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Gulfport Delivers New Ultramar Chemical Tug • _ jrSSSi $The 4,400-hp E.B. MacNaughton will be employed towing Ultramar's new 430 ^.sea-going barge Hawaii between West Coast ports and the Hawaiian Islands. ggN| foot inch diameter high tensile wire rope. It is capable of providing a line pull of 75,000 pounds when reeling at the rate of 30 FPM. Pow- er for the winch is furnished by a Dowty Type 2 pump mounted on a General Motors 6-71, Model 6061N diesel engine. The E.B. MacNaughton, design- ed for use in towing Ultramar Chemical Company's new 430 feet by 80 feet by 30 feet seagoing barge Hawaii, will be operated by Hilo Transportation and Terminal Co. primarily between West Coast ports and the Hawaiian Islands. The vessel is built to the highest class of American Bureau of Ship- ping for vessels of this type, carry- ing the symbols Maltese Cross A-l Towing Service, Maltese Cross A MS. R.J. McCarthy Joins Western Gear Corp. Mobil Oil Appoints Wall Sales Manager Marine Lubricants * Ultramar Chemical Company, a *subsidiary of C. Brewer and Com- pany, Honolulu, Hawaii, recently accepted delivery of the powerful new 4,400-hp twin screw ocean- going tug, the M/V E.B. Mac- Naughton, at Gulfport Shipbuilding Corporation, Port Arthur, Texas. » The new vessel, designed by Schuller and Allan, Inc., Naval Ar- chitects of Houston, Texas, in con- junction with Hilo Transportation |ind Terminal Co., Marine Opera- tors of C. Brewer & Co., is par- ticularly adapted to general ocean towing under all sea conditions. ^The vessel's principal character- istics are as follows : length overall, J21 feet 6}4 inches; beam, 34 feet; Jlepth, 17 feet 6 inches; gross tons. <198; diesel oil capacity, 85,000 gal- lons ; lube oil, 2,130 gallons ; potable 'water 7,000 gallons. , Propulsion for the E.B. Mac- ^Naughton is furnished by two Fair- banks Morse 12-cylinder Model '38D8-1/8 direct reversing marine 'diesel engines, each capable of de- •veloping 2,200 continuous bhp at j.825 rpm. The main engine controls. ; with full starting and stopping capability of the engines, is con- trolled from four stations, the en- gine control room, the wheelhouse, the aft steering station on the boat deck and bridge on top of the pilot- house. The large five-bladed 120- inch diameter stainless steel fixed propellers are driven through Luf- kin Model 3024 horizontal offset reduction gears having a ratio of 4.75:1. The main service electrical power is supplied by two diesel engine driven generator sets. Each of the General Motors 6-71 Model 6061N diesels operating at 1.800 rpm are directly connected to a 115 kw, 450 volt, 3 phase, 60 cycle A.C. Delco Model E-5278 MH generator. The generator units are arranged for parallel operation. Both main engines, auxiliaries, and some additional equipment are protected with function and shut- down indicators. An Albina Engine and Machine Works monitoring system is installed in the main en- gine control console. A large, well-arranged combina- tion galley and crew's lounge runs across the full width of the after end of the main deckhouse. Also on the main deck are quarters for eight men in spacious, well-designed staterooms, with connecting lava- tories and showers between each room. On the boat deck is the cap- tain's lounge, stateroom and office and the chief engineer's stateroom. All crew accommodations, as well as the pilothouse, are centrally air- conditioned. Since the E.B. MacNaughton will be used primarily in ocean towing, it is equipped with one of the largest heavy-duty hydraulical- ly-driven deep sea towing machines on the market. A Burrard Type HJ-S towing winch, mounted on the main deck immediately aft of the house and partially enclosed, has a capacity of 2,500 feet of 2*4- Richard J. McCarthy Richard J. McCarthy has joined Western Gear Corporation's Heavy Machinery Division, Everett, Wash., as program manager. Mr. McCarthy was previously af- filiated with United Concrete Pipe Corp., Baldwin Park, Calif., where he was vice-president, operations. He is a graduate of Webb Institute of Naval Architecture, New York. Richard A. Wall Richard A. Wall returns to the maritime field with his appoint- ment as manager of lubricant sales in Mobil Oil Corporation's marine sales department. Mr. Wall received a B.A. degree in business administration from Bates College in 1941 and a War Shipping Administration certificate in marine engineering in 1943. He joined Mobil as a marketing trainee in the New England division in 1941 and subsequently held several marketing positions in marine sales. In 1958 Mr. Wall was appointed commercial sales manager in the New York division and then suc- cessively, assistant manager of wholesale sales, and manager, cargo product and industrial sales. Swiftships Building Aluminum Supply Boats Two aluminum offshore, oil-well supply boats, each measuring 110 feet in length, 32 feet in beam and 14 feet in depth, will be construc- ted by Swiftships, Inc., Morgan City, La., for undisclosed interests. Each vessel will be powered by 1,000-total-bhp diesels. for the big jobs afloat or dockside SON MARINE ROPES : difficult jobs aboard tugs, work boats as well as dockside tough, flexible JACKSON Rope. Combo and P-C Combo made JACKSON "know-how" will do the job better. Quality-constructed nylon, Dacron, polypropylene, polyethylene, combinations and manila. JACKSONfcROPE CORPORATION (P A Division of ASPRO. Inc. g & Ninth and Oley Streets / Reading, Pennsylvania 19604 xJ Rope Makers \ Since 1829 July 1, 1970 19