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Beth-San Francisco

Apparent Low Bidder

To Convert AML Ships

The apparent low bid for the con- version of two C-4 Mariner ships into full container vessels for Amer- ican Mail Line was received by the

Maritime Administration, Wash- ington, D.C., from Bethlehem Steel

Corporation's San Francisco yard.

A total of eight bids were re- ceived, and Bethlehem's bid called 100 years of shipbuilding in Holland.

B \ft for the conversion of each of the two ships at $8,398,000.

Plans call for the vessels, now being operated by the Seattle-head- quartered steamship company in transpacific service, to be increased in length from 564 feet to 668 feet through an additional mid-body section. Container capacity of the ships will be 892 twenty-foot units.

Total displacement at full load draft will be 27,090 long tons. The converted ships will carry deluxe accommodations for 12 passengers.

CONTACT

JOHN NORMAN LEOPOLD - President

New Chartering Firm

Opens In New York

Union Bulk Chartering Services,

Inc., a new company at 80 Broad

Street, New York City, announced that Anthony D. Pinto, vice-presi- dent and director of Funch Edye & Co. Inc., is joining the new firm.

Mr. Pinto, who is discontinuing his services with Funch Edye, is joining Union Bulk along with

Stephen J. Stapleton and Horst

Miesner.

Bruce Hobbs Named

President Of Albina

Dillingham Corporation's Mari- time Services Group headquarters,

Honolulu, Hawaii, has announced the appointment of Bruce D. Hobbs as president of the corporation's

Albina Engine & Machine Works, a Portland, Ore., affiliate. Albina builds and repairs ships, makes flow control devices and power- driven elevated work platforms.

Mr. Hobbs, formerly Albina's vice- president and general manager, as- sumed his new post May 25. He replaces L.R. Hussa, Albina's retir- ing president, who will be available to the company as a consultant. Mr.

Hussa, one of Albina's pioneering executives, has been with the firm since 1920.

Prior to joining Dillingham earli- er this year, Mr. Hobbs was vice- president of new construction and repair for Gulfport Shipbuilding

Corp., Port Arthur, Texas, which specializes in the construction of very large barges.

Dillingham Corporation is a di- versified firm engaged in other ocean-oriented activities as well as shipbuilding which include marine transportation and oceanography.

Additional areas of operation are land development, environmental technology, LP-gas transportation and distribution, construction, quarrying and mining.

Navy Contract To FMC

Totaling $78.4 Million

FMC Corporation, San Jose,

Calif., is receiving $3,165,970 as the first-year increment to a three year $78,482,730 negotiated, fixed-price contract for the construction of 942 assault amphibious landing craft (LVTP-7).

The contract is being issued by the Naval Ship Systems Command (N00024-70-C-0281).

The LVTP-7 is a tracked craft, designed primarily to land combat- equipped Marines on shore and then carry them inland.

George G. Coorssen

George G. Coorssen, co-founder and former president of Henschel

Corporation, died on April 29 in

Amesbury, Mass. at the age of 82.

With the late Charles J. Hen- schel, Mr. Coorssen founded the present company in 1919 and served as its president until his retirement in 1966. He was for many years a member of the Shipbuilders Coun- cil, The Society of Naval Archi- tects and Marine Engineers, and the Society of Naval Engineers.

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