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M/V Donna J. Bouchard B. No. 272 Equipment List

Ship Type: ......................................ATB Tug Ship Type: .........................ATB Tank Barge

Builder: ...........................VT Halter, Marine Builder: ...........................VT Halter, Marine

Owner: .........Tug Donna J. Bouchard Corp. Owner: .............................B. No. 272 Corp.

Operator: ...........Bouchard Transportation Operator: .....................................Bouchard

Designer: ............................Guarino & Cox TransportationDesigner: ....Guarino & Cox

Delivery Date: ....................February 2016 Delivery Date: ....................February 2016

Classi? cation: .......ABS A1 Towing Service Classi? cation: .....ABS A1 Oil Tank Barge,

AMS ACCU UWILD CPS /Solas Certi? ed Circle E, UWILD, SH, SHCM, CPS

Length, (o.a.): ..................................150 ft. USC6 Oil Tank Barge Grade “B” and lower

Breadth, (molded): ............................50 ft. cargo authority

Depth, (molded): ...............................29 ft.

Draft, (designed): ..............................25 ft. Main Particulars

Crew Capacity: .......................................15 Length, (o.a.): ..............................628.5 ft.

Main Engines: .(2) EMD 20-170 G7C – T3 Breadth, (molded): ............................91 ft.

Total Installed Power: ....................10,000 Depth, (molded): ...............................47 ft.

Generators: .Main (3) John Deere 200 kw Draft, (designed): ..........................33.8 ft. Emergency (1) John Deere 150 kw DWT (at design draft): ...............35,800 LT

Engine Controls: .................EMI Electronic Generators: .Main (3) John Deere 300 kw

Coatings: ..................................PPG Paints / Auxiliary – John Deere 90 kw

Ballast Control system: .....Hyde Guardian Coatings: ..................................PPG Paints

HG 150 Ballast Water Treatment Systems Ballast Control system: (2) Hyde Guardian

Radars: ...........................(2) Furuno Model HG 600 Ballast Water Treatment Systems

Depth Sounders: ...............Furuno FE 800 Fire extinguishing systems: ..............Hiller

Auto Pilot: ........................................Simrad Fire detection system: .......................Hiller

AIS: .....................................Furuno FA 150 Liferafts: ........................(3) Viking (6) Man

GPS: ..........................................(2) Furuno 4 x Deep well cargo pumps driven by John

SatCom: .......................Furuno Felcom 18 Deere Engines

Classi? cation: ....GMDSS / Solas Certi? ed 3 x Deep well ballast pumps driven by

Bouchard

Mooring Equipment: ...(2) Intercontinental John Deere Engines

Deck Capstains – Bow & Stern Anchor Winches..........2 x Intercontinental

Fire extinguishing systems: ..............Hiller Electro/Hydraulic

Fire detection system: .................Aurotime Single Drum Mooring Winch ..................2 x

Christens New

Rescue Boat ............Pal? nger RSQ450A Intercontinental Electro/Hydraulic

Rescue Boat Davit ....Coastal Equipment Double Drum Mooring Winch ................4 x

Liferafts: .......(2) Viking (12) Man capacity Intercontinental Electro/Hydraulic

VT Halter-built ATB

Service Power: (3) John Deere 6090 AFM Marine Cranes ....................2 x Rapp HP40 75 200 kw main generators Cargo Vacuum System ............16.000 gal. (1) John Deere 6068 AFM 85 150 kw capacity emergency generator Crude Oil Washing System.............Scanjet

Steering System/Controls: ...................EMI Tank Level Gauging & Alarm .....Consillium

BY SUSAN BUCHANAN

Fuel .......................................293,000 Gal. Fire Suppression ................................Ansul

Lube Oil ......................................5,300 Gal.

Photo: Bouchard Transportation Co.

New York-registered Articu- Kim M. Bouchard & B. No. 270 – are fathers and the philosophy of four gen- and based in Houston, is a charterer of lated Tug Barge, christened the largest vessels so far in Bouchard’s erations of Bouchards to invest our prof- Bouchard’s equipment.

on Feb. 18 in New Orleans, ? eet expansion program. its in new, modern equipment to service Joan Lesniewski, wife of Robert Lesn-

A is slated to carry petroleum The 150-foot Donna J. Bouchard is a our customers,” he said. Mr. Bouchard iewski of ExxonMobil/SeaRiver Mari- products on routes including Baton 10,000hp twin screw ATB tug, equipped thanked VT Halter for its delivery of an- time, performed the customary breaking

Rouge to Houston, the tug’s captain Wil- with an Intercon Coupler System. The other well-built tug and barge unit, and of a champagne bottle over the Donna J. liam Lawton said that morning. M/V American Bureau of Shipping classes wished the crew of the new ATB safe Bouchard’s bow.

Donna J. Bouchard and tank barge B. it as an +A1 Towing Vessel, Dual Mode and smooth sailing. Family-owned Bouchard Transpor-

No. 272 were built at Pascagoula, Miss.- ATB, USCG Subchapter M. The ATB VT Halter Marine plans to deliver tation was founded in 1918 by Fred based VT Halter Marine. unit was designed by naval architects another vessel, the M/V Frederick E. Bouchard, a young tugboat captain at the

Bouchard in Melville, N.Y. and Hal- Guarino & Cox, LLC in Covington, La. Bouchard, this June, Jack Prendergast, Port of New York. Today Bouchard is ter have a relationship that goes back 50 The 255,000-barrel tank barge B. No. President and CEO of VT Halter Marine, the nation’s largest, independent ocean- years, Morton Bouchard III, President 272 is 628 feet by 91 feet by 47 feet, said in February. Halter also built the going petroleum barge company. It oper- and CEO of Bouchard Transportation and is ABS and U.S. Coast Guard certi- M/V Kim M. Bouchard and the B. No. ates along the U.S. East, Gulf and West

Co., said at the ceremony. As for Wil- ? ed for Jones Act service. The barge has 270, christened last July in New Orleans. Coasts and Great Lakes. The Bouchard liam Lawton, he has spent the last two a DWT of 35,800 LT. The articulated tug-barge Morton S. ? eet contains 25 barges, each carry- decades as a captain and 26 years on The Donna J. Bouchard and B No. Bouchard, built by Halter, was launched ing between 25,000 to 252,000 barrels, the water. The Donna J. Bouchard was 272 represent another milestone in the in Pascagoula in October. along with 26 tugs that range from 3,000 launched at VT Halter’s Moss Point Ma- company’s development of a safe, reli- At the February ceremony, Exxon- to 10,000 horsepower.

rine facility in Escatawpa, Miss. in mid- able and fuel-ef? cient ? eet, meeting the Mobil Energy Ltd. Chairman and Man- VT Halter Marine in Mississippi – a

September and is named after Morton demands of the world’s offshore indus- aging Director Jim Muschalik said that unit of VT Systems in Alexandra, Va.

Bouchard’s sister. In late November, the try, Morton Bouchard said at the cer- ExxonMobil and SeaRiver Maritime – designs and constructs medium-sized barge B. No. 272 was launched at VT emony. For nearly a century, he said, have had a decades-long relationship ships. Halter builds and repairs ocean-

Halter in Pascagoula. Built independent- Bouchard has ful? lled the exacting ex- with Bouchard that has met or exceeded going vessels used for patrol, oil recov- ly of one other and then paired, the Don- pectations of clients. “Our expansion Exxon’s high safety standards. SeaRiv- ery, oil cargo, ferries, logistics support na and the B. No. 272 – along with the continues to be driven by our founding er Maritime, owned by ExxonMobile and surveys. 70 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • APRIL 2016

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