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Windjammer Acquires Short Hills Shipping Windjammer International Corporation has announced that it has acquired all the stock of Short Hills Shipping Corp., privately owned by S. A. (Huey) Long, well-known shipping executive and sailing enthusiast. The transac-tion was for an undisclosed amount of notes. Among the acquired company's assets are three 10,000-ton Victory ships, according to Capt. Mike Burke, Windjammer's president. He said Short Hills will be dissolved into a new wholly owned subsidiary, Windjammer Shipping, Inc. The three vessels will be re-named Suzy, Poly and Jeannine, for three of the Burkes' seven children. The ships are cur-rently being refitted and conditioned at ship-yards in Galveston, Texas and Jacksonville, Fla. The Short Hills acquisition is the latest in Figure Four is the latest of a breed of cruisers specially equipped with Carrier water-to-air heat pump systems for zoned year-round comfort and built by Stephens Marine. Figure Four, a yacht owned by Texas busi-nessman Monte Frost, is the latest in a breed of cruisers specially equipped with heat pump systems for zoned year-round comfort and built by Stephens Marine, Inc. of Stockton, Calif. The air-conditioning systems are designed to operate in sea water temperatures ranging from 28 to 88 degrees, and in fresh water tem-peratures down to 35 degrees with the use of anti-freeze switches. All of the specialized know-how of the J. H. Simpson Company and its design engi-neer William Relf, an engineering graduate of California State Polytechnic College, have gone into the heat pump system for Figure Four . . . the most sophisticated one of them all. J. H. Simpson Company, a major mechanical contractor and franchised air conditioning dealer of Valair distributors, entered into ma-rine installations as a side-line business some 20 years ago. At that time they did ventilation work on minesweepers and other government vessels under contract with Stephens Com-pany. For the past eight years their marine installations have been confined to yacht air conditioning. Powered by two Detroit Diesel V-8 engines that give it a maximum speed of 18 knots and a cruising range of about 500 miles, the 63-foot cruiser is built without conventional portholes, at the owner's request, and contains only fixed glass areas for light. Because of this, the yacht is entirely dependent on a Carrier water-to-air heat pump system for heating, cooling and ventilation air. The dependency on air conditioning for com-fort led Mr. Frost to insist on having two complete 5-ton systems in parallel and a va-riety of spare parts and tools including a spare compressor. The 100-percent back-up system assures air conditioning even if there are equip-ment failures. In the heat-pump systems, bronze water pumps bring in sea or fresh water to cupro-nickel tube-in-tube condensers, each having 75,000 Btus of heat-rejection capacity. Refrig-erant systems powered by Carrier serviceable hermetic motor-compressors either pick up heat from the water or reject heat to the water as it is pumped in and out of the condensers. The refrigerant lines are connected to five fan-coil units each controlled by a separate thermostat. These fan-coil units are located throughout the cruiser, as close to the space they condition as possible, to minimize the amount of ductwork required. a series of new developments for Windjammer International Corporation, a Maryland firm. Last month a new, wholly owned subsidiary, Windjammer Sea Sciences, was formed, as sup-port and supply to the oceanographic research programs for government, industry and univer-sities. Its first research vessel, the 180-foot Hydrographer, is being outfitted in the Miami shipyards of Hydrotech Corp., and is expected to be placed in service late in July. Captain Burke said the new subsidiary will develop a fleet of floating laboratories and sup-port craft during the next 12 to 18 months, with an investment in excess of $3.5-million. A thriving cruise business in the Caribbean is operated through another wholly owned sub-sidiary, Windjammer Cruises, Ltd. In recent months Windjammer International Corporation has acquired Simpson Steamship Company of Nassau, The Bahamas, operators of the 2,000-ton freighter Linglea, and also acquired Bar-tosiak Shipping Company of Bermuda, opera-tors of the 2,000-ton refrigerator ship Stella Nova. Carrier Water-To-Air System Installed On Yacht To Supply Heat, Cooling And Ventilation COAST WISE ADDITION TO A VERSATILE FLEET One of the new steel deck barges recently added to the Gillen fleet, the JAMES G. measures up to the high standards Gillen has set for both its equipment and services. Designed for both coastal and harbor work, the new barges are part of a continuing program to expand services for you with the finest and most versatile equipment available. LIGHTERAGE AND TOWING H0 CEDAR STREET, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10006 ? 212-964-8787 Steel Deck Barge ? JAMES G. ? 140' x 40' x 11' 6 50 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News