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Elliott Bay To Design Passenger/Vehicle

Ferries For Alaska

Elliott Bay Design Group (EBDG) of Seattle has been select- ed to design a pair of new passen- ger/vehicle ferries for service to and from Prince of Wales Island in southeast Alaska. One of the two vessels will operate between

Ketchikan and Hollis on Kasaan

Bay; the second will run from

Coffman Cove to Wrangell, and then to Blind Slough on Mitkof

Island for the Petersburg traffic.

The Kasaan Bay ferry will operate year-round, with the Coffman Bay boat running from May to

September.

According to EBDG officials, the prelimi- nary design calls for a single-ended ship with an open stern and a side door to allow vehicle loading. Arrangements will be compatible with existing Alaska Marine Highway

System (AMHS) terminals at

Hollis and Wrangell; new termi- nals will be built at Ketchikan and

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AMHS standards. "We're proud to have been select- ed by the island communities to help them develop these new ves- sels to meet their needs," said

EBDG Project Manager Jim Cole. "While vehicle capacity is impor- tant, the emphasis in our design is on the passengers. We're enthusi- astic about the level of service these vessels will bring to the peo- ple they serve," he concluded.

The concept design calls for a vessel that will be approximately 190 ft. (58.5 m) long with a 51-ft. (15.5-m) beam and a depth of 19 ft. (8.8 m). The Kasaan Bay ferry would have seating for 164 passen- gers, while the Coffman Cove boat would have 109 seats.

Elliott Bay is now working on a reconnaissance design for presen- tation to the Prince of Wales Island community groups and the State of

Alaska early this year. It is hoped that construction bids can be solicited by mid-1996, with con- struction to begin shortly there- after. Delivery is projected for the spring of 1997.

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Texas Drydock To Upgrade

Two Semi-Subs

Don Covington, president and

CEO of Texas Drydock, Inc. (TDI), announced the signing of a con- tract with subsidiaries of Diamond

Offshore Drilling, Inc. for the major upgrade and modification of two Diamond Offshore Victory class semi-submersibles — Ocean

Quest and Ocean Countess — for deep water drilling in the Gulf of

Mexico. The stability and deck load of each unit will be substan- tially upgraded by the addition of approximately 3,000 tons of steel to the lower hulls, stability columns and main deck. The mooring system will be retrofitted with an eight-point chain wire sys- tem, driven by weight combination traction winch/windlasses, result- ing in an increased operating water depth of 3,500 ft. (1,067 m) for Ocean Quest and 4,500 ft. (1,372 m) for Ocean Countess.

TDI will convert both rigs at TDI

South, its new 20-acre facility in the Sabine Neches Waterway in

Sabine Pass, Texas. However, sub- stantial fabrication will also be done at the TDI Orange yard.

TDI positioned itself to enter the semi-submersible upgrade market with the recent acquisition of the

BethShip Sabine Yard in Port

Arthur, Texas, from Bethlehem

Steel.

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