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draws 6-1/2 feet of water and sleeps 99 passengers in 47 cab- ins. She will operate to Canada via New York, sailing the Hudson

River, Erie Canal, Lake Ontario, and St. Lawrence Seaway with stops at Montreal, Quebec City,

Tadoussac and Baie Eternite, as well as several small villages.

It is the 8th small cruise ship designed and built at the Blount

Shipyard in Warren.

Main propulsion for the Mayan

Prince will be supplied by two

Cummins model KTA-19M diesel engines, rated at 500 hp each at 1,800 rpm, connected to Twin Disc

MG-518,3:1 ratio, reduction gear- ing to 44-inch bronze Michigan propellers. A total of three pairs of 95-kw Cummins/Onan genera- tor sets provide ships power, night time use power and emer- gency power for the craft.

Included in the features of the

Mayan Prince are a convertible superstructure allowing passage under low bridges; a bow ramp for landing directly on beaches; a stern swimming and loading dock; very quiet engines and machin- ery; and individual push button and control of each cabins air conditioning.

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The U.S.-flag cruise vessel Mayan Prince will offer a diverse itinerary, with stops in Canada, Florida, the Eastern Caribbean and South America.

Blount Marine Delivers 175-Foot Cruise Vessel

To American Canadian Line

Blount Industries Inc., Warren,

R.I., recently announced the comple- tion of the 99-passenger cruise ship

Mayan Prince for U. S. -flag operator

American Canadian Line.

Following delivery, the ship left its home terminal in Warren, R.I., on its maiden voyage to the Saguenay

River, Canada, via the Erie Canal and the St. Lawrence Seaway. Later in the year, the Mayan Prince will cruise south to Florida and then to the East- ern Caribbean and South America.

The vessel is 175 feet by 39 feet,

MAYAN PRINCE

Equipment List

Main engines Cummmins

Reduction gears Twin Disc

Propellers Michigan

Steering Wagner Hydraulic

Geneators ...Cummins/Onan

Bow thruster Arcturus

Bow thruster engine. Cummins vc Lunaire

Chiller plants Dunham-Bush

Sewage treatment system Omnipure

Engine cooling Fernstrum

Fixed C02 system Chemetron

Fire/smoke detection Pyrotechnics

Switchboards Power Panels

Fire pumps Gorman-Rupp 0/W separator ..Nelson Bilge Boy

Radar Furuno

GPS Si-Tex

Loran, Weatherfax... Furuno

VHF radio, SSB ICOM

Depthsounders Datamarine

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Innovative Tour Sub

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France, an international leader in the devel- opment of undersea technologies, has intro- duced one of the world's first self-contained tour submarines having an almost completely transparent hull.

The new sub gives its passengers a 360- degree view of the sea bottom through large transparent panels, as 70 percent of its hull is made with methacrylate (plexiglass). Several

Seabus models are available of the same de- sign with carrying capacities of between 20 and 60 passengers.

The sub's crew consists of a pilot and co- pilot. A 45-passenger model has an interior diameter of 7.2 feet, an overall width of 19 feet at the conning tour and a length of 63.6 feet.

It can descend to a maximum depth of200 feet and carry out as many as 12 plunges of 45 minutes each per day. The Seabus has a top forward speed of two knots using its two front, two vertical and two side propellers.

The pilot's navigational system includes an automatic pilot, an automatic system for main- taining depth, a gyrocompass and two echo sounders. The Seabus is also equipped with standard navigational lights plus several spot- lights.

Classified as an A-l manned submarine by

French Control Bureau Veritas and the Ameri- can Bureau of Shipping, Seabus is designed to operate in complete safety. All critical sys- tems are duplicated and in the event of a power failure the sub is designed to resurface on its own.

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