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for the finest drydocking and repairs

ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD 34 Drydocks up to 215,000 DWT

Over 11,000 skilled workers - Marine Engineers

Terrin Shipyard• Marseille Beliard Murdoch S.A.-Antwerp (Ste. Provencale Des Ateliers Terrin) 2000 men per day Twelve docks to 90,000 DWT. 3000 men per day. Ten drydocks to 215,000 Te!ex 84631216 Telephone No. 31 36 00

Telex No. 8424170 DWT capacity. Telephone No. 50 29 55 * Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd. - Hong Kong 3500 men per day. Four graving docks to 36,000

Telex No. 7803547 DWT capacity.

Telephone No. K-62431

Beliard Crighton & Cie-Dunkirk Caillard S.A.-Le Havre 900 men per day. Two drydocks to 60,000 DWT. 1000 men per day. Four drydocks to 60,000

Telex No. 84282091 Telephone No. 66 48 00 Telex No. 84279021 DWT.

Telephone No. 48 12 17

Sandock Ltd. (South African National Dock) - Durban 900 men per day. Two docks to 60,000 DWT.

Telex No. 7023DN Telephone No. 357104

United States and Canadian Representative

Robert M. Catharine Jr. 11 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10004 Telephones (212) 944-6050 . . . 943-7050

ITT Telex: 423175 - W.U. Telex 12278 *As Sub-Agents for United States Navigation Co. Inc., 17 Battery Place, N.Y.C.

NO BRAG,

JUST FACT

A fleet of fast, seaworthy sup- ply vessels and tugs with ex- perience in the world's roughest seas. Operated and staffed by our own experienced crews.

JACKSON MARINE CORPORATION

P. 0. Box 1087

Aransas Pass, Texas 78336 512/758-3295 Cable JACMAC

BP Goup Operates 350 Ships

Totaling 18.5 Million Dwt

British Petroleum's largest supertanker to date, the 240,000-dwt Blois, was christened recently at La Ciotat, near Marseilles, France.

When the Blois is commissioned, BP will have 21 supertankers (of more than 200,000 dwt each) in service either owned or on period charter. By the beginning of 1975, the super- tanker fleet is expected to increase to around 50.

The Blois is the third company-owned supertanker to join the BP fleet in 1970 and will be operated by Societe Maritime des Pe- troles BP, a wholly-owned subsidiary of BP's

French company. The other two, the British

Explorer and the British Inventor, were built in Japanese yards and were the first of nine tankers of up to 261,000 dwt ordered by the company from Japan.

In August, BP placed orders for four super- tankers from yards in Holland—two vessels of 249,000 tons each, and two of 225,000 tons each. The first of these four supertankers is expected to be in service during 1973 and the remainder during 1974.

Additionally, two 240,000 tonners have been ordered from La Ciotat, near Marseilles, and another of 219,000 from a St. Nazaire shipyard.

The total fleet operating for The BP Group presently consists of more than 350 owned and chartered vessels of all kinds totaling some 18.5 million dwt.

Captain F.W. Gooch Joins

Robert E. Carr Associates

Capt. F.W. Gooch, USN (ret.), former Com- mander, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, has joined Robert E. Carr Associates, Inc. as vice president. Robert E. Carr Associates, systems test management consultants specializing in integrated weapons/electronics test programs for the Navy Surface Shipbuilding Program, is expanding in the area of marine systems testing and engineering.

Prior to his duty at the Philadelphia Naval

Shipyard, Captain Gooch served in senior man- agement positions in the Portsmouth Naval

Shipyard and San Francisco Naval Shipyard, as well as in the Polaris Program. He received his engineering degrees from the University of Oklahoma, is a licensed professional engi- neer, and a member of The Society of Naval

Architects and Marine Engineers and the

American Society of Naval Engineers.

Robert E. Carr Associates, Inc. is located at Building P-5, New York Shipbuilding, Cam- den, N.J. 08104. 32 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News