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- Patti S h i p y a r d Delivers 1 , 2 0 0 - P a s s e n g e r Riverboat To Robert's River Rides Maritime Reporter, Aug 1988 #28
One of the largest passenger excursion boats built this year has been put into service powered by a trio of 500-horsepower Cummins KTA-19 engines. The vessel sails on all-day excursion trips between South Charleston, W. Va., and Huntington, W. Va.
Appropriately named the West Virginia Belle, this vessel is the latest addition in owner Bob Kehl's fleet. Mr. Kehl owns Robert's River Rides, which operates three other excursion/dinner boats on the Mississippi River in the Quad Cities, Dubuque and Bettendorf areas of Iowa and Illinois.
By any standards, the West Virginia Belle is simply spectacular.
Built by Patti Shipyards, Inc., Pensacola, Fla., and designed by their own in-house architectural staff, the West Virginia Belle measures 197 feet 9 inches by 46 feet with a 10- foot draft. She features two totally enclosed decks, a partially enclosed third deck, and an open fourth deck topped by a pilothouse. Although the boat will be certified for at least 1,200 passengers, Mr. Kehl will limit capacity to 1,000 on all-day 100- mile trips.
While the KTA-19 engines are one of the standard workhorses of the Cummins marine diesel line, the propulsion system aboard the West Virginia Belle is unique.
For example, the Columbian Kaplan- style propellers are enclosed in Padget-Swann kort nozzles. "That's a first for passenger excursion vessels as far as we are concerned," said Frank Patti, owner of Patti Shipyard.
Another important aspect of the propulsion system is its vibration isolation system, supplied by Lo Rez Vibration Control, British Columbia, Canada. This system provides an effective isolation system for engine- sourced vibration in mediumand high-speed marine engines, reducing noise by 90 percent over the entire speed range of the engine. It was custom designed for this application by Lo Rez working with the Patti design staff and Cummins engineering.
"We have used similar isolation systems on smaller horsepower engines before," said Dave Adams of Cummins engineering department.
"But, this is the first installation we know of on engines in the 500 horsepower range." Two additional Cummins engines are located far forward to power a pair of 250-kw gensets. Cummins NT855 models were chosen for this job. All five Cummins engines were sold by Northern Iowa Diesel, Dubuque, Iowa.
The hydraulic system onboard the boat was supplied by Custom Hydraulics, Gretna, La. A PTO, attached to one of the gensets, runs a hydraulic pump that powers the bowthruster. Separate electric motors powering hydraulic pumps operate the steering system, and the paddlewheel lifting system. The West Virginia Belle has a cosmetic paddlewheel that can be lifted out of the water to cut drag during times when the boat is underway at full speed.
Among the state-of-the-art systems onboard the riverboat are an eight station TV monitoring system, centralized liquor dispensing, electronic engine controls with five control stations, three Microphor sewage treatment systems and an Aquafine ultraviolet water purifier.
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- The Smokeless Solution Is Coming Over The Horizon Maritime Reporter, Apr 2000 #22
of the attack on Hickam Airfield. Photo evidence shows that the first torpedo strike against Battleship Row (USS CALIFORNIA, USS OKLAHOMA, USS WEST VIRGINIA) has been completed. The CALIFORNIA had been struck by one torpedo and was leaking oil, the OKLAHOMA had been torpedoed and was listening to
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- Midland Enterprises Expands With The Times Maritime Reporter, Jun 15, 2000 #24
venture, the company's demand continued to grow, causing a need for added capital. Ingersoll called upon C.E. Hutchinson, president of the West Virginia Coal and Coke Company to discuss a possible venture. Talks between Ingersoll and Hutchison proved favorable, as ORCO was incorporated as a
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- OUTSTANDING PASSENGER VESSELS OF 1988 Maritime Reporter, Jan 1989 #16
system supplied by Unitor Ships Service. Unitor also supplied an owner's supply medical package that included medicine and medical equipment. WEST VIRGINIA BELLE Patti Shipyards One of the largest passenger excursion boats built last year was the triple Cummins engined West Virginia Belle. Operating
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- Four Agents N a m e d By N a t i o n a l M a r i n e Service Maritime Reporter, Jan 1980 #36
. Telco, Inc., based in Cleveland, Ohio, will service northern Ohio. George P. Dempler Company, Bridgeville, Pa., will cover western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and southeastern Ohio. M & H Equipment Company of Minneapolis will cover Minnesota, northwestern Wisconsin, North and South Dakota, and the
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- Union Mechling Corp. Appoints David Gladwell Maritime Reporter, Nov 1978 #43
to the vice president, sales, by Michael R. Marlier. Mr. Gladwell j o i n e d Union Mechling Corporation in 1976. He has a bachelor's degree from West Virginia University and a master's degree in business and marketing from Marshall University. He is a member of the American Society of Traffic and
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- Getting Onboard the Regulatory Train Maritime Reporter, Mar 2015 #8
about the latest in a series of serious oil transport train casualties. This time, on Monday, the news involved a crude-carrying train that derailed in West Virginia, complete with more than one dozen tank cars afire and necessitating the evacuation of nearby towns. Just before that, another train in Canada
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- Vander Laan Promoted To Vice President Of Soros Associates Maritime Reporter, May 1981 #9
, in 1972, he has been project manager for the engineering and construction of rail to barge coal transfer terminals on the Ohio River in West Virginia, Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky, and the r e c o n s t r u c t i o n of a petroleum coke shiploading facility in Houston. His overseas projects
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- Dallas-Based Company To Open Coal-Exporting Facility At Port Of Albany Maritime Reporter, May 1981 #55
Conrail, and additional linkage can be provided as required to meet demand. "We anticipate moving coal to Albany by rail primarily from West Virginia and western Pennsylvania," Mr. Lynch said, "because of the excellent rail connections and the quick access to the port by ship." New Amsterdam Coal
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- Towboat 'Elizabeth D# Christened By Dravo Maritime Reporter, Jul 1980 #24
be operated by the Pittsburgh Region of Dravo's Aggregates Division, a major supplier of construction aggregate in the Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia area of the Ohio and Monongahela Rivers. The Elizabeth D. measures 93 feet 9 inches long by 27 feet 2 inches wide and is 32 feet high at its
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- MN100: Tri-State Coating and Machine Co., Inc. Marine News, Aug 2016 #84
coal mine industry while creating jobs for a depressed economy. The company is located along the Guyandotte River just 15 miles south of Huntington, West Virginia. Opportunity opened in the marine industry. The hard-coated tail shaft sleeves were very much in demand but very competitive. Eventually, the firm
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- Avondale Christens First Of Five Fleet Oilers Building For Navy Maritime Reporter, Nov 1985 #119
, USN(Ret.), former Vice Chief of Naval Operations, was the ship's sponsor. Principal speaker was Hon. Jennings Randolph, retired U.S. Senator from West Virginia. Other speakers included Commo. Harry K. Fiske, USN, assistant deputy commander, surface ships, Naval Sea Systems Command; U.S. Representative Lind
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 39Photo courtesy Global Ocean Design Figure 7 A 35Ah AGM lead-acid battery is tested using the West Mountain Radio CBA to show the effect of simply ? lling the battery voids with mineral oil as a compensating ? uid. The CBA is programmed to cut-off at a voltage of 10.50v. The top line (red) shows the
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 38LANDER LAB #10 Photo courtesy West Mountain Radio Photo courtesy of Clarios/AutoBatteries.com Figure 6 The West Mountain Radio Computerized Battery Analyzer (CBA V) attaches to a Figure 5 laptop by a USB-B cable, and to a battery by Powerpole® Connectors. Exploded view of an AGM lead-acid battery.
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 37will advance with succeeding charging cycles, presumably due to gas generation during recharge. A battery capacity test, described below with the West Mountain Radio CBA V, can be done to replicate this experiment yourself. (See Figure 7.) ? Gel cell Sealed Lead-Acid (SLA) batteries substitute a
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 26FEATURE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION & SENSORS Kevin Mackay, TESMaP voyage leader and Center head of the South and West Paci? c Regional Centre of Seabed 2030. Kevin in the seismic lab at Greta Point looking at the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano 3D map completed with data from the TESMaP voyage
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 25collecting (formerly known as Lo`ihi, the youngest suggest the volcano was still erupting, video images of the eruption’s impact. volcano in Hawai`i) and West Mata vol- with a dense ash layer found in the up- Equipment on board included a deep- cano in the Tonga arc. “We’ve seen a ton per water column near
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 22INTERVIEW WE ARE ENGAGED WITH MULTIPLE US OSW WIND DEVELOPMENTS AND SEEING AN UP-TICK FOR CVA, TECHNOLOGY REVIEW AND RISK REDUCTION SERVICES IN EARLY DEVELOPMENT PHASES. WITH NEW LEASE ROUNDS COMING AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES, WE DO NOT SEE A BIG SLOWDOWN FOR OSW DEVELOPMENTS APART FROM THE OBVIOUS
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 30Feature Shipbuilding Crowley Crowley’s electric tug eWolf, built by Master Boat Builders. Administration (MARAD) put a cost of $97 million on the ulatory ? lings, the vessel “is expected to be delivered and vessel. The same yard has also been contracted to build an operational in 2025.” Filings with
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 22Feature Navigation inside the approved lease area as a requirement under the BOEM’s attention to the USCG’s recent 27-page Federal terms and conditions of a speci? c lease. Register Notice (January 19) to establish “shipping safety • For structure siting, the USCG (again) “insists” that fairways along
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 8260 (28)617.7M (7.7B)184K14.8B31.9B65.7B4.8B Tennessee 950 (11)529.5M (5.6B)100K6.5B12B26.4B1.1B Texas 830 (13)2379.7M (54.9B)305K27.9B54.6B111B7.7B West Virginia 680 (16)245.7M (3.4B)127K8B17.1B37B1.8B Wisconsin 230 (29)121.9M (107M)147K10B15.8B34.1B1.2B Data from 2021, courtesy of the National Waterways
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 20MARKETS FPSO technology dominates the region’s FPS demand. duction and storage of low and zero emission energy carriers, In all, 18 countries in West and East Africa are expected such as methanol and ammonia. One exciting development to receive new FPSOs, FLNGs and FPUs between 2024 and leverages
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 40vehicles (ROV), a spacious issues”. Gulf Island then sued Hornbeck, claiming the two moonpool and accommodations for 102 personnel. Yankee Freedom IV Key West, Fla.-based Yankee Freedom has ordered a new gearboxes will be 300-passenger, high-speed catamaran from Gladding-Hearn ZF model 8000. Shipbuilding
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 14believe in this type of training,” Gianelloni said. “To quote casualties be loss of life, loss of vessel or major environ- one of our instructors on the West Coast, Captain Christine mental incident,” Gianelloni said. “We aim to be a part of Klimkowski, ‘It gives us the ability to exercise our mariners
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 56the main issues of fabrication, assembly, as well ning include Europe, which represents 60GW of potential;. as the issues with very deep waters on the West Coast of the Asia Paci? c and its 81GW of potential; and then North Amer- United States where we have one kilometer or more. [The ica, where we’re
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 33the class, USS Ohio (SSBN 726), was commissioned in 1981. She underwent a conversion and reclassi? ed as SSGN 726, rejoining the ? eet in 2006. The newest, USS Loui- siana (SSBN 743), was commissioned in 1997. The Ohio Replacement Submarine (SSBN-X), now known as the Colum- bia-class, will begin to enter
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 32SUBSEA VEHICLES DEFENSE USS Baltimore (SSN 704) served for just 15 and a half years in 2004, and the newest, USS Hyman G. Rickover (SSN 795) of active service. joining the ? eet in October of 2023. Newer versions will be Los Angeles-class submarines carried MK-48 heavyweight ? tted with the Virginia
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 26SUBSEA VEHICLES DEFENSE Orca Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Test Vehicle. The Navy’s top of? cer wants more players on the ? eld Unmanned Underwater Systems = Force Multiplier Source: Boeing By Edward Lundquist peaking at the Surface Navy Association’s an- (i.e., a mix of ships that avoids ‘putting too
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January 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 26team took ? eet,” said Campe. northern Europe, the Mediterranean, a marinized Volvo Penta engine and As word started to get out, Campe North Africa and West Africa. modi? ed it so that it would be compli- and his team were ? elding inquiries The general cargo vessel, designed ant with class and ? ag
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November 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 32SONAR TECHNOLOGIES DAWN MASSA STANCAVISH, MASSA ue to grow that process and have quality products throughout. I know your business is driven by multiple mar- kets – defense, offshore energy and science –but let’s start on the defense business as it’s most A big part of that equation is technology
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November 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 27? ll broader ocean intelligence gathering gaps. “Technologists are not always connected to their users and engineers and are not always marketers,” said West. “I think the valuable part of Synchro is that we’re working on that product market ? t, so someone is not working in a silo and that prototype stays
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November 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 26been fraught with hurdles and sinkholes. Synchro is a new co-designed testbed to synchronize and evolve tech solutions. Henry Ruhl, Director, and Amy West, Program Manager of Synchro discuss with the possibilities for technology developers. – By Greg Trauthwein s anyone in the subsea sector can attest
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November 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 11techniques are chosen, and the right ing. Machine learning in particular requires a large amount conclusions drawn. It’s very easy to get into a “Wild West” of “training” data or observations which we often don’t of people throwing around algorithms and data and coming have. The training step can be
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November 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 4our interview with Massa starting on page 30. The other story I found of particular interest was my interview with Henry Ruhl and Corporate Staff Amy West of Synchro. Synchro is a program designed to help take subsea technology Manager, Marketing Mark O’Malley from the workbench to commercialization
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December 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 30gas (GHG) emissions about 5% on a Japan-Aus- Makoto Yamaguchi, Chief Technical Of? cer Director tralia voyage and about 8% on a Japan-North America West General, Headquarters of Technology Innovation, MOL, Coast voyage, compared to a conventional vessel of the same 30 Maritime Reporter & Engineering
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November 2023 - Marine News page: 53Virginia’s dredging and widening pro- ants calling the Port of Virginia,” said Captain J. Elliott gram is complete in 2024, the Norfolk Harbor will offer Westall, McAllister Towing of Virginia’s vice president and the deepest, widest channels on the U.S. East Coast and general manager. “Having exceptional