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Douglass Offers Flame

Resistant Fabric Line

Douglass Industries recently in- troduced its flame resistant Master

Works line of upholstery fabrics.

The new line is comprised of three patterns in a total of 18 colorways.

These woven upholstery fabrics are in blends of wool/nylon, wool/cot- ton/polyester, and wool/cotton/ny- lon.

All of the fabrics meet California

Bulletin Class 1 standards for flame resistance. As custom options,

Douglass offers additional flame resistant treatments that enable these fabrics to meet other specific fire codes.

For complete information and samples of the flame resistant fab- rics offered by Douglass Industries,

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Iveco Aifo Marine Diesel

Engines To Be Marketed

In US By Lister-Petter

Lister-Petter Inc., of Olathe, Kan- sas, has announced that they have been appointed the distributor for

Iveco Aifo's marine diesel engines in the United States . Iveco Aifo is located in Milan, Italy.

The agreement between the two companies will cover the full range of Iveco Aifo products, including marine diesel engines up to 1,200 hp, diesel-engined generator sets up to 450 kW and all associated parts and accessories.

According to the president of

Lister-Petter, Noel Ash worth: "We are very pleased that we have been able to establish this association with such a notable diesel engine producer. Iveco's product range complements that of Lister-Petter, which historically has been concen- trated in the lower horsepower range."

Lister-Petter manufactures air- and water-cooled diesel and natural gas engines, Hawkpower generat- ing sets and Seahawk™ marine en- gines, serving a wide variety of markets.

For further information from

Lister-Petter,

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Blohm+Voss Produces

Simplex-Compact Fin

Stabilizer For Finnyards

The mechanical engineering di- vision of Blohm+Voss recently pro- duced one of the world's largest Sim- plex-Compact fin stabilizers. The order was place by Finnyards Ltd. of Finland.

The SK 50-366-92 type fin stabi- lizers will be installed on a RO/RO passenger vessel being built at the yard for Compagnie Meridionale de

Navigation.

Each of the fins has a surface area of about 55 square feet and a total weight of about 195 tons.

Fin stabilizers built by Blohm+Voss

The RO/RO is scheduled to be delivered in mid-1993.

For more information describing the services and products provided by Blohm+Voss,

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MSC Awards $9.5 Million

In Contracts To Carriers

For U.S. To Alaska Cargo

Contracts for the ocean and intermodal transportation of gov- ernment cargo between the conti- nental U.S. and points in Alaska via common carrier were recently awarded to five companies by the

U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Com- mand (MSC) Central Technical Ac- tivity.

The new contracts will go into effect on September 1,1992 and end on August 31,1993. The estimated cost of the new contracts is $9.5 million, which is based on the cost of the current contracts.

Four of the companies that re- ceived new MSC contracts are pres- ently transporting cargo under the current contract: Totem Ocean

Trailer Express, Inc., Seattle, Wash.;

Alaska Hydro-Train, Seattle, Wash.;

Samson Tug & Barge Company, Inc.,

Sitka, Alaska; and Sea-Land Ser- vices, Inc., Edison, N.J. The fifth company that was awarded an MSC contract is the only new participant in the program, Alaska Cargo Trans- port, Inc., of Seattle, Wash.

Comsat To Provide

Global Safety Service

To Ships Without Charge

Comsat Mobile Communications recently announced its new proce- dures for distress and safety calls through its land earth stations from ships at sea over the global Inmarsat system. Comsat customers will now be able to use special service codes for emergency transmissions from

Inmarsat-A or -C terminals without charge, as part of the Global Mari- time Distress and Safety System (GMDSS).

Comsat, the U.S. signatory to

Inmarsat, will be implementing the recent joint agreement by the Inter- national Maritime Organization (IMO) and Inmarsat that established new procedures for charging for dis- tress and safety messages carried by the Inmarsat system.

The land earth stations which will handle these transmissions are in Southbury, Conn., Santa Paula,

Calif., and Anatolia, Turkey.

Vessels must dial "01" for

Comsat's land earth stations and use the prescribed two-digit service codes to identify the calls as distress and safety calls. All calls would automatically be sent to the U.S.

Coast Guard Rescue Coordination

Centers for assistance.

Comsat claims that the GMDSS procedures link search and rescue authorities ashore with a ship in distress or in need of assistance.

The GMDSS system was established to provide ships around the world with the communications tools to provide for the safety of crew, pas- sengers and cargo, as well as to allow for urgency and safety com- munications including the distribu- tion of navigational and meteoro- logical warnings.

Harris Corp. Wins $27.7

Million Navy Contract

Harris Corporation has been awarded a multi-million dollar con- tract from the U.S. Navy for new

AN/URT-23 remote controllable ra- dio transmitters and associated ac- cessories. The contract was awarded to Harris' RF Communications

Group by the U.S. Navy Space and

Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR). The initial contract is for $ 11.7 million,with options bring- ing the total to $27.7 million.

The AN/URT-23 is a digitally tuned, remote-controllable ship- board HF transmitter which pro- vides voice, continuous wave (CW), radio teletype (RATT) and Link 11 data communications. The equip- ment is designed to support auto- matic link establishment (ALE) ca- pability.

For more information on Harris,

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Proven Engineering and Dependability stand behind the world's finest shipboard windows, windshield wipers and doors by...

ES Marine—Formerly Singer Kearfott

Hinged and

Fixed Ports

Window Wiper and

Fixed Window

Clear View

Screen

WINDOWS: heated, fixed, double sash, sliding and crank-operated.

PORTLIGHTS: hinged and stationary in aluminum or bronze.

WINDOW WIPERS: heavy-duty.

DOORS: watertight, individually dogged or quick-acting.

HATCHES: quick-acting or dogged.

SCUTTLES: quick-acting or dogged.

CLEAR VIEW SCREENS.

Write for catalog:

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Telephone: 914-664-6033

FAX: 914-667-2311

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