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IMIE WS In Stock Immediate Delivery • 40'x 12' x5'-3" Workboat • V4" hull • 800-gal. integral tanks • 3" shafts • 32" propellers • Your choice of engines Write or phone Today! Grafton Boat Co., Inc. Grafton. III. 62037 (618) 786-3371 SHAFT RPM OP ENGINE SPEED INDICATORS & COUNTERS Standard equipment on major vessels for over 40 years. All-electric with wide choice of indicator and generator styles and mounting. ALSO: Bow Propulsion Speed & Angle Indicators — Engine & Turbine Speed Indicators —Propeller Pitch Indicators — Cable Speed and Footage Counters. 68th & Upland Streets Philadelphia, Pa. 19142 Todd Launches Two Con Edison Barges Todd Shipyards Corporation (Houston Division) has announced the launching of two 250-foot by 44-foot by 14-foot-6-inch single skin barges for Consolidated Edison Com- pany of New York, Inc. These are the first two of a four-barge contract calling for fuel storage tank barges each having a 25,000-barrel capacity of No. 2 fuel oil. The keel for the third barge was laid on January 6, 1971. After completion, the barges will be towed to New York Harbor for mooring at the Gowanus substation of Con Edison in Brooklyn, N.Y., for fueling gas turbine powered gen- erators. The vessels, to be named Clean Energy No. 1, Clean Energy No. 2, Clean Energy No. 3 and Clean En- ergy No. 4, will be equipped with steam coils capable of heating heavy distillate fuel oil with a pour point of 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Each barge will be equipped with three 400-gpm electric motor driven fuel 011 pumps using shore-based power source. Pancontinental Marine Appointed Agents For Eagle Engineering Co. The appointment of Pancontinental Marine, Inc., 50 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10004 as U.S. general agents for the ship repair company Eagle Engineering Co., Ltd., Singa- pore, has been announced by J.R. Kirsten, president of Pancontinen- tal. Eagle Engineering effects all types of ship repair works, day or night, at Singapore. Two Barge Contracts Awarded To Levingston The award of two contracts to the Levingston Shipbuilding Co., Orange, Texas, for the construction of two different types of barges has been announced. The first contract is for an ocean- going tank barge for the Ingram Corp., Nashville, Tenn. The barge will be the largest built in the ship- yard to date, and will be about 584 feet long with a breadth of 87 feet and a depth of about 38 feet, and it will feature four separate pump- ing systems. The second contract is for an in- land drilling barge for FOREX Overseas, Paris, France. The barge will measure 200 feet by 70 feet by 14 feet, with a raised deck of about 12 feet. "TELL US WHAT YOU NEED ...WE CAN BUILD IT." Confident. That describes the engineers and skilled personnel at Kelso Marine. Kelso has a fantastic record of producing barges of every size and description on time and at a cost that mill surprise you. Tank barges, deck barges, open and closed hopper barges, and super barges to 430' have been built and launched at Kelso Marine. Whatever your barge requirements are, Kelso can deliver what you need . . . when you need it. Get a better barge. Get a Kelso bid. -i A Subsidiary of C. Brewer & Co., Ltd J INTRACOASTAL CANAL MILE 355 P.O. BOX 268 • GALVESTON, TEXAS 77550 • PH AC 713 744 5341 MARITIME REPORTER ENGINEERING NEWS 107 EAST 31st STREET NEW YORK, N. Y. 10016 MUrray Hill 9-3266, 3267, 3268, 3269 ESTABLISHED 1939 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News is published the 1 st and 15th of each month by Maritime Activity Reports, Inc., with executive, advertising and editorial offices at 107 East 31st Street, New York, N. Y. 10016; publishing office at 41 First Street, Hoboken, New Jersey 07030 Controlled Circulation postage paid at Hoboken, New Jersey 07030 Member BPA Business Publications Audit of Circulation, Inc. No. 4 Volume 33 SYNCROLIFT' THE WORLD'S MOST MODERN DRYDOCKING & TRANSFER SYSTEMS A Patented Product of PEARLSON ENGINEERING CO. INC. P.O. BOX 8 • 8970 S.W. 87th COURT • MIAMI, FLORIDA 33156 PHONE: 305/271-5721 • TELEX: 051-9340 • CABLE: SYNCROLIFT WHATEVER YOUR NEEDS are for drydocking, transferring, or launching vessels, our engineers will help determine the best answers to those needs...will prepare estimates... even visit your yard, anywhere in the world, at no cost or obligation. Write today tor literature: 4 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News