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BOATS & BARGES

Nichols Bros., Elliott Bay Delivor

M/V Christine Anderson Car Forry

The M/V Christine Anderson, designed by Elliott Bay and built by Nichols Brothers, was delivered to the

Pierce County Department of Public Works in Washington State.

The M/V Christine Anderson, a new 54-car, 250-passenger car ferry, has entered service for the Pierce

County Department of Public Works in Washington State. The vessel, which was built by Nichols Bros.

Boat Builders of Freeland, Wash, and designed by Elliott Bay Design

Group of Seattle, provides service to

Anderson and Ketron Islands from the mainland terminal at

Steilacoom, located between Seattle and Tacoma.

The new ferry replaces an older, 26-car ferry. The Christine Ander- son, designed to fit existing dock facilities, almost doubled the car- carrying capacity of its predecessor,

MTV Steilacoom.

The all-steel double-ender is 213 ft. (65 m) long, with a beam of 66 ft. (20 m) and a draft of 10 ft. (3 m). The

Subchapter-T passenger vessel is powered by a pair of 960-bhp Cater- pillar 3508 diesels, providing a ser- vice speed (full load, 2/3 power) in excess of 11 knots. The Cat 3508s operate at 1,800 rpm and drive twin propellers through ZF BW451, 5.037:1 marine gears. Propellers are 72 x 56-in., four-bladed CF-3

Columbian, hydrosonic-style. Two

Caterpillar 3304 generators each provide 65 watts of service power.

Other Nichols projects include a 245-ft. (74.7-m), split-hull hopper barge for Manson Construction

Company of Seattle, construction of which is now underway at Nichols

Pan-United Wins Two

Conversion Contracts

Pan-United Shipyard Pte Ltd., a subsidiary of Singapore-based in- dustrial group Pan-United Corp.

Ltd., won two major ship conversion contracts totalling more than $8 million from the Philippines and

Australia. The first contract calls for the jumboization of the inter- island passenger ferry vesselSugbu by 66 ft. (20 m). The Sugbu, owned by Cebu-based William Lines, will

Marine Ways in Portland, Ore.

Work in Nichols' Freeland yard in- cludes a 122-ft. (37.2-m) 384-pas- senger, turbine-powered SWATH vessel for a Florida route named

CloudX. The 100-ft. (30.4-m)Palau

Aggressor is also under construc- tion for use as a "live aboard" dive boat for use at Palau in the South

Pacific, and Nichols has announced be lengthened to 515 ft. (157 m) to allow it to ferry up to 3,500 passen- gers, as compared to the 2,600 it can presently carry. The work involves fabricating and inserting a 570-ton section into the middle portion of the vessel. Other enhancements include extending the navigational bridge section and expanding pas- senger accommodation space, which will take up another 170 tons of steel. Major engine works will be done to replace the two existing

Pielstick engines with two higher- capacity Wartsila Vasa 9R46 en- that the yard will build a 230 x 46 x 3.5-ft. (70.1 x 14 x 1-m) sternwheeler with accommodations for 149 over- night passengers.

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Circle 16 on Reader Service Card gines. The other contract involves the conversion of the car carrier Don

Carlos to a "super" livestock carrier to carry more than 100,000 sheep.

Both projects are targeted for comple- tion by the end of 1994. The Don

Carlos project was awarded by the

Rachid Fares Group.

The work on the 656 -ft.-long (200- m) Don Carlos will involve install- ing systems for ventilation, water, feeding and waste disposal. Upon delivery, the Don Carlos will oper- ate on the Australia-Middle East-

Europe-South America routes.

Christine Anderson

Equipment List

Main engines Caterpillar

Gears ZF

Generators Caterpillar

Hot start jacket water heaters KIM

Pumps Reliance, Ingersoll-Rand

Propulsion controls Mathers

Battery chargers Ratalco

Radar Furun

Steering system/controls Jastram

Compass Ritchie

VHF ICOM

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