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Southwest Marine Wins $40

Million Navy Contract

Within a one month period, South- west Marine, Inc. (SWM) has won two major navy repair contracts.

The first, awarded in August, was a $98.3 million, four-year phased maintenance contract to perform routine repair work on five Navy guided missile cruisers.

More recently, SWM was awarded a contract in excess of $40 million for the post shakedown availabilities (PSA's) for the USS

Shiloh (CG-73), USS John Paul

Jones (DDG-53), USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG-54), and the USS Port Royal (CG-73). The work will begin in

February 1993, with the arrival of the USS Shiloh. Work on the re- maining three ships begins in 1994.

The PSA for the USS John Paul

Jones will introduce the Navy's new

DDG-51 Class ships to a West Coast shipyard. "The performance on this technical work gives SWM a signifi- cant advantage, as we are the first repair facility to be exposed to these specific systems," said SWM presi- dent/COO, Herb Engel.

SWM has repair facilities in San

Diego, San Pedro, San Francisco,

Portland and America Samoa.

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Gladding-Hearn Begins

Construction Of New

York City Fireboat

Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding,

The Duclos Corp., recently began construction of an all-aluminum fire- boat for the city of New York.

The 52-foot, shallow-draft fire- boat, designed by the shipyard and

C. Raymond Hunt Associates of Bos- ton, has a rated pump capacity of 5,000 gpm and is equipped with four deckpipes. The new vessel is sched- uled to be delivered in December. flfSr Imau-AI i ,1 n (JJUJLesL.

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Outboard profile of fireboat being built for New

York City

The twin-screw vessel is powered by a pair of Detroit Diesel 8V-92TA engines, each rated for 650 bhp at 2,300 rpm. The vessel will be able to attain speeds up to 26 knots.

Engine controls will be supplied by Morse with the steering system supplied by Teleflex and Seastar.

Navigational and electronics equip- ment will be supplied by Raytheon,

Datamarine, Ritchie, Horizon and

Whelan.

The fire system consists of two separate Gould 3196XLT centrifu- gal pumps, each powered by a 400 hp Detroit 6V-53TI engine. Each pump will deliver 2,500 gpm at 150 psi to four monitors located on the foredeck, midships and stern. A 250 gpm foam system, supplied by Chubb

National Foam, also will supply the forward monitor.

According to the vice president of engineering at Gladding-Hearn,

Peter Duclos, with the pumps sepa- rated from the main engines, the vessel will be easy to operate and will be able to be maneuvered and to maintain its firefighting capacity even with the loss of a main engine.

Some available design options are monitors which can be remote-con- trolled from the wheelhouse and a water-jet propulsion system instead of conventional propellers that would reduce the vessel's draft to about 18 inches from four feet.

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