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S. F. Marine Exchange Elects Five Executives To Board Of Directors The Marine Exchange of the San Francisco Bay Region launch-ed its 119th year in December, with the election of five new members to its board of directors. Elected to three-year terms as directors of the Golden Gate ship-ping service and development agency are: F. H. Bergtholdt, pres-ident, Encinal Terminals, Inc., Alameda; Edward D. Ransom, senior partner, Lillick, McHose, Wheat, Adams & Charles; John H. Robinson, president, Harper, Robinson Shipping Co.; A1 J. Se-horn, executive vice-president, In-ternational Paint Co., So. San Francisco, and Ernest R. Senn, executive vice-president and gen-eral manager, Grace Line, Inc. Operating the regional shipping intelligence network, the Marine Exchange introduced two years ago the nation's first harbor ship position and movement plot system for navigational safety. Also known for its pioneering efforts to cut maritime and trade 'red tape,' the San Francisco-based organization LOCKHEED SHIPBUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION COMPANY 2929 SIXTEENTH AVENUE SOUTHWEST SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98134 PHONE 206-623-2072 ? CABLE LOCKSHIP NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: James R. Porter 17 Battery Place, New York, N.Y. 10004 ? Phone 212-943-8795 3 floating drydocks ? to 18,000 tons "Bio-Gun" Tube Cleaner uses air or water pressure to remove soft deposits from condensers and air condi-tioning units. FOR LARGE OR SMALL PLANTS... Wilson makes a complete line of tube expanders, cleaners and ac-cessories for plants ranging in size from utilities to small apartment houses. Thomas C. Wilson, Inc. 21-11 44th Avenue, Long Island City, New York 11101 Better tools for better work LOCKHEED* SEATTLE Let Wilson tube cleaners and expanders work for you. Under their rugged exterior is a precision powerhouse designed to get the job done fast and done right. Ask a Wilson representative to show you what we mean. Or write for Brochure TC-6602. LOCKHEED-the "now" shipyard! Electrically driven tube cleaner kits efficiently remove scale from %"-4" OD straight tubes, l"-4" OD curved tubes. Fast, thorough, safe. Sparks really fly when ship repairs or con-versions happen at Lockheed?the "now" shipyard of the West Coast. Whatever needs doing to a ship, Lockheed does ? whether it involves plates, bows, bottoms, bridges, bulkheads, or anything in be-tween. For both repairs or conversions, Lockheed is the "now" shipyard ? "right now" when necessary, on a 24-hour sched-ule?with all the experienced men, up-to-date equipment and complete facilities required. Call Lockheed for your needs! Expanders for tubes up to 4y2" OD roll and flare in one operation. Models for parallel or non-parallel expanding. recently released a draft intermodal format designed for door-to-door shipments, proposed for national adoption. A variety of other service and promotional programs include representation for California ports and harbors in seeking federal civil works improvements. New Tugs Are Meeting Today's Challenges At Reduced Costs Thomas E. Moran Present-day powerful tugboats have had a significant effect on harbor and deepsea towing opera-tions. The power and efficiency of new tugboats have made possible operations not possible with older vessels and at the same time have kept towing costs as low as pos-sible. This was the key theme of a talk given before the Kings Point Merchant Marine Academy Alum-ni, New York Chapter, by Thomas E. Moran, president of Moran Towing Company, at a recent luncheon meeting. Mr. Moran pointed out that since 1961, 12 new tugs, all exceeding 3,500 hp have been delivered to the Moran fleet and that these boats have provided substantial savings to shipowners during periods of rising costs. As an example, he said, a major liner calling in the Port of New York had a docking charge of $580 in 1952-53 and $543 this year. In this interval, Mr. Moran said, the cost to the owner for docking went down by some 9.2 percent? a saving made possible by the use of tugs with increased horsepower. With the increase in size of all ships, another problem has been apparent to marine underwriters, that of damage to ships and provi-sion for rescue services. Thus, the large tugs brought on to the scene accounted for some reduction in damage to the big vessels while docking and undocking, and they were also available to go into deep-sea traffic to rescue the bigger ships in distress. The development of the offshore oil industry, with its tremendously large structures to be moved from one location in the world to an-other, put a demand on improved ocean towing services. To meet this need, the 9,600-hp tug Alice Moran was built, the towboat executive said. Mr. Moran, in conclusion, sug-gested that perhaps the optimum in tugboat size has not been reached, but only time will tell. 26 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News