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a LCAC-I OUTSTANDING WORKBOATS & MILITARY SHALLOW-DRAFT VESSELS OF 1987 A special review of some of the most notable and important inland and coastal workboats and shallow-draft military craft delivered during 1987—selected by the editors of Maritime Reporter and Engineering News for their high standards of design or performance. AVENGER Peterson Builders The USS Avenger (MCM-1), the lead ship of the Navy's newest class Photos (top row from left): LCAC (Textron) Island Queen II (Munson); Tahoma (R. E. Derecktor); (bottom row from left): Avenger (Peterson Builders); East Coastal Intercep- tors (Tempest Marine); Eagle (Moss Point Marine). of mine countermeasure vessels, was commissioned at the yard of her builder, Peterson Builders, Inc. (PBI), this year. The Avenger Class MCMs are the Navy's largest wooden ships, mea- suring 224 feet long and 39 feet abeam. The Avenger is powered by four 600-hp Waukesha diesel en- gines with three diesel generators. AVENGER Equipment List Main engines Waukesha Electric motors . . Hansome Electric Reduction gears IMO Delaval CP propellers Bird-Johnson Shafting Bird-Johnso Bowthruster Omnithruster Ship service generators Tech Systems Generator engines Waukesha Machinery control system GE Ship control system Henschel Switchboards Nelson Anchor windlass and capstan . . . . New England Trawler Steering system . . Jered Brown Bros. Anchor chain Baldt Minesweep generator Minesweep machinery Sonar system .... Navigation system . . Mine neutralization Siemens-Allis . A.C. Hoyle GE . Magnavox . Honeywell She displaces 1,300 tons and carries a crew of 81 officers and enlisted men. The introduction of the new Avenger Class into the Navy's active fleet will greatly enhance its surface minehunting, minesweeping and mine neutralization capabilities due to the vessel's sophisticated mine- warfare equipment, which was sup- plied by Honeywell. A.C. Hoyle supplied the vessel's minesweeping machinery and Siemens-Allis, her minesweep generator. BLAIR MCCALL Gulf Craft The 155-foot aluminum crewboat Blair McCall was delivered last year by Gulf Craft, Inc. of Patterson, La., to McCall Boat Rental, Inc. of Ca- meron, La. According to Gulf Craft president Scott Tibbs, the Blair McCall is the world's largest alumi- num crewboat. The unique, five-screw Blair McCall, which has a beam of 30 feet and loaded draft of 8 feet, is pow- ered by five Cummins KTA 1150M diesel engines that develop a total of 3,400 horsepower. She is U.S. Coast Guard-approved to carry 92 passen- BLAIR MCCALL Equipment List Main engines (5) Cummins Reduction gears Twin Disc Propellers Columbian Bronze Shafts Aquamet Generator Detroit Diesel Clutch Twin Disc Generator controls .... Power Panels Steering Charlynn Orbitrol Engine controls Kobelt Radar Furuno Loran & VHF Raytheon SSB Stephens Engineering Depth sounder Data Marine Compass & autopilot Comp-Nav Stuffing boxes Gulf Craft Keel coolers Split Pipe Freshwater pressure set Sears Bilge pump Barne Fire pump Berkley Crane-Demmings A/C & heating Carrier F/O transfer pump Rope F/O transfer meter Tokheim Air compressors Quincy Anchor winch McElroy Machine Horns Buell-Air Search lights Carlisle & Finch Running lights Perko Lifesaving gear Billy Pugh 26 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News
