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Marinette Marine Lighterage System tested for ship-shore cargo transfers

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The Navy is evaluating a new system of 29 modular barges that can be assembled quickly into floating ferries or causeways to transport vehicles and cargo between ship and shore. This Improved Lighterage System (INLS), built by Manitowoe's Marinette Marine in Marinette, Wisconsin, will provide the Navy and Marine Corps a safer, more versatile method to deliver material from a sealift or prepositioning ship to shore during wartime or such peacetime operations as disaster relief.

Author: Burgess, Richard R.
Publisher: Navy League of the United States
Publication Name: Sea Power
Subject: Military and naval science
ISSN: 0199-1337
Year: 2005
Contracts & orders received, Radio & TV communications equipment, Ship Building and Repairing, Boat Building & Repair, Contracts & orders let, Hardware, not elsewhere classified, Barges, Usage, Contract agreement

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Services combine efforts on high-speed catamaran

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A partnership of Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, and Special Operations commands will evaluate potential capabilities of a wave-piercing catamaran, testing new and existing commercial technologies. Bollinger/Incat USA L.L.C. has been awarded a $20.3 million contract to charter the 315-ft. Incat 050, for a series of tests.

Author: Burgess, Richard R.
Publisher: Navy League of the United States
Publication Name: Sea Power
Subject: Military and naval science
ISSN: 0199-1337
Year: 2001
Use of services, New orders received, Testing

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Mixed Navy-Coast Guard crew to man Sea Fighter catamaran

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Sea Fighter catamaran would be manned by a mixed Navy-Coast Guard crew as a development platform for the Littoral Combat Ship and Coast Guard's Deepwater program. Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. decides not to protest the Navy's selection of Lockheed Martin's competing design to replace its current presidential helicopter fleet.

Author: Burgess, Richard R.
Publisher: Navy League of the United States
Publication Name: Sea Power
Subject: Military and naval science
ISSN: 0199-1337
Year: 2005
Product development, United States. Coast Guard

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Subjects list: United States, Equipment and supplies, Contracts, Boating industry, United States. Navy, Catamarans
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