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Blount Designs, Builds "All American" Waterways

Small Cruise Ship

For cruising in North and South

America, the Niagara Prince, hull #287, is designed and built by Blount

Industries. The Niagara Prince marks the eighth overnight small cruise ship built by this company, and completion is expected before the summer of 1994.

Designed for a minimum air draft of 16.5 feet, it will navigate the Erie

Canal through to Buffalo and the

Chicago River, giving it access to

U.S. western rivers and a route through mid-America to the Gulf of

Mexico, as well as Central and South

America.

Specifications are for a vessel 166- feet long, with a 40-foot beam and a maximum full-load draft of 6.5 feet, able to accommodate 84 passengers and 18 crew. Built for American

Canadian Caribbean Line of War- ren, RI, the vessel will be propelled by a pair of600-hp engines with 125 kW generators. Aided with a 150- hp bowthruster, the designed speed of the Niagara Prince is 12 knots.

Other design features from

Blount include a 30-foot bow ramp for beach landings, a 40- by six-foot stern dock for launch operations, and windowed staterooms in all cat- egories. Classed as a USCG sub-

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Circle 286 on Reader Service Card chapter T-L regulated vessel, it is being built to meet SOLAS '74 near- coastal and carry a restricted ABS ocean loadline.

For more information on the build- ing capabilities of Blount Industries,

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EVAC Breaks Into Japanese

Market, Will Supply

NYK-Owned Cruise Ship

Evac Marine Systems of Finland, a supplier of vacuum toilet systems to the shipping industry, has broken into the Japanese passenger vessel market by securing an order for the supply of the complete marine sani- tation system to Crystal Cruises (NYK) 48,000-grt, 960-passenger cruise liner, which is being built at

Finland's Kvaerner Masa-Yards.

Due for delivery in 1995, the cruise liner will be equipped with a total of 830 Evac-90 B toilets of the company's latest silent-flush type.

Evac will also be responsible for the supply of five 5m3 stainless steel collection tanks, each fitted with three pumps and three ejectors.

For more information on the prod- ucts and services of Evac,

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Rev. Larom Oversees

Seaman's Church Institute

Rev. Peter Larom

The Rev. Peter Larom is dire tor of The Seaman's Church Inst tute (SCI), a non-profit organizatic founded in 1834 to promote the di: nity, well-being and profession advancement of merchant seafare from around the world.

No stranger to the maritime se vice, as a young man Fr. Laro served as a seaman on both a Norw gian and Swedish tanker. Prior assuming leadership of SCI in Oct ber 1992, Fr. Larom, an Episcop minister, spent seven years as t rector of Grace Church in Whi

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Rodriquez Group Launches

First Aquastrada Ferry

On June 5 Italy's Rodriquez Gro launched the first "Aquastrada" f; ferry. The vessel is capable of doi

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