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Joseph Lykes To Retire As

Head Of Lykes Steamship;

James Amoss To Be CEO

Joseph T. Lykes Jr. will retire at year-end as chairman and chief executive officer of Lykes

Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., a sub- sidiary of The LTV Corporation.

He will be succeeded as chief executive officer by W. James

Amoss Jr., president of the com- pany.

Mr. Lykes has served the New

Orleans-based company for 35 years, rising through the ranks to president in 1962 and chair- man in 1967. In 1968, he directed the acquisition of Youngstown

Sheet and Tube Company which was merged into the newly formed Lykes Corporation. Mr.

Lykes served as chairman of

Lykes Corporation until its merg- er with LTV in 1978.

Mr. Amoss began his career with Lykes in 1947 after World

War II service with the Navy.

In 1950, he was recalled to duty in the Korean War. Returning to Lykes in 1952, he served in various executive posts in Europe from 1953 to 1963. Posted to com- pany headquarters in New Or- leans in 1963, he was named vice president-traffic and later execu- tive vice president. In 1973, he was elected president and chief operating officer of the company.

Mr. Lykes is the grandson of the late Dr. Howell Tyson Lykes, who with his seven.sons founded the Lykes shipping and agricul- tural enterprises in Tampa, Fla., in 1900. Headquartered today in

New Orleans, the Lykes 46-vessel fleet is the largest U.S.-flag ocean carrier.

Student Papers Meeting

Held By SNAME

New England Section

The New England section of

The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers held its annual student papers meeting recently which was attended by over 60 members and student members.

The first paper, entitled "In- fluence of Design and Fabrica- tion on Underwater Ship Main- tenance and Repair," was au- thored by Lt. Comdr. R.S. Mc-

Cord, USN. Commander McCord is currently assigned to the Phil- adelphia Naval Shipyard, and he graduated from M.I.T. in June 1981. The objective of his paper was to summarize many of the existing maintenance and repair procedures that divers perform on ships. This summary was in- tended to provide ship designers and builders with an input as to what can and cannot be done to the underwater portion of ships while waterborne. Suggestions were given in the paper regard- ing aspects which if taken into consideration in the design and fabrication of ships can increase diver productivity.

The second paper was co-au- thored by a group of senior ma- rine engineering students of the

State University of New York

Maritime College, class of 1982—

Brian Emch, Christopher John- son, and Lautaro Montgomery.

The title of the paper was "Coal

Fired Commercial Vessels — A

Practical Alternative."

In each of the past two years, one section of Maritime College senior marine engineering stu- dents has been engaged in the design of coal-fired merchant ves- sels and related sub-systems.

These projects have included the design of a coal-fired container- ship, and a coal-fired ro /ro vessel, concentrating on power plant re- finements and the interface of the vessel and the bunkering facility.

The present paper summarized the results of the work done and discussed the economics of coal- fired ships. The paper illustrated how coal firing can offer a viable economic alternative to oil firing of ships, and the various possi- ble alternative designs were dis- cussed. The design projects on which the material presented in the paper was based were per- formed under the direction of

Prof. Jose Femenia, who made the introductory comments.

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