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Catalina Cruise Ship Construction Underway At Martinolich Shipyard Sleek new passenger ferry designed for ocean travel between the Port of Los Angeles and Avalon City, Catalina Island, is now under construction at Tacoma, Wash. The all-aluminum liner, using more than 157,000 pounds of Kaiser Aluminum in its 160-foot hull and superstructure, will carry 500 passengers at speeds up to 30 knots. The keel has been laid and con-struction is now underway at Mar-tinolich Shipbuilding Company, Tacoma, Wash., of a super-modern $2-million, 500-passenger cruise ship scheduled for service between the mainland and Catalina Island, it was announced recently by an official of the Catalina Terminals, Inc. The newly designed, 160-foot luxury liner will be placed in pub-lic service at the beginning of the 1969 summer season, according to Charley Stillwell, general manager of the Catalina transportation com-pany. The 30-knot, all-aluminum liner, powered by four 1,250-hp General Electric gas turbine engines, will make the cross-channel trip in one hour, which the operators claim "will make it the fastest vessel to ever serve the public in transporta-tion to Catalina Island." Over 157,-000 pounds of Kaiser Aluminum's Nos. 5086 and 6061 marine alloys will be used in the hull and super-structure. The new vessel, described as a turbo liner, will operate year-round service between the Catalina Ter-minal in the San Pedro section of the Port of Los Angeles and Ava-lon City, situated near the east end of Catalina Island, according to Mr. Stillwell. "The vessel will have built-in passenger comforts, including sta-bilizers to reduce roll," the passen-ger liner executive said. The vessel will have an observa-tion lounge, a unique type of bar service and cocktail lounge area, a snack bar, comfortable seating, stereo music and, for special char-ters, a dance-deck area. The turbo liner will be named the Catalina, after the famous 'Big White Steamer' which was retired after serving the general public and tourist trade for 43 years. Plans and specifications for the vessel were prepared by Philip F. Spaulding and Associates, naval architects and marine engineers in Seatf*. Wash. Avondale Expanding Standard Paint And Propeller Divisions Henry Zac Carter, president of Avondale Shipyards, has announced that the corporation's Standard Paint and Varnish Division will be expanded to offer high quality paints and service to a much wider area in the marine industry. George T. Bacalakis has been ap-pointed general manager of sales for the New York district with offices at 29 Broadway. In this ca-pacity he will handle the promotion of sales and distribution of all paint products manufactured by Stand-ard Paint and Varnish. Mr. Bacala-kis is well acquainted with the shipping community in that he was president of the G. M. Livanos Shipping Corporation from 1958 to 1964 and head of his own company since December of 1964. Con Bacalakis, formerly with Hempel's Marine Paints, Inc., will head the sales force concentrating initially on supplies throughout the North American continent and eventually expanding to all promi-nent ports of the world. Jack B. Valley, vice-president of Avondale Shipyards and manager of the Standard Paint Division, has planned this new expansion as part of a progressive program emphasiz-ing service along with a quality product. According to J. Melton Garrett, Avondale's executive vice-president in charge of divisions, the corpora-tion's Service Foundry Division will increase its facilities for the manufacture of bronze propeller castings. The addition, to be lo-cated on the River Road at Wagga-man about 3 miles above Avon-dale's main plant, will be capable of producing bronze propeller cast-ings up to 30 feet in diameter and having a weight of as much as 10,-000 pounds. The need for the addition was in-stigated by Service Foundry re-ceiving a contract to furnish pro-peller castings for the 11 LASH ships presently being built at Avon-dale. These propellers will be engi-neered and machined by Avondale's Harvey Division. Global Marine Appoints M.E. Smith Treasurer Maurice E. Smith A. J. Field, president of Global Marine Inc., Los Angeles-based marine oil and gas contract drilling company, has announced that Mau-rice E. Smith has assumed the post of treasurer of Global Marine Inc. Mr. Smith's responsibilities will in-clude all financial aspects of Global Marine's business. Mr. Smith's background in the oil industry in-cludes 11 years with Husky Oil Company, Cody, Wy., where he was financial vice-president. Mr. Smith is a certified public ac-countant and a lawyer. He obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Denver and his law degree from Stanford University. Mr. Smith was a U.S. Navy pilot lieutenant in World War II. Apollo Chemical Expands Marine Dept. Richard E. Weiss Dr. Ira Kukin, president of Apol-lo Chemical Corp., Clifton, N.J., has announced key personnel addi-tions and changes as part of the rapid growth of the company in its marine department. Richard E. Weiss has been pro-moted to technical manager, Ma-rine Department. Mr. Weiss was formerly a marine sales engineer for Apollo. Additionally, Ron Harper, Apol-lo Gulf Coast sales engineer, and Harry Popiel, Apollo West Coast sales engineer, will handle marine sales in their respective areas. Mr. Weiss previously was a pro-duction manager for U.S. Steel Company. He is a graduate of Thiel College, Greenville, Pa., with a B.S. in chemistry. Dr. Kukin also announced that as part of Apollo's worldwide pro-gram for terminal and marine serv-ice engineer locations, the follow-ing sales agents will handle the Apollo line of patented slag inhibi-tors and combustion catalysts: Contivema N.V. in Rotterdam, Holland; Seagulf Marine and In-dustrial Products, Ltd., in Mon-treal, Canada; Etablissements Til-ley in Marseilles, France, and Sted-man Marine Supply Co. in the Gulf Coast areas. Raytheon Appoints Griswold Design Mgr. John H. Griswold has been named manager of the design engi-neering laboratory at Raytheon Co.'s Submarine Signal Division in Portsmouth, R.I., it was announced. Mr. Griswold previously served as the director of radar programs at the Fairchild Hiller Corp. Stem Section Of 210,000-Dwt Tanker Launched By NDSM?Bow Section Started Stem section of 210,000-dwt tanker is launched at the Amsterdam yard of NDSM. The Netherlands Dock and Ship-building Company in Amsterdam, re-cently merged in Verolme United Shipyards, launched the stern section of the 210,000-dwt turbine tanker Dagmar Maersk late in January. The ship is under construction for the Danish owner A. P. Moller, Copen-hagen. The after part has a length of ap-proximately 568 feet, slightly more than half the overall length of the ship which will be 1,067 feet. The launching weight was approximately 16,000 tons. On the vacated berth, the keel was laid for the forward section, which is due to be launched in April. Short-ly afterwards, both parts will be joined up, which will be done afloat by a special technique developed by NDSM. The christening ceremony will take place after joining has been completed. Delivery of the Dagmar Maersk is scheduled by the end of June 1969. The Amsterdam yard will build two other ships of this size, both for Shell Tankers (U.K.) Ltd., and a 225,000-dwt tanker for Petrofina. The Rotter-dam Verolme yard has even larger ships under construction: a 255,000-dwt Esso tanker, first of three, will be launched there in May. 46 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News