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Commercial Fisheries

Bureau Transferred

The functions of the Bureau of

Commercial Fisheries have been transferred from the U.S. Depart- ment of the Interior to the U.S. De- partment of Commerce.

The Bureau is now known as the

National Marine Fisheries Service of the newly organized National Ocean- ic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Its service to the public and to the fishing industry will be unchanged.

The official new title and address are: Exploratory Fishing Gear Re- search Base, National Marine Fish- eries Service, NOAA, U.S. Depart- ment of Commerce, Woods Hole,

Mass. 02543. Telephone (617) 548- 5123.

Albert Killgore Joins

Santa Fe-Pomeroy, Inc.

Albert B. Killgore, former mana- ger of offshore operations in the

Gulf of Mexico for Brown & Root,

Inc., Houston, Texas, has joined

Santa Fe-Pomeroy, Inc., as vice- president and manager of offshore construction. He will headquarter in San Francisco, Calif.

Mr. Killgore has been involved in construction since his discharge from the Air Force in 1956. Since joining Brown & Root in 1964, he has served as derrick barge super- intendent in the North Sea, coordi- nator of offshore operations in

Peru, and assistant general mana- ger of the Marine Operators Divi- sion. In this capacity, he was re- sponsible for coordination of all platform fabrication and erection and for other marine oriented con- struction in the Gulf and in certain overseas operations.

Mr. Killgore is a 1953 graduate of Southern Methodist University,

Dallas, Texas.

Santa Fe-Pomeroy is the engi- neering and construction subsi- diary of Santa Fe International

Corp., Los Angeles, Calif.

IHI Kure Shipyard

Starts Construction On

World's Biggest Tanker

The construction of the world's largest ship, the 372,400-dwt Nisseki

Maru for the Tokyo Tanker Co.,

Ltd., a member of the Nisseki Group, was started on November 18 at the 400,000-dwt building dock of the

Kure shipyard of IHI (Ishikawa- jima-Harima Heavy Industries Co.,

Ltd.), Japan.

Completion is scheduled for No- vember 1971. After completion, the ship will be engaged in carrying crude oil from Ras Tanura in the Persian

Gulf to the Nisseki Group's C.T.S. (a crude oil storage terminal) at Kiire in Kagoshima Bay, Japan.

When unloaded, the tanker will travel via the Malacca Straits, which is the shortest route between Japan and the Persian Gulf. However, when fully loaded with crude oil, it will run through the Lombok Straits since the

Malacca Straits are too shallow for the ship to pass through.

A team of women crew members will be aboard the ship for the first time on a Japanese oceangoing ves- sel. The team will consist of four women—a nurse and three women to be engaged in other jobs. The team will work on a shift basis for com- paratively short duty periods.

The world's largest ships now in service are the six 326,000-dwt tank- ers including the Universe Ireland, which were delivered to National

Bulk Carriers Inc., of the United

States by IHI's Yokohama shipyard and MHI's Nagasaki shipyard dur- ing the period from September 1968 to July 1969.

IHI also has a 477,000-dwt-tanker even larger than the Nisseki Maru on order by Globtik Tanker Limited,

England. Its construction will begin at the Kure shipyard in February 1972 with completion scheduled for

February 1973. The ship will be chartered by the Tokyo Tanker Co.

Grafton To Build

Two Survey Boats

The Corps of Engineers, Foot of

Prytania Street, New Orleans, La., has awarded Grafton Boat Company,

Inc., Grafton, 111. 62037, a $150,000 contract to build two all-welded- cabin, all-welded-steel-hull survey boats. The vessels are to be not less than 40 feet long and will have diesel engines.

Wk Jl II builds and repairs vessels of every type and size, from giant floating cranes

I V IIL to railway car ferries and missile-equipped frigates. MIL can handle the docking of 8 ships at a time on its marine railway and sliding berths. MIL was selected as lead yard and is currently building the first two ships of the DDH (Helicopter De- stroyer) program for the Canadian Navy. MIL is completing a modernization and expansion program at its Sorel shipyard to build ships on modern assembly line methods.

MIL means efficiency, quality and on-schedule delivery.

MARINE INDUSTRIES LTD.

Head Office: Marine Building, 1405 Peel Street, Montreal

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