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of classification and nonclassifica- tion marine services offered by the

ABS and its subsidiaries,

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Penn Ship Names

Willaim T. Gallagher

To Executive Post

William T. Gallagher

William T. Gallagher has been named executive vice president and general manager of Pennsylvania

Shipbuilding of Chester, Pa., by the company president, Ronald J.

Stevens.

As chief operating officer, Mr.

Gallagher will be responsible for all divisions within the company, except for finance and marketing which will continue to report direct- ly to the president.

Mr. Gallagher has 25 years of experience in marine engineering operations. Most recently, he was general manager at Hoboken Ship- yards in northern New Jersey.

Port Of Portland Names

Roberts Marine Public

Information Specialist

The Port of Portland has named

Doug Roberts as the new public information specialist for its marine department.

Mr. Roberts will handle infor- mation for the port's marine termi- nals and operations. He previously served as a public information offi- cer for Clackamas College and the

Oregon Department of Transporta- tion.

Electric Boat Awarded $644-Million Contract

To Build Trident Sub

The Electric Boat Division of

General Dynamics Corporation,

Groton, Conn., was recently awarded a $644-million contract from the U.S. Navy to build a Tri- dent ballistic-missile nuclear-pow- ered submarine.

Under the fixed-price contract,

Electric Boat will deliver the Ohio

Class submarine in July 1994.

Electric Boat was selected over

Newport News Shipbuilding, New- port News, Va., which had been encouraged by the Navy to bid on the contract. The Navy is seeking to promote competition in the bidding

Circle 234 on Reader Service Card- for the construction of the massive 560-foot, 18,700-ton vessels. The

Electric Boat Division has been the sole builder of Tridents since the program's inception 13 years ago.

It was reported that Newport

News included an extra $85 million in their bid to cover the retooling needed at their yard to build the

Tridents.

At present, Newport News, as well as Electric Boat, builds the smaller Los Angeles Class attack submarines.

Southwest Marine Leases

Larger Yard Facilities

Southwest Marine Inc. has leased from the Port of San Francisco the former Todd Shipyard facilities on

San Francisco's southern water- front.

Southwest had moved to the 50- acre facility, which not only pro- vides the ship-repair firm with a much larger yard to perform com- mercial work, but also gives them two drydocks, including one of the largest on the West Coast.

Southwest's first work at the yard was on the American Envoy. She is one of three ships recently acquired by Sea Land that Southwest Marine is preparing for the shipping compa- ny's U.S. West Coast-Hawaii-

Guam-Taiwan service.

For free literature on Southwest

Marine's ship-repairing services and facilities,

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Any Ship, Any Port. Now...

Ashore Shiphandling At Any Base.

Last year close to 1000 U.S. Navy PCO/PXOs and Department Heads attending SWOS had the advantage of refresher training on one or more ships of their choice. Over 20,000 hours of "at sea" experience ashore!

At MarineSafety Newport, the handling response of any ship can be simulated as can the visual, radar and bathymetrics of any body of water. Four ships can engage in simultaneous training scenarios or four separate bridge teams can be learning from high risk situations.

In addition to SWOS attendees, this program is now open to Fleet Officers, weekend reservists and submarine officers. The unique bridge wing simulator is also available for close-in shiphandling training for civilian pilots and ships' masters.

Even more exciting is the prospect that the fully developed training program, with all the existing ships and ports, can now be used at any U.S. or overseas fleet base. MarineSafety will locate a satellite shiphandling training simulator anywhere need exists - within months, without major investment on the part of the Navy.

For more information on training at Newport or

CAORF in Kings Point, contact Tom Garrigan at (516) 773-5603. ^WBTl

MarineSafety international

National Maritime Research Center

U.S. Merchant Marine Academy

Kings Point, NY 11024-1699