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Mitsubishi To Build 261,000-DWT Tankers For Chevron Transport Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Japan, recently concluded a contract for the construction of two 261,000-dwt tankers with Chevron Transport Corporation in San Francisco. The two tankers, which will be built at the Nagasaki Shipyard & En-gine Works, are scheduled to be completed in April and November, 1971, respectively. After delivery, the tankers will be used to carry crude oil from the Persian Gulf to Europe. These vessels, when completed, will be the second largest vessels to be built by Mitsubishi, following the three tankers for National Bulk Car-riers, Inc. Main features of the tanker will be: first export ship equipped with the Mitsubishi-developed jet strip-ping system, provision of the Mitsu-bishi-designed gateway-type tower bridge to prevent the entry of smoke into the bridge, use of high-grade ma-terial (cupro-nickel, aluminum-brass) for engine room piping, and extensive use of special paints. The ships will have a length of 1,049 feet 10^4 inches between per-pendiculars, a beam of 175 feet 10}4 inches, a depth of 86 feet 7*4 inches and a draft of 67 feet. Propulsion will be by a Mitsubishi-Westinghouse steam turbine-gear unit developing 32,000 shp. Fully loaded service speed will be 15.1 knots. Griswold Heads New Sperry Marine Dept. William R. Griswold James A. Nottingham, vice-presi-dent of Sperry Rand Corporation's Sperry Marine Systems Division, Charlottesville, Va., has announced the appointment of William R. Griswold to the newly created po-sition of manager for market plan-ning and market development. Mr. Griswold, formerly in mar-keting at Newport News Shipbuild-ing and Dry Dock Company, has 20 years of maritime marketing experience and is well-known throughout the marine industry. "The creation of this new posi-tion reflects the new emphasis at Sperry Marine Systems Division on the development, production and sale of marine products for commercial customers," Mr. Not-tingham said. Before serving as marketing as-sistant to the production manager of Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock, Mr. Griswold had been associated with Sperry Rand in New York for more than 20 years. Prior to joining Newport News, he was director of marketing for the Radiation Division of Sper-ry Gyroscope Company and had served as director of marine mar-keting and manager of the Marine Division of Sperry Gyroscope Com-pany. Mr. Griswold holds degrees in mathematics and physics from Wheaton College in Wheaton, 111., and in marine transportation, from the United States Merchant Marine Academy, where he was the first Bailey Award winner. He holds an unlimited master's license. He is a member of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, the American Society of Naval Engineers and the Pro-peller Club. He was formerly a faculty mem-ber at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, and has served as an officer for the United States Lines and the Moore-McCormack Lines. Maryland Ship Appoints Javello Sales Coordinator Ronald F. Javello Ronald F. Javello has been ap-pointed coordinator of Greek sales for Maryland Shipbuilding & Dry-dock Company, Baltimore - New York, subsidiary of Fruehauf Cor-poration, according to an announce-ment by Harry A. Berke, manager of sales. Mr. Javello embarked upon his career in the shipping industry in 1948 as a seaman with United States Army Transportation Corps. Prior to joining Maryland in 1965, he worked as a project engineer for a New York naval architect firm and before this position he was a marine superintendent for a liner shipping company. He is a gradu-ate of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point. N.Y. Maryland Shipbuilding & Dry-dock Company is located on a 98-acre tract on the south bank of the Patapsco River in the Port of Bal-timore. It is one of the most mod-ern East Coast shipyards with complete facilities for large ship construction and repair. The yard has four floating drydocks capable of handling vessels up to 70,000 dwt. Twenty-four-hour service, seven days a week is provided by the company. Borg-Warner Using Plastic Construction For Navigation Buoys Unique plastic constrirtion is fea-tured in a line of buoys being intro-duced by Borg-Warner's Safety Guide Products. The buoys are brightly colored and reflectorized. The line includes two types of navigation buoys and anchor buoys. Because of their seamless construction, the buoys will not split open or be damaged even if struck by a boat. If hit, the buoys will sink, then return to their normal position. Filled with rigid urethane foam and ballasted for extra stability, the buoys are made of integrally colored ABS plastic that will not corrode like metal, rot like wood, or chip like foam. They may be lighted for visibility in foul weather. Markings on the buoys con-form to the Uniform Waterway Code. Also, standard or custom legends can be placed 120 degrees apart on the buoys. Complete information on this buoy line is available from Safety Guide Products, Borg-Warner Corporation, Scottsburg, Ind. 47170. OFFER "We absolutely guarantee to pay you $10,000 for every thousand pounds of bollard pull under the specifications written into our contract with you for a new tug." Southern Shipbuilding Corporation Southern Shipbuilding does build the tuggingest tugs, and we back them up with a strong written guarantee in your contract. Will anybody else do this for you? And that's not all. We'll deliver you a tug with a fully automated engine room. Cuts down on the high cost of driv-ing. 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