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Outstanding Passenger

Vessels & Ferries (continued)

VOYAGER II

Equipment List

Main engines Detroit Diesel

Propeller Federa

Bilge pump Jabsco

Generator engines GM

Generators Kato

Reduction gears Twin Disc

Loran c, VHF radios, radar, GPS navigator, video sounder, color plotter, loud hailer, and radar scanner Raytheon

Compass Danforth

Search light Carlisle & Finch

Sewage pump Peabody Barnes

Engine controls Mather

Twin Disc 514 marine reverse and reduction gears, with a ratio of 2:1.

Two 30-kw GM-Kato diesel gen- erators provide the electrical power, for the Gulf Craft-supplied hydrau- lic steering, bilge and fire pump, vessel's lighting, and snack bar.

The 79-ton Voyager II is U.S.

Coast Guard-approved for 300 pas- sengers in coastwise service, and is arranged so the passengers can view the whales from the perimeter of both decks while the captain steers the vessel from the control station located on top of the pilothouse.

There is inside seating for 120 passengers on the main deck, with additional seating outside for 61 passengers. On the sun deck or pilothouse deck, there is outside seat- ing for 93 passengers and seating for additional 16 passengers in the

VIP lounge.

Coast Guard Stops Work

On Heritage Class Vessel

Construction Program

The U.S. Coast Guard recently stopped work on its 120-foot Heri- tage Class patrol boat construction program. The prototype has been under construction at the Coast

Guard Shipyard near Baltimore since June 1990.

Changing requirements have called into question the need for a vessel of this type. A final decision on the matter will be made following completion of a review being con- ducted by the Office of the Secretary of Transportation.

The move was prompted by a re- evaluation of mission requirements, increased numbers of Coast Guard and Navy ships available for surface drug interdiction, and the easing of international tensions.

The Coast Guard feels it can meet its current and future needs with the recently built 110-foot Island

Class patrol boats. It is also consid- ering a smaller coastal patrol boat which would cost less to operate and require fewer people. The Coast

Guard currently has 49 Island Class patrol boats.

The decision to stop work on the program will not cause the loss of any jobs at the Coast Guard Ship

Yard due to several other construc- tion and repair projects.

Ship Production Symposium

Set For New Orleans,

September 1992

The 1992 Ship Production Sym- posium, hosted by the Gulf Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and spon- sored by its Ship Production Com- mittee and the National Shipbuild- ing Research Program, has tenta- tively been set for New Orleans, La.,

September 2-4, 1992.

The theme of the meeting is "Implementing Innovation: The

Challenge of Change."

For more information on the Ship

Production Symposium contact:

NSRP 1992 Ship Production Sym- posium Coordinator, UMTRI, Ma- rine Systems Division, 2901 Baxter

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