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Marine Contractor Donates

Material And Labor To Paint 1885 Square-Rigger Wavertree

Mr. Tollefsen is shown above standing on Pier 16 under the bow of the 1 885 square-rigger Wavertree, which is being repainted by him.

Several weeks ago the Seamen's Bank for

Savings donated a full page ad in The New

York Times to the South Street Seaport Mu- seum which began: "Can an Ocean Wanderer

Find Happiness in New York Today?"

The ad found its first answer w'hen George

R. Tollefsen of Tollefsen Bros. Contracting

Corp., donated paint and labor to completely paint the hull of the "ocean wanderer" Waver- tree, flagship of the six historic ships on dis- play at the South Street Seaport Museum. "We know others will follow suit," said

Peter Stanford, Seaport Museum president, when he thanked Mr. Tollefsen for "his mar- velous contribution. We need steel for a new mainmast. We need new decking, we need so much—above all, we need money to make this dream come true," Mr. Stanford added.

In making this gift, Mr. Tollefsen said he was happy to be a part of the restoration of such a "noble ship as Wavertree." A former president of The Propeller Club, Mr. Tollefsen, in addition to his contracting business, is a commissioner of the Sltate Insurance Fund.

Lockheed Receives Contract

To Design Environmental Buoy

A weather and ocean-^watdring data buoy will be designed by Lockheed Missiles & Space

Co., Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif., for the Commerce

Department's National Oceanic and Atmos- pheric Administration (NOAA).

The San Francisc'o Bay Area based aero- space firm announced it has received a $270,- 000 contract to design an oceanographie and meteorological data buoy and to develop costs and plans for fabrication and production of the ocean weather monitor. The competitive program, now in the early design phase, may ultimately require the production of hundreds of buoys to be stationed around the United

States and other areas of the world.

Martin H. Rosenblum, Lockheed project manager, said such a network of weather data buoys would prove an enormous benefit to any enterprise which is affected by the weath- er. "Weather ships and s'hore stations do a tremendous job, but they're restricted by time," he said. "Buoys can be on station 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, obtaining data in all the oceans."

By February 1, 1972, Lockheed will submit plans and designs developed during the cur- rent five-month contract to NOAA in a com- petitive bid for the production of prototype buoys. NOAA is expected to select the win- ner of the protoype phase in May 1972.

Called a Limited Capability Buoy because it takes a limited number of measurements with relatively simple sensors and electronics, the buoy will measure wind speed and direc- tion, air pressure and temperature, and water temperature to depths of 600 feet.

During its test phase, planned for the Gulf of Mexico in late 1972 and early 1973, the buoy will transmit its data on a high frequency band to a Shore station in Miami. The buoys also will transmit data to satellites on the

UHF band for relay to shore stations.

Mr. Rosenblum said first use of the Lim- ited Capability Buoy will probably be in the

Atlantic Tropical Experiment of the Global

Atmospheric Research Program (GARP). "GARP is an international cooperative re- search program which will involve many na- tions, including Russia," he explained.

The Limited Capability Buoy design con- tract is the second buoy award Lockheed has won from NOAA within the last two months.

In June, the California firm received an award to build a new buoy with an unusual boat-

Shaped hull to be evaluated for its potential as a High Capability Buoy platform. "The difference between the high and lim- ited capability buoys is in the number of sensors, the measurements taken, and the so- phistication of the electronics," Mr. Rosen- blum explained. He added that the High Capa- bility Buoy is intended to have a longer life- time and to provide more detailed data with less maintenance, but because of its more diffi- cult role, it will require more time to develop and put into operation.

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