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Buffalo Forge Co.

Names David Tuttle

J. David Tuttle has been ap- pointed district sales manager of the marine department Gulf

Coast region for the Buffalo

Forge Co., it was announced by

Charles W. Lockhart, vice pres- ident of sales. He will be located in New Orleans, La.

Mr. Tuttle joined Buffalo Forge in 1950, and has served in design, engineering and sales capacities.

Most recently, he has represented

Buffalo Forge in the Dallas area.

A graduate of Purdue Univer- sity and a registered professional engineer in the state of Texas,

Mr. Tuttle will represent Buffa- lo's Air Handling and Pump Divi- sion to the marine trade in the

Gulf Coast region. This is a new arrangement for Buffalo Forge, this area having previously been serviced from their Washington,

D.C., office.

Kockums Yard Delivers 255,600-Dwt Tanker

For Sun Oil Fleet

Sun Oil Company, Philadelphia,

Pa., will soon press into world charter service the S/S Atlantic

Sun — a 255,600-deadweight-ton supertanker — the first vessel of that size in Sun's fleet.

The ship, christened recently at the Kockums Shipyard in Mal- mo, Sweden, by Mrs. H. Robert

Sharbaugh, wife of Sun's presi- dent, is one of two very large crude carriers (VLCCs) being built by Kockums for delivery this year.

The addition of the two super- tankers will expand Sun's fleet from eight to 10 tankers, and will double the deadweight tonnage.

Mr. Sharbaugh said the tank- ers are significant to Sun because they provide the company with the capability of moving large volumes of raw materials from any of the major superports in the world at economically com- petitive rates. The vessels also accentuate Sun's growing inter- national character — the ships were built in a Swedish yard, fi- nanced primarily through a Ger- man Deutsche mark issue, and will be principally used to carry

Middle Eastern Crude. "Until now, Sun has primarily been a U.S. producer, refiner, and marketer of petroleum," Mr.

Sharbaugh said. "But because of the increased need for worldwide suppliers of crude oil, Sun is now exploring in some 20 countries outside the

U.S., including a number of loca- tions in the North Sea, and in

North Africa. If we are success- ful in finding oil in those areas,

Europe will take on added signif- icance to us — both as a base of operations and as a source of the investment funds."

The Sun president noted that his company raised 100-million

Deutsche marks on the European money market last summer, and those funds will be used to par- tially pay for the two super- tankers.

The Atlantic Sun is 1,117 feet long, with a 65-foot draft. It has a 170-foot beam and a 1.8-million- barrel capacity.

The vessel will be of Liberian registry, and will be used in worldwide charter tanker trade.

The Atlantic Sun is the fifth ship in Sun's fleet to hold that name. The last was in service for 16 years before being sold in 1963.

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