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Cunard Group Awards

Eight-Ship Contract

To Astilleros Espanoles

Cunard, one of Britain's major shipping groups, has placed orders for eight 27,000-dwt bulk carriers worth $48-million with a Spanish shipyard. The ships, which are to be built by the Madrid-based As- tilleros Espanoles for delivery in 1972 and 1973, will be managed by

Cunard-Brocklebank, Ltd., or a subsidiary company formed for the purpose.

A Cunard spokesman said that the contract was won by the Span- ish shipyard because no British yard was able to compete on price and delivery. Approximately 40 shipyards throughout the world tendered for the work. 12

Gibbs & Cox Awarded $1.7 Million Contract

A $1,770,947 contract for engi- neering design services and con- struction of four technical ship models of an advanced amphibious assault landing craft has been awarded to Gibbs & Cox, Inc., naval architects, New York, by the

Naval Ship Systems Command,

Washington, D.C.

Bulk Services, Inc.

Names Quain VP

The appointment of James R.

Quain as vice-president of Bulk

Services Inc., was announced by

Egil Moisted, president. The firm, specializing in ship brokerage ac- tivity is located at 145-155 John

Street, New York City.

Shipboard Sewage

Treatment Contract

Awarded To Pall

Pall Trinity Micro Corporation of Cortland, N.Y., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pall Corporation, has announced the receipt of the first major award for the design and manufacture of sewage treatment plants for a new naval ships pro- gram. Litton Industries is prime contractor for the new class of fighting ship known as LHA-1 (General Purpose Amphibious As- sault Vessel).

The subcontract awarded Pall on

June 2, 1970, is in the amount of $1,531,160 and is to be delivered over a period of four years.

Pall entered the marine sewage treatment field in 1967 and from that time has directed its develop- ment and manufacturing efforts to- ward optimizing sewage treatment plants for pollution control on com- mercial and naval ships. These de- velopment efforts culminated in its unique patented MPT series, "Ther- mally Accelerated Extended Aera- tion Treatment Plant." Pall believes it has installed more extended aeration sewage treatment plants on commercial ships than any oth- er manufacturer.

R.J. Pfeiffer

R.J. Pfeiffer has been named se- nior vice-president, operations, of

Matson Navigation Company by the company's board of directors.

The announcement was made by

M.H. Blaisdell, president, in San

Francisco, Calif.

Mr. Pfeiffer will be responsible for all line operations of Matson, reporting directly to the president.

He has been vice-president in charge of the company's Far East freight division for the past four years, and president of Matson Ter- minals, Inc. since 1962. He was succeeded in the latter position by

Gordon Bart in a recent shift of

Matson executive personnel.

Philadelphia SNAME Holds 20th Annual Banquet

Newport News Shipbuilding Elects Officers

Announces Three Executive Level Promotions

Richard Broad

The election of three officers of

Newport News Shipbuilding and

Dry Dock Company, Newport

News, Va., was announced by L.C.

Ackerman, president and chief ex- ecutive officer of the Tenneco sub- sidiary. Elected by the board of di- rectors were Richard Broad, vice- president; F. Hunter Creech, sec- retary and general counsel; and

William H. Smith, treasurer.

Mr. Ackerman said that Mr.

Broad's elevation to vice-president was a "recognition of the increasing importance of the shipyard's nu- clear activities and allied responsi- bilities." Mr. Broad was formerly chief of nuclear engineering. He joined Newport News in 1938 and became quality inspection engineer in 1958. His appointment as chief of the company's nuclear engineer- ing operations came in 1963. He is a graduate of the yard's Apprentice

School and has a B.S. and M.S. in naval architecture and marine en- gineering from the University of

Michigan. He also attended the

Oak Ridge School of Reactor Tech- nology in Tennessee.

The selection of Mr. Creech for the post of secretary and general counsel fills the vacancy created by the retirement of Harry H. Holt

Jr. on April 30 this year. Mr.

Creech, who had worked previously as an attorney for Ingalls Ship- building Corp. in Pascagoula, Miss., came to the shipyard in 1964 as as- sistant to the general counsel. He was named assistant general coun- sel in September 1966 and elected assistant secretary of the company the following April. He received

William H. Smith both his B.A. in philosophy and his

LL.B. degree from the University of Virginia.

Mr. Smith's appointment became effective June 1, when Thomas L.

Lanier retired as treasurer of the company. He was employed in 1958 as assistant to the treasurer and was elected assistant treasurer in

May 1962. He received his B.S. de- gree from Davidson College and his M.B.A. from the University of

North Carolina. Before joining the staff at Newport News, he served as a Navy pilot for four years.

Other officers elected by the board of directors at its annual organization meeting were W.T.

Smith, senior vice-president; W.F.

Wilson, vice-president for adminis- tration ; A.R. Myers, comptroller;

F.D. Seney, assistant secretary; and D.M. Williams, assistant treas- urer.

N.W. Freeman, president and chief executiye officer of Tenneco

Inc., was named chairman of the

Newport News board and chairman of its executive committee.

In addition to Mr. Freeman and

Mr. Ackerman, other board mem- bers to serve during the coming year are Simon Askin, vice-chair- man of the board, Tenneco Inc.,

New York; Walter E. Dennis, fi- nancial consultant, New York; C.

L. Huston Jr., president Lukens

Steel Company, Coatesville, Pa.;

W. Thomas Rice, president, Sea- board Coastline Railroad Company,

Richmond, Va.; and Gardiner Sy-> monds, chairman of the board, Ten- neco Inc., Houston, Texas. Vice-

Adm. Emory S. Land, USN (ret.) was named director emeritus. f. Hunter Creech

Seated at the head table, left to right: L.B. Bennett, banquet chairman; Mrs. Bennett;

W.D. Vandegrift (hidden from camera), American Bureau of Shipping; Mrs. Vandegrift;

Kent C. Thornton, outgoing chairman of the Philadelphia Section; Mrs. Thornton; Capt.

F.W. Gooch Jr., USN, Commander, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard; Mrs. Gooch; G.A.

Johnson, 1970-7] Philadelphia Section chairman; Mrs. Johnson; Robert G. Mende,

SNAME National Secretary, and Mrs. Mende.

The 20th Annual Dinner-Dance of the Philadelphia Section of the

Society of Naval Architects and

Marine Engineers was held at the

City Line Holiday Inn, Philadel- phia, on May 23.

This is the first time the event was held at this location. Due to its successful attendance the affair has outgrown previous sites.

During the festivities, one of the highlights of the affair was the presentation of a Certificate by Ro- bert G. Mende, National Secretary of the Society, to Kent C. Thorn- ton, of the J.J. Henry Company,

Inc., Philadelphia, in recognition of his services as chairman of the

Philadelphia Section.

This annual banquet, traditional- ly attended by just about everyone in the Philadelphia maritime com- munity, provided a fitting climax to the formal 1969-1970 season.

Bob Mende, (left) SNAME National Sec- retary, presenting a Certificate of Recogni- tion to outgoing Philadelphia Section chair- man, Kent C. Thornton.

Matson Names Pfeiffer

Senior VP-Operations