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Bender And Otto Candies

Agree On Tugs

Bender Shipbuilding and Repair Co., and Otto Candies have signed a contract for three 150 ft. (45.7 m) Anchor Han- dling Tugs to be constructed by the

Mobile, Ala., shipbuilding company.

The contract, which requires the trio of vessels to be delivered in 2000, also grants Otto Candies an option to pur- chase five more identical tugs.

Measuring 150 x 50 x 21 ft. (45.7 x 15.2 x 6.4 m), with a 10,000-hp capaci- ty, the vessels hold a Stewart & Steven- son triple screw propulsion system, with two EMD diesel engines driving out- board Aquamaster Z-drives and one

EMD diesel engine through a Reintjes reverse reduction gear.

Deck machinery aboard the tug group will consist of a SMATCO line pull

Double Drum Reverse Waterfall Tow- ing/Anchor Handling Winch; two

SMATCO tuggers rated at 20,000 lbs. line pull, and one set each of SMAT-

CO's 14 x 24 Pop Up towing pins and

Model 300T Shark Jaw.

Litton Sends Decca

Bridgemaster Off To Shell

Litton Marine Systems has delivered

Bridgemaster E radars to Shell Interna- tional Trading and Shipping Company for retrofit on four S-Class tankers fitted with interswitched X-band and S-band

Bridgemaster E 340 radars, with option- al control keypads.

Introduced to the industry last year,

Bridgemaster radars were designed to deliver a significant technological breakthrough in signal processing auto- matic clutter suppression.

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Transmarine Granted Repeat

Equipment Order

Transmarine of Newcastle, a specialist in the design and supply of cargo access equipment (CAE) such as linkspans, ramps and hatch covers, has won a $970,000 order from Ferguson Shipyard on the River Clyde in Glasgow. The contract calls for RoRo access equip- ment for a new car/passenger RoRo ferry being constructed for Caledonian

MacBrayne.

The new ship, which will sail along the route between the Scottish mainland and Hebridean islands, will hold approximately 110 cars and 650 passen- gers. Equipment is comprised of a two- section bow ramp, bow visor, a stern ramp and two hoistable car decks.

The company has also just completed the design stage of a contract to design and supply a RoRo linkspan to accom- modate ship ramps for the transfer of

RoRo traffic at Matthews Quay,

Aberdeen.

Awarded to Transmarine, the contract is part of the strategy created by the port to increase volume of ships, as well as introducing larger ships from the conti- nent.

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Lockheed Martin To Commence

Towed Array Systems

Lockheed Martin Ocean, Radar &

Sensor Systems (OR&SS) received the go-ahead in July from the U.S. Navy that it can begin to work on the towed array sensor systems contract it was awarded on December 18, 1998.

Delayed as a result of a bid protest, the contract was granted to Lockheed for engineering and manufacturing services in support of the new towed array.

Estimated value of the contract stands at $31.7 million.

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