Zidell Repairing Three
Coast Guard Vessels At
Total Cost Of $1 Million
Three U.S. Coast Guard ships were moored
at docks of Zidell Explorations, Inc., Port-
land, Ore., recently for regular maintenance
and repair. One, the buoy tender Iris will
also have its entire electrical system re-
placed, necessitated by a fire at sea that
caused extensive damage to the engine room.
All told, the three repair jobs are valued at
over $1 million to the company's Marine
Repair Division.
Buoy tender Plane Tree is one of three Coast Guard
ships being worked on by Zidell in contracts totaling
over $1 million.
Plane Tree and Iris are sister ships, buoy
tenders of the 180-foot class, 1,025 tons each,
with single screws. Iris, while working with
a buoy, took a wave from the stern which
swamped the engine room, short-circuited
the electrical system, and caused an oil-fed
fire. The ship had to be towed to port.
Confidence, a 210-foot cutter, went into
drydock two days after Plane Tree floated
free to be tied up at Zidell's docks for fur-
ther fitting.
Much of the work to be done on Plane
Tree and Iris consists of general repair and
replacement of sea-worn parts and fittings.
Both ships will have cargo hoisting gear,
anchors, and anchor chains overhauled, along
with renewal of watertight doors and hatches
and repair or replacement of various parts
of the fuel systems. Plane Tree will also
have its rudder and pintle bushings replaced,
and warping winch overhauled, the Fathom-
eter transducer replaced, and other electronic
repairs and servicing carried out. Total cost
is estimated around $350,000.
Iris, in addition to regular maintenance
and replacement of worn parts, will require
overhaul of ventilation fan motors, both
main generators and service generators. All
asbestos insulation in the engine room will
be replaced, as will the fire-damaged deck
covering and switchboards. Iris is expected
to be undergoing repairs for many months,
as the switchboards must first be designed,
then Coast Guard-approved and fabricated.
Cost of general repairs will be about $262,000,
with design of the switchboard and replacing
of the entire electrical system estimated, at
this time, to exceed another $250,000.
Confidence will have regular maintenance
work done on the hull, anchor chains and
boat davits overhauled, sprinkler system
modified, new galley ranges installed, re-
pairs made to the controllable-pitch propeller
mechanism, propeller blades inspected and
tested, and considerable modification of the
electronic systems carried out. Cost will be
around $250,000.
Marine Equipment & Consultants
To Represent Vent Check Valves
And Level Gauges For Winel
Winel of America, Inc., Grafton, Ohio, re-
cently appointed Marine Equipment & Con-
sultants, Inc., P.O. Box 3578, New Orleans,
La. 70177 as sales representatives for the
Winel Tank Vent Check Valves and the
Seetru Level Gauges in the states of Lou-
isiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.
Richards Associates
Named Hydro's Gulf
Coast Representative
Hydro Products, Inc. of San Diego has an-
nounced the appointment of C.A. Richards
and Associates of Houston to Hydro's world-
wide sales network. Charles A. Richards and
his associates will be responsible for the
sales activity in the Gulf Coast region, with
service support through Hydro's Houston
Service Center.
Hydro Products, a wholly owned subsid-
iary of Tetra Tech, Inc., is engaged in de-
veloping, manufacturing and marketing un-
derwater television systems, illumination
systems, instruments and remote controlled
vehicles used primarily in the offshore oil,
marine construction and utility industries.
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