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Long Beach-Greater Los Angeles

Section Of ASNE Discusses

Union Oil's Tanker S/S Sansinena *

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Pictured at November meeting of Long Beach-Greater

Los Angeles Section, ASNE, left to right: Rear Adm.

John H. Pedersen, USNR, program chairman; William

L. Shumate, supervisor of safety and training, Union

Oil Co., speaker; Philip Finkelstein, Section chairman, and Comdr. Richard J. Kinnear, Section vice chairman.

The Long Beach-Greater Los Angeles Sec- tion of the American Society of Naval Engi- neers, Inc. held its November meeting at the Ports O'Call Restaurant, overlooking the

Los Angeles Harbor in San Pedro. Following dinner, Philip Finkelstein, chairman of the

Section, started the business and technical session of the program. The business portion was promptly consummated and chairman

Finkelstein called on Rear Adm. John H.

Pedersen, USNR, program chairman, to in- troduce the speaker for the evening. Follow- ing his introduction, William L. Shumate, supervisor of safety and training, the Union

Oil Co., gave a very interesting and infor- mative insight from a somewhat unusual observation perspective regarding the dis- aster that befell the S/S Sansinena.

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The tanker Sansinena was under charter to the Union Oil Co. and had completed dis- charging her cargo at the deepwater ter- minal of the Union Oil Co. in San Pedro

Bay when an explosion occurred that liter- ally blew the ship apart.

Mr. Shumate was called immediately and within a very few minutes of the blast was on the site in his capacity of safety super- visor. He gave a first-hand view both orally and pictorially of the effects of the tremen- dous explosion in a rather informal presen- tation that started by his telling of the safety inspection that he had conducted in company with the cognizant port authorities just a few days prior to the disaster.

The word pictures Mr. Shumate related were given in a very informal and yet ex- tremely professional manner without making any conclusion or assessments as to the cause or responsibility for the disaster. The informality of his presentation prompted considerable audience participation in both questions and comments and increased the educational as well as the entertainment value of the subject immeasurably.

The January meeting will be held jointly with the Marine Technology Society and The

Society of Naval Architects and Marine En- gineers, and will be hosted by MTS.

Inland River Ports & Terminals

Schedules Annual Meeting

For February 2-3 In Memphis

The annual meeting of Inland Rivers Ports & Terminals, Inc., an association of cargo- handling facilities and ports which service barges, will be held February 2-3, 1978, at the Sheraton Convention Center Hotel, 300

North Second Street, Memphis, Tenn. Infor- mation on the program, which will include a tour of port facilities on President's Island, will be released soon. Room reservations should be made directly with the hotel, and reservations for the meeting with George

L. Conway, Mid-South Terminals Corpora- tion, 1145 Channel Avenue, Memphis, Tenn. 38106.

TAKING CHARGE — Capt. Charles L. Mull (right), Supervisor of Shipbuilding for the

Navy in Bath, signed the formal delivery agreement which transferred the prototype guided missile frigate Oliver Hazard Perry (FFG7) to the Navy one month ahead of schedule. Sharing in the brief ceremony were John F. Sullivan (center), president of

Bath Iron Works where the ship was built, and Comdr. Stephen J. Duich, prospective

Commanding Officer of the O.H. Perry. The new warship was commissioned at the Bath,

Maine, shipyard.

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