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Lawrence Schacht Elected President Of Standard Dredging The board of directors of Stand-ard Dredging Corporation has elected Lawrence Schacht president of the company, it was announced recently. Mr. Schacht will continue to serve in his present capacity as board chairman and chief executive officer of the company. Mr. Schacht replaces Ernest J. Balez Jr. who resigned as president Known on the 7 Seas since 1907 of the harbor and channel improve-ment concern. Last May, Standard Dredging averted a proxy fight when it agreed with Mr. Schacht to replace six of the company's 12 directors. In August, Mr. Schacht, who heads the privately held Schacht Steel Construction Inc., Hillside, N.J., assumed the post of Standard Dredging chairman. A month later he was named chief executive of-ficer. Mr. Balez had been both chairman and president. Bethlehem Appoints Brangan Assistant Mgr. For San Pedro Yard John J. Brangan Alfred J. Maloney, general man-ager of Bethlehem Steel Corpora-tion's San Pedro (Calif.) yard, has announced the appointment of John J. Brangan as assistant man-ager. Mr. Brangan has been general superintendent of Bethlehem's Ho-boken, N.J., ship repair yard since early 1961. He succeeds Joseph D. Ingham who was named assistant manager of Bethlehem's Baltimore ship repair yards on January 1. Mr. Brangan attended Pratt In-stitute in New York City, where he majored in mechanical engineering, and joined the Morse yard of United Dry Docks as an apprentice machinist late in 1933. This yard was acquired by Bethlehem in 1938 and renamed the Brooklyn 56th Street yard. It closed in the early 1960s. Mr. Brangan served in vari-ous capacities at both the Brooklyn 56th Street yard and the Hoboken yard until early 1957 when he was named manager of pierside repairs for the corporation's then New York area shipyards. He returned to the Hoboken yard April 1, 1961, as general superintendent. Bethlehem's San Pedro yard is one of the most modern and com-plete on the southern coast of Cali-fornia and recently completed a multi-million-dollar program of modernization and expansion. For many years a combination ship-building and repairing yard, this facility now specializes in ship re-pairs and has two floating dry-docks, one of which has an overall length of 659 feet and can handle ships the size of jumboized T-2 tankers and C-4s. New Steamship Line Serving Far East Started On West Coast A new steamship firm, Cutlass Steamship Corporation, has been formed in Portland, Ore. The new company will provide service from the Malaysian countries of Sara-wak, Brunei, and Sabah, to U.S. Pacific Coast ports. Northwest Maritime Corporation, Portland, will act as general agent for the steamship line. The first ship in the new service will be the Gertrud Ten Doornkaat, which will arrive at Portland late this month with a cargo from Sibu, Sarawak, and at Los Angeles in early March. Other vessels will fol-low at monthly intervals. Northwest Maritime Corporation is also an international and dom-estic freight traffic consultant firm, servicing over 70 shippers in the area. Offices are in the Senator Building, telephone 228-8585, and teletype is 910-464-6191. Cable ad-dress of Cutlass Steamship Corp. will be 'Cutlass Portland.' Agents in California will be In-terocean Steamship Corporation, and in Southeast Asia, The Sara-wak Co. (1959) Sendirian Berhad, headquarters at Sibu, Sarawak. Snelson Announces New Stainless Steel Fluorescent Fixtures Snelson Oilfield Lighting Com-pany, the originator of oilfield fluo-rescent fixtures, has announced an-other new model in its expanding line. Called the 6200SS model, it is accepted for listing under the label service of Underwriters Labora-tories as 'Marine Type, Outside (salt water)'. This is the required listing to meet Coast Guard speci-fications for use on offshore drilling rigs and other marine applications. Edgar Snelson, president of the Fort Worth-based firm, states that the 6200SS and,the 5200SS features stainless-steel construction for the highest structural strength as well as resistance to corrosion or elec-trolysis. The unbreakable LEXAN plastic lens ensures no lens replace-ment problem. It has 40 times the impact resistance of plexiglass. This means there is no deteriora-tion from an open fixture. For complete facts and illustrated brochure, contact Snelson Oilfield Lighting Company, P.O. Box 1284, Fort Worth, Texas 76101. This is how the new super-tug "Sea Swift" entered service ? with a king-sized bone in her teeth. As the West Coast's most powerful tug, she needed a winch capable of handling the largest tows. Markey Machinery supplied it. This 2-drum Markey (Model TDSD-36) is diesel-powered, with hydraulic back-up drive. Port drum carries 2,200 feet of 2Vz' wire; starboard drum, 2,600 feet of 2V&" wire. Markey keeps pace with the trend to larger, faster tugs! 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