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Giardino To Chair Maritime Night Dinner The appointment of Thomas J. Giardino, traffic manager of the Marchessini Steamship Lines, as general chairman for the Rudder Club's "Fifth Annual International Maritime Night Dinner" was an-nounced by Donald Quinn, vice-president of Boise-Griffin Steam-ship Co. and commodore of the club. Mr. Giardino said that, as in the past, this is the evening dedicated to honor the top executives of the steamship lines, both American and foreign, serving the Port of New York. The dinner will be held on Wednesday evening, March 12. in the Grand Ballroom of the Hotel St. George, Brooklyn, New York. Tickets are $14.00 each, gratu-ities included, and reservations may be obtained from Anthony D' Ambrosio, president of Atlantic Coast Industries (UL. 8-8910) or Robert Hannon of Marchessini Lines (WH. 3-7550). High-Strength Ladder On New Bauer Dredge Made With Armco SSS 100 Steel Plate WITTE-MOWBRAY JOINT VENTURE, INC. We Own and Offer For Sale STEEL BARGES (NEW YORK HARBOR) 5?DECK 90' x 30' x 9.3', 400 TON BUILT 1952 $15,000.00 Ea. 5?DECK 80' x 30' x 8', 250 TON, BUILT 1943 $12,500.00 Ea. 5?DECK 80' x 30' x 8', 250 TON, BUILT 1937 $10,500.00 Ea. 5?DECK COVERED?90' x 30' x 9.3', 400 TON, BUILT 1953 $15,000.00 Ea. 5?DECK COVERED?100' x 32.8' x 9.2', 250 TON, BUILT 1927 $7,500.00 Ea. 2?STEEL CAR FLOATS 177' AND 265' LENGTHS, BUILT 1930 $15,000.00 Ea. 1?HOIST (GAS) BARGE 100' x 31' x 9.6', BUILT 1925, 10 TON CAPACITY $7,500.00 1?HOIST (DIESEL) BARGE 101' x 35' x 9.6', 10 TON CAPACITY, 400 TON CARGO CAPACITY $12,500.00 Steel Tug (Steam Hulls) 1-110' x 30' x 13.8', BUILT 1941 TWIN SCREW, HEAVILY BUILT 2-149' x 33' x 18.6', BUILT 1944 1-82' x 25' x 11', BUILT 1905 $25,000.00 $25,000.00 Ea. $10,000.00 For Further Information, Call (212) 422-2067 Mowbray's Tug and Barge Sales Corp. 21 WEST STREET ? NEW YORK, N.Y. 10006 The 'working end' of the dredge Bill Bauer shows the suction ladder after installation. The ladder, weighing 350 tons, including the suction head, is made of Armco SSS 100 steel plate, with yield strength of 100,000 psi. The powerful new steam dredge 'Bill Bauer,' now on location at its first job in Pascagoula, Miss., has set an industry standard by using 100,000-psi yield strength steel in critical structures. Recently constructed by Bauer Dredging Co., the dredge is the 14th in the company fleet. Besides being the company's largest, it is the first with steam power. It is 316 feet long, including the ladder, and has a beam of 50 feet. Two working components of the dredge are unusual. The suction lad-der and the spuds are made of Arm-co Steel's SSS 100, a quenched and tempered alloy steel with minimum yield strength of 100,000 psi and ten-sile strength ranging from 115,000 to 135,000. SSS 100 is about three times stronger than the steel normal-ly used for such construction. Strength and reliability were two of the prime requirements for the lad-der and spuds. The SSS 100 steel plate STATE FERRIES FOR SALE not only provided the extra strength, it actually reduced the weight of lad-der and spuds as compared to con-ventional steel construction. Total weight of the 86-foot-long suction ladder and the cutter head is 350 tons. The head is powered by two 1,000-hp electric motors through a 17-inch-diameter drive shaft. The ladder, made of twin box sections, was fabricated of -inch-thick SSS 100 plate by the Wyatt Division, U.S. Industries, Inc., Port Houston Ship-yard. Internal baffles in the twin-box structure are %-inch SSS 100 plates. Sections of the structural boxes are 96 inches tall and 32 inches wide. The 42-inch-diameter spuds are 96 feet long and weigh 40 tons each. Fab-ricating the cylindrical spuds of SSS 100 gives them strength and resist-ance to bending and flexing. Welding was a critical step in fabrication because of the stresses and strains in the ladder and spuds. Tacking and manual fillet welding was done with E 8018 electrodes. Submerged arc?used for butt and fillet welds ? used Armco's W-15 welding wire with a neutral flux. The wire contains nickel, chromium and molybdenum. The welded joints have a strength level slightly lower than the SSS 100 steel, but have excep-tional ductility. Bethlehem Appoints Hamilton Ass't Manager Of Boston Repair Yard George S. Hamilton has been ap-pointed assistant manager of Beth-lehem Steel Corporation's Boston repair yard, according to William H. Collins, general manager of the facility. Mr. Hamilton succeeds Mr. Col-lins who was named manager on February 1. The new assistant manager was previously general manager of Seatrain Line, Inc.'s marine operations and terminal facilities at Edgewater, N.J. He had earlier been associated with Bethlehem's former operation at Quincy, Mass. BIDS REC'D 4-1-69 4-15-69 5-1-69 NAME M.V. Crown City M.V. San Diego M.V. Coronado LENGTH 242.17' 204.85' 190.00' BEAM 46.1' 43.6' 43.6' DRAFT 12.5' 11.5' 11.5' TONNAGE GROSS NET 676.94' 352 556 378 502 340 CAPACITY 65 cars, 500 pssgrs. 50 cars, 500 pssgrs. 46 cars, 500 pssgrs. DIESEL 1200 h.p. Nat'l. Supply 1050 h.p. Atlas 1000 h.p. Atlas The State of California offers three San Diego Bay ferry boats for sale by sealed bid. All are steel-hulled, diesel-electric powered, double-ended boats with a single screw at each end. They were built by Moore Dry Dock Company with Westinghouse electric generators and propulsion motors. Each has a valid U.S. Coast Guard certificate. They are available for purchase by foreign flag operators. Vessels may be inspected from March 1 - April 1, 1969. Bids will be received on dates shown below. For details and bidding documents, call or write: Thomas G. Bertken, Planning Engineer Division of Bay Toll Crossings 151 Fremont St., San Francisco, Calif. 94105 Phone: (415) 557-0218 50 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News