Page 16: of Maritime Reporter Magazine (August 1980)

$4.7-Million Contract

Awarded By U.S. Navy

To Savannah Machine

The Department of Defense has announced that the Navy's Mili- tary Sealift Command, Atlantic,

Bayonne, N.J., has awarded a $4,776,000 fixed-price contract to

Savannah Machine and Shipyard

Company, Savannah, Ga. The con- tract is for drydocking, a special survey by the American Bureau of Shipping, and recertification by the United States Coast Guard of the USNS Southern Cross, a gov- ernment-owned breakbulk cargo vessel recently obtained by MSC.

USNS Southern Cross, now part of the MSC-controlled fleet, is the former S/S Mormactrade. An ice- strengthened ship, Southern Cross will be used to fulfill military car- go requirements for support of

Arctic and Antarctic bases. The ship was secured from the Mari- time Administration by MSC and replaced the USNS Schuyler Otis

Bland, which has been disposed of because of its age and general obsolescence.

The Military Sealift Command, which provides worldwide ocean transportation for the Army,

Navy, Marine Corps, and Air

Force, has awarded 23 million- dollar ship repair contracts to- taling more than $87 million to

U.S. commercial yards since the beginning of the current fiscal year on October 1, 1979.

John V. Sylvester III

Retiring As President

Of ALCO Power Inc.

John V. Sylvester III

John V. Sylvester III, president of ALCO Power Inc., Auburn,

N.Y., has announced that he will take early retirement effective

August 31, 1980, after 27 years with the company. He will, how- ever, serve as a consultant and continue to be a director of the company. His successor will be appointed by the board of direc- tors at a later date.

Mr. Sylvester left the General

Electric Company in 1953 to join

ALCO as a regional manager. He spent most of his career in the

Marketing and Sales Department, and was appointed president of an

ALCO subsidiary company in

Schenectady, N.Y. in 1968. He was appointed to the position of vice president-customer service of the parent company, ALCO Power

Inc., in 1970, and was promoted to the presidency in 1971. $4-Million Contract From

Newport News Awarded

To Worthington Pump

McGraw-Edison Company an- nounced that its Worthington

Pump Division has been awarded an order in excess of $4 million for condensate and boiler feed pumps by Newport News Ship- building, Newport News, Va.

Newport News has ordered six main boiler feed pumps and 12 main condensate pumps from

Worthington's Harrison, N.J., manufacturing facility for instal- lation aboard the U.S. Navy's nuclear-powered aircraft carrier

CVN-71. The pumps are scheduled for delivery in the first quarter of 1983.

The CVN-71 is the fourth of its class. Its sister ships, Nimitz (CVN-68), Eisenhower (CVN- 69), and Carl Vinson (CVN-70), are also equipped with Worth- ington pumps. fi

IMOLECULAR

BELZONA® MOLECULAR CER-

AMIC METAL is your best weap- on in the war against Erosion/

Corrosion attack. Applied as a cold, thixotropic compound, it reacts to create a hard, super abrasion resistant synthetic metal which is so tough it is vir- tually impossible to machine!

Outstanding resistance to chem- icals, thermal shock, impact and stress. A ton-and-a-half PSI ad- hesion and can even be applied underwater!

WE ARE THE WORLD'S LEADERS

IN MOLECULAR MAINTENANCE

TECHNOLOGY

EROSION PROBLEMS?

EROSION/CORROSION accelerated by impingement and entrainment nearly destroyed the guide vanes on this circulating water pump at a power plant in New Jersey. The guide vanes were quickly and econom- ically rebuilt on site by the plant engineers using Belzona® Ceramic

Metals. Belzona® Ceramic Metals can be used in every major fluid flow application where erosion/corrosion is your #1 enemy.

BELZONA MOLECULAR INCORPORATED 224 Seventh Street, Garden City, New York 11530 • (516) 746-7030 • Telex: 645549

BELZONA MOLECULAR METALIFE LIMITED Claro Road, Harrogate, HG14AY, North Yorks, England • (0423) 67641 • Telex: 57938 hsssssie mym'jrj&TM, jjtm

New Construction Vessel Repair • LAUNCHWAYS FOR 100' WIDE UNITS • • 500' BERTH FOR 20' DRAFT VESSELS • • FOR SALE * 120' to 180' Stock Deck Barges

TELEPHONE: (813) 837-8522 5353 TYSON AVE.

P.O. BOX 13625

TAMPA, FLA. 33681

A new line of inwater cleaning semi-automatic equipment for ship hulls

Phosmarine

BRUSH KART is a hydraulically powered brushing unit, fitted with three rotary sucking brushes. Cleaning proceeds by 4 ft. (1.20m) wide stripes at an operating speed of 33.44 yds (30.40m) both on vertical walls and flat bottoms. VLCCs can be cleaned within five to six hours during unloading, but only one diver who steers the Kart, effortless and with sufficient visibility. The driving cf the Kart requires only a few hours training of the operator, BRUSH KART is extremely robust and requires very limited maintenance. It ensures a high quality cleaning which spares the protective coatings.

BRUSH KART is currently In use with the U.S. Navy and the NATO Navy

Every 'PHOSMARIN' equipment is manufactured in France only

FRANCE NORWAY GREECE HONG KONG BELGIUM GIBRALTAR

SPAIN ITALY SINGAPORE PHILIPPINES U S A. NOVOROSSISK

ODESSA SHARJAH DUBAI JAPAN CHILE CANARY ISLANDS

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE APPLY TO:

PH0CEENNE S/MARINE SERVICE - PHOSMARIN E0UIPEMENT 21 B0UI DE PARIS 15002 MARSEILLE (FRANCEI • TELEX 401826 PH0SMAR 18 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News