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The Society Of Naval Architects And Marine Engineers 1969 Spring Meeting-Vista Pacific The stimulating 1969 National Spring Meeting of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine En-gineers was held on May 21-24 in Beverly Hills, Calif, at the luxuri-ous Beverly Hilton Hotel. The theme of the meeting was Vista Pacific, and it was designed to show that the West Coast has come of age as a marine center. A total of 294 registered for the meeting. Capt. Henry P. Rumble, USN (ret.), outgoing chairman of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Section, officially opened the Spring Meet-ing on Wednesday, May 21. Nathan Friedland, chairman of the steer-ing committee that planned the meeting, then welcomed the at-tendees and introduced SNAME President James J. Henry. Highlights from Mr. Henry's re-port are as follows: the financial condition of the Society is excel-lent with assets over 50 percent greater than at the time of the last spring meeting on the West Coast in Seattle in 1965; the scholarship program is proceeding normally with a Society investment of $300,-000 plus $25,000 per year; as a re-sult of a special review, an addi-tional $25,000 per year will be al-located to the activities of the Technical and Research Program ; Capt. Marvin H. Gluntz, secretary of the Society for over ten years, is retiring for reasons of health; attendance at section meetings has been one of Mr. Henry's most en-joyable functions as president: profits are poor in the shipbuild-ing industry and the great prob-lem is lack of progress in the mer-chant marine, and the United States is ahead of the rest of the world in ship advances as exempli-fied in such areas as containerships, LASH, and roll-on/roll-ofif cargo. ON THE COVER John Vasta being awarded the Distin-guished Civilian Service Award by Rear Adm. Edward J. Fahy, USN, commander. Naval Ship Systems Command, at the Na-tional Spring Meeting of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. This award was presented by Admiral Fahy in behalf of the secretary of the Navy and is the highest award given to a civilian by the secretary. It was bestowed upon Mr. Vasta for dedicated and dis-tinguished service to the Navy in the fields of submarine structural design and asso-ciated research and development programs. These services were performed by Mr. Vasta in his capacity as head, Structural Branch, Naval Ship Engineering Center. He is presently consultant on the staff of C. R. Schaeffner, vice-president and di-rector of engineering, Litton Systems Ad-vanced Marine Technology Division. Wit-nessing the awarding of the certificate are: James J. Henry (left), Society president and John Rubel, senior vice-president, Litton Industries. Technical Sessions On Wednesday and Thursday, May 21 and 22, ten papers were presented at the technical sessions dealing with surface, subsurface, and above surface aspects of ma-rine activities. The papers and their authors, the presiding and assistant presid-ing officers, and the written discus-sers were: Paper No. 1. "The Society of Na-val Architects and Marine Engi-neers and the Conquest of Inner-space" by E. M. MacCutcheon, ESSA. Presiding?Hollinshead de Luce. Assisting?Capt. Henry P. Rumble, USN (ret.). Discussers?-Rear Adm. J. B. Oren, USCG (ret.), Dr. H. E. Sheets, Arthur Lubinski, A. C. Vine, Rear Adm. E. H. Thiele, USCG (ret.). B. K. Duffy, Nathan Friedland, Rear Adm. C. P. Murphy, USCG, and Blakely Smith. SYNOPSIS ? The increasing worldwide emphasis on the exploi-tation of the world oceans has re-vealed the need to invoke the dis-ciplines of naval architecture and marine engineering and the tech-nologies of ship designing, ship-building and ship operating. SNAME recognizes this need and intends to play an important role in solving the many challenges which this exploitation will gen-erate. Paper No. 2. "A View of the Present and Future Hydrofoil In-dustry" by William H. G. Fitz-Gerald, Supramar Ltd.. Switzer-land. Presiding?John V. Banks. Assisting?John E. M. Enroth, who also presented the paper for absent author. Discussers?Gordon Rosekilly, Frank Lee Jr., Albert M. Midboe and James A. Higgins. SYNOPSIS ? While hydrofoil transportation has progressed steadily in other parts of the world, progress has been slow in the United States due to the lack of financial support from the Federal Government and the shipbuilding industry for hydrofoil development. Obsolete provisions of the Ship-ping Act of 1920 have further re-stricted usage of foreign built hulls for domestic marine transportation. Paper No. 3. "Weight Consider-ations for Deep Submersibles" by E. H. Nickell, Lockheed Missiles and Space Company. Presiding?-Hugh C. Downer. Assisting?John R. Graham. Discussers?Capt. E. S. Arentzen, USN (ret.). John J. Nachtsheim and John Vasta. SYNOPSIS?The results of a simplified weight study are pre-sented. The analysis examines the various parameters affecting the total boat size and weight of con-temporary deep submersibles. It is shown quite definitely that the greatest potential for further re-ductions in boat weight lies in the redesign of on-board equipment, specifically for deep submersible operations. Paper No. 4. "The Design and Certification of Submersibles" by Charles G. Kosonen. Presiding? Rear Adm. James M. Farrin, USN (ret.). Assisting?Reuven Leopold. Discussers?John A. Pritzlaff, Mat-hew J. Letich, Harvey J. Smith Jr., Comdr. Charles B. Glass, USCG, Raymond A. Peabody, Harry E. Peterson Jr., W. O. Rainnie, Capt. R. J. Dzikowski, USN, and J. H. Purcell. SYNOPSIS?The evolution of certification requirements for sub-mersibles from today's guidelines into tomorrow's rules and regula-tions is highlighted. Attention is given to assessing the need for a distress buoy and underwater es-cape capabilities in submersibles. The surface stability requirements for naval surface ships is applied to a representative undersea com-mercial vehicle and the need for in-dustry to develop meaningful de-sign standards for submersibles is stressed. Paper No. 5. "Design of a Dy-namically Positioned Support Plat-form for a Tethered, Unmanned Submersible Vehicle" by Donald Hall and D. A. Kunz, Ocean De-sign Engineering Corp. and Naval Undersea Warfare Center, respec-tively. Presiding?Philip Finkel-stein. Assisting ? Klemme M. Jones. Discussers?John R. Gra-ham and Rene M. Delaunay. SYNOPSIS ? As man enters greater depths of the ocean with remotely controlled vehicles, the ability to accurately position the surface support craft becomes in-creasingly more vital. The paper discusses the conversion of a stand-ard 110-foot lighter into an eco-nomical, well-equipped and versa-tile platform. The resulting para-meters and configuration are de-scribed. Paper No. 6. "Anomalous Behav-ior of Merchant Ship Steering Sys-tems" by Robert Taggart, Robert Taggart, Inc. Presiding?Capt. Henry A. Pearce Jr., USCG. As-sisting?S. J. Cina. Discussers? Dr. Karl E. Schoenherr, Louis W. Nelson and Irving W. Smith. SYNOPSIS?Observations and measurements of the interrelation-ship between steering system actu-ation and ship motion response in roll and yaw are evaluated in terms of hydrodynamic characteristics, steering machinery performance, (Continued on page 8) J. J. Henry, SNAME president, reports on Society activities during business meeting. Rear Adm. J. J. Fee, USN (ret.), described the conversion of the Queen Mary. Rear Adm. E. J. Fahy, USN, commander, NSSC, spoke at the Thursday luncheon. Rear Adm. L. V. Honsinger, USN (ret.), at left, presents Certificates of Appreci-ation to Capt. H. P. Rumble, USN (ret.), on behalf of the Society's council. 10 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News