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DESCO Ships Four Trawlers To Kuwait For Arabian Owner Four DESCO trawlers are delivered under their own power to a cargo ship for trans-shipment to Kuwait. Four DESCO trawlers recently were loaded on the Hansa Line's ship Falkenfels for ship-ment to Kuwait. The 73-foot trawlers were purchased by Mishary Khalid Al-Zaid of Ku-wait, Arabia. This is his second order of trawlers from DESCO Marine, Inc. of St. Augustine, Fla. Two trawlers were shipped to the same owner in 1967 and were the be-ginning of his fleet. All the trawlers are named after the owner? Khalid I, II, III and IV and Zaid I and II. When ordering, the 30-year-old owner makes a personal visit to the building yard to place the contract. The trawlers are identical. They are pow-ered by Caterpillar diesel engines driving a Columbian Bronze propeller through a Twin-Disc reduction gear. They are fully outfitted when they leave DESCO, even including Co-lumbian Rope hawsers. These four trawlers were hull nos. 1639 through 1642 in DESCO's continuous shrimp-trawler building program. York Div. Announces Major Staff Changes Gerard V. Patrick, chairman of the board and president of the York Division of Borg-Warner Corporation, York. Pa., has announced the appointment of Edward P. Sheehan to the position of executive vice-president of mar-keting. Mr. Sheehan joined York in 1962 as staff assistant to the president. He became vice-president and director of marketing in 1967. In this new capacity, Mr. Sheehan is re-sponsible for all sales and merchandising of residential, commercial and large engineered machinery products for air conditioning and refrigeration applications in the United States as well as full responsibility for all functions of the York Division of Borg-Warner in Canada. Prior to joining York, Mr. Sheehan was general sales manager of the Ophthalmic Di-vision of American Optical Company. Mr. Sheehan matriculated at Deerfield Acad-emy and Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. In related moves, Mr. Sheehan announced that Charles H. Douts has been promoted to the newly created position of administrative assistant to Mr. Patrick and that George E. Buchanan III has been named to succeed Mr. Douts as general service manager. Mr. Douts attended Pennsylvania State Uni-versity in a York-Pennsylvania State Co-opera-tive Training Program. He was graduated in 1951 with a BS degree in mechanical engi-neering at which time he joined the former York Corporation service department where he has held numerous key positions before becoming general service manager in 1966. Mr. Buchanan joined York in 1946 as a serv-ice mechanic apprentice. After completing his apprenticeship, he served in various capacities including packaged products field service su-pervisor. He was made assistant to the general service manager in 1967. Dart Containerline Announces New York Staff Appointments ?Trans-Atlantic Schedule John T. Cassidy John Vogele George Fruehling Jeffrey Driesen Jacques Leblanc has been elected president of Dart Containerline Incorporated and a member of the board of directors. The an-nouncement was made at the first annual meeting of Dart Containerline Incorporated, New York City. Mr. Leblanc will also act as chief executive officer and will coordinate all Dart Containerline activities in the United States. Dart Containerline is the new joint venture of Belgian Line, Clarke Traffic Serv-ices and Bristol City Line in a North Atlantic containership service between the United States and Canada East Coasts to United Kingdom and Continental ports. Mr. Leblanc was formerly executive vice-president of Belgian Line Inc. Early in his career in the United States he concentrated on containerization and helped to develop the now successful two-port concept of the trans-Atlantic service of the Belgian Line. Following his assumption of office as presi-dent, Mr. Leblanc announced the appointment of John T. Cassidy as senior vice-president, John Vogele as vice-president-finance, George Fruehling as vice-president of sales for traffic between the United States and Europe, and Jeffrey Driesen as vice-president of manage-ment services. Mr. Cassidy was formerly vice-president of the Belgian Line Inc. in charge of sales and public relations. He is an executive reserve member of the Office of Emergency Transpor-tation of the U.S. Department of Transporta-tion, a director of the National Defense Trans-portation Association New York Chapter, a member of the Foreign Commerce Club of New York and the National Export Traffic League. John Vogele was formerly treasurer of the Belgian Line Inc. and will be in charge of fiscal affairs for Dart Containerline Incorpo-rated. Mr. Vogele is a member of the New York Credit and Financial Management Asso-ciation. Mr. Fruehling is a graduate of the Univer-sity of Iowa and has a master's degree from Columbia University. He was formerly vice-president of the Belgian Line Inc. and in charge of both east and westbound solicitation for the company. Mr. Fruehling was instru-mental in setting up the foundations for the container program of the Belgian Line Inc. Mr. Driesen was formerly with the Belgian Line and Grace Line Inc. in charge of special projects and company planning. In his new capacity with Dart Containerline Mr. Driesen will also develop and coordinate the data pro-cessing system of the American Corporation along with its associates and parent organiza-tion, Dart Containerline Company Limited. Mr. Driesen will also serve as administrative and purchasing officer. Dart Containerline is represented in the United States by Dart Containerline Incorpo-rated, formerly headquartered at 67 Broad Street. The firm moved on July 14 to 30 Church Street, New York City, where it has the same staff as the former Belgian Line trans-Atlantic service. The first eastbound sailing by Dart Con-tainerline from New York was made on June 13. A two-port to two-port concept will be maintained, i.e., New York/Norfolk/Antwerp/ Southampton, along with the same agencies and port representatives formerly utilized by the Belgian Line and their trans-Atlantic Painter vessels. Dart Containerline will put into trans-Atlan-tic service three giant container vessels by mid-1970. These huge vessels will be able to carry up to 1,600 twenty-foot containers or the mixed equivalent in 20-foot and 40-foot-length con-tainers. These container vessels will each have a displacement of 55,000 tons. Philadelphia Resins Names Distributors Philadelphia Resins Co. has made three dis-tributor appointments, according to David H. Kollock, president. Argo Marine Supply Co., Inc., 5837-B Mis-sion Gorge Rd., San Diego, Calif., will distrib-ute throughout southern California, New Mex-ico and Arizona and will handle epoxy chock-ing compounds and repair kits. Glenaire Machinery Corp., 4037 Jefferson Highway, New Orleans, La., has been named as the New Orleans area distributor. In addi-tion to the above mentioned products, Glen-aire will handle vibration damping materials and industrial adhesives and coatings. Preco Equipment Company, 6827 La Paeso, Houston, Texas, has been named as the Hous-ton area distributor, servicing the numerous shipyards, operators and refineries in the area. The appointments are to provide improved service to the company's constantly growing market in the California and Gulf Coast regions. Philadelphia Resins is a leading producer of high strength adhesives and casting compounds for marine applications. Bendix To Acquire Skagit Corporation The Bendix Corporation and the Skagit Cor-poration of Sedro Wooley, Wash., have an-nounced tentative plans for Bendix to acquire Skagit in a stock transaction estimated at $11.94-million. The proposal would give Skagit about 169,000 shares of Bendix preferred and, if Skagit earn-ings warrant after the acquisition, up to 56,000 shares more. Skagit is a privately held firm. It makes systems for the logging, marine and off-shore oil indus-tries and materials-handling equipment. American Marine Building Two Oil-Well Supply Boats American Marine Corp., New Orleans, La., was awarded a contract by undisclosed interests, for the construction of two offshore, oil-well supply boats. Designated Hull Nos. 1032 and 1033, each vessel will have dimensions of 166 feet by 38 feet by 13 feet and will be equipped with twin-screw 1,700-total-bhp diesels. July 57, 1969 13