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AIMS Retains Former Sen. Geo. A. Smathers Former Senator George A. Smathers of Florida has been re-tained as general counsel for the Washington-based American In-stitute of Merchant Shipping. This was announced by Everett S. Checket, AIMS' board chairman and general manager, Marine Transportation Department, Mobil Oil Corporation, New York. Senator Smathers, a World War II Marine Corps colonel and a former special assistant to the at-torney general, served 22 years in the Congress. From 1946-1950 he was a U.S. representative from Miami and then served for 18 years as a U.S. Senator from Florida. He announced he would not stand for re-election in November 1968 and became senior partner in the Washington law firm of Smathers, Merrigan and O'Keefe. Senator Smathers, a staunch ad-vocate of a strong American-flag merchant marine, is a former mem-ber of the Senate Commerce Com-mittee which has jurisdiction over merchant marine matters. In re-cent years he has worked closely with Presidents Kennedy and John-son on proposed maritime pro-grams. In making the announcement, Mr. Checket said that Senator Smathers "would contribute signi-ficantly to AIMS' primary objec-tives of unifying the American Merchant Marine and assisting in the development of a national pro-gram to revitalize all segments of the fleet, so essential to restore America's supremacy on the high seas." Standard « f" " B*ri*r toufh ^ Send for this'free fairleader catalog today* This three-color eight-page catalog describes twanty-nina. models of marine fairleaders, including prices, weight, line sizes, sheave and shank dimensions. A full-page cut-away view of a fairleader is shown for your convenience in determining the proper type of fairleader to suit your needs, and for easy parts identification. All dimensions are shown in both engineer-ing drawings and photographs. The entire catalog is cross-referenced for specifying by job or model. Fairleaders illustrated include deck mount, flange mounts, tandem, cargo boom and bow mount. Additional fairleaders are also available for special applications not shown in this catalog. Write for information. tab-Berger MANUFACTURING CORPORATION AIMS' member companies own over 500 U.S.-flag merchant ships representing over half of the pri-vately-owned vessels in the active merchant marine. Port Of Seattle Names Roth To Traffic Post Eldred S. Roth recently joined the Port of Seattle as traffic co-ordinator, replacing veteran water-front traffic man, Ted Bursett, who will officially retire April 1. Mr. Roth has had 20 years of traffic experience on the water-fronts of Portland and Seattle. He was many years with Tidewater Barge Lines, Portland, and later with the Commission of Public Docks, Portland. Most recently, he had represented Bakke Steamship Corp., Seattle, as traffic manager. In his new post, Mr. Roth will handle the billing, forwarding and expediting of cargo through the Port of Seattle, primarily OCP car-go?that is, cargo which lands at Seattle for delivery to midwest and East Coast points. The cargo in-bound from the Orient via Seattle is therefore routed Overland Com-mon Point. More and more such cargo has been arriving at the Port of Seattle, cargo which might take only eight days trans-Pacific over the short great circle route, and then only 56 hours by rail to Chi-cago. Considerable coordination is needed to maintain this record for sea and rail, truck and air. Bethlehem Launches 37,250-Dwt Tanker At Sparrows Pt. For Wabash Tanker Group Mrs. Ralph E. Ablon holds a bouquet of flowers just prior to cnristening the Wabash at Bethlehem's Sparrows Point shipyard. With Mrs. Ablon are (left to right) her husband, chairman of the Ogden Corporation, Daniel M. Mack-Forlist, general manager of the Sparrows Point yard, Mrs. Mack-Forlist, E. D. Bickford, vice-president, sales, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, and Daniel D. Strohmeier, vice-president, shipbuilding, Bethlehem Steel Corporation. The 37,250-dwt tanker Wabash was launched recently at Bethle-hem Steel Corporation's Sparrows Point, Md. shipyard. The vessel was sponsored by Mrs. Ralph E. Ablon, wife of the chair-man of the Ogden Corporation, and is the second of two of this class to be constructed under a contract with Wabash Transport, Inc., of Xew York City, or an affiliate. Wa-bash Transport, Inc., and its af-filiated companies were recently acquired by Ogden Marine, Inc., a subsidiary of Ogden Corporation. All ships of Wabash Transport, Inc., and its affiliates are named for rivers in the United States. The Wabash is named for the Wabash River in the state of Indiana. When delivered next spring, the Wabash will be assigned to the car-riage of petroleum and/or grain products. The vessel has a capacity of 333,-000 barrels in its 15 tanks, and may be converted to the grain trade with a grain carrying capacity of approximately 1,500,000 bushels. Her cargo handling pumps will be capable of discharging a full liquid cargo in 14 hours. The ship is equipped with Beth-lehem centralized control, which allows control of the engine from the bridge. It is expected to oper-ate at a normal sea speed of 16 knots. It has a 15,000-shp turbine driving a single screw. The design includes a curved rake stem, a cruiser stern and a spade rudder. Length overall is 660 feet 2 inches, with length between perpendiculars of 630 feet. Its molded breadth is 90 feet and molded depth is 48 feet 9 inches. The draft will be about 36 feet 8 inches at 37,250 dead-weight tons. The Wabash is the eighth ves-sel of the 37,000-ton class to be launched at Sparrows Point.* 36 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News George A. Smathers Eldred S. Roth