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Our exclusive air powered pilot hoist facilitates easy boarding of vessels with high freeboards.

The pilot steps into the cradle and is hoisted to the deck. The unit can be stowed when not in use. Fully USCG approved.

Alexander Manufacturing is your best source for gangways and accommodation ladders.

For more information, call now.

ALEXANDER MANUFACTURING & SERVICE COMPANY, INC. 7759 Townsend Place

New Orleans, LA 70126 U.S.A. (504) 243-0501

FAX: (504) 243-0905

Thordon Bearings, Inc., a mem- ber of the Thomson-Gordon Group, designs and manufactures low fric- tion bearing systems for ships, power plants, pumps and many other ap- plications.

Available in three grades and two configurations, Thordon bearings can be lubricated with water, grease, oil, Thor-Lube (an environmentally friendly lubricant) or in some cases run without lubrication. Marine applications include propeller shaft bearings for all types of vessels, rud- der bearings, bearings for deck ma- chinery, pumps and other shipboard applications.

Thordon Bearings guarantees the wear life performance of Thordon

SXL self-lubricating pintle, stock and carrier rudder bearings. For full technical information on the entire

Thordon Bearings line,

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ITS '94 Professional Program

Details Revealed • Design of Ship-Assist Tugs • The Donaldson Report and its

Implications for the Towage and

Salvage Industry • Dynamic Loads on Towlines • Antillana: 20 Years Salvage in the

Caribbean • Legal & Technical Aspects of Cargo

Recovery from the Ocean Bed •Hydrodynamic effects of

Shiphandling Tug Hull Forms • Tug Design: A Practical Approach • Damages Flowing from Oil Pollu- tion • Emergency Towing System • Exhaust Emissions • The Role of Inmarsat in Salvage • A New Salvage Vessel

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Maritime Reporter/Engineering News IGBE Special Supplement page 11

Bring Pilots Aboard

With Better Safety

BWS To Help Outfit

NNS-Built Sea lift Ships

Newport New Shipbuilding &

Drydock awarded BWS Marine, Inc. a contract to supply two shipsets of

Delta Marine Incinerators for the

Strategic Sealift Conversion Pro- gram. The incinerators will be made in the U.S., under license from

Detegasa (of Ferrol, Spain) in com- pliance with the contract's "buy

American" provision.

The Delta Marine incinerators enable the ships to meet the re- quirements of Marpol 73/78 Annex

V "Pollution by garbage from ships."

For further technical information on the complete range of Delta Ma- rine incinerators and B WS's full line of marine equipment available from

BWS Marine, Inc.,

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Daihatsu Names In-Place

Machining Authorized Parts & Services Company

Daihatsu Diesel Mfg. Co. has des- ignated In-Place Machining Co. (IPM) as "Authorized Parts and Ser- vice Company" for the complete line of Daihatsu Diesel generator and propulsion engines. When crank- shaft replacement is impractical,

In-Place Machining Co. refinishes crankpins inplace utilizing equip- ment specifically designed for

Daihatsu Crankshafts. If cast iron parts are cracked or broken, IPM performs Metalstitch repairs. For more information on In-Place Ma- chining,

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Thordon Bearings Offers

Array Of Marine Bearings

The International Tug, Towage &

Salvage Convention & Exhibition (ITS '94) received roughly twice the amount of papers that that the con- ference can support, a fact which makes for a stronger, balanced and well-rounded program according to show management.

Scheduled for October 17 to 21, 1994 at the Grand Harbour Hotel in

Southampton, U.K., ITS '94, has to date recorded strong response to the coming show. Following are some of the papers scheduled for presenta- tion. For additional information on

ITS '94, contact: Allan Brunton-

Reed, managing director, The ABR

Company Limited, Dunelm, Church

Road, Claygate, Esher, Surrey KT10

OJP, U.K.; tel: +44 372 468 387; fax: +44 372 468 388.

EMERGENCY

STOP LINE

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CONTROL

AIR GAUGE

BACKREST

OUTRIGGERS

FLEXIBLE LADDER

SECTION

Model M-80

USCG Approval

No. 163.002/1/0

WHEN YOU CAN'T LEAVE

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