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Todd, Bath Win Coast Guard Contracts Worth $352-Million Cummins-Powered Excursion Boat 'Missouri River Queen' Delivered By Marine Builders Marine Builders, Inc. of Utica, Ind., recently launched the Missouri River Queen (shown above), a 95- foot paddlewheel excursion boat with a 31-foot beam, 6'/2-foot depth, 3'4-foot draft and a '/-inch steel hull. The 600-passenger vessel was deliv- ered to Richard Lynn of Kansas City, Mo., where plans call for it to make daily excursion trips along the Missouri River in the Kansas City area. The main engines on the Missouri River Queen are two Cummins NT855-Ms rated 290 horsepower at 1,950 rpm, and generators are two I.E.C. model G415GAD rated at 85 kw each and driven by two Cum- mins 6BT5.9-GC engines. Other equipment includes Twin Disc re- duction gears, Columbian Bronze four-blade stainless-steel propellers, Fernstrum Gridcoolers, Furuno ra- dar, and ENERGAIRE air compres- sor. The Missouri River Queen was designed by Alan L. Bates and fea- tures steering controls on each wing of the wheelhouse. The engine con- trols are Marine Builders, Inc. de- sign, and feature full pilothouse in- strumentation including low oil pressure, high water temperature and gear oil pressure alarms. Todd Pacific Shipyards Corpora- tion, Seattle, Wash, and Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, have been awarded contracts totaling $352,353,340 to rehabilitate and modernize 12 of the Coast Guard's Hamilton Class cutters. According to John T. Gilbride Jr., vice president and general man- ager of Todd-Seattle, the shipyard was awarded a $240-million con- tract for work on eight of the West Coast-based 378-foot-long high-en- durance cutters. The five-year proj- ect is scheduled to begin in October and last until March 1990. Bath Iron Works will do work on the oth- er four cutters. The project is said to be ideally suited to Todd-Seattle because of its experience with the Navy's guided-missile frigate construction American-Standard Offers New Bulletin On Replacing Heat Exchangers A new bulletin recently published by American-Standard Inc. Heat Transfer Division makes it simple for maintenance personnel to iden- tify and replace leaking or failed heat exchangers. Bulletin 104-50 outlines six sim- ple steps that provide information to permit easy and simple ordering program. The average manning for the five-year cutter project will be approximately 400 and will entail extensive design work and enhance- ments to all major systems, includ- ing combat systems. The rehabilitation and moderni- zation of the vessels—the removal and replacement of weapon sys- tems, design modification, etc.—is done on approximately 15-year in- tervals. With the completion of the project, which is said to be the larg- est ship repair contract in Coast Guard history, the vessels will be able to operate effectively for the remainder of their 30-year life ex- pectancy. According to the Coast Guard, the fixed-price contracts provide for economic price adjustment for all years after the first year. of a replacement unit. Also included are information and details to help estimate the savings in water con- sumption incurred by replacement of older, less thermally efficient coolers with such models as Ameri- can-Standard's BCF® heat exchang- ers (Saving one extra gallon per minute of cooling water conserves up to 240,000 gallons per year). For a free copy of Bulletin 104- 50, Circle 93 on Reader Service Card MILITARY STRENGTH High Strength QA Steel is in ship shape with large inventories of Military/ABS steel grades backed by an extensive Quality Assurance program. High Strength QA Steel is Level I Approved and ready for immediate service. ABS GRADES-A/B/D/E/DH/EH MIL-S-22698B-A/B/C/D/DH/EH MIL-S-16216-HY80/HY100 MIL-S-21952C-HY80 MIL S-16113C-HT TYPE-I&II MIL-S-24113A MIL-S-20166B-M/HT MIL-A-12560 MIL-S-001222G MIL-S-890 LilCU Miwr .STRENGTH QA -STEEL, INC. 800-231-4576 • 713-937-7720 • TELEX 79-1190 "circi^oTm7"Reader^erJ!ce"Card" NEW from the Ships Division of Hardware Specialty Co., Inc. FOR STANDARD AND CUSTOM FASTENERS • MIL-S-1222 • MII-B-857 Our Quality Control system complies with • MIL-I-45208 • MIL-C-45662 Materials • Monel • Bronze • Stainless • Steel Send NOW for our new brochure. It details Hardware Specialty's 50- plus years of experience, in-house machine shop operations, 48-hour turn-around and more. SHIPS DIVISION HARDWARE SPECIALTY CO., INC. 48-75 36TH STREET LONG ISLAND CITY, NY 11101 (Tel) 718 361-9393 TWX 710-582-2547 Telex 125468 Telecopier: (718) 706-0238 Circle 275 on Reader Service Card Maritime Reporter/Engineering News
