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Centralized Readout Of

Cargo And Ballast Tanks

Installed By Metritape

A new style of centralized gaging console has just been installed by Metritape, Inc., 77 Com- monwealth Avenue, West Concord, Mass. 01742, for the remote, centralized readout of cargo and ballast tanks on board an oceangoing petroleum tanker. Tank level information is presented in both analog and digital form, in a single, com- pact, unitized display, designed for the simple retrofit upgrading of existing tankers.

Liquid levels in all 15 of the major cargo and ballast tanks are displayed on 15 separate vertical edge-reading meters having large easy-to-read scales scribed to the nearest half foot. These are placed on a mimic plan diagram of the ship, and allow the status of all tanks to be observed at a glance.

The condition of any one of the 15 tanks can be selectively read out on a digital number display located alongside the analog meters. Fifteen pushbutton selector switches are contained with- in a small plan pattern of the ship, and are back- illuminated to show which one of the 15 tanks is being digitally displayed.

In addition, the operator can choose to read any one of three tank conditions: digital ullage in feet and tenths of feet; digital innage in feet and tenths of feet; and digital barrels to the nearest 100 barrels. Digital indication is instan- taneous and allows tanks being topped off or drained to be monitored precisely on both digital and analog displays.

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General Dynamics/Electric Boat

Appoints Behney And Hunter

To New Management Positions

Edward J. Behney John R. Hunter

Joseph D. Pierce, general manager of the

Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics, has announced the appointments of Edward

J. Behney of Groton, Conn., and John R. Hunt- er of Mystic, Conn., to new management posi- tions at the Electric Boat Division. Mr. Behney has been named as assistant to the general manager, and Mr. Hunter has been named as engineering director, succeeding Mr. Behney.

Since 1969, Mr. Hunter has been manager of electrical engineering.

A Harrisburg, Pa., native, Mr. Behney holds a 1937 degree in mechanical engineering from

Pennsylvania State University. In 1941, he joined Elco Division of Electric Boat Com- pany and was prominent in design and produc- tion of Elco patrol torpedo boats during World

War II.

Leaving Elco in 1950, as chief engineer, Mr.

Behney came to Electric Boat in Groton as de- sign engineer, and in 1951 he was named as- sistant chief engineer, moving up to assistant design manager in 1957. He participated ac- tively in the development of Nautilus and oth- er submarine classes designed by the division.

In 1962, Mr. Behney was named manager of quality control, becoming manager of manu- facturing in 1963, and vice president, manu- facturing, in 1964. He was named engineering director in June 1968.

Mr. Hunter joined Electric Boat Division in 1949, the year he graduated from Worcester

Polytechnic Institute with a bachelor of sci- ence degree in electronics. The Bath, Maine, native held various design and engineering positions from 1949 to 1957, during which time he worked on the original electrical studies for the Nautilus prototype.

In 1962, Mr. Hunter was appointed assistant to the chief design engineer, becoming assis- tant to the vice president, manufacturing, in 1964 and manager, manufacturing engineering, in 1966.

The Eastern Company Buys

Digital Depth Indicator

Division From Lykes Bros.

Acquisition of the Digital Depth Indicator line of Lykes Bros., Inc., Systems and Engi- neering Division of Clearwater, Fla., was an- nounced by Russell G. McMillen, president of

The Eastern Company.

The transaction, for an unannounced amount of cash, gives Eastern the inventory and tool- ing for the Lykes division's direct reading, digital and recording depth sounders. Markets for the line are in both the pleasure and com- mercial craft fields.

Mr. McMillen said they will be added to the line of precision marine instruments manufac- tured and distributed by the Danforth division of Eastern in Portland, Maine.

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