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Captain Osborne Joins

Port of San Francisco

Capt. Arthur M. Osborne has joined the Port of San Francisco as director of engineering and main- tenance according to an announce- ment by executive director Eu- gene L. Gartland.

Capt. Osborne served as Com- manding Officer, Naval Station

Treasure Island, and Chief of Staff for the Commander of the Naval

Base San Francisco, from June 1980 until his retirement from the

Navy in July 1984.

His sea duty has been on de- stroyers and carriers culminating in his command of a destroyer squadron during the Vietnam War.

Ashore, Capt. Osborne taught midshipmen at the U.S. Naval

Academy and was head of the jun- ior officer assignment section for the Office of Naval Personnel. In the Office of the Chief of Naval

Operations in Washington, D.C., he held a number of positions in ship modernization and financial management.

In his new position, Capt. Os- borne will be responsible for the maintenance of the facilities of the

Port and for the planning and project management of the capital developments envisioned for the revitalization of the Port of San

Francisco.

Todd-Seattle Delivers

Another FFG Frigate To

Royal Australian Navy

Todd Pacific Shipyards Corpora- tion, Seattle Division, recently de- livered its 11th guided missile frigate of the Oliver Hazard Perry

Class to the Royal Australian

Navy, ahead of contract delivery date. The HMAS Darwin is the fourth of four FFGs being built for the RAN, and 11th of 13 frigates currently under contract.

The Darwin was commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy on

July 21. Australian Navy officers and other dignataries attended the ceremony. The Darwin and her crew will remain on the West

Coast for approximately 12 months for underway training before de- parting for Australia.

Todd's Seattle shipyard employs approximately 2,000 personnel, and is currently working on the con- struction of the two remaining

FFGs, a Navy submarine drydock, and on-going commercial ship repair.

Consafe Gets Contract

To Build Living Quarters

Complex For Conoco

Consafe Inc. of Houston, a mem- ber of the Consafe Group, has been awarded a contract for engineer- ing and manufacturing of a 28- person, two-story permanent liv- ing quarters complex with an ele- vated helideck for Conoco, to be installed in the West Delta, Block 54, Gulf of Mexico. This order follows the recent delivery of a 40-man living quarters project to

Tenneco in South Timbalier 27E.

Consafe has also been awarded a contract by Core Laboratories

International of Dallas for 14 mudlogging units designed for worldwide operation. These units will accommodate Core's new Da- talogger design.

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Capt. Arthur M. Osborne

Aview from the bridge

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