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Patriot Marine Delivers Fireboat To Kingston, N. K

The Kingston, N.Y., fire department recently took delivery of a 27-ft. (8.2-m) vessel, built by

Patriot Marine of Waretown, N.J. The vessel, which is powered by two 225-hp Mercury out- boards, can reportedly reach a top speed of 50 mph. A bow-mounted deck gun can supply 500 gpm or several 1.75-in. hand lines. The bow is equipped with a 43-in. bow door that lowers into the water for rescue or diver support.

The vessel will be used to respond to emer- gencies between Poughkeepsie and Catskill on the upper Hudson river in New York.

C. Plath Offers

Next-Generation

Navigation Technology

C. Plath, a subsidiary of Litton

Industries, has manufactured navigational equipment since 1837. C. Plath is based in Ger- many, and has a sales division in

Annapolis, Md.

The company offers several products to the marine industry, such as gyrocompasses, micropro- cessor-controlled conventional and adaptive autopilots, digital electromagnetic speed logs, auto- matic chart tables, rate-of-turn indicators, compass monitoring and heading reference systems, and electric mainsteering sys- tems.

Its latest technological intro- ductions include a fiber optic gy- rocompass (FOG), automatic chart tables Naviplot I and II, and a universal speed log with watertrack (EN-Log) and bottom track (GPS-NMEA 0183).

C. Plath targets its products and services at the commercial ship and passenger vessel sec- tors, including the opening fast ferry market. The company's de- velopment of the FOG, report- edly the first all-electronic gyro- compass for merchant marine applications, was aided by a re- search grant from the German

Federal Ministry of Science and

Technology.

The device consists of an iner- tial measuring unit made up of three fiber optic gyroscopes and two inclinometers arranged in a strapdown configuration, and re- portedly has high dynamic accu- racy and reliability due to a short settling time and the lack of mov- ing parts. This product was engi- neered by Litef, a sister company of C. Plath. The company reports that three characteristics drive its development of innovative products: quality; performance; and reliability. C. Plath has also been able to adjust to an adapting shipbuilding market, and in the last decade, has observed market leanings towards Integrated

Bridge Systems and One Man

Bridge Operation (OMBO). The company also works with various suppliers of Integrated Naviga- tion Systems, such as NACOS,

Vector and Databridge 2000.

For more information on C. Plath

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Powerful • Portable • Pneumatic Ventilator

The super powerful, yet super light-weight VAF-3000P is now on board! Designed for use in hazardous locations, this intrinsically safe vane axial fan provides both positive and negative airflow at 2000 cfm and weighs in at only 28 pounds.

Engineered to the same standards as our popular electric models, the VAF-3@00P is non-corrosive, durable, stackable, and virtually maintenance free.

We carry a full line of portable ventilators for all types of marine applications.

VAF-3000P^pneumatic /1-1/2 HP motor /:

VAF-3000TZ:M5V/60HZ /1 HP

VAF-3000: 220V/50HZ / .i

V VAF-1500: 115V/60HZ,

VAF-1500B: 115V/60H2

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