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Bethlehem Beaumont Appoints Blackinton General Superintendent Richard E. Blackinton J. O. Crooke, general manager of Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Beaumont yard, has announced the appointment of Richard E. Blackin-ton as general superintendent of the yard. Mr. Blackinton, who joined the Bethlehem organization in mid-1951, has been assistant general su-perintendent of Bethlehem's San Francisco yard since 1966. A graduate of the University of Rhode Island, class of '51, with a B.S. degree in civil engineering, Mr. Blackinton came to Bethlehem as a member of that year's Loop Course, management training pro-gram for college graduates. Mr. Blackinton worked in vari-ous technical and supervisory ca-pacities in the corporation's Hobo-ken and then Brooklyn 56th Street yards before being named an as-sistant to construction engineer. He served in that post from April, 1957 to October, 1965, when he was named a technical assistant to the vice-president of shipbuilding. In April, 1966, he returned to the Ho-boken yard as a ship superinten-dent specialist. Later that year he was transferred to San Francisco as assistant general superintendent. In his new post he succeeds Har-old P. Thrower, who has resigned. Bethlehem Steel's Beaumont yard is a combination facility, and both builds and repairs ships. It has been a pioneer in the develop-ment and construction of special-ized craft, particularly oil drilling rigs, for the petrochemical indus-try. It also is one of the most mod-ern and complete ship-repairing facilities on the Gulf Coast. Jeffboat Launches Ferry For Alaskan Service Stanza S^SS^SsSSSs^ Send for this'free fairleader catalog today. This three-color eight-page catalog describes^i«nty-nine. 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. Smith-forger MANUFACTURING CORPORATION The ferry, E. L. Bartlett, will go into service in the southern Alaska area. Jeffboat, Incorporated, Jefferson-ville, Ind., recently launched the $2.5-million Alaskan ferry, E. L. Bartlett. The ferry, which will go into service in the southern Alaska area, is the largest ever built by Jeffboat. Measuring 193 feet in length, she has a 53-foot beam and a draft of 12^4 feet. Powered by two 1,600-hp diesel engines, the Bartlett will carry her normal pay-load of 38 automobiles and 165 pas-sengers at a service speed of 15 knots. The ferry is now in dock at the Jeffboat yard while workmen fin-ish the interior which includes a lounge, restaurant, observation and gallery areas, and a top deck solari-um in addition to the normal crew and officer quarters. Once she is completed and has passed her river trials, her trip to Alaska will begin. She will be towed down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Or-leans. Once in New Orleans, her captain and crew will take over and move her across the Gulf of Mex-ico, through the Panama Canal and north along the Pacific Coast to Alaska and her home port in the Prince William Sound. There her ports of call will be the towns of Cordova, Valdez and Whittier, southeast of Anchorage. Once in service, she will in effect become an extension of the state's highway system. The great number of areas in Alaska which are totally inaccessible by normal land routes force travelers to take to the water. Alaska's solution to this problem lies in its fleet of ships which, with the addition of the Bartlett, will number seven. Plans are to christen the boat, named for the late Sen. E. L. Bart-lett from Alaska, in Jeffersonville on May 4. Mrs. E. L. Bartlett, widow of the late senator, will sponsor the boat with Gov. Keith Miller and other officials from the State of Alaska in attendance. NVSO RAT^^Rt CHtAptp. AfrtfZ b'-m! callthz coastquarp now*" 32 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News