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10 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News Marine Insurance Programs... professionally planned, purchased and serviced to fit your needs. Adams & Porter Houston: Cotton Exchange Bldg. (713) 227-5181 New York: 30 Church Street (212) 422-3800 M.I.T. Schedules Maritime Industry Summer Program Massachusetts Institute of Tech-nology has announced three sum-mer programs which will be of in-terest to naval architects and ship-builders. The three courses, to run consecutively, are: 1. Computer Applications in Na-val Architecture and Ocean Engi-neering, Monday, July 28, through Friday, August 8," 1969. The pro-gram is under the direction of Prof. J. E. Kerwin and D. E. Cummings of the Department of Naval Archi-tecture and Marine Engineering. 2. Planning and Control of Ship Production Processes, Monday, August 11, through August 15, 1969. Prof. E. G. Frankel of the M.I.T. Department of Naval Archi-tecture and Marine Engineering will be in charge. 3. Welding Fabrication in Ship-building and Ocean Engineering, Monday, August 18, through Fri-day, August 22, 1969. Lectures will CELEBRATES 50 YEARS?William J. Mur-phy (left), vice-president, general sales manager, Perkins Marine & Hardware, was honored recently at the Miami Internation-al Boat Show for 50 years of service to the marine industry. Marvin Perkins, president of Perkins, is shown presenting one of the many plaques and gifts Mr. Murphy re-ceived during the ceremonies. Mr. Mur-phy's career begon in March, 1919, with the old C. K. Durkee firm of ship chandlers beneath the bowsprits of the sailing vessels on South Street in New York. In 1921 he joined Perkins and has seen this interna-tionally known firm rise to a position of prominence in the industry. The Offshore Company To Spend $13-Million For New Drilling Rigs The offshore Co., Houston-based international drilling firm, has al-located $13-million this year for expansion of its operations, W. Henson Moore, president, informed stockholders at their annual meet-ing. Mr. Moore said about $5-million of the outlay is being spent on the Offshore Mercury, a self-propelled drilling ship under construction in Scotland. The vessel will go to work next July in the Dutch sector of the North Sea for a consortium headed by Tenneco Oil Co. of Houston. An additional $2.9-million is be-ing spent on construction of the Discoverer III, a ship-shaped drill-ing unit being built in Japan. The vessel is costing about $8.8-million and the remainder will be spent during 1970. "Several companies are interest-ed in using the Discoverer III," Mr. Moore told shareholders. Mr. Moore also said the com-pany's recently renovated Rig 52 resumed drilling in Nigeria for Shell/BP about the middle of May. He also disclosed that the Offshore Pegasus, which had been drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, has arrived on station in the Arabian (Persian) Gulf where it is under contract to drill for Abu Dhabi Oil Co., a Jap-anese concern. Mid-June Date Set By Sea-Land Services For Containership Bids International bids on construc-tion of six or more large, fast con-tainerships are expected to be re-ceived by Sea-Land Service, Inc., Elizabeth, N.J., on or about June 20. Award of contracts is expected within 30 days after opening. Two or three of the ships will be for U. S. intercoastal trade and will be built by U.S. yards. The other ships most likely will be built abroad. All will be U.S. registered and equipped with U.S. machinery. J. J. Henry Co., Inc., New York, naval architects, designed the 944-foot, 120,000-hp ships. be given by the members of the M.I.T. Department of Naval Ar-chitecture and Marine Engineering and selected guest speakers from fhe government and industry under the general direction of Prof. Koichi Masubuchi. Further information on these programs can be obtained from Di-rector of the Summer Session, Room E19-356, Massachusetts In-stitute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. 02139. W.E. Nehring Joins Marine Sales Dept. Mobil Oil Corp. William E. Nehring William E. Nehring has joined the marine sales department of Mobil Oil Corporation, it was an-nounced by R. C. Schnepf, general manager of the domestic marine sales department. Mr. Nehring graduated from Maine Maritime Academy in 1965 and served in the United States Merchant Marine until 1968, at which time he had reached the position of chief mate. Except for a short tour on a missile tracking ship, Mr. Nehring's experience has been on coastwise and foreign tankers. He is now serving in the capac-ity of marine representative for Mobil Oil Corporation in the Port Newark area. Fraser Shipyards Elects T.J. Brush President Theodore 1. Brush Theodore J. Brush has been elect-ed president of Fraser Shipyards, Inc., it was announced in Superior, Wis., after a meeting of the firm's eight directors. A Cleveland lawyer, Robert Bra-nand of the firm of Johnson, Bra-nand & Jaeger, was named a direc-tor. Mr. Brush was formerly vice-president and general superintend-ent of production at Fraser, where he has been since 1963. A 30-year veteran in the shipbuilding indus-try, he has served in supervisory and executive capacities with Great Lakes Engineering Works, Detroit and Ashtabula, and with American Ship Building Co. Robert W. Fraser was promoted to vice-president and general su-perintendent. Other directors include Barney B. Barstow, who is also secretary; Robert Anderson, treasurer; Carl-ton E. Tripp, and John G. Souris. Federal Motorships Relocates N.Y. Office Federal Motorships Inc. has moved into new quarters at 70 Pine Street, New York, N.Y. All com-munication numbers of the com-pany, previously located at 21 West Street, will remain the same, it was announced by Robert Geib, vice-president.