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Texaco Accepts Delivery Of Sea ForceR

RIB From Willard Marine

Willard Marine, Inc. of Anaheim, Calif, has delivered a Sea Force® 730 to the Texaco Plat- form Harvest off Point Conception on the Cali- fornia coast. The 730 rigid inflatable boat (RIB), powered by Johnson outboards, will be used as a fast rescue craft for person overboard work from the platform. Willard Marine builds RIBs and has three models available built to SOLAS re- quirements. Willard has more than 35 years of experience in the manufacture of fiberglass boats for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard, as well as for commercial applications.

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Ingulls-Built USS Ticonderoga

Honored As First Aegis Cruiser

Port Royal Joined Fleet In April

As Final In Class

While at the Pascagoula, Miss. Naval Station

March 25-27, the USS Ticonderoga (CG 47) participated in an Alpha and Omega Celebration honoring CG 47 as the Navy's first Aegis guided missile cruiser, and honoringPort Royal (CG 73) as the 27th and final ship of the program.

The Ticonderoga was christened at Ingalls in 1981 by then-First Lady Nancy Reagan, and joined the fleet in January 1983. Port Royal was delivered in April and will be commissioned in

July.

The Ticonderoga was open for tours at the ceremony. Of the 27 ships in the Aegis cruiser program, Ingalls built 19.

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CG 47 is berthed alongside three frigates currently assigned to

Naval Station Pascagoula, (l.-r.) USS John L. Hall (FFG 32), USS

Flatley (FFG 21) and USS Jack Williams (FFG 24).

May, 1994

Monohull Orders For Austal

Western Australian aluminum shipbuilder

Austal Ships has received an order for two monohull passenger vessels from Yuet Hing

Marine Supplies Company of Hong Kong, as well as an order for a 131-foot (40-m) passenger catamaran for the Shanghai Free Flying Trans- port and Yacht Co. Ltd. for operation in the

People's Republic of China (PRC).

Monohull Ferries For Yuet Hing Marine

The monohulls are scheduled for an August delivery this year and will operate from Guang

Hai to Shang Chung Island, a distance of 13 nautical miles. They are 98 feet (30 m) long, with maximum beam of 23 feet (7 m), molded depth of nine feet (2.8 m) and maximum draft of four feet (1.2 m). The vessels have a passenger capacity of 155, as well as seating for four crew members.

The main propulsion system of each monohull consists of two MTU 8V 396 TE 74L diesel engines developing 832 kW at 1,900 rpm driving two KaMeWa FF Jet 550 waterjets with intake grids through two ZF BU255 marine gearboxes.

This propulsion package will drive the fully- laden vessel to 28 knots.

Each will have a tank capacity for 1,057 gal- lons of fuel and 106 gallons of fresh water. Range at con- tinuous speed will be 200 nautical miles.

The ves-

Profile drawing of a 131-foot (40-m) passenger catamaran for operations in the PRC.

Daewoo Develops 48-Seat Tourist

Submersible

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Heavy Machinery

Ltd. has completed development of a 48-seat tourist submersible.The new tourist submers- ible can go to a depth of 246 feet (75 m) and stay submerged for up to 10 hours at a time. It can also travel at four knots, double the speed of imported tourist submarines currently in opera- tion in Korea. Battery operation of the vessel helps to prevent sea pollution.The company be- gan development of the vessel in August 1992 with a total budget of $3.75 million, and in-house development included a number of special equip- ment and materials required for the safe opera- tion of the vessel. The company now has plans to develop faster, deeper diving tourist submersibles for the export market. Additionally, the com- pany is paving the way, through technical devel- opment in underwater engineering, for the de- velopment of other marine leisure facilities.

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Profile drawing of a 98-foot (30-m) monohull passenger vessel, two of which Yuet Hing Marine Supplies Company ordered from Austal

Ships. sels will be classified by the China Classification

Society and the monohulls will be registered at the port of Guang Hai. 131-Foot Passenger Vessels

The "Free Flying" 131-foot (40-m) passenger vessel has been outfitted with the stabilizing system and is now commencing sea trials off the coast of Fremantle in Western Australia. The 450-passenger capacity Free Flying catamaran was delivered in April and registered to the port of Shanghai.

Another 131-foot catamaran on order at Austal, yard number 111, will have a passenger capacity of 300 with a fully-laden speed of 33.5 knots. The main propulsion system consists of twin MTU 16V 396 TE 74L diesel engines developing 1,940 kW at 1,940 rpm driving two KaMeWa 71S waterjets through two ZF BU755 gearboxes. The vessel has molded depth of 12 feet (3.8 m) and draft of 4.5 feet (1.4 m). Seating is on two decks, 224 on the main and 76 on the upper deck with

VIP seating for nine. The fuel capacity is 2,642 gallons and the freshwater water capacity is 396 gallons. The range at continuous speed will be 300 nautical miles.

Etoh Marine Delivers Monohull Ferry

Etoh Marine Corp., Imari City, Japan, deliv- ered the Fuki 8, a 235-passenger monohull ves- sel, earlier this year for operation between

Tomishima and Akashi, Japan.

The ferry is 110feet(33.5 m)long, with abeam of 21 feet (6.5 m) and a draft of three feet (1 m).

The vessel is powered by a pair of Yanmar V- 16 model 16LAK-ST1 engines delivering 1,600 bhp each. The engines drive conventional five blade propellers through Niigata MGM 433 re- duction gears. It has a top speed of more than 28 knots. Electrical power is provided by a Yanmar 4CHL-N 40 kW generator. Controls and naviga- tion equipment on the flybridge include hydrau- lic engine controls, Marol hydraulic steering,

Furuno GP-1250 GPS, Furuno FCR-1421 radar,

Furuno FM-7000 VHS and a Daiko Keiki com- pass. Etoh Marine Corp. designs and manufac- tures custom aluminum vessels. For more infor- mation on Etoh Marine Corp.,

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Fuki 8 Equipment List

Main engines Yanmar

Reduction gears Niigata

Generator Yanmar

Hydraulic steering Marol

GPS Furuno

Radar Furuno

VHS radio Furuno

Compass Daiko Keiki 17