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Markey Provides the Strong Pull

Cover Story

Seattle-based Markey Machinery, for nearly one century, has proven itself to be one of the top deck machinery companies in the country. Started in 1907 by Charles Markey as the C.H. Markey

Machinery Co. — serving the marine and logging industries — the company evolved into a leading maker of advanced deck machinery, as evidence by its long list of high profile references, such as Crow- ley's new tug Response.

The company's early years included a number of different partners and business tactics. Perhaps the defining moment for the company was World War I, which resulted in a skyrocketing demand for machinery, and resulted in the company moving in the spring of 1917 to Horton Street in Seattle, which is where the company's main plant still sits today.

That factory, in order to supply the burgeoning need for steam cargo winches, anchor windlasses, power steering engines and other types of deck machinery to support the war effort, ran at full capacity, around the clock, for two years.

With the company now solidly entrenched in the

Seattle culture, it progressed through subsequent times - both good and bad - with its signature adher- ence to building, installing and maintaining quality products. The steam steering system installed aboard the sternwheeler tug Portland in 1947 is per- haps the best example. The tug worked in the

Columbia River for years, before becoming a river- side museum. Markey's steam steering system still works, and the company continues to service it on a regular basis, even making parts when necessary.

Today, the company's product line consists of: • Deep Sea Winches for line sizes from 0.25 to 1.5-in. (6 to 38 mm) with line capacities up to 45,000 ft. (13,700 m); • Near Shore Research Winches for line sizes from .1875 to .3125-in (5 to 8 mm) with line capacity up to 6,500 ft. (2,000 m); • Traction Winches for line sizes from .25 to 1 in. (6 to 25 mm) with line capacities up to 45,000 ft. (13,700 m), ideal fiber optic cable or below deck installation; • Single and double drum Tow Winches for line sizes from 1 to 2.5 in. (25 to 64 mm) wire rope clutches, with a full range of control options and diesel, hydraulic and electric drives; • Escort & Ship Assist Winches, with hydraulic or electric drive, a full range of control options, fast line speeds, high braking capacities, line monitoring system and emergency abort operating mode.

In addition, the company is able to produce any number of specialty winches to a customer's speci- fication.

Markey Machinery on Response

Markey Machinery Co., Inc. of Seattle has sup- plied equipment onboard Crowley's tug Response. (Continued on page 87) 4 PATTERSON • r«y Since 1858

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