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Phiilyship Yards

Receive ABRs

Joel H. van Diepen, chairman of the board of Phiilyship, recently announced that Phiilyship of

Charleston and Phiilyship of Savan- nah have recently received their

Agreements for Boat Repair (ABRs) from the U.S. Navy.

Following in the footsteps of their

Northern affiliates, Phiilyship of

Charleston and Phiilyship of Savan- nah have focused primarily on ship repair. With the ABRs, both yards will now be able to compete for Navy work.

Since their opening, both yard have successfully performed all types of ship repair and other marine spe- cialty work, serving MSC, Mar Ad and commercial, domestic and for- eign customers.

Headquartered in Philadelphia,

Phiilyship operates out of all major ports from Boston to Jacksonville.

Led by general managers Carl H.

Beal Jr. in Charleston and Audrey

L. Degulo in Savannah, these op- erations are an important part of

Phillyship's network of managers, engineers, technicians, and crafts- men.

For free literature on the ship repair capabilities of Phiilyship,

Circle 4 on Reader Service Card $4 Million Contract

To Munson Manufacturing

To Build Support Boats

The Marine Spill Response Cor- poration (MSRC) has awarded a con- tract to build 16 oil spill response support boats to Munson Manufac- turing, Inc., Edmonds, Wash. The contract totals nearly $4 million.

The support boats will be used principally to set and control oil boom during a spill response. They are designed to be deployed from the larger MSRC oil spill response ves- sels currently under construction at

Trinity Marine Group shipyards in

Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, and Bender Shipbuilding & Repair

Co., Inc., Mobile, Ala.

Each aluminum support boat will be 32 feet long, 13 feet wide and approximately 7 feet deep at midship. They will be powered by

Outboard profile drawing of one of the sixteen 32- fooMong support boats that will be built by Munson

Manufacturing, Inc., for the MSRC. twin Caterpillar 3208 TA diesel en- gines rated at 315 hp each.

The first six support boats are scheduled for delivery in October 1992. Completion of all 16 vessels is expected by January 1993. The ves- sels will be assigned to the five MSRC regional response centers located around the country. Two of the support boats will remain in the northwest.

MSRC is a not-for-profit corpora- tion established to provide a best effort response to large oil spills in certain tidal and coastal waters of the United States. MSRC will focus on satisfying many of the require- ment for maritime spill response and capability established in the Oil

Pollution Act of 1990.

Grants for the purchase of sup- port boats and other vessels and equipment are provided MSRC from the Marine Preservation Associa- tion (MPA). MSRC will use the grant from MPA to purchase ap- proximately $400 million in capital equipment and facilities prior to op- erational readiness in the summer of 1993.

For free literature detailing the boatbuilding services of Munson

Manufacturing,

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