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World-Wide Launches 49,300-Ton LPG Ship

The World - Wide Shipping

Group of Hong Kong, headed by

Y.K. Pao, enters a new field of cargo carriage with a 49,300-dwt liquefied petroleum gas carrier,

World Bridgestone, which was launched for the Group at the

Kobe Shipyard of Kawasaki Heavy

Industries Ltd. in a gala ceremony.

The vessel was sponsored by Mrs.

Curran, wife of M. Curran, deputy chairman of the Hong Kong and

Shanghai Banking Corporation.

The carrier is a single-screw die- sel-driven vessel designed to carry liquefied commercial grade propane and/or butane from the Persian

Gulf to Japan. She is of all-welded construction with raked stem, large bulbous bow and cruiser stern. The propulsive machinery, together with accommodation for a com- plement of 39, is all arranged aft.

The main engine, a Kawasaki

M.A.N. K82 78/155 E type, gives the vessel a speed of 15 knots in loaded condition.

The LPG space is subdivided in- to four butane and six propane tanks with a total volume exceed- ing 2.6 million cubic feet. The vessel is designed to carry the gases at near atmospheric pressure with a minimum temperature of minus 46 degrees C. All the nec- essary machinery for the relique- faction of the boiloff gas, cargo handling, etc., is also installed.

When the vessel completes her final phases of fitting-out in months' time, she will go on long- term charter with a Japanese char- terer for regular PG/Japan trade.

This is the first of three new ships launched for World-Wide during the month of January, dur- ing which period the Group also accepted two new ship deliveries.

American Trading

Names Frank J. Murphy

Frank J. Murphy

The promotion of Frank J. Mur- phy to vice president-marine trans- portation, has been announced by

Dr. Morton K. Blaustein, presi- dent of American Trading and

Production Corporation, Balti- more, Md. The Marine Division offices are located at 555 Fifth Ave- nue, New York, N.Y.

In announcing the appointment,

Dr. Blaustein said, "This promo- tion is in recognition of Mr. Mur- phy's successful leadership of the

Marine Division, as well as his many years of devoted service to the company."

Mr. Murphy began his career with American Trading in 1939 and rose through various managerial positions to general manager of the Marine Division. He will con- tinue to serve as general manager.

In addition to owning and oper- ating a fleet of oceangoing tankers,

American Trading and Production

Corporation engages in oil and gas exploration and production, manu- factures communication equip- ment, kitchenware and giftware, and develops and operates com- mercial real estate properties throughout the United States. The company also has important hold- ings in major oil companies, as well as substantial interests in banks and financial institutions.

Sanders Receives

Navy Buoy Contract

Sanders Associates, Inc., Nashua,

N.H. has announced receipt of a $425,000 contract from the U.S. Na- val Ship Systems Command for initial production of shipboard tac- tical buoys.

The award, the first significant production order for the new type buoys, follows the successful per- formance of prototype units which were developed by Sanders under an earlier research and develop- ment contract. Work will be per- formed at the company's ocean systems plant in Nashua, N.H. 1-4

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