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Canadian Hovercraft )esign Contract Won

Jy Westland Aerospace

The Hovercraft Division of

Westland Aerospace Limited, part af Westland Group pic, has been awarded a design contract by the

Canadian Coast Guard for a new hovercraft to meet its expanding operational requirements.

The Canadian Coast Guard has been operating hovercraft, built by the former British Hovercraft Corp. (BHC), since 1968. In 1987 a diesel- powered AP1-88 was added to the

Coast Guard's fleet for operation on the St. Lawrence River and has since been used in the deployment, servicing and recovery of naviga- tional buoys, ice breaking, and search and rescue.

API-88 well deck hovercraft in service with the

Canadian Coast Guard.

The Canadian Coast Guard plans to use the craft to help control oil spills, as well as performing other tasks currently carried out by the

BHC-built SR.N6 craft on the West

Coast in Vancouver. The new craft will be an enlarged version of the

API-88, having a payload capacity twice that of the current design.

For more information on the hovercraft designed by Westland,

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Halter Marine Awarded $34.6 Million Contract

Halter Marine, Inc., Moss Point,

Miss., a division of Trinity Indus- tries, Inc., has been awarded a $34.6 million contract by the U.S. Navy to build a 273-foot oceanographic re- search ship with options to build two additional ships. The total con- tract value could exceed $100 mil- lion. AGOR-24 and optional vessels will be built at the Halter-Moss

Point facility with supporting work being done by Equitable Shipyards,

Inc., New Orleans, La., a sister ship- yard to Halter.

The new ship will be a follow-on to AGOR-23, a similar Navy oceano- graphic research ship designed and built by Halter.

AGOR-24 will be 273 feet long, with a 52.5-foot beam and a draft of 17 feet. She will have displacement of approximately 3,300 long tons and will be powered by a 6,000-hp, diesel-electric propulsion system. It will accommodate up to 60.

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March, 1993

Aluminum Craft Secures

Contracts Worth $7.5 Million

Aluminum Craft (88) Pte. Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of

Singmarine Industries Ltd., has an- nounced shipbuilding and repair con- tracts worth about $7.5 million.

Aluminum Craft will construct two monohull passenger ferries for

Penguin Boat Services Pte. Ltd. un- der a $5 million contract and has started work on retrofitting a 91.9- foot yacht for a Greek owner. All three vessels are scheduled for de- livery in the second half of this year.

This is the second contract that the company has won from Penguin.

The new ferries will measure 101.7 feet long and will accommodate 150 passengers and five crew. Both fer- ries will have a service speed of 22 knots, powered bytwo main engines each driving a fixed-pitch propeller via a ZF reduction gear box.

The retrofit contract calls for re- pairs to the hull structure, as well as the supply and installation of a new shafting system, electronic commu- nication and navigation equipment, air-conditioning system, steering gear and pumps. Electrical outfit- ting, piping and mechanical works will also be performed.

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