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Bailey To Automate

Three Converted Ships

At AmShip Lorain Yard

Baily Meter Company, Wickliffe,

Ohio, has received an order from the

American Shipbuilding Company to automate the power boilers of the

S/S Detroit Edison, the S/S John J.

Boland, and the S/S Adam Corne- lius of the Boland and Cornelius

Steamship Company.

The conversion of these three ships will be done by the American Ship- building Company at their Lorain

Shipyard. The three ships are being converted from coal to oil-firing using

Babcock & Wilcox Racer Type Steam

Atomizing Burners. Each ship will have two boilers with two burners per boiler.

Included in the contract is a Bailey

MINI-LINE Pneumatic Control

System for combustion and feed- water control, and the new Bailey 762 Digital Burner Management Sys- tem. Control consoles will also be provided for location in the engine room and in the boiler room.

The analog and digital control sys- tems will be furnished as a com- pletely integrated automatic boiler control system which will permit op- eration of either or both boilers by automatic, remote, or local manual modes of control.

A subsidiary of Babcock & Wilcox,

Bailey Meter Company is a leading manufacturer of instrumentation,

Serving the

Gulf Coast

Since 1880

A Subsidiary of C. Brewer & Co., Ltd. •MsaasH

INTRACOASTAL CANAL MILE 355 control computers and systems for power plant, industrial process, and marine automation. Since 1964, Bail- ey has provided boiler control sys- tems for over 160 ships, including complete engine room automation for the first steamship certified by the

U.S. Coast Guard for operation with- out a fireman.

Electro-Nav Inc.

Formed In New York

Robert E. Negron

Robert E. Negron, formerly ITT

Decca Marine sales manager, and well known for many years in the marine electronics field, announces the formation of Electro-Nav Inc.

Electro-Nav will act as a manufac- turer's representative for ITT Decca

Marine Products and as area repre- sentatives for Collins Radios, Elac

Depth Sounders, Marine Digital Sys- tems, and other leading manufactur- ers of electronic navigation equip- ment.

The equipment offered is highlight- ed by the Decca series of solid state radars, a unique Collins VHF/FM radiotelephone and the MDS com- puter aided collision avoidance sys- tem. A Safe walkie-talkie for tankers and shipyards is also offered on be- half of Micro-Communications.

Electro-Nav Inc. can arrange sup- ply of their advanced marine prod- ucts and assist in putting together complete packages and systems to meet the special requirements of each work boat and shipowner.

Electro-Nav Inc. will make its headquarters at 555 Fifth Avenue (8th Floor), New York, N.Y. For further information write Electro-

Nav Inc., P.O. Box 5248, Grand

Central Station, New York, N.Y., or telephone Robert Negron, (212) 490-1833.

Two Canadian Firms

Developing Prototypes

Of Air-Cushion Craft

Bell Aerospace, which is working in partnership with the Canadian

Government in Ottawa, and United

Aircraft of Canada, Ltd., are play- ing major roles in developing two prototypes of an air-cushion craft that will be able to carry a 25-ton payload.

The vessels are to be designed for use in the Canadian Arctic. Their aluminum structures will be Canadian, while their propellers will be made in the United States. The prototypes will be developed in a plant Bell is building in Ontario, while the tur- bine engines for the vessels will be provided by United Aircraft.

BL H

BAY-HOUSTON

TOWING CO.

CORPUS CHRISTI . TEXAS CITY

GALVESTON • FREEPORT . HOUSTON

The Coolidge Propeller Company, organized in 1910, has through sixty years of continuous service designed and produced quality propellers for every application.

The development of special patented production equipment and measuring devices, designed solely for marine propellers, together with constant research in both engineering and materials, have made Coolidge Propellers the accepted standard worldwide.

COOLIDGE

COMPANY 1608 Fairview Ave. E.

Seattle, Washington 98102

Phone 205 EAst 5-5100

KELSO BUILDS SUPER BARGES ...VERY CAREFULLY

Kelso didn't jump into this big barge business without know- ing that we could do it as good as the best and better than most.

It took hard work and big investments in men and machines to develop a yard capable of building, repairing and servicing barges of any size and description.

We built the equipment and the manpower skills the other yards wish they had . . . and we built them as carefully as we build barges.

Get a better barge. Get a Kelso bid.

P.O. BOX 268 GALVESTON. TEXAS 77550 • PH AC 713 744 5341

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