MEDFORD rSlL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON
THURSDAY, OCTOBER i, 19K
Zwirte Zee
Powerful
Highly
And Fastest Tug
By JOOP MARMELSTEIN
Uniled Press International
ROTTERDAM. The Nether
lands (UPI) The trend to big
ger ships has upped the need for
bigger tugs to help them in port
or when they're in trouble.
From a small office in Rotter
dam, the Dutch firm of L. Smit
and company handles about 60
per cent of the world's major
towing jobs with a fleet of tugs
that includes what is claimed to
be the fastest and most powerful
tug there is, the "Zwarte Zee."
To the layman's eye the
Zwarte Zee loks much like any
other tug, though perhaps just a
bit more streamlined. Yet with
a 9,000 horsepower engine plant
the company says it is the
world's most powerful, and its
owners say its speed capability
of 20 knots makes it the fastest
as well.
One of the Zwarte Zee's most
notable jobs was performed last
summer when it took in tow the
disabled, 13,332-ton French tank
er "Sologne" 450 miles south
east of the Azores. The Sologne
was carrying 90,000 tons of
crude oil but the Zwarte Zee
took on the job alone, pulled the
big, heavily-loaded tanker along
at a neat 11 knots to port.
Surprising Feat
"If I didn't see it I wouldn't
believe it," said the master of
the Sologne later.
The Zwarte Zee, fourth of the
company's tugs to bear the
name, reflects what Smit and
company's vice president E. E.
P. Kleyn van Willigen said was
"the trend of the times."
"The trend in shipbuilding
is toward bigger snips," he
said. "In spite of all technical
advances there will always be
breakdowns. And then tugs
are needed. We are satisfied,
that we are heading in the
right direction, and we expect
to order more of our 'super
tugs'." Van Willigen's views appar
ently are not accepted by all tug
people. He said some of the
company's own tug captains
have been doubtful about the
super-tugs. The problem is not
nautical, but economic. The
price tag for the last Zwarte
Zee was around seven million
guilders or $2,000,000, and its
running costs are high.
There are not too many jobs
for such a tug that produce a
profit. And yet they do come
along enough, in Van Willigen's
opinion, to prove the need for
the big tugs. He pointed to the
Sologne job as a case in point.
Oilier Activities
Towing is not the company's
only activity. It also special
izes in salvage jobs and put
ting out ship fires. One of its
better known salvages was of
the American freighter "Ex
celsior" which was driven
aground near Chittagong, Pak
istan. It took a Smit and Co.
crew, flown from Holland, four
weeks to refloat the vesel.
Salvage jobs are a gamble.
The formula, said Van Willigen,
is "no cure no pay." The com
pany invested thousands of dol
lars in the Excelsior job and if
it hadn't worked out the money
would have been down the drain
for the salvagers.
Today Dutch tugs, and many
of them bear the Smit and Co.,
flag, are stationed around the
world. There always is at least
one ready to go in the Persian
Gulf, a center of great tanker
activity. Smit tugs also are al
ways ready at Malta, in the
North Sea, and the Caribbean.
"There will be work for our
tugs as long as ships sail the
seas," said Van Willigen. "And
as the ships grow bigger, so will
the tugs."
Federal Deduction
Elimination Upheld
SALEM (UPI) - Elimination
of the deduction for federal in
come taxes from the state's tax
laws is not illegal, Atty. Gen.
Robert Y. Thornton said Wed
nesday. Thornton received a letter
from an Elmira housewife who
questioned the legality of the
1063 legislature's tax increase
measure because it eliminated
the federal deduction.
Thornton, who did not identify
the woman by name, said he re
plied "because the question is of
general public concern."
"When one understands that
the income tax is a tax upon
income, it becomes apparent
that there is no such thing as a
tax upon a tax' when talking
of deductions allowed in deter
mining taxable income," Thorn
ton explained.
"The legislature may Increase
' taxes either hy eliminating
ome of the deductions. xemp
Joivs or credits previously it
lowed, or may increM ra'es,"
Thornton said.
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