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ARCTEC Participates

In Icebreaking Tests

ARCTEC, Incorporated, Bowie,

Md. 20715, a firm specializing in cold regions transportation tech- nology, and Teledyne Materials

Research have been awarded a con- tract by the U.S. Coast Guard to perform a full scale evaluation of the icebreaking qualities of the

Coast Guard's lake icebreaker

Mackinaw this winter. -

Rod Edwards Jr., research vice president of ARCTEC, Incorporat- ed and technical director for the

Mackinaw tests, said that the full scale experiments aboard the

USCGC Mackinaw will be designed to determine the resistance of the triple-screw icebreaker in ice and the structural loads on the hull which arise during operations in ice. Mr. Edwards explained that one of the most important results of the study would be a quantita- tive evaluation of the effectiveness of the Mackinaw's bow propeller in improving the icebreaking effi- ciency of the ship.

The USCGC Mackinaw has been equipped by Teledyne, ARCTEC, and the U.S. Coast Guard's Office of Research and Development with an instrumentation system which will measure and record the thrust, torque, and rpm of all three pro- peller shafts, the ship's speed rela- tive to the ice, hull motions, and the strains in a portion of the bow structure estimated by ARC-

TEC's engineers to be the location of the highest expected ice loads.

The Mackinaw evaluation proj- ect is part of a program which has been undertaken by the Depart- ment of Transportation and other

Government agencies to determine the technical and economic feasi- bility of extended and all-season navigation on the Great Lakes.

Dravo Corp. Appoints

Niland B. Mortimer

Niland B. Mortimer

Niland B. Mortimer has been named manager of marine and sys- tems sales for the Engineering

Works Division of Dravo Corpora- tion, Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. Mortimer will be responsible for sales of all marine equipment and all systems involving bulk materials handling equipment such as unloaders, stacker/reclaimers, stackers and loaders.

A graduate of the University of

Pittsburgh, Mr. Mortimer holds a

B.S. degree in mechanical engi- neering. He joined Dravo in 1955 as a design engineer, and most re- cently served as manager of marine sales. Mr. Mortimer is registered as a professional engineer in Penn- sylvania.

Dravo's Engineering Works Di- vision designs and builds inland and coastal waterway marine equipment, heavy bulk materials handling equipment, and other spe- cialized heavy machinery and equipment.

Atlantic Companies

Names George Jones

Marine Secretary

George A. Jones has been named marine secretary of the Atlantic

Companies (Atlantic Mutual In- surance Company and Centennial

Insurance Company).

Prior to joining Atlantic's ocean cargo department in 1957, Mr.

Jones had 10 years of insurance experience in England. He was named marine supervisor of the

Companies' Philadelphia office in 1961. Mr. Jones was transferred to the home office in 1963, and was named an assistant secretary in 1966 and hull secretary in 1968.

The Atlantic Companies write virtually all lines of insurance ex- cept life, and have offices from coast to coast.

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