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WESTINGHOUSE TURBINE RENEWAL PARTS IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT ANYWHERE Authorized Marine distributor for Westinghouse Turbine Renewal Parts, Port Electric maintains a complete stock of replacement parts in its own warehouse for immediate delivery. Authorized Marine Distributors ton Westinghouse: Turbine, Controller and Motor Renewal Parts Cutler-Hammer: Controller Parts Clark: Controller Parts Also available: Replacement Parts for Monitor. Reliance, Crocker Wheeler, and others. PORT ELECTRIC Turbine Division OF PORT ELECTRIC SUPPLY CORP. 155-157 Perry Street, New York, N. V. 10014 Call (212) 255-4530 SHIP SERVICE OUR SPECIALTY HOOPER NON-RETURN SCUPPER VALVES BALL FLOAT TYPE ? Automatic, Positive Closing ? No Clogging, Leaking or Washbacks ? Noiseless ? No Galvanic Action ? Self-Cleaning ? No Maintenance Costs ? Approved Typ* #1 -Angl« HOOPER VALVE & ENGINEERING CORP. 24th Street & Warwick Ave. Newport News, Va. CH 5-3101 RADIO MARINE EQUIPMENT RADARS: RADIO: LORAN: SONAR: RMCA CR-106 10 cm RMCA CR-104 3 cm Sperry Mark II 3 cm RMCA 5U, 4U Consoles RMCA TCP 75 watt R/T RMCA ET-8010, ET-8019 Transmitters RMCA AR-8516, AR-8506 Receivers Sperry Mark II Edo Mod 262A AN/FQS-1 A, AN/UQS-1B, QHBa, QCU Spores in stock incl. above, Raytheon Pathfinder & SO series. Magnetrons and klystrons 2K25, 4J52, etc. PAUL J. PLISHNER MARINE 45 West 45th Street, New York, New York 10036 Tel: 212-586-4691 Capt. Thomas Small Was There 73 Years Ago And Again Today ?Official Poe Lock Opening Standing at the wheel of the Str. Philip R. Clarke, flag-ship of U.S. Steel's Great Lakes Fleet, Capt. Thomas Small demonstrates for George H. Ashby, master of the Clarke, how he steered the Colgate Hoyte through the first Poe Lock at Sault Ste. Marie in 1896. For Capt. Thomas Small, history repeated itself. On August 4, 1896, 23-year-old Thomas Small, wheelsman, guided his whaleback ore steamer. Colgate Hoyte, through the first Poe Lock at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.?the first com-mercial vessel to pass through the lock which had been dedicated a day earlier. Now, 73 years later, Capt. Thomas Small, who will be 96 on his next birthday, was standing on the bridge of the Str. Philip R. Clarke as it passed through the new Poe Lock during dedication ceremonies on June 26. In a new uniform, Captain Small stood just outside the pilothouse with George H. Ashby, master of the Clarke, as the 647-foot ore car-rier?one of the newest in U.S. Steel's Great Lakes Fleet?glided through the new 1.200-foot, $40-million lock. And in a pocket of that uniform, the captain carried his master's li-cense, reissued to him this past June by the United States Coast Guard. Sailing on a steel company vessel was noth-ing new to Captain Small. It was for the Amer-ican Steel Barge Co.. a fleet which became part of U.S. Steel in 1901, that Captain Small first sailed in 1896. And for the next 43 years, he served as wheelsman, deck officer or skipper on 14 vessels in the steel company's fleet. Retirement from U.S. Steel on New Year's Day 1939 did not mean retirement from the bridge of Great Lakes vessels, however. For the next 22 years, the captain skippered for a number of fleets. National Marine Requests MarAd Mortgage Insurance For Towboats and Barges Mortgage insurance on six 30,000-barrel pe-troleum barges and three 1.350-hp towboats has been requested from the Maritime Administra-tion by subsidiaries of National Marine Serv-ice Inc., St. Louis, Mo. NMS Chemical Cor-poration asked for Title XI mortgage insur-ance on three, Intercity Barge Co., Inc., on two and Asphalt Barge Corporation on one. The three towboats are to be built for Asphalt Barge. The unmanned barges' construction cost was said to total $1,585,455 with the push-type towboats adding another $922,999 to the total. The mortgage insurance sought from the Mar-itime Administration would represent about three-quarters of the construction cost. The St. Louis Shipbuilding Division of Pott Industries, Inc., St. Louis, Mo., will build the barges and Main Iron Works Inc., Houma, La., will build the towboats. Convenience and Economy A COMPLETE AMERICAN SHIP REPAIR SERVICE IDEALLY LOCATED for voyage or annual repairs enroute. Tanker work a specialty. ? 1000 ft. concrete outfitting pier ? 691' reinforced concrete graving dock ? Floating drydock ? Four mobile cranes ? Foundry ? Design division ? Complete machine ? pattern ? boiler-plate ? electrical ? fabricating shops ? New 2000 ton steel floating drydock Plus ? all the modern port facilities of San Juan, Puerto Rico. PUERTO RICO DRYDOCK & MARINE TERMINALS, INC. SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 00903 P.O. BOX 2209 ? TELEPHONE 723-6010 ? 723-0769 ? CABLE ADDRESS "DRYDOCK' 20 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News