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Approved Type #1-Angl« HOOPER VALVE & ENGINEERING CORP. 24th Street & Virginia Ave. Newport News, Va. CH 5-3101 Lighting Fixtures - Fittings - Etc. 700 SO. BROAD ST. - NEW ORLEANS, LA. 504 ? 822-7272 Tatco-Marinette Team Cooperates In Producing New Navy Landing Craft assembly, said Tatco had proved to be the right place on the West Coast for him. "We're all fortunate to be working together," said Carl Tatus, chief executive officer of Tatco. "We started Tatco with Navy contracts on the old-style landing craft in 1963, and we're spe-cialists in this field. We've saved the Navy over a half-million dollars since we've been in business." The firm did a total of $262,000 in business during its first 12 months beginning in 1963. Total sales at this time will top $2-million, as the yard expands its physical plant. "Other shipbuilding firms may have grown faster, but seldom has growth of this magnitude been as solid from the ground up; most of our 100-man workforce here has been with us from the very start. Every man has an interest in his work and is as anxious to do a good job and to meet a delivery deadline as we are. This at-titude is typical of the men we call the 'new generation of shipbuilders,'" Mr. Tatus said. V,TALK. ABOUT $0(JPY WfATHfal" Diamond Mfg. Launches Ocean Barge For Transport Of B&W Nuclear Reactors An oceangoing deck barge, specially de-signed to transport giant nuclear reactors, was launched January 5 at Savannah, Ga. Built by Diamond Manufacturing Company, Inc. of Savannah, it will be chartered for op-eration by S. C. Loveland Co., Inc., Philadel-phia, Pa. The barge represents a cooperative effort of S. C. Loveland Co. and Babcock & Wilcox Company, a leading supplier of nuclear steam systems. Babcock & Wilcox will use the barge to move reactors from its Mt. Vernon, Ina., works to nuclear power plant installations on the East Coast. Named Loveland 25, the barge is owned by Inter-American Shipping Services. Inc., a shipping firm formed in 1946 by the late Rear Admiral Howard A. Flanigan and S. C. Love-land Jr. It is the third oceangoing barge of this type designed for especially heavy loads that has been built for use by S. C. Loveland Co. in the last two years. Mrs. T. E. Jasin, wife of the general traffic manager of Babcock & Wilcox Company, christened the barge. A reception and luncheon in honor of Mrs. Jasin was held at the Savan-nah Yacht Club following the launching. A landing craft recently delivered to the U.S. Navy by Tatco Shipbuilding, San Diego, and Marinette Marine Corporation of Wiscon-sin may have a vital influence on the shipbuild-ing economy of the San Diego area. Designated LCM-8, the craft, while the same as that which carried U.S. troops to European and Pacific theaters during World War II, is really all new. It's all aluminum and as such is shorter. It holds more and weighs considerably less. The former, comparable landing craft was 74^ feet long, weighed 134,000 pounds, and carried up to 120,000 pounds. The new aluminum craft is three feet shorter, weighs only 78,000 pounds and can hold 130,000 pounds of cargo. The Navy awarded the prime contract for 88 of the new landing craft to Marinette Marine Corporation about a year ago. Delivery of the boats in San Diego was something the Wis-consin yard had to work out by itself. Weather problems made the use of the Great Lakes waterways a doubtful solution in December, so Marinette got in touch with Tatco, with its San Diego facilities, and worked out a plan for shipping the craft in two chunks?split down the middle?by rail to San Diego. Tatco sub-contracts for the final assembly? a meticulous new aluminum welding technique ?final testing and delivery to the Navy. Richard Tatus, Tatco executive vice-presi-dent, said the sub-contracting work was going smoothly and that no difficulties had been en-countered on the first boat, delivered Decem-ber 22. Harold Derusha, president of Marinette Ma-rine, who was in San Diego supervising final At San Diego?When the two sections of the landing craft are aligned, they are welded together by pairs of welders, starting at the craft's center and progressing at the same rate in opposite directions. New shielded aluminum arc-welding equipment insures excellent pene-tration at rapid welding rates. In Wisconsin-?-Marinette built the all-aluminum craft, complete, and then removed the large bow ramp and sawed the vessel in half lengthwise. The entire craft was then loaded on three flatcars and shipped to Tatco Ship-building in San Diego, Calif. 42 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News