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Product Review

Deck Machinery & Cargo

Handling Equipment

Appleton Marine, Inc.

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Appleton supplies marine deck machinery: cranes, single point davits, mooring winches, anchor windlasses and capstans. In addi- tion to the vertical shaft anchor windlasses (3.6-inch chain) and mooring and warping capstans for the entire AOE-6 vessel program,

Appleton Marine is supplying the complete package of underway re- plenishment equipment for the

AOE-IO program. Dual constant tension, single point RHIB han- dling davits with manual launch capability, cross deck winches, an- chor windlasses and capstans are being provided for the U.S. Coast

Guard WLB buoy tender. A buoy handling crane for the WLM coastal buoy tender is also on order. A complete deck machinery package — stores cranes, constant tension mooring winches, and combination mooring winch/anchor windlasses — is being designed and manufac- tured for the Military Sealift Com- mand Sealift Conversion program at Newport News Shipbuilding; stores cranes are also being pro- vided for the Sealift Conversion pro- gram at NASSCO.

Clarke Chapman

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Clarke Chapman Marine's prod- uct range includes special purpose winches such as sonar array and balloon winches; replenishment-at- sea systems; and deck cranes for buoy handling and helicopter re- covery, where special wave com- pensation features are required for operation in high sea states.

Clarke Chapman's equipment has been installed on British and foreign naval vessels including fleet tankers, supply vessels, frigates, destroyers and aircraft carriers, as well as many commercial ships, in- cluding lighthouse tender vessels and Antarctic research vessels.

Cross Equipment

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Cross Equipment, Ltd. of Houma,

La., serves the equipment needs of the oil and gas industry. Cross has one of the largest inventories of new surplus, and used remanufactured marine deck ma- chinery in the world — complete mooring systems, winches, wind- lasses, capstans and other types of deck machinery, as well as cranes, bulk tank systems and other ma- rine equipment.

A sister company to SMATCO

Industries, Cross utilizes

SMATCO's engineering expertise along with its 51,000-sq.-ft. facility for repair and remanufacturing work. Cross' recent projects include delivering a four-point mooring sys- tem for Offshore Divers, a 35-ton telescoping crane and mooring sys- tem to Mexssub, Inc. and a SMATCO

Model 62-DAD-170 side-by-side tow- ing winch for an East Coast cus- tomer. Cross is renting two 500,000- lb. Lucker units with take-up reels, power units and six-ft.-diameter double sheave assembly to Hyundai

Heavy Industries for the SBHT

Project, which will consist of pulling a pipeline and river crossing ashore.

Del Gavio Marine Hydraulics

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During 1993, a number of deck machinery hydraulic pump failures were experienced by Sea-Land Ser- vice Atlantic class vessels. Del Gavio

Marine Hydraulics traced the cause of the problem to contaminated oil.

Since these systems have large ca- pacities for oil, significant savings to the shipowner were reportedly real- ized by accomplishing a series of system oil regeneration through the use of high-volume filters, installed and used during normal turnaround.

Pump damage was remedied by removal and overhaul during the same turnaround. Total pump fail- ure requiring renewal was stopped and the systems reportedly restored to reliable working condition with- out delays or changes to the sailing schedules.

The firm prides itself on profes- sional, timely repairs and is espe- cially experienced with older West- ern Gear and Hyde systems as well as more modern systems such as

Brattvaag, Fukushima, Skagit and

Denison. Other company services include assistance in the design of new systems or modification of ex- isting systems. Del Gavio Marine

Hydraulics offers service on a world- wide, around-the-clock basis and responds to emergency or routine repair calls from its facilities at

Carlstadt, N.J. and Alameda, Calif.

Elevating Boats Inc. (EBI)

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Elevating Boats, Inc. (EBI) has recently incorporated innovations into its cranes. One is an efficient anti-two blocking system actuated by cables, reportedly eliminating the need for hoses running the length of the boom. EBI has also developed a wear pad system for telescoping cranes using readily replaceable nyloil wear pads, for a very smooth operation using an EBI rack and pinion telescopic mechanism. EBI has recently built a new computer- ized warehouse and packing system to better service its customers. EBI's exclusive representative in the U.S. is Techcrane International.

Hawboldt Industries

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Hawboldt Industries, Inc., located in Chester, Nova Scotia, Canada, has been serving the marine mar- kets since 1906. Hawboldt offers an extensive range of anchor wind- lasses, capstans and towing, fish- ing, mooring and oceanographic winches. Much of Hawboldt's equip- ment is custom designed to meet specific application requirements.

The company is currently deliver- ing the first of 12 shipsets (wind- lass, capstan and power unit) for the

Canadian Navy's Maritime Coastal

Defense Vessel Program. Hawboldt recently expanded its U.S. repre- sentative network to include Menge

Marine and Fowler Resources of

New Orleans, and Manufacturers

Agency of Houston.

Intercon

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Intercon offers a full range of heavy deck machinery for the mili- tary and commercial markets. Cur- rent Navy backlog includes crane

Photo courtesy of: Manitowoc Engineering fabrication for eight new Strategic

Sealift Ships (T-AKRs). Included are 130-ft. (39.6 m) boom assemblies and slewing platform structures of the MacGregor-Hagglunds design.

Ongoing Navy programs include main propulsion gear casings for

DDG-51 class destroyers, and USN

Deep Ocean Salvage Winch Sys- tems. In commercial marine mar- kets, Morania Oil Tanker of New

York has ordered Intercon's Tug/

Barge Coupler System for two new 7,200-hp ATBs. This unique link- age technology reportedly provides unmatched safety and economic advantages to the tug/barge indus- try. Three additional coupler shipsets were added to the Maritrans fleet in 1993. Current winch deliv- eries include stern and bow winches for St. Philip Towing's 6,000-hp tug.

Jeamar Winches

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Jeamar Winches has extended its line of capstan winches to eight models ranging in size from 2,000 lb. line pull up to 20,000 lb. line pull. 54 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News