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First High-Production Paceco Dredge Built And Launched In Tampico, Mexico Mexican Naval Shipyard launches first high-production dredge. A Paceco Pacer, the first 16-inch dredge with capacity to produce 1,200 cubic yards per hour, was launched recently at the Mexican Naval Shipyard in Tampico. Built for the government of Mexico, it is also the first dredge to be built in that country. The hull and hous-ing structure were fabricated by the naval shipyard. Paceco, a divi-sion of Fruehauf Corporation, Ala-meda, Calif., supplied the design and machinery. To achieve the high production capacity, the new dredge was equipped with a jet-stream pump system. It is the first new dredge Worldwide Orders For Ships May Pass 100-Million Ton Mark The total deadweight tonnage of ships on order will soon pass the 100-million-ton level, according to the British publication Fairplay International Shipping Journal. This forecast is based on the publi-cation's most recent survey of the order books of shipyards which shows 93,903,015 tons on order. This figure is up some 5-million tons over the previous quarter which ended on January 31 this year. to be designed with a jet-stream system to increase production at normal digging depths. In 1960 two dredges were built by Paceco with jet-stream systems to dig at abnormal depths of 225-feet below the Volta River for the govern-ment of Ghana, Africa. Of portable design, the dredge can be disassembled for easy ship-ment and reassembled at different sites to provide greater use of the dredge. Power aboard the dredge consists of 1,500-hp on the main pump and 420-hp on the auxiliary engine. Due to the changes in size and types of ships, Fairplay has broken down tanker orders into two groups?vessels of 150,000 tons and over and ships under 150,000 tons. For the larger ships, the pub-lication shows 216 vessels, totaling 48,940,890 tons, on order. In the smaller category, the report lists 394 ships of 11,066,823 tons. The other modification in listing separates bulk carriers into ore-oil ships and ore-oil-bulk vessels. There were 89 ore-oil ships, total-ing 10,599,415 tons, on order as of the end of April and 12,632,156 tons, 382 ships, in the latter group. Richard L. Harris Joins Consulting Firm as VP Richard L. Harris, a public rela-tions executive of United States Lines for more than 16 years, has resigned to become a vice-presi-dent of the Thomas J. Deegan Co., Inc., management consultants. Mr. Harris, who won the Dis-tinguished Service Cross, Silver Star and Bronze Star as an Army officer in World War II, joined the freight department of United States Lines in 1945, and in 1947 was named assistant manager of the American Pioneer Line, an affili-ate. In 1951 he was assigned to the advertising and publicity depart-ment for promotion of the passen-ger liner United States, which then was nearing completion. Donald Newell Named AMF Beaird President Donald Newell Donald Newell has been named president and general manager of AMF Beaird, Inc. of Shreveport, La., it was announced by Richard C. Yount, vice-president and petro-leum services group executive of American Machine & Foundry Company, of which the firm is a subsidiary. He succeeds Joseph LaBarbera, who has resigned. AMF Beaird, Inc. is a major manufacturer of capital equipment for the oil, gas, chemical, transpor-tation and defense industries in-cluding rail tank cars, "Maxim" silencers, LP-gas equipment, and contract items. Mr. Newell has been general manager since 1963 of General American Transportation Corpora-tion's plate and welding division in Chicago. From 1959 to 1963 he was regional manager of the Birming-ham, Ala. plant of Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Company after six years in a similar capacity with the Hammond Iron Works in Birm-ingham before it merged with Pittsburgh-Des Moines. He was in charge of building the Provo, Utah plant of Keyes Tank Company in 1949 and until 1953 served as a Keyes vice-president, and manager of the Provo facility. He attended Western Michigan College prior to World War II, during which he served as a first lieutenant and pilot in the U.S. Air Force. He resumed his studies at the University of Wyoming after the war and was graduated in 1948 with honors as a bachelor of science in civil engineering. Mr. Newell is a registered civil engineer in Alabama and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. White Superior Appoints Miller Vice-President Martin H. Miller The appointment of Martin H. Miller as vice-president of manu-facturing for the White Superior Division of White Motor Corpora-tion Industrial Group, Springfield, Ohio has been announced by A. F. George, president of the division. In his new position, Mr. Miller will have responsibility for all phases of plant and foundry oper-ations. For the past 15 years he has served as assistant to the presi-dent and manager of manufactur-ing. Mr. Miller joined the firm in 1934, before it was acquired by White Motor Corporation, and ad-vanced through the accounting de-partment to the position of division controller prior to his association with the division's manufacturing activities. SEMI-CONTAINERSHIP SINGAPORE PRIDE was recently delivered by Sumitomo Ship-building & Machinery Co., Ltd. at its Uraga, Japan, shipbuilding yard to her owners, Malaysia Marine Corporation. The 492-foot, 13,599-dwt ship is the fourth ship apply-ing the "semi-submerged ship theory" to be constructed at the Uraga yard. Powered by a Uraga-Sulzer 9RD76, 1 4,400-hp diesel engine, the ship attained a speed of 22.99 knots on trials. Service speed is given as 19.5 knots. Cargo gear consists of 22V2-ton booms rigged on the Ebel system. The Singapore Pride is classed by the American Bureau of Shipping. 18 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News FIRST OF A NEW CLASS? Equitable Equipment Company, Inc., New Orleans ship-builder, has delivered the 65-foot offshore water taxi, Joseph O, to Crew Transport, Inc., Golden Meadow, La. It is the first in a new class of water taxis designed and built by Equitable Equipment Company. The Joseph O has an overall length of 65-feet with a beam of 1 7-feet 3-inches and a loaded draft of four-feet. Primary propulsion is by two General Motors 12V71 turbo-charged and heat exchanger-cooled diesels with 2:1 re-duction and reverse gearing. The new boat has a top speed in excess of 28 miles per hour and cruises in excess of 25 miles per hour at 2,000 rpm. The water taxi is U.S. Coast Guard certificated to carry 49 passengers for hire up to 100 miles offshore, and is built to American Bureau of Shipping requirements. It is centrally air conditioned and heated.