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The Answer to Remote

Operation

Our new Valve Operating Stand for valves located below decks.

Its heavy steel construction is husky enough to withstand heavy seas and operators' wrenches. It is large enough to handle valves up to 16" size. The stainless steel stem won't corrode and has a traveling indicator which shows open-closed position, even from some distance away.

MECHANICAL

MARINE CO., INC. 900 Fairmount Avenue

Elizabeth, New Jersey 07207

Phone: (201)351-5400

National Steel And Shipbuilding

Announces Four Promotions

John Angles

John V. Banks, president and chief execu- tive officer, National Steel and Shipbuilding

Company, San Diego, Calif., has announced the promotion of Clarence L. French to the position of director of engineering. Mr. French will assume the duties of John B. Letherbury, vice president, engineering, who retired on

July 31.

Mr. French had been manager of engineer- ing at NASSCO for the past year and a half.

He joined the company in 1967 as project en- gineer. In 1969, he advanced to the position of chief materials engineer.

James C. Saunders John Murray

Mr. French is a native of New Haven, Conn.

He earned his bachelor of science, mechanical engineering, and bachelor of science, naval science degrees at Tufts University, Medford,

Mass., in 1947.

He is a member of The Society of Naval

Architects and Marine Engineers, American

Iron and Steel Engineers, The American So- ciety of Naval Engineers, the California State

Professional Engineers, and the National So- ciety of Professional Engineers. He is also a registered professional engineer, state of Cali- fornia.

Also announced was the promotion of John

Angles to chief materials engineer. He will fill the position vacated by the late Gordon N.

Carpenter and will report directly to the vice president, engineering.

In his new position, Mr. Angles will super- vise the Materials Engineering Division in the timely and accurate preparation of specifica- tions for purchased equipment, technical evalu- ation of equipment proposals, and vender liai- son. He will also s-erve as value engineer and be responsible for engineering subcontracts.

Mr. Angles was born in Edinburgh, Scot- land, and schooled in naval architecture, en- gineering science and mathematics at the level of Ordinary National Certificate at the Kirk- caldy Technical School in Scotland.

He joined National Steel and Shipbuilding

Company in 1960, and for the past three years has been chief draftsman.

Mr. Angles is active in The Society of Naval

Architects and Marine Engineers, having serv- ed as chairman of the San Diego Section and vice chairman for the Southern California

Section. He currently represents the San Di- ego Section on the national sections commit- tee.

Mr. Banks also announced the advancement of James C. Saunders to the position of mana- ger, quality assurance department. Mr. Saun- ders will assume the duties of Fred Gunn, who also retired on July 31.

Mr. Saunders joined NASSCO in 1969 as quality control engineer after a 32-year Civil

Service career with the U.S. Navy. For 23 years during that .period, he was employed in various supervisory positions at Mare Is- land. His last nine years were with the super- visor of shipbuilding, San Diego, in the ca- pacity oif supervisory inspector of the quality control department.

Mr. Saunders was born in Oakland, Calif.

He graduated from the Mare Island Naval

Shipyard apprenticeship system as a shipfitter in 1940. His education includes an associates of arts degree from Vallejo Junior College, as well as numerous in-service technical courses sponsored 'by the U.S. Navy.

Also promoted at NASSCO was John Mur- ray to the post of chief draftsman, machinery.

He will report to George Uberti, chief marine engineer.

Mr. Murray was born in Edinburgh, 'Scot- land. He received his education and engineer- ing training at the Ramsey Technical Institute and Heriot Watt Oollege in Edinburgh.

He joined NASSCO in 1962, and for the past nine years has 'been design supervisor.

GATX Leasing Corp. Applies

To MarAd For CDS To Build 2 Towboats And 27 Barges

GATX Leasing Corp., San Francisco, Calif., has applied to the Maritime Administration for

Government construction loan and mortgage in- surance to help finance the building of two tow- boats and 27 barges. The craft will be chartered from GATX by Twin City Barge & Towing Co.,

St. Paul, Minn., for use on inland waterways in various bulk trades.

Planned for construction were 10 open hopper barges, 12 covered types, three petroleum tank barges, and two chemical barges.

The 21,900-barrel-capacity petroleum barges are to be built by Gretna Machine and Iron Works,

Harvey, La.; the open hoppers and the 1,650-hp towboats by Twin City Shipyard, Inc., St. Paul, and the covered hoppers and chemical barges by

Dravo Corp., Pittsburgh, Pa.

The barges, in all, the applications for loan and mortgage insurance said, would cost about $4.9 million and the towboats $920,544.

The Government financing aid would back 87]/2 percent of the financing cost of the barges and 75 percent of the towboats.

Twin City, established in 1968, owns seven oil barges and 14 towboats, it was indicated.

HITACHI DELIVERY: The Monemvasia, a 128,366-dwt tanker built at Hitachi Zosen's Innoshima Shipyard, was recently delivered to her owner, Metropolitan Navigation

Corp. Approximate measurements of the vessel are length, bp, 836 feet; molded breadth, 136 feet, and molded depth, 73 feet. Classed by ABS, the new tanker is pow- ered by a Hitachi B&W 9K84EF diesel engine with a maximum output of 23,200 hp delivering a trial speed of 15.7 knots. The Monemvasia's maiden voyage will be to the Persian Gulf.

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