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Design 1609 Personnel Carrier

This personnel carrier named Lumba Lumba was designed for Caltex, a major petroleum company and launched in 1960. Constructed of aluminum by Paasch Marine in Erie, Pennsylvania, she was designed to carry 30 passengers in aircraft style seating plus 4 officers and 6 in crew. The officers had permanent quarters on-board in 2 cabins with lavatories while the crew cabins consisted of pipe cots and a shared head.

Incidentally, at some point there was a radio controlled model kit sold of this design. We have had an unusually large number of inquiries in recent days from people interested in building or restoring radio controlled models of this vessel.

Here are the plans.