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Nantucket Boat Inc.

Names Barry Fuller a future in the marine industry, as well as for scholastic ability and the desire to pursue advanced study. The total monetary value of the three graduate scholarships is $13,580, Included in each award is the tuition fee charged, plus a living expense stipend of $2,100.

In addition to the above scholar- ships for graduate study, the So- ciety is continuing its program of undergraduate scholarships awards started 13 years ago. This under- graduate plan is now maintained with scholarship grants at the

Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, the University of Michi- gan, and the University of Cali- fornia at Berkeley. Under this pro- gram, it is anticipated that a total of 10 undergraduates will each re- ceive $1,000 during the 1971-72 academic year.

Interested high school and pre- paratory school students should inquire directly with these three colleges and not with the Society.

The basic objective of the under- graduate scholarship program is to encourage new men to enter the maritime industry, particularly in the technical fields of naval archi- tecture and marine engineering.

The Society is again making an annual grant to Webb Institute of

Naval Architecture, Glen Cove,

N.Y., to assist in training young men at this specialty school for the maritime industry.

Copt. Barry Fuller

Hyannis-to-the-Islands Cruises, a service of Nantucket Boat, Inc.,

Hyannis, Mass., has announced the appointment of Capt. Barry Fuller from assistant manager to general manager of all operations.

Captain Fuller is a native of

Taunton, Mass., and a 1961 gradu- ate of the Massachusetts Maritime

Academy. His experience port- folio includes: sailed third officer with Sun Oil Company and Ameri- can Export Isbrandtsen Lines from 1961-64, when he joined

Aetna Casualty & Surety Company as safety engineer and marine sur- veyor. Captain Fuller joined Nan- tucket Boat in 1966 as ships offi- cer and was later promoted to as- sistant manager.

SNAME Awards Three

Graduate Scholarships

The award of three graduate scholarships for the 1971-72 aca- demic year has been announced by

The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, now in its 78th year of continuous activity.

The recipients were selected from a total of 25 applicants by the So- ciety's scholarship committee, chaired by Frank L. Pavlik and approved at a recent meeting of the executive committee of the

Society.

The first recipient, who will study ship motions and fluid dy- namics at the University of Michi- gan and who is also designated as the Society's "Wilbur N. Landers

Scholar" for 1971, is Armin W.

Troesch.

The recipient of the second award plans advanced study in ship economics at Harvard Busi- ness School. He is David Smith

IV iller, a graduate of Michigan, with a B.S.E. degree in naval ar- chitecture and marine engineer- ing.

The recipient of the third award, who will study ship hydrodynamics at the University of Michigan, is

Robert George Latorre.

Named as alternates, in order, were: Paul Davies Chapman,

James Warren St. John, Charles

Steven Yates, Cecil Bruce Shaver and Dale Roberts Banks.

The competition for the scholar- ships was nationwide and open to all who could qualify. The scholar- ships committee of the Society carefully studied the merits of each applicant and the winners were se- lected on the basis of character, leadership and general promise for fci • * ?

Howa great lady of the

The 71,500m3 "Polar Alaska" is one of the two largest LNG tankers in operation in the world. She was completed in October, 1969, and has already made 22 trips between

Kenai, Alaska, and Negishi, Japan.

She has carried 9,500,000 barrels of

LNG at -259F with integrated tanks made of Invar* 36% nickel-iron alloy. *A Registered Trademark of Societe Creusot-Loire (IMPHY)

Invar alloy has an extremely low coefficient of expansion which permits the use of flat-design membranes.

This allows at least 90% of the welding to be done with automatic welding machines.

Invar alloy also has excellent low-tempera- ture mechanical properties. And is tough at cryo- genic temperatures down to -453F.

Phillips Petroleum and Marathon Oil used

Invar alloy for "Polar Alaska" and her sister LNG carrier, "Arctic Tokyo"—both built in Sweden by

Kockums Mekaniska Verkstads AB.

Eight other LNG tankers with Invar alloy tanks are in the works. Three of these—being built for

El Paso Natural Gas Company and to be completed 12 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News