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MARINE FINANCE

Ions, fresh water tanks holding 90,000 gallons and a ballast capac- ity of 300,000 gallons. The vessel is scheduled for delivery in the sec- ond quarter of next year.

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Marine Industries

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NASSCO Wins Essex

Contract

National Steel and Shipbuilding

Co. (NASSCO) in San Diego won an $8.5 million contract for the scheduled maintenance of USS

Essex (LHD-2). The yard will reportedly team with ship repair yards Southwest Marine, Inc.;

Continental Marine of San Diego,

Inc.; and Pacific Ship Repair &

Fabrication, Inc. for the project.

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Coastal Oceanographies

Sells Survey Package

Dassault Sercel NP, a French firm specializing in precision GPS products, has selected Coastal

Oceanographies' Hypack hydro- graphic survey package as its soft- ware for turnkey hydrographic systems. The two companies have reportedly combined on several turnkey systems in the surveying and dredging sectors.

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Oceanographies

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North Atlantic Marine To

Perform Vessel Restoration

Portland, Maine-based company

North Atlantic Marine Inc. will execute a restoration project on

S.S. Nobska — a vessel built in 1925 at Bath Iron Works. The ves- sel is possibly the only and defi- nitely one of few pure 19th and 20th century American coastal steamboats left. Fully restored, and under steam, Nobska will pre- sent passengers with the opportu- nity to experience the steamship travel of past eras. In April 1996, the ship entered drydock at the

Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston to begin the restorative process, and to date, 10,000 hours of preservation and stabilization work has been performed, and $300,000 worth of steam equip- ment has been acquired.

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FALK MARINE DRIVES

STN Atlas Elektronik

Supplies German Survey

Vessel

STN Atlas Elektronik will pro- vide power supply and distribu- tion, navigation and hydrographic systems for new survey vessel

Komet, building at the Kroger yard in Rensburg for the German

Maritime & Hydrographic Agency (BSH). Equipment to be supplied includes: a NACOS 55-2 integrat- ed navigation command unit; OSS- 11Z object search sonar;

Hydromap processing facilities; and Fansweep 20 shallow water multi-beam sounders.

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Falk has built a reputation in the marine drive industry.

A reputation for dependability that has stood up as well as our equipment. Since 1916, Falk has been manufacturing straight reduction and reverse-reduction drives for virtually every type of marine vessel in operation. Our standard MRH and MR Series drives, as well as our custom-designed drives, all share important features: state-of-the-art engineering, durable materials, and quality assurance that starts in design and lasts through years and years of continuous, efficient operation.

There's a name for that kind of "no downtime" dependability.

The name is Falk.

For more information about our marine drives, as well as other Falk equipment, call 1-800-545-5215 ext. 851, or your local Falk marine distributors:

Marine Systems, Inc. 502-443-8900

Walker Boatyard 502-444-4061

West Kentucky Machine Shop, Inc. 502-444-0069

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