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Northern California Section Discusses Mobile Drilling Platforms?Elects Officers New Section chairman Graham Fraser (left) with W. B. Hill of Babcock & Wilcox Co., membership committee chairman (center), and L. S. Jue, naval architect with San Francisco Naval Shipyard and executive committeeman. The May dinner meeting of the Northern California Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers heard an excel-lent paper entitled "Mobile Drill-ing Platform Development," pre-pared by J. O. Crooke and Ray Lacy of Bethlehem Steel Com-pany's Beaumont, Texas shipyard. Mr. Lacy presented the paper. The paper describes the prob-lems involved in offshore drilling and the design of drill rigs to solve these conditions. Several types of New Section vice-chairman W. B. Hickman (left) with L. A. Harlander, vice-president, Matson Navigation Company and past chairman, (center), and Douglas Finlayson of Marcona Corporation and papers com-mittee chairman. equipment are described in the pa-per. During the business session of the meeting, officers for 1969-70 were elected. Graham Fraser of PACECO was elected chairman. The other officers for the coming year are: William Hickman of Ocean Machinery as vice-chair-man, Arthur Haskell of Matson Navigation Company as secretary-treasurer, and David Seymour of Thomas T. Lunde, Inc., and B. V. Andrews of Stanford Research In-stitute as executive committeemen. M. Guralnick, president of Morris Gural-nick Associates, San Francisco naval archi-tects, (left) with Lt. Eugene A. Silva, USNR. Dillingham Expanding Honolulu Cargo Service Dillingham Corporation has an-nounced an expansion of its Dill-ingham Line, Inc., Los Angeles-Honolulu surface cargo service, ef-fective July 1. Breakbulk cargo at existing common carrier rates will be accepted by the Dillingham sub-sidiary for San Francisco, Guam and Marianas Islands via Honolulu in 15-knot vessels. Dillingham Line has offices in Honolulu, San Francisco, Los An-geles and New York, and represen-tatives in Portland and Seattle. Its Guam agent is Atkins Kroll with offices in Agana. A Dillingham maritime services spokesman said their surface freight capability is being extended to assist in increas-ing trade capabilities of the U.S. Trust Territory and other fast de-veloping Pacific Islands. Dillingham has previously moved cargo into Guam in support of its own construction projects. The cor-poration operates other maritime 10 Hugh Downer, outgoing Section chairman and vice-president of Marcona Corporation (left) with R. Lacy, author. transportation services, shipyards, and servicing facilities in U.S. West Coast and other Pacific Ocean areas, including Australia and New Zealand. Kawasaki Firms Merge To Increase Operations The three member firms of the Kawasaki Group, i.e., Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Ltd., Kawasaki Air-craft Co.. Ltd. and Kawasaki Rollins; Stock Mfg. Co., Ltd., recently signed a memorandum for their merger. On April 1. 1969, after extensive prep-aratory arrangements they formally merged into a single company with the name of "Kawasaki Heavy In-dustries, Ltd." Their merger lias enabled them to make a new start as a large-scale, all-round manufacturer of various kinds of machinery centering on their tra-ditional specialties including ships, aircraft and rolling stock. The new company is expected to make rapid advances, fully demonstrating the merits of its diversified operations. Soren Winger Joins International Chartering International Chartering Serv-ices, 17 Battery Place, New York, X.Y., lias announced that Soren Winger has joined its dry-cargo ship-chartering staff. Mr. Winger was previously associated with Hjalmar Bjerge, Oslo, for a period of 2y2 years and later with anoth-er chartering concern here, Hansen & Tidemann Inc. Anglo-Norness Orders 250,000-DWT Tanker The Scott Lithgow Group, on the Lower Clyde, Scotland, has an-nounced the receipt of an order valued at $19.2-million for a 250,000-dwt oil tanker for the Anglo-Norness Group. The ship will be built in Lithgow's Kingston Yard and delivered about the end of 1972. Maritime Reporter/Engineering News Avondale Launches Third Destroyer Escort Destroyer escort Patterson poised on side launching ways ready for christening. The next DE is on ways ready to be moved into launching position. The destroyer escort Patterson (DE-1061), the third in a series of 27 of a new class of Navy ships be-ing built by Avondale Shipyards, has been launched in New Orleans. The Patterson is one of 27 ships procured from Avondale under multiple-year contracts awarded in 1964 and 1966. This ship is design-ed for optimum performance in lo-cating and destroying submarines. Principals of the launching in-cluded Miss Laura Winslow as sponsor; Rear Adm. William M. Harnish, USN, director, Office of Program Appraisal, Department of the Navy, as principal speaker; Henry Zac Carter, president and chairman of the board of Avon-dale Shipyards; Rear Adm. Jamie Ada'r, USN, deputy commander, Naval Ships Systems Command, and Capt. R. J. Leuschner, USN, supervisor of shipbuilding, conver-sion and repair for the 8th Naval District. The invocation was given by Capt. J. G. Power, (CHC), USN, chaplain for the 8th Naval District. The ship is equipped with inte-gral bow-mounted long-range so-nar, variable-depth sonar and gyro stabilizers which provide for im-proved seaworthiness and increas-ed anti-submarine capabilities over previous DE's. The Patterson is 438 feet in length with a beam of 47 feet and is capable of attaining speeds in excess of 25 knots. Her total com-plement consists of 19 officers and 226 men. Principals at DE launching were, left to right: Rear Adm. Jamie Adair, Miss Laura Winslow, sponsor, Henry Zac Carter and Rear Adm. William M. Harnish. DE-1061 slides into the Mis-sissippi after christening at Avondale Shipyard.