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Bethlehem Beaumont

Names Three To New

Management Positions

Ralph A. Leaf, general manager of the Bethlehem Steel Corpora- tion's Beaumont, Texas, shipyard, has announced three appointments to new management positions at the Beaumont shipyard.

William T. Faucett will become assistant general manager of the facility, and Paul W. Pritchard and Richard E. Blackinton were appointed assistants to the general manager.

Mr. Faucett, a native of Beau- mont, first .began work in the ship- building business in 1940. He at- tended Lamar University and join- ed the Beaumont shipyard as a senior draftsman in June 1947.

Albout a year later, he was trans- ferred to the estimating depart- ment, and he became chief esti- mator in May 1960.

In January 1971, Mr. Faucett was promoted to .assistant to the general manager, the position he held until this latest appointment.

He is a member of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine

Engineers, and the American Man- agement Association.

In 1969, Mr. Faucett negotiated contracts abroad during the pre- liminary phases of establishing the

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Mr. Pritchard was born in Ches- ter, Pa. He was graduated from

Duke University with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1955 and joined Bethlehem Steel as a member of that year's management training program.

From 1955 to 1963, Mr. Pritch- ard worked as an engineer at the corporation's plant in Bethlehem,

Pa., and then was assigned to home office steel operations department's planning and coordination work for the new plant at Burns Harbor,

Ind. In 1967, he was transferred to the engineering department at the home office.

Mr. Pritchard joined the Beau- mont shipyard in April 1971 as the plant engineer, and later that year became project manager, working in contract management.

Mr. Blackinton, a native of Bar- rington, R.I., was graduated from the University of Rhode Island with .a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1951.

He joined Bethlehem Steel as a 'member of the 1951 management training program, was assigned to

Hdboken, N.J., shipyard, and also worked at the corporation's former

Brooklyn 56th Street shipyard.

In 1957, Mr. Blackinton became assistant 'to the construction engi- neer in tlhe shipbuilding depart- ment, and eight years later became technical assistant to the vice presi- dent, shipbuilding.

In 1966, he became ship super- intendent at the Hob ok en shipyard, and later that year was transferred to the San Francisco shipyard as assistant superintendent.

Mr. Blackinton first joined the

Beaumont shipyard as general su- perintendent in 1969, became plant engineer in 1971, and methods en- gineer in 1972.

He is a member of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine

Engineers, The Propeller Club, and is a licensed professional en- gineer in New York.

Overseas Shipholding

Takes Delivery Of 264,900-Dwt Tanker

Overseas ' Shipholding Group,

Inc. (OSG), a major bulk ship- ping company, has taken delivery of a new 50-percent-owned 264,- 900-deadweight-ton tanker which immediately entered service under a long-term charter.

Named the Eastern Lion, the vessel is the second of eight very large crude carriers scheduled to join OSG's international fleet, all of which have been chartered long- term. This latest delivery raises the company's current operating fleet to 39 vessels aggregating 2,076,150 deadweight tons.

By early 1978, when the 'last of 21 ships now on order is scheduled to be delivered, OSG's fleet will total over five million deadweight tons, including ten 50-percent-own- ed and six 60-percent-owned-ves- sels. Over 70 percent of the ap- proximately three million dead- weight tons on order has already been chartered for terms of five years or longer from delivery. 38 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News