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SAN DIEGO SECTION DISCUSSES BOW THRUSTERS: The regular monthly meeting of the San Diego Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers was held at the San Diego Yacht Club on January 20, 1971. Following dinner, a technical paper entitled "A Simplified Approach to Bow Thruster Sizing" was presented by Donald E.

Ridley of Bird-Johnson Company. The paper discussed the determination of the ap- propriate size of bow thrusters for specific applications. The attending members and their guests showed great interest in the subject and an extended question and answer period was conducted afterward by Mr. Ridley. Shown above from left to right are: William K.

Porter, executive committee; T.S. Hand Jr., vice chairman; Charles S. Sinclair, chairman;

D.E. Ridley, author, Bird-Johnson Company; F. Narbut, Bird-Johnson Company; G.A.

Uberti, secretary-treasurer, and G.M. Kanable, executive committee.

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United States and Canada.

We are equipped to build them even larger than our current maximum size of 35' in length by 19' in height should future ship design demand it.

For sliding doors, sideports and special closures of any size, consult us.

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Newfoundland Refining

Signs Tanker Pact

The Newfoundland Refining

Company, Limited, St. Johns, New- foundland, has announced the sign- ing of a three-year time charter with the Sanko Steamship Co. of

Tokyo for a 233,000-ton tanker.

The tanker, scheduled for service in February 1973, will transport crude purchased from British Pe- troleum Co. in the Persian Gulf to the new refinery now under con- struction at Come by Chance, New- foundland. The vessel will be built at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

Co., Limited, in Japan. The ship will have the following approxi- mate measurements: length, 1,053 feet; breadth. 172 feet, and draft, 65 feet. It will be powered by steam turbines with 34,000 shaft horse- power.

A contract of affreightment for the transportation of Persian Gulf crude was also concluded with the

Sanko Steamship Co.

Glennon Elected

President Of OSE

Willard Bascom, chairman of the board of Ocean Science and Engi- neering, Inc., Washington, D.C., has announced the election of Wil- liam H. Glennon as president of the company. Mr. Bascom, previ- ously both president and chairman, will turn over some of his former duties to Mr. Glennon, who will also be responsible for the work formerly done by the vice president and general manager, a position now deleted from the structure.

Mr. Glennon is a professional manager with a strong background in business and finance. He was graduated from the U.S. Maritime

Academy, Kings Point, N.Y. with a B.S. degree in engineering, and from New York University in 1956 with an M.B.A. degree. He has been corporate controller for pub- lishing and chemical corporations, a management consultant for Has- kins and Sells, and until recently, president of a division of the Col- umbia Broadcasting System, Inc.

Ocean Science and Engineering,

Inc., with headquarters in Wash- ington, D.C., and offices and fa- cilities in California, Florida, and

Texas, is a diversified corporation with activities in ocean engineer- ing, survey services, scallop har- vesting, ship repair, dredging, min- eral exploration, offshore oil pro- duction equipment, ship operations, and antipollution systems.

Costa Line Names

Ottone Empoldi VP

Dr. Ottone Empoldi has been named vice president in charge of

Costa Line Inc., for the United

States, Canada and Mexico, accord- ing to Costa Armatori, Genoa- based parent company.

Dr. Empoldi will be head of the cruise operations of three Costa vessels, the Flavia, Carla C and

Frederico C, as well as the monthly trans-Atlantic sailings of the Fred- erico C between April and Novem- ber. The new vice president was formerly with Italian Line, where he was one-time general manager for the United States, Canada and

Mexico.

Port Of San Francisco

Publishes Handbook

On Ocean Shipping

The Port of San Francisco's 1971 edition of the Ocean Shipping

Handbook is off the press. The 144- page book is a compendium of port facilities, steamship lines, and agents and shipper and ship oper- ator services on and behind the famed San Francisco Embarcadero.

In addition, the publication item- izes transportation facilities, cargo handling data and general services.

Individual copies are available on request to the Public Relations Di- rector, Ferry Building, San Fran- cisco, Calif. 94111.

JEFFBOAT DERRICK BARGE: Jeffboat Inc., Jeffersonville, Ind. shipyard, recently com- pleted and delivered to Fluor Ocean Services, Inc. a class +A-1 derrick barge, it was announced by R.W. Naye, president of the shipbuilding firm. With principal dimensions of 250 feet by 80 feet by 16 feet, and a normal operating draft of nine feet and nine inches, the barge is to be used by Fluor in offshore and deepwater activities. The last of a four-barge series which Jeffboat has delivered to Fluor over the past year, it was designed by Schuller & Allan Inc., a Houston, Texas, architectural firm. It is equipped with a 250-ton capacity Clyde Iron Works model 37 crane. The crane carries a 190-foot boom. Housed inside the crane is a 750 horsepower boiler for use in pile driving. Below the main deck are air-conditioned quarters for a maximum of 50 men. Included in the life support equipment and systems are a complete stainless steel galley, three 300-kw generators, an 84,000-gallon potable water tank and a 582,000-gallon fresh water tank.

Labeled by the owners as Fluor DB-3, the vessel is U.S. Coast Guard certified. The barge was delivered to the owners at the Jeffersonville, Ind., site on the Ohio River. Jeffboat,

Inc., is part of the Inland Waterways Services Division of Texas Gas Transmission.

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How's this lor Openers?

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