avondale Industries Wins

Floating Prison Contract

Mayor Edward I. Koch recent- ly announced that the City of New

York will contract with Avondale

Industries, Inc. of New Orleans, La., for the construction, delivery and mooring of an 800-bed floating cor- rection facility by June 1990. The cost for the floating jail net of the site is $125,639,285. At the City's request, Avondale submitted a bid to complete mooring and pier work at a Bronx site for an additional $4,843,320. The final site has not yet been decided, but will likely be at one of two under consideration in the Bronx.

The Avondale proposal, already fully designed and ready to begin construction, calls for a detention facility 625 feet long and 125 feet wide, five stories high, supported on a floating foundation. It will be a fully self-contained adult detention institution, with 700 beds in 50-man dormitories and 100 single cells. The facility will utilize all-steel ship type construction. There will be four gangways connecting to the main- land. The project design team in- cludes David Elliott Leibowitz/Gon- chor and Sput, associated archi- tects, both of whom have previously designed jails for the NYC Depart- ment of Correction, and M. Rosen- blatt and Son, Inc., associated naval architects, who will prepare naval construction drawings and help to ensure that the facility will receive the approval of the U.S. Coast

Guard, which will regulate its occu- pancy.

Avondale Industries is 70 percent owned by its employees through an

Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP); the remaining 40 percent of the stock is traded over the coun- ter. Avondale has been a successful shipyard for 50 years, engaged in the design and construction of naval ships, commercial vessels, offshore oil rigs and other marine projects. It currently has eight ships under con- struction for the U.S. Navy. The firm has pioneered the concept of modular floating-facility construc- tion and has several such facilities, including a 192-megawatt hydro- electric plant nearing completion for the town of Vidalia, La.

For more information and free lit- erature giving full details on the facilities and capabilities of Avon- dale Industries,

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Seaco/Elliot Offers

Improved Inflatable Rafts —Literature Available

Seaco/Elliot manufactures and sells a full product line of superior quality inflatable life rafts and re- lated products for oceangoing ves- sels, offshore platforms, commercial fishing vessels, corporate and com- mercial aircraft and various military applications.

In its 29 years, Elliot inflatable

May, 1989 life rafts have been instrumental worldwide in saving hundreds of lives at sea. Originally manufac- tured in England, the Elliot life raft was brought to the U.S. in 1958, where it underwent extensive design changes for U.S. Coast Guard and

SOLAS testing approvals.

In 1960, Elliot was recognized as one of the first inflatable life raft manufacturers in the U.S. to be awarded USCG and SOLAS ap- provals.

In 1974, Elliot modified and rede- signed its inflatable life raft to meet the new USCG and SOLAS 1974 requirements and standards.

Elliot has passed the latest USCG and SOLAS 1983 amendments for their redesigned and improved life rafts. The company once again was recognized as one of the first U.S. inflatable life raft manufacturers to have approval for its full line of inflatable life rafts, including its 25- man, davit-launched life rafts.

Seaco/Elliot offers sales and ser- vicing facilities worldwide through its extensive network of factory- authorized distributors. All Elliot- approved servicing facilities are

USCG approved with servicing technicians trained at the firm's fac- tory.

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Forty years ago we developed the oil-pressure concept for use in cylindrical shaft couplings and the first SKF OK Coupling was fitted to the M/S Skogaholm in 1945. To date, we have supplied more than 15,000 OK Couplings for marine and heavy engineering applications throughout the world.

Later, we developed the

Supergrip bolt, a hydraulically tensioned, expandable fitted bolt which is also based on the oil- pressure concept. We have sup- plied more than 5,000 Supergrip bolts for marine and other ap- plications where reliability and speed in demounting and refitting of flange couplings are at a pre- mium.

There is always a risk that good products are copied. Unfor- tunately, many users have paid a high price to discover that copies do not always measure up to the performance of the genuine prod- uct. As a result, most shipown- ers, power stations and other us- ers specify genuine OK Couplings and Supergrip bolts. Often, our service program is also a key fac- tor in the decision to select our couplings and bolts. Whether your vessel is docked at Shang- hai, Hamburg or San Francisco, we can be on the spot within 24 hours. We are represented by

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Through the years, quality, ex- perience and service have helped us become the masters of con- nection.

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