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Worldwide Towing

Partnership Formed

By Smit And Cory

L. Smit & Co.'s Internationale

Sleepdienst of Rotterdam, together with Wm. Cory & Son, Limited of

London, have agreed to form a joint company for the purpose of operating or managing harbor tugs on a worldwide basis. This would refer particularly to deep water ports where oil or ore loading and discharging facilities are envisaged, but excluding Holland and the

United Kingdom.

L. Smit & Co.'s Internationale

Sleepdienst are well known as har- bor tug owners of Rotterdam and

Europoort, apart from their pre- eminent position as deepsea and salvage operators.

Mr. Cory, through their towage subsidiary R. & J.H. Rea Limited, already operate tugs at LTnited

Kingdom and Eire ports.

Both partners in this new ven- ture have considerable experience in the handling of some of the largest ships in the world at Rot- terdam, Europoort, Milford Haven,

Bantry Bay, etc.

The company will be named Smit & Cory International Port Towage

Ltd. and its registered office is at

Cory Buildings, Fenchurch Street,

London-E.C. 3. A.F. Ramsay has been appointed executive director.

The new company has secured its first contract with Gulf Oil Canada

Ltd. for the provision of tug serv- ices at the refinery being built at

The Majmaa 1 and Majmaa 2 are former tankers that have been converted to remote controlled, unmanned floating oil storage barges. They are for use about 58 miles off the coast of Dubai, in the

Arabian Gulf. The climatic conditions and water temperature in the gulf are ideal for the profuse growth of marine life that plays havoc with the hulls of vessels and barges. Majmaa 1 and Majmaa 2, however, are coated with USS TARSET 305 AF anti- foulant coating system to provide them with full protection. It's so good that insurance underwriters waived the 30-month maximum time in water for barges and allowed a 48-month time passage before drydocking.

USS TARSET 305 AF is a coal tar-epoxy based coat- ing that substantially reduces fouling and blocks the growth and penetration of marine organisms to bare metal, so it prevents pitting. TARSET 305 AF has no solid metal toxicants, so there is no possibility of galvanic corrosion from coating constituents.

You also save on application costs: usually, only two (at most, three) coats are needed to provide an optimum film thickness.

You also save money because USS TARSET 305 AF has a high degree of film and anti-fouling integrity, even when premature dockings occur for repairs.

Usually only a touch-up of the repaired areas is required, rather than re-coat the entire hull as required with some systems.

If you'd like to find out more about USS TARSET 305 AF anti-foulant system, write for our Marine

Coatings booklet, or have a USS coating specialist call. USS Chemicals, Division of United States Steel,

Box 86, Room 6665, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15230.

USS and TARSET are registered trademarks.

USS and TARSET are registered trademarks.

UsS) Marine Coatings

Point Tupper, Canso Strait, Nova

Scotia, and two powerful harbor tugs of 3,000 bhp each, with ex- tensive equipment for firefighting and the dispersal of oil spills, have been ordered from Richards (Ship- builders) Ltd. of Lowestoft.

Radiomarine Elects

Gordon C. Hopkins

Vice-Pres.-Marketing

Gordon C. Hopkins

Gordon C. Hopkins has been elected vice-president, marketing, of Radiomarine Corporation, Red

Bank, N.J. He succeeds Virgil K.

Lewis who has retired. Mr. Hop- kins, who was formerly general sales manager, will be responsible in his new post for all of Radioma- rine's field and administrative sales operations. An authority on the de- sign and installation of shipboard communications systems, Mr. Hop- kins began his career with Radio- marine in 1937 as a marine com- munications engineer.

Over the years Mr. Hopkins has held several administrative posi- tions with the pioneer producer of marine communications and navi- gation equipment. He has served as sales manager since January 1. 1968. Mr. Hopkins is a member of

The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and the In- stitute of Electrical and Electron- ics Engineers. $3 Million Contract

To Bath Iron Works

A contract for the modernization of the guided-missile frigate Eng- land (DLG) has been awarded by the Navy to Bath Iron Works Cor- poration, Bath, Me.

Work on the vessel, which will cost approximately $3,000,000, is to be completed within 12 months.

New Bern Shipyards

Wins Contract To Build

Six Ferries For N.C.

A $1,459,000 contract for the con- struction of six 122-foot passenger/ vehicle ferries for the North Caro- lina Highway Commission has been awarded to New Bern Shipyards,

Inc., James City, N.C.

The vessels were designed by

Coast Engineering Company, naval architects of Norfolk, Va.

To be powered by triple screws, each vessel will measure 40 feet in beam by 8 feet in depth and will have a shallow draft because of their intended operation at Hat- teras Inlet.

The sixth vessel is scheduled for delivery by October 15, 1970.

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