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Four Papers Presented At Winter Meeting

Of Great Lakes And Great Rivers Section fcl'.ii' « a m

V if i/ ,4 the meeting activities in the eve- ning.

The spring meeting of the Sec- tion will be held in Lorain, Ohio, on May 6, 1971. A meeting high- light will be a tour of American

Ship Building Company and the 858-foot Great Lakes self-unloader for United States Steel Corpora- tion, which that firm is now con- structing.

Bethlehem Appoints

William C. Brigham

Asst. VP, Shipbuilding

Authors and officers pictured above during the winter meeting in Erie, Pa., left to right, are: R.F. Vollack, Section secretary-treasurer; J.M. Davis, author; G.H. Plude, author;

H.M. Tiedemann, author; C.E. Tripp, author; J.B. Woodward III, Section papers chair- man, and R.A. Stearn, Section chairman.

Erie, Pa., was the site of the win- ter meeting of the Great Lakes and

Great Rivers Section, The Society of Naval Architects and Marine En- gineers on January 21, 1971. More than 200 members and guests at- tended the business and technical sessions in the morning.

The following papers were pre- sented and distributed: "Offshore

Engineering Surveys," by Henry

M. Tiedemann, president of H.M.

Tiedemann Company, New York,

N.Y.; "Great Lakes Maritime

Academy," by James M. Davis, president of Northwestern Michi- gan College, Traverse City, Mich.; "Development of a 1000' Great

Lakes Self-Unloader," by Carl E.

Tripp, president, and George H.

Plude, project engineer, of Marine

Consultants and Designers, Inc.,

Cleveland, Ohio (see cover and three-page feature, this issue) ; and "The Economic Potential of Fer- romanganese Nodules in thq Great

Lakes," by Edward Callender,

Great Lakes Research Division,

The University of Michigan, Ann

Arbor, Mich.

Numerous photographs and slides accompanied the papers on offshore engineering and the 1,000-foot self- unloader.

Following a buffet lunch at the

Holiday Inn meeting location, the entire delegation toured one of the most modern shipyards in the world on the city's waterfront.

Erie Marine personnel conducted groups of tours through the as- sembly and fabricating buildings and aboard the 1,000-foot self-un- loading Great Lakes vessel they are now finishing for the account of the

Bethlehem Steel Corporation.

A reception and dinner concluded

William C. Brigham

The appointment of William C.

Brigham as assistant vice presi- dent, shipbuilding, effective April 1, was announced by Walter F.

Williams, vice president, shipbuild- ing, Bethlehem Steel Corporation.

Mr. Brigham is now the general manager of the corporation's San

Francisco shipyard. In his new position, he will be located in Beth- lehem, Pa.

A graduate of Stanford Univer- sity with a bachelor of arts degree in economics, Mr. Brigham joined the Bethlehem organization in Au- gust 1941 as a trainee at the San

Francisco yard. He subsequently served as an estimator, supervisor,

Distinctive Ships use Distinguished Equipment

Henschel Engine-Order Tele- graphs have been standard equipment since The Days of

Steam. Current models are de- signed to be read conveniently from top or side. They lend themselves equally well to console or pedestal mounting.

With today's trend to direct control from the bridge, we often furnish a combined throttle-telegraph lever unit.

The Bell Logger records automatically whenever a control is moved. Precise digital printout of Throttle

Control, Engine Order, Reply, actual Shaft RPM, or other data is presented digitally and permanently recorded with the exact time. It can also double as the Ship's

Master Clock.

RPM Indicators and Counters:

Both the pointer-type indicator and the newer solid-state in- tegrated circuit system that gives simultaneous digital readout at any number of stations anywhere on the ship.

Engineers' Signal and Alarm

Panels, Navigation Light Panels, and all kinds of monitoring and indicating devices are built to our own high standards in conformance with IEEE and

USCG regulations.

Henschel Rudder Angle Indi- cators are installed on many vessels of the US Navy and the

Coast Guard, and in hundreds of ships of US and Foreign

Registry. Horns, Bells, Sirens and Buzzers for both Navy and

Merchant Marine use - Henschel has them all. And of course

Henschel Sound-Powered Tele- phones are still the simplest, fastest, most trouble-free means of instant shipboard intercommunication.

We also design and build consoles which combine these Henschel devices with other propulsion-navigation controls.

Please write us - or call us—for an exploratory talk with our engineers.

Telephone 617 3881103 planning engineer and assistant to the manager before being named as- sistant manager in November 1958.

He was named general manager

September 1, 1965.

Although the yard's major activi- ties are now repairs, conversions, and the building of barges, it was a major combination shipbuilding and repairing facility until the mid- sixties, when it ceased construction of oceangoing ships. Mr. Brigham, therefore, has had wide experience in new construction in addition to repair.

During his term as general man- ager, the yard constructed all 57 huge steel tubei sections and the ventilation caisson for the Bay

Area Rapid Transit District's un- derwater tube from San Francisco to Oakland, one of the largest in- dustrial jobs ever handled by a

West Coast shipyard.

Mr. Brigham also supervised the construction at the San Francisco yard of the largest commercial floating drydock ever built in the

United States. This facility, a 65,- 000-ton lifting capacity dock, 900- feet long and 150-feet wide, can handle tankers as large as 230,000 deadweight tons. It was officially placed in service in September 1970.

Mr. Brigham is a past president of the Western Shipbuilders As- sociation and a member of The So- ciety of Naval Architects and Ma- rine Engineers.

R.H. Yowell Appointed

To New Post At MarAd

Roy H. Yowell

Roy H. Yowell, a veteran Gov- ernment employee with 28 years of service, has been named Deputy

Chief of the Maritime Administra- tion's Office of Subsidy Adminis- tration, it was announced by An- drew E. Gibson, Assistant Sec- retary of Commerce for Maritime

Affairs.

Mr. Yowell, who joined the Mar-

Ad staff in 1957 from the Justice

Department, has been Chief of the

Agency's Mortgage Insurance Con- tracts Division since April 1959.

Earlier, he served as, an examiner in the Office of Government Aid.

In his new position, Mr. Yowell will assist the, Chief of Subsidy Ad- ministration in directing MarAd's

Title XI Federal Mortgage-Insur- ance, Construction-Differential and

Operating-Differential Subsidy pro- grams as well as its subsidy rates, trade studies and statistics opera- tions.

A native of Washington, D.C.,

Mr. Yowell received a B.A. degree in economics from the University of Maryland. . CORPORATION a unit of General Signal Corporation

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