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Dravo Corp. Names

Cornells van Mook To

Engineering Works Div.

Star Iron Delivers Six

Straddle Carriers To

Consolidated Marine

Star Iron & Steel Co., Tacoma,

Wash., has completed delivery of six Star straddle carriers to the

Consolidated Marine, Inc. terminal at San Pedro, Port of Los Angeles,

Calif. The new straddle carriers join a 40-ton capacity Starporter dockside container crane at the same facility. Both types of equip- ment are part of the Starsystem line of container handling equip- ment.

OMI's straddle carriers are the first delivered (by Star with the new cab configuration. It is mounted at the top of the left front leg for optimum visibility. The driver faces the center of the machine for a view of the spreader system and load. The new cab will now be standard on all Star straddle car- riers to be manufactured. They are fully approved by all relevant Fed- eral and state safety authorities.

The straddle carriers have a 30- ton capacity and can stack 40- foot containers three-high. Hoist speeds are in excess of 40 fpm.

Travel speed is 15 mph. The load may be lowered while the machine is traveling.

The fully automatic telescopic spreader can handle 20-foot and 40-foot containers with modifica- tions to handle 24-foot and 35-foot containers.

Cornelis van Mook

Cornelis van Mook has been named assistant chief engineer in the marine engineering department of Dravo Corporation's Fngineer- ing Works Division.

Formerly principal naval archi- tect in the department, Mr. van

Mook will supervise and coordi- nate its design and detailing activi- ties. A graduate of Massachusetts

Institute of Technology in naval architecture and marine engineer- ing, he joined the division as a senior design engineer in 1964.

Born in Holland and brought up in Indonesia, Mr. van Mook is a member of The Society of Naval

Architects and Marine Engineers and a registered professional en- gineer in Pennsylvania.

Dravo's Engineering Works Di- vision designs and builds inland and coastal waterway marine equipment, heatvy bulk materials handling equipment and other spe- cialized heavy machinery.

Sanko Steamship

Names Charles Nisi

The Sanko Steamship Co., Ltd. has announced that Charles F. Nisi has joined their organization as manager of their New York office. 'Among his responsibilities will be personal supervision of all of

Sanko's vessels in the United

States and Canadian Great Lakes,

St. Lawrence River, U.S. East

Coast and U.S. Gulf ports.

Sanko Steamship also announced that the company is moving its offices from 19 Rector Street to 26

Broadway (27th floor), New York,

N.Y. 10004.

Lufkin Industries

Promotes Ben Queen

Lufkin Industries, Inc., Lufkin,

Texas, has announced the promo- tion of Ben Queen to the post of sales manager of the Machinery

Division.

Mr. Queen was made acting sales manager upon the retirement of

Cooper Richards in June. Mr.

Queen was transferred to the Luf- kin office last fall to become assist- ant sales manager after being with the company in Tulsa as district sales manager of the Machinery

Division.

Lufkin Industries''Machinery Di- vision manufactures oil field pump- ing units and industrial and marine gears.

The time has come," said R. B. Jones, 'to talk of many things... of ships and shoes and sealing wax,

As the man from R.B. Jones gazes out of his seventeenth story window, he looks down into the New York Seaport

Museum on the shore of the

East River, where vintage ships are being collected for permanent display. His attention is drawn to a large tow slipping silently by, and he reflects with satisfaction that the tugboat and its barge were the subject of intensive discussions a fort- night before when he was working on the renewal of their insurance in I^ondon. 'Hiis man from R.B. Jones, and all his co-workers, place much of the insurance on the commercial watercraft in the

New York area. He is involved with hulls and cargoes going to and coming from every port in the world, and with as many inland river shipments. He writes insurance on ships, shipyards, and other shore facilities among which is one of the world's largest drydocks.

R. B. Jones offices, which handle every kind of insur- ance written, span the United

States.

R.B. JONES

INSURANCE 160 WATER STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10038 • 212-344-5200 • CABLE ADDRESS ARBEJONES

Atlanta Chattanooga Dallas Joplin Los Angeles San Diego Sydney Waterloo

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