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Nine Port Of New York Employers Receive Safety Awards From Shipping Association Radically Different GE Transmission System Used Successfully On Canadian Hydrofoil Adm. John M. Will, USN (ret.), president of the New York Ship-ping Association, and chairman of the board of American Export Is-brandtsen Lines, presented awards to nine employers of waterfront labor in the port of New York who had outstanding records in accident reduction last year. The presenta-tions were made at the 16th annual luncheon, sponsored by NYSA Safety Bureau, at the Downtown Athletic Club. Capt. George D. Barlow, Safety Bureau director, as-sisted in the presentations. Those receiving plaques were: Sealand Service Inc., Standard Fruit & Steamship Co., Chelsea Ship Repair Corp., Lipsett Steel Productions Inc., Isthmian Lines, and Mealli Protective & Investigat-ing Service Inc. Recipients of citations were: Ramar Stevedores Inc., Pier 40 Corporation and Lynch, Donohue & Dee Inc. In making the presentations Ad-miral Will observed that "the num-ber of award winners is smaller than in previous years, but for a very good reason. The rules gov-erning the awards have been rede-fined to add greater importance and significance to this official recogni-tion. "Previously, an award recipient had only to report a reduction in his accident frequency rate from that of the preceding year. Under the new rules, an award is present-ed to the company whose accident frequency rate last year was under the lowest rate reported by that company since 1965." Alexander P. Chopin, NYSA chairman, stressed the need for continued vigilance in accident pre-vention and praised the coopera-tion given by employer members and by the International Long-shoremen's Association in the pro-motion of waterfront safety. New Canadian Navy hydrofoil ship Bras d'Or shown in flight off Halifax during trials. New York Shipping Association, Inc., 16th annual safety awards winners, left to right: (standing) A. Nicotra, Standard Fruit & Steamship Co.; H. Krebs, Pier 40 Corporation; J. L. Clark, Sealand Services, Inc.; Capt. G. Kozel, Isthmian Lines, Inc., and A. C. Mele, Mealli Protective & Investigation Service; (seated) H. Feinberg, Lipsett Steel Products, Inc.; Capt. George D. Barlow, NYSA Safety Bureau director; Adm. John M. Will, NYSA president and chairman of the board, American Export Isbrandtsen Lines, Inc.; Mrs. F. V. Donohue, Lynch, Donohue & Dee, Inc.; Alexander P. Chopin, NYSA chairman, and Capt. George H. Evans, NYSA vice-president, and senior vice-president, States Marine Lines, Inc. The guest speaker at the awards luncheon was Leonard Linsenmay-er, acting director of the Bureau of Labor Standards, U.S. Department of Labor, who discussed the role of the government in accident pre-vention in industry. St. Louis Ship Promotes R.A. Bennett A new Canadian Navy hydrofoil ship with a transmission system radically different from any ever built before has successfully flown off Halifax. The hydrofoil Bras d'Or, with both foilborne and dis-placement transmission systems built by General Electric's Marine Turbine and Gear Department, West Lynn, Mass., recently com-pleted its first flight. The 200-ton, 151-foot hydrofoil anti-submarine ship is faster and more maneuverable than a destroy-er. It has a speed of 60 knots. It will carry a crew of only 25, com-pared with the 225 officers and men required to man an anti-submarine destroyer. When foilborne, it will be powered by a 30,000-shp gas turbine, and when hullborne by a 2,400-bhp diesel. General Electric designed and built an "extremely lightweight, very compact transmission system to fit within an unusual configura-tion of a pod system," according to Marine Turbine and Gear De-partment General Manager David S. Bennett. The GE FHE-400 hy-drofoil transmission system has downshafts 32 feet long, which op-erate at 8,500 rpm. The transmission system, ac-cording to Mr. Bennett, is unique in that it has a wide variety of dif-ferent types of gears, including a planetary, compound star, spiral bevel, and double helical parallel shafts. The Marine Turbine and Gear Department of General Electric co-ordinated its transmission systems work with de Havilland Aircraft of Canada in building the prototype. The vessel was built at the Marine Industries Ltd. shipyard at Sorel, Quebec. The ship gets its name from the name of a lake in Nova Scotia on which Alexander Graham Bell test-ed a hydrofoil lie designed in 1907. Ronald A. Bennett Ronald A. Bennett has been pro-moted to assistant vice-president of St. Louis Ship, a division of Pott Industries Inc., St. Louis, Mo., ac-cording to an announcement by Edward Renshaw, president. He formerly was a project engineer of the company. Mr. Bennett will be working di-rectly with Robert J. Patrick, vice-president-engineering, with the re-sponsibility of coordinating engi-neering projects and estimating for the St. Louis yard. Prior to joining St. Louis Ship in 1965, Mr. Bennett was employed as project engineer, subsafe certi-fication program, with the Charles-ton Naval Shipyard. He was graduated with a BS de-gree in engineering from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. Mr. Bennett is a member of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and of the U.S. Propeller Club, Port of St. Louis. A. P. BOXLEf?I he second twin-screw, 5,000-hp towboat in the expanding fleet of the barge subsidiaries of Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates is launched into the Ohio River. Designed and built by Dravo Corporation, Pittsburgh, the 166-by-42-by-l 1 Vl-foot vessel is powered by two, 16-cylinder, turbocharged, aftercooled diesel engines with reverse reduction gears and clutches. It will later be christened the A.P. Boxley, honor-ing the president of Eastern Associated Coal Corp., Pittsburgh, the coal subsidiary of Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates. Along with the company's first 5,000-hp towboat launched by Dravo in April, the J. N. Philips, (shown in the background), the A. P. Box-ley will be used for push towing of coal, phosphate and grain on the Mississippi River System. Both vessels will be operated by Orgulf Transport Company, one of Eastern's barge lines. Dravo has built three other towboats for Orgulf during the past four years. 10 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News