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Campbell Yard Launches

Caterpillar-Powered

Tuna Purse Seiner

Campbell Shipyard recently launched the first Super Pacific

Class tuna seiner for Italy, the Rio

Mare. This is the eighth consecu- tive 1,500-ton-capacity tuna purse seiner built for export, making

Campbell one of the leading U.S. exporting shipbuilders.

The Rio Mare's complete Marco deck machinery system features the

WS455 purse seine winch, which provides greater line pull than pre- vious models in its category. Also included is Marco's rail-mounted hydraulic net roller, which helps speed up "drying up" in net before and during brailing.

Electronics include Furuno's new- est FR-1800 "S" Band ARPA radar,

CSH-20 sonar, GP-500 GPS satel- lite navigator, and FS-500 SSB, as well as the Felcom 5B satcom.

Power is provided by the latest version of Caterpillar's Model 3612 diesel driving a five-bladed Bird-

Johnson propeller through a Falk reduction/reversing gear at a shaft speed of 180 rpm.

The Rio Mare is 157 feet long, with a beam of 44 feet 9 inches and depth of 26 feet 5.5 inches. Her refrigerated fish capacity is 1,548 short tons. Trial speed confirmed by

Our complete line of welding and refrigerant products has brought over 12.000 vessels to Drew Ameroid® Marine.

Our outstanding service and reliability brings them back again and again.

The Rio Mare, which is scheduled to be delivered this month, is a sister ship to the highly successful

Via Avenir, which has proven to be one of the leading producers in the French tuna fleet in the

Atlantic since her delivery last fall. her sister ship is 17.6 knots at 2,850 tons displacement and 3,800 shp.

For additional information on the

Rio Mare or Campbell's shipbuild- ing and repair services,

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Litton Awarded $6 Million

By Navy For Production Of

Direction-Finding Systems

Litton's Amecom division, Wash- ington, D.C., has been awarded a $6 million U.S. Navy contract for con- tinued production of AN/BLD-1 di- rection-finding systems for SSN-688 class submarines. The new contract provides for two systems, spares, support equipment, data and engi- neering services. Contracts now to- tal $137 million with 31 systems delivered.

The AN/BLD-1 provides passive intercept and precision direction- finding information about airborne, land-based and shipboard emitters which increases the submarine's capability to accomplish its varied missions. In addition to application on the 688 class, the system is pres- ently being utilized as a part of the

AN/WLQ-4 (V) 1 Electronic Warfare

System for installation in the Navy's newest attack submarine, the

Seawolf (SSN-21) class. The first

Seawolfis presently under construc- tion.

Production is being performed at

Amecom's College Park, Md., facil- ity.

Amecom is a unit of Litton's Elec- tronic Warfare Systems group. The division designs, develops and manu- factures communications and elec- tronic warfare systems for the De- partment of Defense and other Fed- eral Government agencies.

Litton is a technology-based com- pany providing resource exploration services, industrial automation sys- tems and advanced electronic and defense systems for U.S. and world markets.

For more information and free literature,

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Maritime Reporter/Engineering News

Drew Ameroid"

Marine

AMERFROSTand

AMERARCare trademarks, and

AMEROID, AMEROX and the Triton logo are registered trademarks of the Drew Chemical

Corporation. *FREON and DYTEL are registered trade- marks of E.I. Du Pont

De Nemours &

Company, Inc.

Drew Ameroid® Marine Division

Ashland Chemical, inc. Subsidiary of Ashland Oil, Inc.

One Drew Plaza, Boonton, New Jersey 07005 USA Telephone: (201) 263-7700 Facsimile: (201) 263-4485

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Servicing 800 ports worldwide, Drew

Ameroid® Marine is rapidly becoming the superior choice for welding and refrigerant products. Long acknowledged as the leader in providing high-quality chemical treatment and maintenance products, Drew has earned a reputation for outstanding service and customer satisfaction. We respond quickly throughout the world and can deliver large quantities of products, even on short notice.

Our complete range of products includes: • AMEROX8 Gases-oxygen, acetylene, nitrogen and argon delivered in international standard cylinders • AMEROX® Gas Welding and Cutting Equip- ment, Brazing and Welding Consum- ables and Accessories • AMERARC™ Arc Welding Machines,

Electrodes and Accessories, TIG

Welding Equipment and Plasma

Cutting Equipment • Ships' Cabinets and Central Gas

Systems for newbuilding or upgrading to meet various international standards • AMERFROST™ Refrigerants-afull line of refrigerant gases including

FREON* refrigerants and FREON* refrigerants with DYTEL* leak detector

By putting our customers' safety above all else, Drew Ameroid Marine has achieved an unmatched safety record of more than 1/2-million cylinders delivered without a single incident. Each cylinder meets or exceeds international standards and conforms to all the regulations of the countries in which they are dispensed. Before we accept any cylinder for re-filling, it is inspected/tested to be sure it also meets our stringent safety requirements.

Before you order cylinders or welding and refrigerant products for your vessel, remember the company whose outstanding service and reliability brings customers back again and again-Drew Ameroid® Marine.