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If approved, Title XI financing would be for $81 million or 75 percent of the actual total cost of $108 million.

The diesel-propelled, 13,680-bhp vessels will be used in worldwide trade. Ingalls Shipbuilding divi- sion of Litton Industries, Pasca- goula, Miss., is the proposed build- er, but no delivery dates have been scheduled.

Uniflite Awarded $535,000 Navy Contract

The U.S. Naval Sea Systems

Command has awarded a contract valued at $535,000 to Uniflite,

Inc., Bellingham, Wash., to build seven 33-foot utility boats, ac- cording to James J. Doud Jr.,

Uniflite president.

The boats are an advanced ver- sion of similar utilities previously built for the Navy. Delivery of the 45-passenger fiberglass utility boats will be made to Naval fa- cilities at Portsmouth, Va., and

San Diego, Calif. They are used to transport personnel and cargo to and from tenders for destroy- ers and submarines.

The boats are 33 feet 9 inches length overall, with a beam of 10 feet 11 inches, and are powered with single 100-bhp 4-53 Detroit

Diesel engines.

Sarex Oil/Water

Separators Approved

By U.S. Coast Guard —Literature Available

The U.S. Coast Guard has ap- proved Sarex oil/water separators to control polluted waters being discharged from shipboard bilges and shoreside stations. Said to be the first such certification issued by the Coast Guard for oil/water separators, it was granted to Sep- aration and Recovery Systems,

Inc. of Irvine, Calif.

Joseph De Franco, president of the company, stated that "the certification was based upon strin- gent specifications and test re- quirements for oil/water sepa- rators and bilge monitors that were published in the Federal

Register in September 1979, and

Sarex systems are specifically de- signed to process dirty water from tankers and other vessels."

The U.S. Coast Guard regula- tions are based on international design and test specifications that have been adopted recently by the

Inter-Governmental Maritime

Consultative Organization of the

United Nations, of which 102 na- tions are signatories.

For further technical informa- tion on Sarex oil/water separa- tors, all other Sarex products, and the complete line of anti-pollution systems, write to Eric Nietsch, manager, Pollution Control Divi- sion, Argo Marine Systems, 140

Franklin Street, New York, N.Y. 10013.

Bird-Johnson Names

East Coast Manager

Robin H. Booth was recently named East Coast regional man- ager for Bird-Johnson Company.

He is responsible for directing

East Coast sales activities, pro- viding technical and sales support for all area marine customers. He is based at the company's cor- porate headquarters in Walpole,

Mass.

Mr. Booth has been employed with the company as an applica- tions engineer for two years. Ad- ditional marine industry experi- ence includes two years' employ- ment as a test engineer for Gen- eral Dynamics' Electric Boat Di- vision, and three years' employ- ment as an applications engineer for Sperry Vickers.

Falcon Seeks Title XI

Covering Four Tankers

To Cost $108 Million

Falcon World Shipping Corpo- ration, a subsidiary of Falcon

Carriers of Houston, Texas, has applied to the Maritime Admin- istration for a Title XI mortgage loan guarantee to aid in construc- tion of four 37,000-dwt tankers.

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