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Tidewater Announces Personnel Appointments A series of management and sales personnel appointments have been announced by Tide-water Marine Service, Inc. Robert C. Milton has been named director, corporate development and new ventures. Mr. Milton will have responsibility for corporate supervision of Sandair Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tidewater Marine, in ad-dition to his other new duties, said John P. Laborde, president. David L. Antill has been named sales rep-resentative for the Houston area and James W. Hart has been appointed area manager for the Indonesia area with headquarters in Singa-pore. Mr. Milton is a native of New Brunswick, Canada. He joined Sandair in 1960 and served as president prior to his new assignment with the parent company. He had been associated with Johns-Manville Corporation and the A. V. Roe Company. A native of Houston, Texas, Mr. Antill was a sales representative with IMC Drilling Mud Company prior to joining Tidewater Marine in January 1969. Mr. Hart has held positions in the petroleum industry in Libya, Canada and Singapore. He will have operational supervision of the com-pany's vessels in the Indonesia area. Tidewater Marine is a New Orleans-based marine transportation company primarily en-gaged in servicing the offshore oil industry throughout the free world. General Dynamics Appoints Quirk And Katzenstein Ship Construction Program Managers John D. Quirk Richard L. Katzenstein John D. Quirk and Richard L. Katzenstein have been named ship construction program managers at the Quincy division of General Dynamics. The appointments were announced by Gen-eral Manager Robert V. Laney. Mr. Quirk will manage an $88-million pro-gram in which the Quincy division will build four amphibious assault support ships for the United States Navy. Mr. Katzenstein will manage construction of the $39-million Navy submarine tender USS L. Y. Spear, the first of a new type ship de-signed to provide logistic and service support for nuclear submarines. The vessel was chris-tened in September 1967, and is scheduled for delivery later this year. For the past three years, Mr. Quirk man-aged a program in which the ammunition ships USS Kilauea and USS Butte?the first of a new class of supply ships?were built and de-livered to the Navy. He was formerly with the Electric Boat di-vsion of General Dynamics, Groton, Conn., and Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Co., Seattle, Wash. At the Electric Boat division he wras in electrical design management before be-coming design project engineer and later con-tracts manager. Mr. Quirk is a graduate of Rensselaer Poly-technic Institute and holds a degree in electri-cal engineering. Mr. Katzenstein has been assistant to the submarine project manager and has played a key role in the construction of the four nuclear attack submarines built at Quincy since 1964. Before joining General Dynamics, he was with Bethlehem Steel Co. for 28 years, assigned to management positions at San Francisco, Calif.; Staten Island, N.Y., and Quincy, Mass. shipyards. At the latter, Mr. Katzenstein was chief test engineer for construction of the nu-clear-powered warships USS Long Beach and LTSS Bainbridge. A graduate of the Franklin School, New York City, he earned his M.E. degree at Cor-nell University. U.S. Navigation Announces Executive Appointments United States Navigation Co., Inc., on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, has announced the following executive appointments, effective February 15, 1969: John W. Oelsner and John E. Schmeltzer Jr. as senior vice-presidents, O. V. Portocarrero as senior vice-president-traffic, Capt. H. M. Lampe as senior vice-presi-dent-operations, F. J. Barry and H. H. Seifert as vice-presidents-traffic, E. H. Eckardt as vice-president-sales, George W. Losee as vice-presi-dent-Scindia services, T. M. Jacques as vice-president-South American and Far East serv-ices, and W. H. Siemers as assistant to presi-dent. A LEADS W IN MOORING THE WORLD'S LARGEST T/t Universe Ireland 312.000 tdw. Also her five sisterships have been equipped with Pusnes deck machinery. BRITAIN'S LARGEST M/t Bulford 210.000 tdw. Also Pusnes equipped. We could add many more including Denmark's and Norway's largest tankers. MODERN VESSELS CALL FOR NEW THINKING -FOR NEW TECHNIQUES Heard about the Roto Bollard? Pusnes newest development - this piece of equipment reduces hazards both for crew and vessel. Write to Pusnes for details about the Roto Bollard or contact us if you require expert advice on any mooring problem. A.S PUSNES MEK.VERKSTED ARENDAL, NORWAY 12 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News