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LEVINGSTON LEADS WITH TRIPLE SERVICE • Construction • Conversion • Repairs SHIPBUILDING CO. P. 0. BOX 968 ORANGE, TEXAS 77630 (713) 883-3521 SUBSIDIARIES GULFPORT SHIPBUILDING CORP. PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS 77640 P. O. BOX D (713) 982-5781 LEVINGSTON-ARMADILLO INC. DENVER, COLORADO 4921 WEST 58TH AVENUE . ARVADA, COLORADO 80002 PHONE (303) 428-7505 GO EVERYWHERE DO EVERYTHING A fleet of ocean-going tugs, supply ships, utility vessels and crewboats. Worldwide experience... long range towing...dependable service and support for offshore drilling rigs and construction barges. JACKSON MARINE CORPORATION P. O. Box 1087 • Aransas Pass, Texas 78336 512/758 3295 • Cable JACMAC Blount Marine Delivers Two Excursion Vessels Blount Marine Corporation, Warren, R.I., has announced the delivery of two vessels—the 94- foot excursion vessel East Chop to Hyannis Har- bor Tours, Hyannis, Mass., and the Island Wan- derer to Combined Thousand Island Boat Tours, Alexandria Bay, N.Y. The streamlined two-deck vessel East Chop is licensed to carry 350 passengers in Nantucket Sound and admeasures under 100 tons. It makes 14 miles per hour. Features include the patented Blount Vista-View windows in the bow, giving the passengers an unobstructed view forward, a modern snack bar and comfortable seating for all passengers. Power is furnished by two General Motors 12V-71s, developing 670 horsepower. The de- livery of East Chop brings to three the number of Blount-built vessels operating out of Hyannis to the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nan- tucket. The Island Wanderer is a replica of a Missis- sippi River excursion vessel built for sightseeing tours of the famous Thousand Island area. Complete with hinged antique smoke stack and all the filigree of the nostalgic river steamers, the all-steel 65-foot two-deck boat has a single stern paddle wheel and is twin diesel powered. She is licensed to carry 150 passengers. The Island Wanderer has a Mississippi style superstructure but a modern, seagoing "V" bot- tom that Rhode Island "Salts" know how to build. The Island Wanderer sailed under her own power through Block Island and Long Island Sounds and via the Erie Canal and Lake On- tario to her home p>ort. Moore And McCormack Buys Plastics Machinery Company Moore and McCormack Co., Inc., parent company of Moore-McCormack Lines, has agreed to purchase all the issued and out- standing stock of the Cumberland Engineer- ing Co., Inc., and H&B Building Trust, it was announced by James R. Barker, chairman and president. Cumberland Engineering Co., based in Attleboro, Mass., designs and manu- factures special machinery for the plastics industry, including dicers, pelletizers, and granulators. 38 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News