WB Looks Back

DECEMBER 1962

LOOKS BACK

• The second new 4,320-hp Humble Oil and Re ning Co. towboat, Esso West Virginia, was christened last month at Nashville Bridge Co.’s shipyard. The new towboat will push an integrated eight-barge tow, operating between Humble Oil’s Baton Rouge, La., re nery and company terminals in West Virginia, on the Ohio and Kanawha rivers. The new towboat, equipped with radar and automatic pilot, is powered by two 12-cylinder Fairbanks-Morse opposed piston diesel engines, and carries a crew of seven. • Another 108'×28'×17', 3,500-hp tug, Kerry Moran, was launched last month at Jakobson Shipyard, Oyster Bay, N.Y., for Moran Towing and Transportation Co. The twin-screw tug, powered by General Motors diesels, is a sistership to the Patricia Moran, ship to the Patricia Moran commissioned early in the fall. The vessel cost was approximately $750,000.

DECEMBER 1982

• Halter Marine, New Orleans, recently delivered the third and fourth boats of an eight-boat contract to Tidewater Marine Service Inc., also of New Orleans. The Budd Tide and the Julie Tide are sister tug/supply vessels measuring 192'6"×40'×15'. Shipboard power for the twin sister vessels comes from two Delco 150-kW generators driven by a pair of Detroit Diesel 12V71 engines. Main propulsion for

DECEMBER 1972

• The American Waterways Operators Inc. has led a complaint with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia “to enjoin, set aside, and annul” the recent decision by the Interstate Commerce Commission approving ownership and control by the Southern Railway Co. of Southern Region Coal Transport Inc. (SRCT), a subsidiary barge line. • Upper Mississippi Towing Corp., Minneapolis, recently announced that UMTC and Harold G. Williams have

each boat comes from two EMD 12645 diesels developing 4,160 hp. • The governor of Alaska recently said his state is having symptoms of the same disease which has knocked the bottom out of the Mexican economy — too great a reliance on easy-to-tax oil. Mexico used its potential oil wealth to embark on ambitious spending programs and now faces an $81 billion debt and an economic crisis. acquired the assets of Gulf Atlantic Towing Co. from Citadel Industries, New York. • Recently delivered by Halter Marine Fabricators, Moss Point, Miss., State Treasure, a 176'×38'×14' offshore service vessel, is the sistership to the State Diamond, which was delivered the rst week of October. The vessel is for the State Boat Corp., Wilmington, Del., and will work oil rigs off the Louisiana coast.