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Belgian Line Elects

Luc Van Mossevelde

Eric de Spirlet, president of the Belgian

Line Incorporated, announced that at the an- nual meeting of the board of directors of the

Belgian Line, Luc Van Mossevelde was elect- ed executive vice president of the company.

Mr. Van Mossevelde was formerly vice presi- dent of the company.

He was educated in Belgium and attended

St. Ignatius University in Antwerp. He spent two years in Kinshasha and Matadi, Republic of the Congo, where he represented the Com- pagnie Maritime Beige during those years.

In 1967, Mr. Van Mossevelde joined the Belgian

Line in New York, where he has been associ- ated with the Belgian African Line as vice president.

Mr. Van Mossevelde is secretary general

February 1, 1971 of the Belgian American Chamber of Com- merce in the United States and is a director of the organization.

Blount To Build Replica Of

Paddle Wheel Excursion Boat

Blount Marine Corporation of Warren, R.I. announces the signing of a contract to design and build a full size replica of a Mississippi

River paddle wheel excursion boat for the

Combined Thousand Island Boat Tours, Inc.

The owners of the new vessel operate Uncle

Sam's Boat Tours out of Alexandria Bay, N.Y., and conduct sightseeing tours in the Thousand

Islands.

Complete with a hinged antique smoke stack and all the filigree of the nostalgic river steamers, the all-steel 65-foot two-deck boat will have a single stern paddle wheel and will be twin diesel powered. It will have a 150-passenger capacity.

The new owners came all the way to Rhode

Island because they needed a sea-kindly paddle boat. The St. Lawrence gets rough at times and the ordinary Mississippi style flat bottom doesn't work too well. In fact, a flat bottom boat has difficulty even stemming the wake of the many cargo freighters using the St.

Lawrence Seaway. The flat bottom pounds and slaps in the waves, so the new boat will have a Mississippi style superstructure, but a modern seagoing "V" bottom.

Delivery will be made in May via Long

Island Sound, the Erie Canal and St. Law- rence Seaway.

Newport News Gets

Poseidon Contract

Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock

Co., Newport News, Va. has received a con- tract for advance planning and design for the

Poseidon (C-3) conversion and overhaul of the nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine

Henry L. Stimson (SSBN-655).

The value of the contract is in excess of $2.5 million. This contract is in addition to a contract for similar work on two other sub- marines which the yard won in June 1970.

Equity 65-Foot Service Boat

Delivered To British Firm

New 65-foot Equity tanker service launch.

A new 65-foot tanker service launch, built by Equitable Equipment Company, Inc., New

Orleans shipbuilder and manufacturer of a diversified line of marine products, recently left New Orleans aboard the S/S Hohenfels for delivery to the Arabian Gulf.

The new vessel, the Grayswift, was built for Gray, Mackenzie & Co., Ltd., London,

England, from an Equity Standard 65-foot

Water Taxi hull and provides additional berth- ing space for the crew as well as complete galley facilities. She is furnished with com- plete electronics and is powered by twin GM 12V71 engines developing 800 horsepower.

The Grayswift, operating under Dubai flag and registry, will be used for crew changes, mail delivery and handling light stores for large tankers anchored in the vicinity of Ras al Khaimah.

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