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WILLARD MARINE'S FORCE PROTECTION FLEET

FIBERGLASS & ALUMINUM CRAFT /v

U.S.N. 7M STANDARD WITH

FORCE PROTECTION OPTION

Founded 1957 1250 N.Grove Street, Anaheim, CA 92806 U.S.A. • 714-666-2150 X 211 Max 714-632-8136

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National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSC0), a wholly owned subsidiary of

General Dynamics, has delivered the M. V.

North Star to Totem Ocean Trailer Express,

Inc. (TOTE). The North Star is the second of two new Orca-class trailerships built by NASS-

CO for TOTE's service from Tacoma, Wash., to Anchorage, Alaska. Her sister ship, the

Midnight Sun, was delivered to TOTE in April.

Both ships are 840 x 118-ft. (256 x 35.9-m)

RoRo cargo ships capable of carrying highway trailers as large as 53 ft. in length. Cargo decks total 360,000 sq. ft. and are able to carry up to 600 cargo trailers and 220 autos as well as oversized freight. The ships employ the latest in marine and environmental protec- tion technologies, including twin-screw, diesel- electric propulsion that can achieve a speed of more than 24 knots. The speed and effi- ciency of the onload/offload process is an important competitive advantage for TOTE and the ships' cargo can be loaded and dis- charged in nine hours.

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Wallace McGeorge Modified for Deep Dredging

Vessels

Two Bollinger shipyards teamed to increase the dredging depth of the Pine

Bluff Sand and Gravel Co. dustpan dredge, Wallace McGeorge, from 62- (18.8-) to 75 ft. (22.8 m), enabling it to dredge at higher river stages and dis- patch sooner on a falling river.

In the process, Bollinger Quick

Repair, Harvey, La., fabricated and installed 45-ton, 36 x 20-ft. (10.9 x 6 m), port and starboard sections to the horn of the dredge, increasing the vessel's overall length from 252.5 ft. (76.9 m) to 288.5 ft. (87.9 m). The shipyard then installed a new 46-ton, 40- x 15- x 30-ft. (12.1- x 4.5- 9.1-m), A-frame that it had pre-fabricated for the dredge. The A- frame, which more closely resembles an inverted "U", is used to accommodate a new "ladder" that was fabricated at

Bollinger Gulf Repair, New Orleans and installed at Bollinger Quick Repair. An

EMD 20-645-E4-diesel engine powers the pumping and suction systems and the boat's propulsion is supplied by two

Caterpillar 3516 diesels driving through

Ulstein Z-drive units. Ducote

Engineering Associates, Inc. of

Jefferson, La. provided design and engi- neering services for the project.

The Wallace McGeorge is under con- tract with the U. S. Army Corps of

Engineers (USACE), Memphis District,

NASSCO Delivers

M.V. North Star to help maintain Mississippi River deep draft crossings between Baton Rouge and the Gulf of Mexico. According to

Mark Lemoine of Pine Bluffs

Alexandria, La. office, Brown and Root built the Wallace McGeorge. whose original name was Carl Burkhardt, in 1965 as a cutter-head dredge. Around 1980, it was converted to a dustpan dredge and renamed Lenel Bean by

Bean Dredging, who had acquired the vessel. In 1991, Pine Bluff bought the vessel and later renamed it Wallace

McGeorge.

The Wallace McGeorge departing Bollinger Quick

Repair to assume its contract with the U.S. Army

Corps of Engineers (USACE), Memphis District.

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