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James Long Joins Pearlson Engineering m James M. Long Pearlson Engineering Company, Inc., Miami, Fla., has appointed James M. Long as sales engineer, it was announced by Raymond Pearl-son, president. Mr. Long is expect-ed to do extensive travel abroad in his new position, where he will be visiting shipyards of varying sizes both civilian and military. A native of Norwood, Mass., Mr. Long joins Pearlson Engineering after more than 15-years associ-ation with Crandall Drydock Engi-neers. He has supervised the con-struction of new drydock installa-tions and several major reconstruc-tion projects in shipyards from Newfoundland to the West Indies. For the past three years he also served as a director of the corpora-tion. Mr. Long served in the U.S. Navy for five years as a diver and instructor of diving and submarine escape apparatus. He attended Franklin Technical Institute and Northeastern University and cur-rently resides in Miami, Fla. To date, 52 of Pearlson Engi-neering's patented Syncrolift dry-docking and transfer systems have been installed in 17 countries. New Book Describes Concrete Boatbuilding "Concrete Boatbuilding?Its Technique and Its Future" by Gainor W. Jackson and W. Morley Sutherland is a new book published by John de Graff, Inc., 340 Oak Avenue, Tuckahoe, N.Y. 10707. Ferro-cement processes for hull construction have been tested and advocated for more than 100 years. The book describes boats built this way with particular emphasis on the experimentation and produc-tion experience gained in New Zea-land. The information collected in this volume is specific enough to help the amateur builder. It is also tech-nical enough to be useful to pro-fessional builders and designers. The authors of this book are en-gineers with the Auckland Ferro-Cement Ltd. of New Zealand who are producing ferro-cement boats. The book retails for $7.95. Sewart Seacraft Gets Order For Patrol Boats Naval Ship Systems Command, Washington, D.C., has contracted the Sewart Seacraft Division of Teledyne, Inc., in Berwick, La. to build thirteen 50-foot fast patrol craft (PCF), at a cost of $2,007,332. World Shipbuilding Reaches All-Time High Lloyd's Register of Shipping in its report on world shipbuilding at the end of June shows that new records have been set. There are under construction in the world 1.797 vessels of 16,775,599 gross tons, which is 836,120 tons more than the previous quarter. This is the highest figure for tonnage un-der construction ever recorded. These totals do not include ships being built in Communist China and in Russia, for which no details are available. There are 1,826 ships on order which have not been commenced totaling 37,978,754 gross tons. This is also a record. When the new buildings are added to the orders not commenc-ed. the total order book stands at 54,754,353 gross tons, an increase of 1,421,790 tons during the quart-er. Japan leads with a total order book of more than 18-million tons. Next comes Sweden with a little more than 5-million tons, follow-ed by West Germany and Britain with 4.5-million tons each. In terms of the total order book, the United States ranks 13 with 1,458,535 gross tons. Oil tankers being built total 8,420,905 gross tons, with a further 21,159,694 tons being on order but not commenced. The similar fig-ures for bulk carriers are 3,705,485 tons under construction and 10,-693.583 tons on order. With men who know marine magazines best... Maritime Reporter/Engineering These are the BUYING POWER readers ... the shoreside men with authority to specify, order and buy all marine equipment, products and services. IN VESSEL OPERATING COMPANIES Directors, owners, agents, presidents, vice-presidents, managers, secretaries, treasurers, port engineers, superintendents, purchasing agents, port captains, port stewards, naval architects and engineers shoreside IN SHIPBUILDING & SHIP REPAIR COMPANIES Directors, owners, presidents, vice-presi-dents. secretaries, treasurers, superin-tendents. managers, purchasing agents, naval architects, engineers and chief draftsmen THE PROFESSIONAL MEN Naval architects, engineers and con-sultants shoreside MARITIME REPORTER/Engineering News reaches ... and is REQUESTED by . . . thousands more men with the above listed titles than any other marine magazine. 34 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News