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Radiomarine Corp.

Names Bruce Nankervis

As Chief Engineer

The appointment of H. Bruce

Nankervis as chief engineer of

Radiomarine Corporation, Red

Bank, N..J, was announced by C.

Webber Parrish, vice president and general manager.

Mr. Nankervis will be in charge of all engineering activity for Ra- diomarine and two sister firms in

Red Bank, The Hammarlund

Manufacturing Company and the

DuMont Mobile Communications

Division. The three together com- prise the marine navigation and marine and land communications group of the parent Electronic As- sistance Corporation.

A holder of several radar patents,

Mr. Nankervis served for siix years as an engineering consultant to several major electronic firms be- fore joining Radiomarine. Earlier, he held executive posts with Com- pass Communications Corporation,

RCA International and Hartman

Marine.

Mr. Nankervis holds a commer- cial radio license and is a "Ham" radio operator. He received a bach- elor of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of

Wisconsin in 1950.

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Santa Fe Int'l To Use

Three Barges To Lay 120-Mile Pipeline

Santa Fe International Corp.,

Orange, Calif., has extended its contract with the German Ship- builder Blohm & Voss A.G. to in- clude modifications to the pipelay- ing barge Choctaw II, presently under construction at the Blohm &

Voss yard in Hamburg.

Santa Fe president Edfred L.

Shannon Jr. said the modifications were undertaken in preparation for the particular requirements of the 1974 Ekofisk project in the North

Sea. The revised construction schedule calls for completion of the barge by January 15, followed by installation of pipelaying equip- ment. The unit is expected to be ready to start work next Marc'h 1.

On its first project, the Choc- taw II will join two other Santa

Fe barges, Choctaw I and Chero- kee, in laying and burying a 120- mile segment of the 36-inch gas pipeline, which will extend from

Ekofisk Field in the Norwegian

Sector of the North Sea to the

German shore near Emden.

A & P Appledore

Names Scutcher To

Ship Repair Post

Gordon Scutcher

A & P Appledore (International)

Limited, the joint company owned by Court Line Limited and Austin & Pickersgill Limited, announces the appointment of Gordon Scutch- er, C.Eng, M.I. Mar.E., AMRINA, member of The Society of Naval

Architects and Marine Engineers, as a director with special responsi- bilities for ship repairing.

Mr. Scutcher has a background in international ship repair and con- version, including marketing, cost- ing, yard reorganization and pro- duction control.

From January 1968 to May 1973, he was technical assistant to the general manager of the Bethlehem

Steel Corporation's Baltimore, Md., yards, and as yard contract ad- ministrator he headed the manage- ment team for the construction of drilling rigs and major ship con- versions, including contract nego- tiations and claims settlements.

Before that, he was the assist- ant technical director, Society Pro- vencale des Ateliers Terrin, Mar- seilles, France, for five years, where he was responsible for technical supervision of major ship repairs and modifications and reorganiza- tion of costing, planning and yard production systems utilizing com- puterized control methods. 14

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