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Bailey Meter To Automate Lykes Sea-Barge Carriers Bailey Meter Company, Wickliffe, Ohio will develop and manufacture centralized engine room and bridge control systems for three of the most powerful cargo ships ever built. Under a contract award from General Dy-namics, Bailey will provide 721 Solid State Electronic Analog Control System for main turbine control and MINI-LINE 500 Pneu-matic Control Systems for combustion, feed-water and steam temperature control in all three vessels. The three ships, each with 36,000 shp, are being built at the Quincy, Mass., ship-yard of General Dynamics Corporation for Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc. of New Or-leans. The centralized engine room and bridge con-trol systems will result in reliable operation of the machinery plant and ship by providing re-mote information display and control. Each of the vessels includes two Babcock & Wilcox boilers equipped with three oil-fired, steam atomizing burners, capable of unattend-ed operation over the normal operating range. Each boiler is capable of generating steam at a rate in excess of 100,000 pounds per hour. A subsidiary of The Babcock & Wilcox Com-pany, Bailey Meter Company is a leading man-ufacturer of control computers, instrumenta-tion. and systems for the power and process industries. The main turbine-control system will con-trol speed and direction of rotation of the ship's propellers. There will be two speed-demand transmitters/receivers, one mounted on the bridge console and one on the engine room con-DANGER When you've got something important to say, shout it with a Safety Guide buoy. You get optimum target, over 3 sq. ft. of day-mark area, proven sta-bility and long service life ? in any kind of climate. Rugged construction keeps your message in plain sight long after other buoys fail. Shell is seamless filled with urethane foam. Safety Guide buoys Safety Guide and Cycolac are registered trademarks 20 are blow-molded of tough Cycolac® brand ABS. Color is built in. There's no chance of rust or corrosion. Find out about the complete line of Safety Guide navigational aids, buoys and floats. Write: Marine Sales, Safety Guide Products Department, Borg-Warner Corporation, Scottsburg, Indiana 47170. Safety Guide* BORGXWARNER BORG-WARNER. sole. Each of the two units will function as either an engine order telegraph system when control of the turbines is in the engine room, or as a speed indexing device when speed con-trol is from the bridge. The pneumatic combustion-control system will maintain furnace input in accordance with boiler demand. At steady-state steaming or maneuvering, with two boilers operating in parallel at rates between 10 percent and 100 percent of full power, the control system will be capable of dividing the load without excess air readjustment so that each boiler generates an amount of steam within plus or minus 2 percent of the amount generated by the other boiler. The two-element feedwater control system will maintain feedwater input in accordance with boiler demand. It will maintain water level within plus or minus one inch during steady-state conditions, and within plus or minus four inches of level set point during rapid load transients. Final steam temperature will be controlled by a single element control system which will maintain a maximum steam temperature by bypassing some portion of the superheater sur-face. Westinghouse Builds Two Research Subs Two submarines are being built by Westing-house Ocean Research and Engineering Center, Annapolis, Md., and Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh, Pa., respectively, each for its own use. The first, an exploration and research type submarine will be able to dive to 20,000 feet. Diminsions are 36 feet by 10 feet 3 inches by 14 feet with power to be supplied by electric motors and storage batteries. The other, a research vessel to measure 19 feet 6 inches by 7 feet 8 inches by 8 feet 4 inches, will also be propelled by electric motors and storage batteries. Cost involved was not disclosed. CAPITOL-FLOWN FLAG FOR NUCLEAR SUB?An American flag which flew over the nation's capitol was presented by Mississippi Congressman G. V. Montgomery to the commanding officer of the nuclear submarine USS Puffer. The presentation was made during the Puffer's commissioning at the Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Litton Industries in Pascagoula, Miss. Congressman Mont-gomery delivered the principal address at the commis-sioning which marked the entry into the Navy Fleet of the eighth nuclear sub built by Ingalls. Participating in the commissioning were, left to right: Ellis B. Gardner, senior vice-president of Litton and president of Ingalls; Comdr. John Will, commanding officer of Puffer; Cong-ressman Montgomery, and Capt. R. R. Fargo, Navy supervisor of shipbuilding at Pascagoula. Maritime Reporter/Engineering News