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Large And Small Vessels Discussed At Winter Meeting Of Lakes And Rivers Section Taking part in the Great Lakes and Great Rivers Sec-tion, SNAME, meeting were, left to right, standing: H. Benford, author; R. C. Doane, Section chairman and superintendent engineer, Great Lakes Fleet, United States Steel Corp., and T. White, author. Seated: D. Beach, au-thor, and C. J. Baum, substitute for author M. C. Kelsey Jr. The winter meeting of the Great Lakes and Great Rivers Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers was held in Cleveland, Ohio, in January. The all-day meet-ing was held in the Cleveland Sheraton Hotel. Five technical papers were presented. These were: "Lad?A New Family of Devices for the Avoidance of Collisions at Sea" by Robert F. Riggs, research engineer, Sperry Marine Sys-tems Division, Sperry Rand Corporation, and John L. Horton, assistant marine manager, Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company. "Measures of Merit for Ship Design" by Harry Benford, chairman, Department of Na-val Architecture and Marine Engineering, The University of Michigan. "Three Dimensional Enlargement of Great Lakes Bulk Carriers" by Trevor White, direc-tor of engineering, Fraser Shipyards, Inc. "Recreation Boating?Survey" by David Beach, manager of Yacht Engineering. Boating Industry Association. "Trends in Yachting Brought About by New Manufacturing Materials and Techniques" by Martin C. Kelsey Jr., president, Palmer John-son Boats, Inc. This paper was presented by Charles J. Baum. At the conclusion of the technical sessions, complimentary tickets to the Cleveland Boat Show were avaliable. In the evening a recep-tion and dinner was held at the hotel. The Great Lakes and Great Rivers Section will hold its spring meeting on May 15 at the LaSalle Hotel in Chicago, 111. The fall meeting will be in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. on October 2. Port Everglades Commission Elects Officers For 1969 George S. Mcintosh, a Fort Lauderdale in-vestment banker and president of Mcintosh & Co., has been elected chairman for 1969 of the port commission of Port Everglades, Fla., it was recently announced. Elected as commission vice-chairman was Jack Clark, retired Dania businessman, and elected to the commission was W. Phil McCon-aghey, construction executive from Hollywood. Other members of the board include Fred J. Stevens from Fort Lauderdale and Lester A. Culverson from Hallandale. The port commission appointed Michael K. Tewksbury, former steamship official, to the position of port manager. In other action, J. H. Ferris Jr. was appointed assistant port man-ager ; Gilmer McDougald, port secretary; Hen-ry N. Holdren Jr., managing director of trade development, and Robert A. Canon, liaison representative. Conversion of R1-M-AV3 Ship To Deepwater Drilling Ship Set For Bethlehem-Beaumont A refrigerated cargo vessel constructed by the Bethlehem-Beaumont Yard for the U.S. Govern-ment during World War II has returned to the shipyard for conversion into a self-propelled deepwater oil drilling ship. J. O. Crooke, general manager of Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Beaumont yard, has an-nounced receipt of a contract from the Storm Drilling Company of Houston, Texas, for con-version of the motor vessel Karin into the first self-propelled drilling ship in Stormdrill's expand-ing fleet of craft for the exploitation of marine oil fields. The MV Karin returned to the Beaumont yard January 17, 1969, 24 years after her birth at the yard, in 1945. She was one of 105 CI and allied type vessels constructed for the government by the Beaumont yard before it was acquired by Bethle-hem in December 1947 from Pennsylvania Ship-yards, Inc. Specifically, she was one of 17 Rl-M-AV3 craft delivered by this yard to the govern-ment during the second World War. Built for the Maritime Commission, she served in the U.S. Navy. The big conversion job will entail jumboizing of the Karin as well as complete refitting for her new role Mr. Crooke said. The Karin has a present overall length of 338 feet and width of 50 feet. Upon completion of the conversion, scheduled for mid-summer this year, she will have an overall length of more than 380 feet and width of 70 feet. Enlargement of the vessel will require the yard to build and install a new midbody section about 40 feet in length. Two 10-foot-wide sponsons, about 250 feet long, also will be constructed and welded to the vessel's sides. The new midbody section will contain the drill well, the drilling substructure, derrick, draw-works and rotary table. In addition to enlarging the vessel's size and removing her refrigeration machinery and insu-lated cargo spaces, the job will include fitting her out with drilling equipment and a mooring system to permit drilling at sea in a floating condition. The Karin, officials of the Storm Drilling Com-pany said, will be assigned to a "foreign drilling operation" after completion of the conversion. George G. Sharp Inc. Realigns Corporate And Technical Staff George G. Sharp, Inc., a leading New York naval architectural firm, has announced a re-alignment of its top corporate and technical management personnel. Douglas C. MacMillan was made chairman of the board of directors, a position that has been vacant since the death of Mr. Sharp in 1960. Robert P. Giblon was named president and chief executive officer, Robert J. Tapscott was made vice-president, Thomas P. Nacinovich will remain as treasurer, and Kenneth M. Shauer was named secretary. Lorentz Hansen remains in his position as principal naval architect and Vladimir U. Mi-norsky, John McDougall, Alf. J. Stromsted and Norman R. Farmer remain in their positions of chief naval architect, basic design ; chief na-val architect, contract design; chief electrical engineer, and manager, systems analysis, re-spectively. Dr. I. Hilary Rolih was appointed chief marine engineer, succeeding Mr. Shauer. Mr. MacMillan is a graduate of Massachu-setts Institute of Technology, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a vice-president of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, a member of the Ameri-can Bureau of Shipping and has served on many government and professional commit-tees. Mr. Giblon is a graduate of Stevens Insti-tute of Technology and has been active in both The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and the American Society of Me-chanical Engineers and has served on technical committees, including the American Bureau of Shipping. Mr. Tapscott is a graduate of Massa-chusetts Institute of Technology and has served on committees of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, American Bureau of Shipping, and is a member of the U.S. Coast Guard Committee on Safety of Life at Sea. Mr. Nacinovich is a graduate of Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and has been active on committees of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers including that of chair-man of the New York Section Transportation Division. Mr. Shauer is a graduate of Califor-nia Institute of Technology and New York University, and has served on committees of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. Dr. Rolih is a graduate of the Uni-versity of Trieste, Italy, and Polytechnic Insti-tute of Brooklyn, and has served on the marine committee of the American Society of Mechani-cal Engineers. All are licensed professional engineers, au-thors of many technical papers, and have at least 25 years of service with Sharp, except Mr. Shauer and Dr. Rolih who have 12 years. SNAME Philadelphia Section Sets Dinner-Dance For May 17 The Nineteenth Annual Dinner-Dance of the Philadelphia Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers will be held on Saturday, May 17, 1969 at the Cherry Hill Inn, Cherry Hill, N.J. This formal social affair climaxes the Section's year of technical meet-ings and affords members and wives from other sections the opportunity to meet with their Philadelphia friends. Those from other sections, wishing to attend may contact L. B. Bennett, DeLaval Turbine Inc., Trenton, N.J. 08062; phone 609 587-5000. A block of rooms is being held until May 1 at Cherry Hill Inn for guaranteed reservations. Out-of-towners should contact the Inn directly for accommodations. KNIGHTHEAD BOW, opened to allow workmen easy ac-cess for construction, of the new 1,500-ton ferryboat being built by Jeffboat, Inc., Jeffersonville, Ind. De-signed by Philip F. Spaulding and Associates for the State of Alaska, the 193-foot ferry will accommodate 165 passengers and 38 autos, or trucks and trailers with fewer autos on board. Propulsion is provided by twin 1,700-hp direct-reversing diesel engines, giving a speed of 1 5 knots. Later this year, upon completion, the ferry will make the run from Indiana to Alaska by way of the Panama Canal. Steel for the vessel's construction was produced by United States Steel Corporation. The vessel will be classed by the American Bureau of Shipping. March 1, 1969 15