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Neuman Boat Line Inc. Awards Contract To Blount For Auto-Passenger Ferry Neuman Boat Line, Inc. of Sandusky, Ohio, has awarded a contract to Blount Marine Cor-poration, Warren, R.I., for the construction of a 100-foot auto-passenger ferry. The new twin-screw, double-ended ferry will run between Sandusky, Marblehead and Kelley's Island, in Lake Erie. Capacity of the new boat will be 15 cars, and its center lane will accommodate any type vehicle which can be driven on a U.S. highway. Power for the twin screws will be furnished by General Motors Twin Diesel engines devel-oping 770 hp. Designed speed is 12 knots. This new vessel will join the Blount-built Commuter and Corsair, delivered to the same owner via the Erie Canal in 1955 and 1960. First Drilling Platform For Japanese Owners Launched By Mitsubishi Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. recently launched at its Hiroshima Shipyard & Engine Works, the jack-up type offshore drilling plat-form MD40J for Japan Drilling Co., Ltd. Designed by Mitsubishi, this is the first off-shore drilling platform built in Japan to meet recent demands by Japanese industries for the exploration of offshore oil. The platform can be operated at the water depth of between 13 and 130 feet. On the main working deck, a set of drilling machinery, air-conditioned living quarters for 69 persons, communication systems and a heli-port will be installed. The platform will be used offshore at Kali-mantan. O'Malley And Bowman Named Divisional General Managers By Harnischfeger Corporation HOSE-McCANN SIGNAL AND ALARM PANELS Stand Watch on the World's Finest Ships Send for complete illustrated literature on signal and alarm panels Highest quality and unexcelled dependability have been hallmarks of all Hose-McCann equipmentforover30years. Hose-McCann Signal and Alarm Panels are available for every shipboard application. Built to specifications and conforming to AIEE and U. S. 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Bowman have been appointed general managers, over-head crane products, and hoist products, re-spectively, for Harnischfeger Corporation, ac-cording to an announcement released by Henry Harnischfeger, president of the firm. Mr. O'Malley has been with Harnischfeger 27 years and the last 12 years has served as sales manager, overhead cranes. He received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Marquette University in 1942. Mr. Bowman has been with Harnischfeger since 1939, and the last 12 years served as man-ager, hoist sales. Mr. Bowman received a bach-elor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Detroit. The revamped divisional organization is de-signed to place more responsibility for engi-neering, service, parts and sales in the offices of the two product general managers. Shipbuilders Council Issues Shipbuilding Forecast 1969-75 Amid the speculations as to the final attitude of the new federal administration regarding merchant and naval shipbuilding programs, the Shipbuilders Council of America has come up with a broad-range forecast. The Shipbuilders Council has forecast the estimated annual dollar value of private ship-yard activities for the period of 1969-1975 as follows (given in millions of dollars) : Estimate $ 60-150 150-200 40-200 15-50 30-75 295-675 70-150 275-350 640-1,175 1,000-1,300 300-350 1,300-1,650 $1,940-2,825 The above estimate does not reflect pro-posals for merchant and naval ships advanced by President-elect Richard M. Nixon. If these should be translated into positive programs, estimates for subsidized merchant construction and naval construction and conversion could be on the low side. At the same time the preceding estimate was released, Chairman L. Mendel Rivers of the House Armed Services Committee released a report on "The Changing Strategic Naval Bal-ance?USSR vs. USA," prepared by a special subcommittee of the National Strategy Com-mittee of the American Security Council. This report warned : "If the United States intends to maintain the seapower supremacy it gained during World War II and has held to the present, it will have to significantly augment its naval forces for the contests ahead." Merchant Fleet Self-propelled vessel construction Tankers Subsidized fleet Nonsubsidized dry cargo ships Great Lakes fleet Small vessels Total Nonpropelled vessels Ship repair and conversion Total Merchant Fleet Naval Fleet Construction and conversion Repair Total Naval Fleet Total Ship Work 10 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News