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Amirikian Engineering

Brochure Describes

Floating Pontoon Dock

Amirikian Engineering- Co., 1401

Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Va. 22209, has published a brochure de- scribing the AM'M'I Floating Pon- toon Dock.

The AMMiI Floating Pontoon

Dock is a multifunctional new fa- cility for the shipyard and the waterfront. The principal uses in- clude the following: (1) As a submersible launch platform, serves to lower and raise a craft into and out of the water, similar to a floating drydock. (2) As a floating carrier plat- form, with a craft on board, makes it possible to perform repairs at any transfer site along the water- front. (3) As a stationary work plat- form, when placed on an under- water support grid, provides a fixed deck on which to assemble a ship or transfer it to shore.

The pontoon is a rectangular box-shaped structure, featured by a special framing, compartmenta- tion and ballasting system. Draft and water ballast are regulated by compressed air; and in the sub- merged condition, stability is ob- tained through cables from four independently supported winches, located two on each side.

There are no limitations in the lifting capacity of the dock, since the pontoon can 'be designed to ac- commodate any type and size of

CONVERT NINE SHIPS

TO AUTOMATED

STEAMING WITH

NO LOSSES IN

UNDERWAY TIME?

The Impossible Took Us A Little Longer

Design and build nine automatic burner-control systems. Install and put them in operation white underway, in each of nine ships of the National Bulk Carriers' fleet—with no disruption of their con- tracted two-week turnaround schedule between Venezuela and steel plants in the Philadelphia area.

It meant intelligent planning. It meant building each system with zero defects. It meant marshalling of materials down to the last deck-pad—and seeing them aboard each ship on schedule. It meant delivery of all systems on time. It meant a Chas. Lowe Co. man aboard for supervision, tune-up, instruction of ships' personnel.

It also meant unmanned fire-rooms, and a payout in less than two years.

It's the way we do things.

OUR NEW BROCHURE

WILL TELL YOU MORE ABOUT US.

AUTOMATED

POWERPLANT

SYSTEMS

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CHAS. LOWE CO. CONTROL SYSTEMS DIVISION 5845 Harper Road / Cleveland. Ohio 44139 / Phone (216) 248-6797 / Telex: 980-619

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ReturnWith Galveston To The Thrilling Days

Of lfesteryear! ••When somebody was willing to assume responsibility.

While other ports fragment themselves to private, and sometimes unreachable concerns, Galveston maintains a firm grip on operations vital to swift J\ (1T and accurate cargo movement. Wiff ^DVf^

Galveston is the West Gulf's most modern port, l^rik and every vital service is controlled by people within / _ , . pi°-__ ; . . . , i . j. r r^ae^Zi Galveston, Texas 77550

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CSS* vessel presently in service or planned for the future. In support of this view, preliminary designs of a great number of docks, varying in sizes up to supertanker category of 1,000,000 dwt, have already been prepared. -

The A'MMI Floating Pontoon

Dock was conceived iby Dr. Arsham

Amirikian in 1968 while serving as

Chief Engineering Consultant to the Commander, Naval Facilities

Engineering Command of the U.S.

Navy Department. In view of cer- tain economic and constructional advantages apparent in the scheme, a comprehensive test and develop- ment program was undertaken by the Navy during the period 1969- 72. For this purpose, a small dock of about 3,000-ton lifting capacity was built, together with adjunct facilities, and an extensive series of tests was carried out to appraise the conceptual and operational fea- tures of the dock. In addition to verifying the feasibility of the basic concept, the experiments resulted in a number of beneficial modifica- tions in the original details and arrangement of the system.

Cincotta Named To

GE Turbine And

Gear Products Dept.

Gerald A. Cincotta

Gerald A. Cincotta has been ap- pointed to the post of sales engi- neer for General Electric's Marine

Turbine and Gear Products De- partment, according to Raymond J.

Walsh, manager of marine sales for the domestic market.

In his new position, Mr. Cincotta will 'be responsible for marketing

GE steam turbine and gear ship propulsion machinery in coordina- tion with the Marine & Defense

Facilities Sales Operation's field sales force. General Electric Com- pany is a leading supplier of engine room steam turbines and gears for ships of all classes.

Most recently associated with the New Orleans, La., office of

GE's Marine & Defense Facilities

Service Operation as a sales engi- neer, Mr. Cincotta is a graduate of the General Electric Company

Technical Marketing Program, which he joined in 1967 after earn- ing a bachelor's degree in mechani- cal engineering from the Univer- sity of Cincinnati. He has also held training program posts in Salem,

Va., Philadelphia, Pa., and Welles- ley, Mass. 24 Maritime Reporter/Engineering Hews