Blessey Adds a New Generation Pushboat
Cummins Vessel Reference #734
With a several vessels from push boats to OSVs delivered, Joe Gregory’s New Generation Shipyard in Houma Louisiana, is now a well-recognized shipyard. Early this summer the yard delivered one of their signature 72X30-foot pushboats with a sister-ship well on the way for an September delivery.
The Lisa Gail Strafuss carries the well know Blessey Marine stack logo and is well sized and fitted out for pushing fuel barges in both the canals along the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi River system. A pair of grid-cooled Cummins K38-M main engines provides main power. Recognized as the industry standard for towboats of this size, the engines each deliver 1000 HP at 1800 RPM to Kahlenberge 72X58-inch propellers on 7-inch shafts through Twin Disc MG540 gears with ratios of 5.96:1.
The sister-ship, to be named Ben Strafuss and also for Blessey has the Cummins same main engine package. Both vessels will also be fitted with a pair of 85 kW Cummins-powered generator sets. A third vessel with a new four-cabin design by New Generation is also under contract for a December 2014 delivery.
Photos courtesy of New Generation Shipbuilding.
For further information:
Joe Gregory
Owner
New Generation Shipbuilding
440 Browning Court
Houma, LA 70363
Phone: 985 868 4088
Mobile: 985 859 5232
E-mail: joegregory@NGmarine.com
Calvin Klotz
Vice-President Marine Division
Cummins Mid-South, Inc.
110 Airline Hwy.
Kenner, LA 70062
USA
Phone: 504 468 3535
E-mail: calvin.b.klotz@cummins.com
Alan Haig-Brown
Over 30 years as an author for global commercial marine and fishing publications backed with hands-on experience on commercial fishing boats and coastal freighters makes Alan Haig-Brown uniquely qualified to provide vessel reference articles for Cummins Marine. You can find him in shipyards around the world, and on his own website, www.haig-brown.com.
