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LASH Ships Save Time— (Continued from page 7) lighters will be dispatched to inland river and canal ports for loading and unloading in Eu- rope when the new transportation system is in full operation with five ships in 1972.

Colonel Meyer predicted that the LASH ships will be so successful that they will return to the American taxpayers at least twice what they invested in the ship. This statement is based on the fact that subsidized shipping lines return to the government all profits above a specified level.

Spyros S. Skouras, president of Prudential-

Grace Lines, expects the LASH ships to at- tract more cargo than would be expected for conventional ships because of their reduced port time. This saving in time has been given as up to 90 percent. In speaking about the en- trance of future LASH ships into the service, he advised that the LASH Espana will sail this month and the other two ships which are on order at Avondale Shipyards will enter service in 1972. According to Mr. Skouras, the exist- ing conventional ships in Prudential fleet now serving the Mediterranean will be retired or transferred to other routes. The line operates containerships out of U.S. East Coast ports to

Caribbean and West Coast South American ports. These services were acquired in 1969 with the purchase by the then Prudential Line of the 110-year-old Grace Line.

The LASH Italia and LASH Turkiye are the world's largest freighters. The 29,252-dwt ships are 820 feet long and are powered by steam turbines developing 32,000 shp, which give the ships a speed of 22.5 knots in service.

Mr. Skouras recognized in 1962 that the

LASH system would provide versatility, speed and safety for shippers of all types of general merchandise, odd-size items and partial lots of dry-bulk cargoes. Since then the line has spent millions of dollars pioneering the LASH sys- tem. In November 1967 Prudential-Grace Lines placed an order with Avondale Shipyards, New

Orleans, for five of these $21 million ships.

McDermott Reorganizes

Operations In Gulf Coast

J. Ray McDermott & Co., Inc., New Or- leans, La., has announced a reorganization of operations in the Gulf Coast area aimed at streamlining operational functions and respon- sibilities within the corporate structure.

According to Roger W. Wilson, president, the reorganization affects functions in Harvey and Morgan City, La., and is being under- taken to better accommodate the company's overall endeavors, which have become exten- sive during recent years. The changes, he said, are expected to improve coordination of re- sponsibilities leading toward increased produc- tivity and efficiency of operations.

Several of McDermott's operating groups or departments are being reorganized as divi- sions of the company. Four of these will be located in Morgan City and four in Harvey.

H.W. Bailey, vice president, will be general manager of the four divisions which make up the Morgan City Division Group. These in- clude the McDermott Fabricators Division, under W.E. Earles; McDermott Offshore Di- vision, under I.R. Foster; McDermott Shipyard

Division, under V.J. LeBlanc, and Harvey

Supply Company, which will be under the di- rect management of Bailey with P.E. Brown acting as assistant division manager.

The four divisions in Harvey will be under the direction of L.E. Stewart, vice president and general manager of the Harvey Division

Group. R.T. Lietz has been named acting gen- eral manager of that group during Mr. Stew- art's current illness. Divisions in Harvey will include the McDermott Marine Pipeline Divi- sion, under R.T. Lietz; McDermott Dredg- ing Division, under W.E. Arnold; McDermott

Inland Service Division, under H. Ingerman, and Dick Evans Divers Division, under R.V.

Evans.

Reporting to C.L. Graves, McDermott ex- ecutive vice president, will be H.W. Bailey, vice president and general manager of the

Morgan City Division Group; L.E. Stewart, vice president and general manager of the

Harvey Division Group, and R.T. Lietz, acting general manager of the Harvey Division

Group.

The McDermott Fabricators Division and the McDermott Shipyard Division will con- tinue to function as in the past with no change.

The other new divisions formerly had been departments of the company and one, the Dick

Evans Divers Division, is a former subsidiary.

Marine Engineering Systems

Moves To Larger Quarters

Marine Engineering Systems, Inc., naval architects and marine engineers, has moved its headquarters to 3700 Buffalo Speedway, Hous- ton, Texas. This was announced by the com- pany's new managers, Dr. Jack H. Dell and

David B. Waller.

Marine Engineering Systems, Inc. has been actively engaged in ship design and structural engineering for the marine transportation and offshore drilling industries for the past two years, and is now expanding its facilities to provide completely computerized ship design, system analysis, and structural analysis serv- ices.

NKK's Tsu Yard Delivers 250,000-Dwt Supertanker

The T.G. Shaughnessy, 1,109 feet by 170 feet by 87.6 feet, will be chartered to Gulf Oil Corporation.

The T.G. Shaughnessy, a 250,000-dwt super- tanker, has been delivered to Canadian Pacific (Bermuda) Ltd. by the Tsu Yard of Nippon Ko- kan (NKK), Japan's only integrated shipbuilder- steelmaker.

Hiroo Ikematsu, NKK's New York ship- building department manager, said the vessel, named after a former chairman of Canadian Pa- cific, will be chartered to Gulf Oil Corporation, as is her sister ship, the Port Hawkesbury, which was delivered at Tsu last July.

The T.G. Shaughnessy is powered by a B&W 9K98FF engine with an output of 34,200 bhp at 103 rpm, delivering a service speed of 15.5 knots.

Completed in December 1969, the Tsu Yard delivered three ships in 1970, including two 250,000 tankers. Five vessels, totaling 1,015,000- dwt, including the T.G. Shaughnessy, will be delivered in 1971.

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