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and special awards are presented for excep-tional records which, at these ceremonies, ex-tended to eight years. Those given special eight-year awards included the Great Lakes freighters Armco and Edmund Fitzgerald of the Columbia Transportation Division, Ogle-bay Norton Company and tanker Byron D. Benson of Getty Oil Company. Other winners of special awards (over four accident-free years) were United Fruit Company's freight-er Yaque and Texaco, Inc.'s tankers Texaco Minnesota and Texaco Maryland. There were eight U.S. companies with 29 ships winning Devlin awards. The company names and the number of awards presented to each of them were: Columbia Transporta-tion (3); Getty Oil Company (1) ; Humble Oil & Refining Company (3); Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc. (5); Mobil Oil Company (1); Texaco, Inc. (10); United Fruit Com-pany (3), and United States Lines, Inc. (3). Total accident free operating time represented by the Devlin Awards conferred added up to 92 years. Winners of a third award contest . . . the Ship Safety Achievement Awards, conferred on American-flag ships performing outstand-ing feats of safety in the course of a calendar year, co-sponsored by the American Institute of Merchant Shipping and the National Safety Council's Marine Section, will be announced and presented to the companies and the ships' crews in the near future, Captain Knight said. DOT Allocates Funds For N.Y. Ferryboats The Department of Transportation in Washing-ton has notified the City of New York that $13,-382,000 in urban mass transit funds are being reserved to help build three 6,000-passenger ferry-boats. New York City had requested federal aid in the construction of these ferries which would replace three smaller, 30-year-old boats on the Manhattan to Staten Island run. The allocation of funds announced will pay about two-thirds of the $20.1-million estimated cost for designing and building the three ferry-boats. The city would provide the remainder of the cost. It is anticipated that the first boat will be ready for service sometime in 1970. Rucker To Design And Build Seabee Barge Control System For General Dynamics-Quincy The Rucker Company has received a $4.9-mil-lion contract from General Dynamics Corporation to provide control systems for three supersized, oceangoing barge carriers being constructed for Lykes Bros. Steamship Company at General Dy-namics' Quincy, Mass., shipyard, Clarence J. Woodward, chairman of Rucker, announced. Rucker equipment will be used to operate the automatic barge loading equipment on the vessels, each of which will be capable of. carrying 38 barges on its three decks. The barges can haul a total of 1,216 containers or 17,500 tons of cargo. The barge carriers, known as Seabees, will be able to handle cargo ten times as rapidly as con-ventional break-bulk vessels, enabling them to re-duce delivery time and to spend more time produc-tively at sea. Seabees need not enter crowded inner ports and will help eliminate problems of port con-gestion as well as size-of-ship limitations on inland waterways, locks and canals. The systems will be designed at Rucker's Con-trols Systems Division in Emeryville, Calif., and produced at the division's manufacturing facility in Berkeley, Calif. The first of the systems is scheduled for delivery next January. The Rucker Company manufactures automated systems for materials handling, aerospace flight controls, undersea controls for the offshore pe-troleum industry, control components and elec-tronic safety products. NSC Marine Section And AIMS Honor Safety Awards Winners Recipients of the Jones Devlin Award were, left to right: Capt. Phillip Neal, safety advisor, marine transportation, Mo-bil Company; Capt. James K. Manry, safety director, Texaco, Inc.; Leland A. Smith, general manager, Marine De-partment, Texaco, Inc.; T.J. Fuson, general manager, Marine Department, Humble Oil and Refinjng Company; Wil-liam J. Squicciarinia, assistant vice-president, eastern area, Lykes Bros. Steamship Company; William T. Morris Jr., vice-president, eastern area, Lykes Bros. Steamship Com pany; Capt. Frit* Borner, senior captain, Getty Oil Company, and A.B. Randall Jr., safety officer, Marine Department, Humble Oil and Refining Company. Not shown in the pic-ture are the recipients from Columbia Transportation, United Fruit Company, Pure Oil Company and U.S. Lines. Principals at Safety Awards luncheon who were seated on the dais were, left to right: Robert J. Blackwell, deputy maritime administrator; Capt. Jones F. Devlin Jr., mari-time consultant; Capt. Arthur M. Knight, general chair-man, Marine Section, National Safety Council; James J. Reynolds, president, American Institute of Merchant Ship-ping, and Adm. Willard J. Smith, U.S. Coast Guard. The Marine Section, National Safety Coun-cil, in conjunction with the American Institute of Merchant Shipping (AIMS), recently hon-ored recipients of Safety Awards from the National Safety Council and the Jones F. Dev-lin Safety Awards sponsored by the American Institute of Merchant Shipping at a luncheon in the Gotham Room of the Downtown Ath-letic Club, New'York City. The National Safety Council Awards were presented by Robert J. Blackwell, deputy mari-time administrator, and the Jones F. Devlin Safety Awards were presented by Adm. Wil-lard J. Smith, commandant of the United States Coast Guard. James J. Reynolds, AIMS president, and Capt. Arthur M. Knight, general chairman, Marine Section NSC, presided at the luncheon ceremony. NSC's 1968 Safety Contest winner in the oceangoing and coastwise dry-cargo and pas-senger vessel category was the United Fruit Company. In the ocean and coastwise tanker category, the first place winner was the Pure Oil Company. Canada Steamship Lines Lim-ited was the winner in the Great Lakes self-unloader category and Buckeye Steamship Co., Cleveland, Ohio was the winner in the Great Lakes straight-deck vessel category. The Hanna Mining Company, also of Cleveland, is runnerup in the latter class. The NSC awards are given to the contestant having the lowest injury frequency rate at the con-clusion of the contest year. Accepting awards for the United Fruit Company were, left to right: Capt. Charles B. McAuley, United Fruit vice-president; Capt. G.F. Beal, manager of marine opera-tions for United Fruit; E. Joseph Barr, executive secretary, Brotherhood of Marine Officers; R.W. Berry, United Fruit senior vice-president, and John M. Fox, chairman of the board of United Fruit Company. Recipients for the Great Lakes were, left to right: Cap-tain Knight; H.F. Byron, superintendent of safety, Cana-da Steamship; R.E. Kratzert, manager, vessel personnel and services, Columbia Transportation; J.W. Manning, superintendent of operations, Hanna Mining; J.L. Horton, assistant manager, Marine Department, Cleveland Cliffs and vice-chairman, Marine Section, and Capt. Devlin. The Devlin Awards, named for Jones F. Devlin Jr., retired United States Lines' vice-president in charge of operations and leading U.S.-flag ship safety advocate for over half a century, are given to American vessels oper-ating for two consecutive years without a lost-time crew accident. Higher honors go to vessels completing four accident-free years 16 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News