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$27 MILLION SIGNATURE: Equitable Equipment Co., Inc., of New Orleans, La., will build a fleet of 246 barges at a cost of $27 million to service the SEABEE Class barge and intermodal carriers now building at the Quincy Shipbuilding Division of General

Dynamics for Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc. Shown here as the award was announced are, seated from left, Cecil Keeney president of Equitable; Joseph T. Lykes Jr., chair- man of the board of directors of Lykes, and Solon B. Turman, chairman of Lykes's executive committee. Standing, left to right, are W.J. Amass Jr., executive vice president of Lykes; Roland Dunn, SEABEE barge project engineer, and Stuart W. Thayer, Lykes's vice president, engineering.

Unattended Engine Room Subject Of Paper

Read At SNAME Chesapeake Section

Shown at the meeting are, left to right: J.J. Hefferman, Bethlehem Steel Corporation;

W.G. Bullock, Maritime Administration, author; Rear Adm. W.F. Rae, USCG, modera- tor; P. Eiscnbcrg, chairman, Chesapeake Section; F.D. Yonika, Maritime Administration, author, and L.D. Cathers, Naval Research and Development Center.

The seventh and final meeting of the 1970-71 season for the Chesa- peake Section of The Society of

Naval Architects and Marine En- gineers was held at the Washing- ton Navy Yard Officer's Club on

April 20, 1971. Over 100 members attended this meeting to hear W.

Bullock, Chief, Propulsion Systems

Branch, Maritime Administration, present the paper "The Design Re- quirements for an Unattended En- gine Room Steam Propulsion

Plant."

Following cocktails and dinner,

Phil Eisenberg, Chesapeake Sec- tion chairman, opened the formal portion of the meeting by introduc- ing R. Taggart, who made a short presentation on the history and ac- complishments of the Ocean Tech- nology Advisory Committee which was established in 1967 and recent- ly terminated as it was felt that ocean engineering is now an es- tablished part of SNAME.

John Nachtsheim, chairman of the nominating committee, Chesa- peake Section, presented the pro- posed officers for the forthcoming season. The candidates that were proposed and elected are: chair- man, Jorgen Strom-Tejsen, Naval

Ship Research and Development

Center; vice chairman, Richard G.

Seitz, Maryland Shipbuilding and

Drydock Co.; Secretary-treasurer,

Seth Hawkins, Naval Ship Re- search and Development Center; elected member of the executive committee, James A. Higgins, Mar- itime Administration. Mr. Eisen- berg was then presented with a certificate of appreciation by the members of the Section for his efforts and accomplishments as chairman of the Chesapeake Sec- tion during the past year.

The technical session was mod- erated by Rear Adm. William F.

Rae, USCG, who introduced Mr.

Bullock and the coauthor Frank D.

Yonika, General Engineer, Propul- sion Systems Branch, Maritime

Administration.

The paper, which was presented by Mr. Bullock, represented the highlights of a study prepared by the Office of Ship Construction,

Maritime Administration, to pro- vide a base document from which a detailed design for an automated steam propulsion plant could be developed for unattended engine room operation. The paper includ- ed a detailed discussion on the con- cepts of control, methods of opera- tion and a general description of alternate systems. The authors concluded that it was technically feasible to design, construct and operate a merchant ship with unat- tended machinery plant operation; however, for lack of detailed engi- neering specifications and specific manning criteria, the authors did not include a corresponding evalu- ation of the economic feasibility of such a vessel.

Formal comments on the pa- per, were presented by A. Fried- berg, Maritime Administration; Lt.

Comdr. J. Forechilli, USCG; W.O.

Nichols, Bethlehem Steel Corpora- tion ; J.C. McMahon, General Elec- tric Co., and L. Ward, Naval Ship

Engineering Command.

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Analysis Contract

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New York and San Francisco, has been awarded a contract by the

U.S. Coast Guard for tanker struc- tural analysis to determine the ex- tent of liquid cargo protection af- forded in the event of collisions and groundings.

The study has as its objective an investigation into what protec- tion is presently afforded by tank- er structure, based on current de- sign practice, and what additional protection can be obtained by rea- sonable changes to these construc- tion configurations.

The work under this contract is expected to contribute significant- ly to the solution of oil pollution problems, since it will include not only an evaluation of the effect of changes in tanker construction on protection, but also consideration of the effect of increased protection on the economics of oil transporta- tion.

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