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GM-Powered Towboat 'Jeanie-K' Delivered By Riverway Shipyard Riverway Shipyard Company, Grafton, 111., recently completed construction of the 1,200-bhp tow- boat Jeanie-K (shown above) for Riverway Harbor Service, New Orleans. The new vessel will be used as a fleet boat and a shuttle boat in the New Orleans area. The Jeanie-K is 65 feet long, 24 feet wide, and 10 feet deep. She has an operating draft of 8 feet. The bow rake headlog and corners were built of %-inch plate with %-inch rub bars welded over the corners for added protection. The towknees, headlog, and rig- ging deck were outfitted with rub- ber bumpers from B-J Marine Products. The rigging deck is also outfitted with a Class C-3 LO- HED car puller. The boat was built with a fully equipped galley, internal stairs, two bathrooms, quarters for six crew members, an electronics room, and a 9-foot by 10-foot pi- lothouse with a 26-foot eye level. The main stack is removable for easy access to the engine room. The two General Motors De- troit Diesel Allison main engines were furnished by Western Diesel Services. They are model 16V92, each rated at 600 bhp at 1,800 rpm. They are air operated from the pilothouse by AMOT air con- trols. The Twin Disc reverse-reduc- tion gears turn the shafts at 7:1 ratio, and were also supplied by Western Diesel. The stainless- steel, four-blade propellers are 72-inch diameter by 64-inch pitch. They were fitted to two 6-inch tailshafts with three chrome sleeves each. The two steering rudders and four flanking rudders have 6-inch stocks with upper and lower mild steel sleeves. The sleeves turn in brass bearings lubricated by grease. The steering and flank- ing rudders are individually con- trolled by double-acting hydrau- lic cylinders. Power and control to the cylinders is supplied by a two pump/motor combination of variable volume furnished by Skipper Hydraulics, Inc. Complete control of the motor operation is handled from the pilothouse. Electric power is derived from two Detroit 3-71 diesels operating at 1,800 rpm driving 3-phase, 30- kw International Electric gener- ators. One generator is air start; the other battery start. Voltage is reduced to proper operating levels by transformers through a Simplex modular control system. Compressed air for engine start- ing, engine controls and whistle is supplied by two Quincy air compressors with 5-hp, 1,800 rpm motors. A Pan American Systems Cor- poration's 18-point monitoring and alarm system maintains a constant check on main and aux- iliary engines and miscellaneous, associated equipment in the en- gine room. A pilothouse informa- tion panel provides auxiliary mon- itoring signals. Deck machinerv includes two NABRICO hydroelectric 40-ton winches. Fire protection on the boat is provided by the standard remotely operated fire pump hooked directly to two hose sta- tions on the exterior of the ves- sel. The interior is fully protected by manually operated portable C02 fire extinguishers. The pilothouse, crew quarters, galley, and two bathrooms are fully insulated for heat, air-con- ditioning, and sound. The boat is air-conditioned for comfort. A St. Louis Ship FAST System LS-1 was installed for treatment of sewage. A Carlisle & Finch 500-watt xenon searchlight and two Car- lisle & Finch 14-inch, 1,000-watt incandescent searchlights are lo- cated on the pilothouse roof. Di- rectional spotlights are located on all four corners of the vessel at the second deck level. The pi- lothouse is fitted with a Kahlen- berg airhorn and radar manu- factured by Furuno. Seabarge Asks Title XI On Three Ocean Barges To Cost $5 Million Total Seabarge, Ltd., Dallas, has ap- plied for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of three 250-foot, oceangoing deck barges. The applicant indicated that the barges will be used in offshore drilling, construction and supply activities in the Gulf of Mexico. Misener Industries, Inc., St. Petersburg Beach, Fla., was listed as the proposed builder, with de- liveries scheduled for the fourth quarter of 1981. The requested guarantee is for $4,580,000, which is 87V> percent of the estimated $5,235,000 cost of the three barges. Fireboat Design Contract To Nickum & Spaulding Design work is beginning at Nickum & Spaulding Associates, Inc., the Seattle-based naval ar- chitecture /marine engineering firm, on the Seattle Fire Depart- ment's two new 1.6-million-dollar multipurpose harbor service crafts. The recent award culmi- nated a five-month design compe- tition and evaluation by Fire De- partment personnel. The 93-foot aluminum-hull ves- sels were described by Seattle Fire Chief Bob Swartout in the department's award announce- ment as "... a model for the en- tire industry. Their (N&SA's) progressive and innovative design will provide the city with years of dependable, up-to-date service." Each vessel will feature three diesel engines, a maximum speed of 28 knots, and a 7,500 gpm (at 150 psi) pumping capacity. The wheelhouses will be fully auto- mated and each vessel will have an emergency medical treatment room. In addition to three manually operated deck monitors (one for- ward and two aft), the vessels will have a remote operated tel- escoping monitor with a maxi- mum elevation of about 40 feet, and under-dock monitors located in the bow at the waterline, port and starboard. "The under-dock monitors are remote controlled both for water flow, from a mist to a powerful stream, and for direction. This will allow them to double as bow thrusters for station keeping," said Paul A. Gow, N&SA naval architect heading the design team. Penco Appointed U.S. Agent For Bremer Vulcan The Penco Division of Hudson Engineering Company (Hoboken, N.-J.) and Bremer Vulcan Schiff- bau und Maschinenfabrik of West Germany recently announced the appointment of Penco as the United States agent for Bremer Vulcan shipyard in Bremen, Ger- many. Bremer Vulcan's facilities and services include: graving dock for vessels up to ULCC-size; floating docks for smaller vessels; per- formance of all steel and deck repairs as well as preservation work; a wide range of engine repairs and machining of engine parts; and world wide repair service coverage. In addition, Bremer Vulcan is licensee for MAN diesel en- gines, Stal-Laval turbines, Foster Wheeler and Babcock & Wilcox boilers, and La-Mont exhaust gas boilers. Bremer Vulcan will provide foreign yard facilities for Penco's "Turn-Key" approach as regards IGS/COW IMCO requirements. For further information on the Bremer Vulcan Shipyard, Write 23 on Reader Service Card NABRICO Delivers Two Barges To Higman Towing Nashville Bridge Company (NABRICO), Nashville, Tenn., has delivered two specially de- signed 264-foot single-skin petro- leum barges to Higman Towing Company, Orange, Texas. The barges, which have a com- bined capacity of 42,700 barrels or 1,793,000 gallons, incorporate special NABRICO design features that upgrade the company's long- established standards for single- skin petroleum barges. Each barge is constructed with a special shaped bow for speed and maneuverability on the intra- coastal waterways. The cargo pumping system provides for a discharge rate of 2,800 gallons per minute for a total discharge of each barge in slightly more than five hours. The barges are certified by the U.S. Coast Guard for carriage of Grade "A" or lower petroleum products and classed by the American Bureau of Shipping for A-l oil barge. Gary Bartman Named Marketing Manager For Hydranautics Hydraulic Gary Bartman has been pro- moted to manager of marketing for Hydranautics Hydraulic Sys- tems (Goleta, Calif.), according to Ed Krabacher, executive vice president and general manager. In his new position, Mr. Bart- man will direct the marketing and sales offorts for all Hydra- nautics systems for shipyard and offshore-related industries world- wide. Previously, as manager of off- shore sales, he was responsible for the firm's sales and hydraulic systems to customers with off- shore oil-related applications. 42 Maritime Reporter/Engineering New:.
