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New & Notable

Crowley Christens

Tug Response

Crowley's latest ship assist and escort tug renamed

Response was christened August 2 in Elliott Bay.

Deicy Mathur, wife of Anil Mathur, President of the Alaska Tanker Company, LLC, performed the christening ceremony aboard Response. A team of

Crowley engineers and architects designed the

Response, with input from Crowley's ship assist and escort customer, Alaska Tanker Company; the vessel was constructed by Marco Shipyard in Seattle.

Response is a 130 ft. (39.6 m) and 7,200-hp tug able to provide enough indirect force to get most any job done quickly and safely.

Response features twin Voith Schneider 32G 11/250 cycloidal propellers, powered by two Caterpillar 3608

D1TA engines, and a unique high lift and streamlined hull designed to meet the indirect forces and speed requirements of the tankers operating in Puget Sound.

The hull is derived from a design for the tug Boxer and was developed by Bukser og Berging, Norway. It is also equipped with full fire fighting capabilities and can carry 2,800 of foam concentrate.

Measuring 130 x 46 x 25 ft. (39.3 x 14 x 7.6 m),

Response is designed to generate direct bollard pull of 150,000 lbs. and indirect forces in excess of 340.000 lbs. at 12 knots, with an anticipated free running speed of 15 knots.

Fitted with a Markey Model DESS-52 High Perfor- mance single-drum electric Hawser winch designed specifically for this vessel, Response's winch will hold 1,000 ft. of 10-in. circumference AmSteel Blue high molecular weight polyethylene line with an average strength of more than one million lbs. This main line will be able to be hauled in at pressures of over twice the bollard pull of the boat's engines, a condition that can occur when escorting tankers at high speed.

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Crowley Maritime 1

Voith Schneider 30

Caterpillar 1

Bukser og Berging 32

Markey 33

AmStee 4

Halmatic Secures Police Order

To satisfy their requirement for four heavy-duty multi- purpose workboats EK&y'l the Mauritius Police ^ * r=r> I _ COAST GUARD have opted for the

RTK Marine 29-ft. (9-m) Ramped Logis- tic Support Boat.

The workboats are a new commercial derivative of the 29-ft. (9-m) Combat Support Boat proven in ser- vice with the U.K. Ministry of Defense and feature a raised aft-wheelhouse with a ramped well deck.

Main Particulars

Length, (o.a.) 29 ft. (8.7m)

Beam 10 ft. (3.2m)

Draft 3.2 ft. (I m)

Weight 3,450 kg (lightship)

Payload 1,800 kg max

The planing, asymmetrical catamaran hull form is manufactured from GRP and features a high degree of reserve buoyancy to enable the craft to remain afloat when fully swamped. The self-draining well deck fea- tures a manually operated bow ramp and is capable of carrying a short wheelbase Land Rover, general cargo or personnel with the modular straddle seating in place.

Power is provided by twin 200-hp outboard motors to give a service speed in excess of 30 knots, the out- boards are protected and can be quickly raised to facil- itate beach landings.

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Motor-Services Hugo Stamp, Inc. provides factory authorized service when you need it most for two and four-stroke engines, and we offer "reconditioned component exchanges."

MSHS is unique through its in-house ability to provide integrated turnkey solutions, which include: authorized service and spares for Turbochargers,

Boll Filtration Systems, Laser Alignment and rechocking with Epocast 36®, as well as,

LEMAG engine analysis equipment.

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