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Baldt Anchor Names

Linnenbank President

Contract For 186-Foot

Tug-Supply Vessels To

Stewart & Stevenson

Stewart & Stevenson Services,

Inc., of Houston, Texas, has been awarded a major contract by Pen- rod Drilling- Co. of Dallas for the construction of two huge tug-sup- ply vessels.

The vessels have been desig- nated as the Mastadon and the

Mammoth and will be 186 feet long with a 38-foot beam and 16-foot draft. They will be United States

Coast Guard certificated and ABS- classed for worldwide service.

Each vessel will be twin-screw powered by General Motors diesel engines and will be rated at 5750 hp. They will also be equipped with two speed reverse and reduc- tion gears, bow thrusters, towing winches, and full anchor handling capability. Ships service electricity will be provided by two Stewart &

Stevenson GM Detroit diesel gen- erator sets.

Quarters will be provided for 25 men and each vessel will have a fuel carrying capacity of approxi- mately 185,000 gallons. Construc- tion on the vessels is presently under way at Mangone Shipbuild- ing Company in Houston.

C. Donald Linnenbank

C. Donald Linnenbank has been named president of Baldt Anchor and Chain Corporation, a subsidi- ary of Baldt Corporation (OTC),

New York.

Mr. Linnenbank, who has been associated with Baldt Anchor and

Chain since 1934, has served in various executive capacities in- cluding production manager, as- sistant superintendent, superinten- dent, purchasing agent, and gen- eral manager.

Mr. Linnenbank attended the

University of Pennsylvania's Whar- ton School for Business Adminis- tration and the Drexel Institute of

Technology's Mechanical Engi- neering School. He has also taken various business and metallugical courses at Temple University.

Baldt Anchor and Chain, head- quartered in Chester, Pa., is the largest United States manufactur- er of heavy-duty anchors and an- chor chains which it markets worldwide.

Edgar J. McGuiness, formerly managing director of the subsidi- ary, will continue in a consulting capacity with the company. He has been associated with Baldt for 40 years.

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New Eguipment Div.

Jack D. Mathews

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