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Key Appointments At Seatrain's Container Div.

Peter Vickers John J. Haggerty J. Carey

Seatrain Lines' Container Divi- sion has announced key marketing and operating executive appoint- ments designed to further strength- en and broaden its top manage- ment.

William Cole, president of the division, advised of the appoint- ments of Peter Vickers to director motor carrier and rail services,

John J. Haggerty as general mana- ger marketing, U.S.A., and J. Carey as director port and terminal op- erations. All three will report to newly-appointed executive vice president Arthur C. Novacek, for- merly senior vice president of the division, and prior to joining Sea- train, president of Grace Lines.

Mr. Vickers was most recently

Bank Of New Orleans

Names Erik Johnsen

Erik F. Johnsen, president of

Central Gulf Steamship Corpora- tion, was named to the board of directors of The Bank of New Or- leans and its parent company, New

Orleans Bancshares, Inc. His elec- tion to the boards was announced by Lawrence A. Merrigan, presi- dent, following a meeting of the bank's directors.

Mr. Johnsen is first vice presi- dent of International House, a di- rector of the New Orleans Steam- ship Association, vice president of the Greater New Orleans Council of the Navy League of the U.S. and a life member of the National

Defense Transportation Associa- tion.

A native New Orleanian, Mr.

Johnsen is a business administra- tion graduate of Tulane University and a graduate of the U.S. Mer- chant Marine Academy, Kings

Point, N.Y., where he was recently named a member of the advisory board. He is a director of Canal

Barge Co., Inc., of New Orleans, a member of the board of gover- nors of Tulane University Medical

Center and a board member of

Trinity Episcopal School.

Mr. Johnsen has long been ac- tive in promoting the maritime in- dustry and in developing foreign trade and commerce through the port of New Orleans. Two of his company's ships, the Acadia For- est and the Atlantic Forest, are progenitors of the LASH (Lighter

Aboard Ship) concept. the company fleet.

The 265,000-ton vessel will be 1,115 feet long with a 175-foot beam. It will have a draft of 70 feet and an operating speed of 16 knots. The 211,000-ton tanker, like its sister ships, will be 1,070-feet long, with a beam of 158 feet. It will have a draft of 63 feet 5 inches and an operating speed of 16 knots.

Two other vessels, sister ships to the Pegasus and Pinnacle, are scheduled for delivery this year.

Like the other tankers built for

Mobil companies by Sasebo, the new tankers will have double bot- toms. This is a feature pioneered and patented by Mobil, and con- sists of a 10-foot space between the vessel's bottom hulls and cargo tanks. This reduces operating costs and provides an additional barrier between the crude oil and the sea if a vessel should run aground. general traffic manager of Atlantic

Container Lines, where he was re- sponsible for container equipment management and control, as well as documentation and booking. Mr.

Haggerty was formerly general traffic manager of Prudential-

Grace Lines, with heavy experi- ence in marketing and traffic. Prior to joining Seatrain in mid-1970,

Mr. Carey was division operating manager for Sea-Land's Alaska Di- vision. "These three experienced execu- tives will assist Seatrain in its con- tinued growth as a major world- wide container operator. Our or- ganization must keep pace with the dynamic growth of our con- tainer operations," stated Mr. Cole.

Dr. George A. Brown

URI Professor To Head

Maritime Committee

Dr. George A. Brown of the Uni- versity of Rhode Island has been appointed director of the technolo- gies panels of the technical com- mittee on marine systems and tech- nology of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Dr. Brown, a URI professor of ocean and mechanical engineering, is a vice chairman of the technical committee.

The institute, which is a pro- fessional society for aeronautical and aerospace engineers, recently formed the technical committee to concentrate on marine systems that relate to the aerospace industry, such as underwater and surface propulsion systems and hydrofoils.

In 1969 and 1970, Dr. Brown was chairman of the institute's former technical committee on hydro-pro- pulsion.

Mobil Orders Two

Additional Tankers

From Sasebo Yards

Two additional supertankers will be built by Sasebo Heavy Indus- tries Co. Ltd. at its shipyards in

Japan, under contracts signed with a Mobil marine affiliate.

One vessel, at 211,000 dwt and to be delivered in 1973, will be a sister ship to the Mobil Pegasus and the

Mobil Pinnacle, which are now in operation. The other, at 265,000 dwt and scheduled for delivery in 1974, will be the largest vessel in

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