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The dredge New Jersey, owned and operated by the Great Lakes Drepce & Dock Co., the largest in the world from a standpoint of power. Built by the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co., Manitowoc, Wis. Dredge machinery supplied by the Bucyrus-Erie Com- pany, South Milwaukee, Wis. Powered with four 1,150 B.H.P. Busch Sulzer Diesel engines operating at 180 R.P.M. and direct coupled to General Electric generators. These generator sets supply current for all the power on the dredge and also drive the main dredge pump and booster pump. Cutter and shaft of suction arm supported in 1414," (inside diam.) Goodrich Cutless Bearing. Right: A close-up of the bearing, taken while the cut- ter was being replaced. ment. The largest ships in the Coast Guard are equipped with them. It has been demonstrated that size makes no difference, as long as the bearing loadsaremaintained within safe limits. Goodrich bearings are used exten- sively on horizontal centrifugal sand and dredging pumps and deep-well turbine pumps. In hydraulic turbines many are in satisfactory operation with shafts up to 30 inches in di- ameter. In literally thousands of cases, where oil lubrication is difficult, or where sand and grit are present, it has been definitely shown that they outwear every other type of bearing. The B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co. (Established 1870), Akron, Ohio (in the west, Pacific Goodrich Rubber Co., Los Angeles, Calif.). WORLD’S LARGEST DREDGE! Photo shows the new 232' turbo-electric drive cutter Tanoe, one of the latest additions to the U. 8. Coast Guard fleet. The TaHor, with its sister ships, the PONCHARTRAIN Cuetan, Menpora and CuampLain, are equipped with 1413" Goodrich Cut- less rubber forward bear- ing and after stern tube bearings 145%" inside di- ameter. Bethlehem Ship- building Co., builders. Speed better than 16% knots per hour. Total shaft h.p., 3,200 Complete propelling and auxiliary machinery designed and built by Westinghouse Electric and Manufactur- ing Co, cat deh Bh teeee is, Sa Ba 4 MARINE REVIEW—March, 1930