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Latest submarine to join U.S. Navy fleet is Buffalo, built by Newport News Ship.

Newport News Shipbuilding Delivers

Attack Submarine Buffalo (SSN-715)

R.L. Mantz Appointed

Engineering Vice President

At COMSAT TeleSystems

COMSAT TeleSystems, Inc. an- nounced recently that Rick L.

Mantz has been named vice pres- ident of engineering. In this posi- tion, Mr. Mantz will be responsi- ble for all the company's product development and engineering- related activities.

He comes to TeleSystems with more than 13 years of experience in the field of telecommunications.

Most recently, he served as the di- rector of ITT's Defense Communi- cations Division, located in San

Diego. He has also held manage- rial and technical positions with

ITT's Advanced Technology Cen- ter, Stromberg Carlson, Bell Tele- phone Laboratories, and Duncan

Electric Corporation.

COMSAT TeleSystems, located in Northern Virginia, designs, manufacturers, markets, and pro- vides worldwide service and sup- port for a complete line of ad- vanced analog and digital signal processing equipment and systems.

Kearfott Gets $3.5-Million

Navy Contract For Trident

Engineering Services

Singer Company, Kearfott Divi- sion, Little Falls, N.J., has been awarded a $3,481,000 cost-plus- fixed-fee level of effort contract for engineering services in support of the Trident missile program. The

Navy Strategic Systems Project

Office, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.

Gareth Thomas Appointed

President Of Moore

McCormack Bulk Transport

Capt. Gareth J. Thomas has been named president of Moore

McCormack Bulk Transport, Inc., a subsidiary of Moore McCormack

Resources, Inc. He also has been appointed a member of the parent company's board of managers.

Capt. Thomas joined MMBT in 1979 as vice president, with re- sponsibility for tanker and LNG operations. Prior to then he had been with the Royal Shell Group, both at sea and in shoreside man- agement positions.

AOTOS Award Recipient Mario

Biaggi Urges Maritime Unity

New Soecification Guide contains information on parts and

The country's newest attack submarine, the Buffalo (SSN-715), was delivered to the U.S. Navy re- cently by Newport News Ship- building. Her keel was laid Janu- ary 25, 1980 and she was launched

May 8, 1982. She was christened by Mrs. Joanne Kemp, wife of

New York Congressman Jack

Kemp, who was principal speaker at the launching.

The Buffalo is the 34th subma- rine and the 10th of the Los An- geles-class attack sub built by

Newport News. She has an overall length of 360 feet, beam of 33 feet, submerged displacement of 6,900 tons, and accommodations for 12 officers and 115 enlisted men. The ship was commissioned during re- cent ceremonies at the Norfolk

Naval Station in Virginia.

Newport News Shipbuilding de- livered the lead ship of the class,

USS Los Angeles, in 1976. The shipyard is currently building seven other ships of the class and three Nimitz class aircraft carriers for the Navy.

The new submarine is the third

Navy vessel to bear the name Buf- falo. During the War of 1812, the first Buffalo was a three-gun sloop that served as the flagship for the

Delaware flotilla. The second Buf- falo was built as a cargo carrier at

Newport News Shipbuilding in 1892. She was converted to an auxiliary cruiser when acquired and renamed by the Navy in 1898.

In 1944 the keel was laid in New

York for the cruiser Buffalo, but construction was canceled at the end of World War II.

A subsidiary of Tenneco Inc.,

Newport News Shipbuilding is the country's largest privately owned shipyard, with about 25,000 em- ployees. In 1982 the yard's sales totaled $1.3 billion.

Citing a "growing sense of frus- tration" in the lack of a unified ap- proach to the revitalization of

America's maritime industry, Rep.

Mario Biaggi of New York has urged the personal intervention of

AFL-CIO president Lane Kirk- land to provide the leadership in this area.

The Congressman made his re- marks at the New York Hilton where he was awarded one of the maritime industry's most presti- gious honors, the Admiral of the

Ocean Sea (AOTOS) Award, pre- sented on behalf of maritime labor and industry by United Seamen's

Service. The award is given for distinguished service to the mari- time sector.

Speaking before some 600 in- dustry leaders, Mr. Biaggi, who is chairman of the House Merchant

Marine Subcommittee, said he made the appeal in a letter dis- patched earlier to Mr. Kirkland, who was the 1982 recipient of the

AOTOS Award and who is a Mas- ter Mariner and member of the In- ternational Organization of Mas- ters, Mates & Pilots, AFL-CIO.

A native of New York, Mr.

Biaggi was elected to the

House of Representatives in 1968 and has won re-election ever since.

In his most recent return to the

House he won 91 percent of the vote. He is the 15th recipient of the AOTOS Award and the sixth government representative to be so honored. 7

IMO Expands Its Line Of

Geared Twin-Screw Pumps —Literature Available

The IMO® Pump Division of

Transamerica Delaval Inc. has broadened its line of GTS® geared twin-screw pumps to include models with cases, internals, and relief valves of stainless steel, Mo- nel, bronze and NiResist, as well as those with standard internals of cast iron and carbon steel.

The new pumps are expected to find wide use in loading and off- loading extremely sour crudes, pumping very high metals content residues from atmospheric and vacuum towers and dirty bottoms from other process units.

With a viscosity capability that goes as high as 4.5 x 106 SSU, GTS pumps can help refiners take the very deepest cuts of HGO and will handle pitch, asphalt, tars and other residues even when towers temporarily lose heat—doing away with the need for cutter fluids and hydroblasters. Units get back on stream quickly.

GTS pumps will tolerate even the dirtest streams as bearings are isolated from the pumped fluid.

They can run dry without damage, retaining prime until feed is re- stored. Capacities run from 20- 7,000 gpm, discharge pressures to 600 psig, and temperatures to 700

F.

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