Double celebration: 40 year seawater bearings milestone
0Just as the Drydock Magazine celebrates its 40th anniversary, Thordon Bearings also marks a significant milestone. It is 40 years since the Canadian company retrofitted its first water-lubricated tailshaft bearing to a Great Lakes operating vessel: the 1954-built 15,279dwt self-unloading bulk carrier SS Scott Misener 2. The vessel was drydocked in the late 70s for a major refit, which included the conversion of its existing lignum vitae bearings to Thordon’s XL elastomeric tailshaft bearing material, which was then relatively new.
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