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LARGEST STOCK OF ANCHORS AND ANCHOR CHAIN IN THE WORLD-ALL SIZES AND WEIGHTS-NEW, USED, RECONDITIONED AND GOVERNMENT SURPLUS, IN STOCK, WITH OVERNIGHT DELIVERY TO MOST POINTS. ANCHOR, CHAIN & FORGE DIVISION MAIN OFFICE AND PLANT P.O. BOX 350 CHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA 19016 PHONE 215 TR 4 8461 Gladding-Hearn Pilot Boat Delivered To Portland, Me. Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding Corporation, Somerset, Mass., recently delivered a 65-foot pilot boarding boat to the Portland Pilots, Inc., Portland, Maine. The new steel vessel will replace a schooner built in 1931 and signifies a change in board-ing procedures as well as in equipment. Here-tofore ships have been boarded from a dory. Now, pilots will climb the jacobs ladders di-rectly from the deck of the new motor vessel. A key factor in the process is a rubber fender surrounding the hull at deck edge to provide resiliency between the ship and pilot boat. A large truck tire positioned to be just aft of the jacobs ladder serves as additional cush-ioning at the point of impact and as a spacer to protect the hanging ladder itself. With this technique, ships can be boarded at speeds For Sandy and Soft Bottoms, specify The Stato®! The Stato is our improved mooring anchor developed for the U. S. Navy afford-ing unusual holding strength in sand and mud. Wedge inserts and palm extensions assure positive fluke tripping and superior holding power. There's a Baldt Anchor and Anchor Chain to meet all your marine mooring requirements. The Strongest Anchors and Anchor Chain Known . . . When All Else Fails, They Hold! Call or write for more information. up to 10 knots, permitting greater control of both vessels. The Maine winter weather was a significant influence in the design of the new pilot boat. Sub zero temperatures, harbor ice, freezing spray, rough seas and fog have been designed against by a large diesel-oil-burning heating system providing circulating hot water heat throughout the enclosed part of the boat and a deck deicing system to melt snow and ice from walkways. The forward pilothouse win-dows are electrically heated and cleaned by air-powered windshield wipers, while aft fixed windows are thermopane to reduce heat loss. A Decca 326 radar provides the eyes for fog navigation and a Sea Slave loud hailer mount-ed on the radar mast provides a voice and ears for communication to the helmsman. The hull has a flared bow to keep spray to a mini-mum and a band of heavy steel spanning the waterline to resist the abrasion of harbor ice. Instruments are centered in the pilothouse and besides the radar, loud hailer and Morse engine controls are included a VHF radio, an AM radio telephone, two depth finders (one flashing and one recording), wind speed anemometer, engine and generator alarms, deck defrosting switch and cabin temperature thermostat. Below decks are berths for two crew mem-bers, a head and tile shower stall forward of the galley. In the after cabin are berths for four pilots, a hanging locker and a lounge The Portland Pilot is designed to withstand rugged weather conditions experienced during winter months. A teak grating with raised inboard hand-rails is fitted on the foredeck to provide a non-skid platform for boarding pilots. Propulsion machinery consists of the Cater-pillar D343 turbo-charged main engine rated 365 hp at 1,800 rpm with 3.5:1 reduction gear turning a 48-inch-by-36-inch three-bladed Fed-eral Tru-Pitch propeller, through an Armco 17-4 PI1 stainless-steel shaft, turning in John-son Rubber bearings. Ships service electricity of 110/220 volts, a-c, single-phase, is provided by either of two 30-kw Kohler diesel generators. Capt. Charles Prior (center), president of Portland Pilots Association thanks Preston R. Gladding, president of Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding Corporation for a job well done. Mrs. Prior, who sponsored the boat, also shows her approval. Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Name Douglas To Top Post Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, Limited, Glas-gow, Scotland has announced that Kenneth Douglas, formerly managing director of Aus-tin & Pickersgill, Ltd., the Sunderland Ship-builders, has been appointed managing di-rector of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders. Mr. Douglas, who is 48, was educated at Sunderland Technical School and served his apprenticeship at Sir James Laing & Sons, Ltd., of Sunderland. He was awarded a Bar-tram Scholarship and studied naval architec-ture at Sunderland Technical College for three years full-time and was awarded a diploma in naval architecture. He spent some time as technical officer at the Ship Division of Na-tional Physical Laboratory and in 1953-54 was a member of the management staff at Vickers Armstrong Naval Yard, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He was deputy shipyard manager when he left to take up an appointment in 1954 as di-rector and general manager of William Gray & Co., Ltd., West Hartlepool. He left this company in 1958 to take up the appointment as managing director of Austin & Pickersgill, Ltd. 8 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News