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Three Executive Changes

Announced By General Dynamics

Gary S. Grimes Spencer Reitz Joseph H. Lennox

Gary S. Grimes, who joined

General Dynamics 11 years ago as a management intern, has been named general manager of the corporation's Quincy Shipbuilding

Division.

In announcing the appointment,

P. Takis Yeliotis, General Dynam- ics' executive vice president-ma- rine, said that Joseph H. Lennox, who has been general manager of the Quincy shipyard for the past two years, will become managing director of Lachmar, the company that owns and operates the lique- fied natural gas tankers Lake

Charles and Louisiana. Mr. Veli- otis also announced that Spencer

Reitz, who joined General Dynam- ics in 1969 following a U.S. Navy career, will become deputy gen- eral manager of the Electric Boat

Division, the position previously held by Mr. Grimes.

Mr. Grimes was transferred to the Quincy Shipbuilding Division

GALVESTON SHIPBUILDING COMPANY

PLAQUEMINE An oceangoing barge with a deep notch for flexible push towing. A sophisticated and versatile 22,400 DWT double skinned barge with six (6) 2,000 barrel, 250 psi cylindrical chemical tanks on deck. With eight (8) integral hull tanks, including four (4) with steam heating coils, it has four (4) independent pumping systems with vapor recovery and restricted gauging capability. Its cargo discharge rate is 10,000 barrels per hour.

PLAQUEMINE has segregated ballast in her double bottom and wing tanks serviced by deep well ballast pumps and she is equipped with a 1,000 horse power D.C. electrical bow thruster with pilot house controls on the tug.

This barge and a twin identical unit, VELASCO, were delivered to their owner,

Dow Chemical Company, during 1978.

Get a Galveston Shipbuilding bid. Call Nat McClure at GSC today.

GALVESTON SHIPBUILDING COMPANY 6800 PORT INDUSTRIAL BLVD. I P.O. BOX 2660 / GALVESTON, TEXAS 77553

TELEPHONE (713) 744-0491 / INTRACOASTAL CANAL MILE 355

TELEX: 76 5442 GALV SHIP in 1970 as chief of production sup- port, and later served as assistant to the general manager, director of planning and facilities, and in 1975 was named division control- ler at Quincy. He was transferred to Electric Boat Division in 1977.

Mr. Reitz served 28 years in the

Navy, retiring in 1969 with the rank of captain. He served in a variety of engineering and staff assignments both ashore and afloat. He held senior engineering positions at Quincy prior to his transfer to Electric Boat Division in 1977 as assistant general man- ager-engineering.

Mr. Lennox, a veteran of over 23 years of shipbuilding experi- ence, is assuming a newly created position with Lachmar, a partner- ship made up of wholly owned subsidiaries of General Dynamics of St. Louis, Moore McCormack

Resources Inc. of Stamford, Conn., and Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line

Co. of Houston. He joined the

Quincy Shipbuilding Division in 1973, and has had primary re- sponsibility for the construction of the LNG tankers there. Prior to coming to Quincy, he was with

Davie Shipbuilding Ltd., Quebec,

Canada, where he held a number of senior management positions.

Model of split-hull vessel patented by C. Luhring shipyard in West Germany. The unique craft could be used for oil recovery or various other operations.

West German Yard To Build

Split-Hull Oil Recovery Vessel

For the past three years the

C. Luhring shipyard in Brake,

West Germany, has been working on the development of an oil re- covery vessel based on a split-hull design (see October 1, 1979 issue of MR/EN). The unique vessel is really a simple ship that is divided at its center line. At the stern, both hull sections are connected by a hinge.

In cooperation with Schiffko

GmbH, engineering consultants in

Hamburg, and with considerable sponsorship by the Federal Min- istry of Research and Technology, numerous tests have been carried out, and plans have now been fi- nalized for a seagoing vessel.

As the numerous prospective buyers who have shown interest to date are making their orders subject to a prototype demonstra- tion, a smaller vessel will be con- structed first that will serve as a model of the full-size ship.

This prototype will have a length of 34.50 meters, beam of 8.20 meters, depth of 3.50/4.20 meters, and draft of 2.50 meters (about 113 by 27 by 11.5/13.8 by 8.2 feet). The distance between the hull sections when open will be approximately 30 meters (98.5 feet) ; tank capacity will be about 200 cubic meters.

The design work on this vessel, which will be built in cooperation with the Federal Ministry of Re- search and Technology, is now under way.

The split-hull design was de- veloped to offer prospective buy- ers a vessel that may be put into operation to fight large-scale oil pollution even under unfavorable sea conditions, and could be used as a tanker or similar vessel when not dealing with oil-spill disasters.

With the worldwide interest in vessels to fight oil pollution in mind, the shipyard has applied for patent protection for the new system in the major shipbuilding countries. Several patents already have been granted, while further applications are still pending.

Parallel to the development work, the Luhring yard has be- gun working out detailed techni- cal documentation on auxiliary equipment, types of operation, and alternative designs that are part of the sponsorship project.

These include diver support ships, supply vessels, waste disposal ships, etc., that have been de- signed on the same general lines.

They involve using to full advan- tage the calm part of the sea's surface between the two hull sec- tions which, owing to the nature of the design, is subject to only slight wave movement.

TO Maritime Reporter/Engineering News