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McDermott Names Howson

To Succeed Cunningham

As Chief Operating Officer

Robert E. Howson

James E. Cunningham, chair- man of the board and chief execu- tive officer of McDermott Interna- tional, Inc., recently announced that the board of directors has formally designated Robert E. Howson, president and chief operating officer of McDermott, as his successor. Mr.

Cunningham will reach retire- ment age this year, and will contin- ue to serve the company as a mem- ber of its board of directors after retirement.

Mr. Howson will be officially elected chairman of the board and chief executive officer at the meet- ing of the board of directors to be held following the annual meeting of shareholders on August 9, 1988.

Mr. Howson assumed his pres- ent responsibilities during 1987. He has served on McDermott's board of directors since March 1981 and has been president and chief operating officer of the McDermott Marine

Construction unit since that time.

He was named president and chief operating officer of the Babcock &

Wilcox unit in 1986 and chief oper- ating officer of the McDermott In- ternational trading unit in mid- 1987.

Mr. Cunningham has served as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of McDermott In- ternational since 1979.

Environmental Test

Facilities Completed

By Hi-Test Laboratories

Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., re- cently announced the completion of its expanded Noise, Shock and Vi- bration (NS&V) environmental test facilities featuring a newly installed

MIL-STD-167 vibration table that will accommodate test articles weighing up to 35,000 pounds. The test bed, one of the largest facilities in operation, is 16 feet by 16 feet and employs the largest in data acquisition capabilities.

Hi-Test is capable of performing lightweight, medium weight and heavyweight (MIL-S-901) shock tests at its Arvonia, Va., plant and with these expanded facilities will also provide MIL-STD-167 Type I and Type II vibration, structure- borne noise, as well as a wide array of other test measurement and data analysis capabilities.

For additional information and free brochures from Hi-Test Labo- ratories,

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May, 1988

Wartsila Constructing

Two Passenger Vessels

For Oy Silja Line Ab

One of the two partners in Silja

Line, Effoa-Suomen Hoyrylaiva Oy, has placed an order for a large pas- senger ship intended for service on the Helsinki-Stockholm route. The vessel is expected to be delivered in the spring of 1990. At the same time the other partner, Johnson Line Ab, ordered a sister ship to be delivered in the spring of 1991.

Both vessels will be built at Wart- sila Marine Industries Inc.'s Turku

Shipyard.

The new vessels will replace the

MS Finlandia and the MS Silvia

Regina now operating on the Hel- sinki route.

The Silja Line's new vessels will have the following approximate di- mensions: length 656 feet; breadth 103 feet; and draft 22 feet. They will have a maximum passenger capacity of 2,500, and will have space for 450/ 60 private cars/trucks.

For free literature giving full de- tails on Wartsila Marine's facilities and capabilities,

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