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State Boat Corp.

Appoints T.W. Walker

Tom W. Walker

Tom W. Walker has been named safety engineer of marine opera- tions of State Boat Corporation, 3701 Kirby Drive, Houston, Texas 77006, owners and operators of rig service and geophysical vessels.

Although Mr. Walker is based at

Houston headquarters, he adminis- ters State Boat Corporation's safe- ty programs on a worldwide basis.

Mr. Walker is a graduate of Loui- siana State University and has served with the U.S. Marine Corps.

Mobil Chemical Names

Distributor In Freeport

Mobil Chemical Company has ap- pointed Freeport Trading Company,

Ltd., as distributor for Mobil marine coatings in Freeport, The Bahamas.

A supplier of ship's stores for the past decade, Freeport Trading Com- pany will initially offer a complete line of conventional coatings, adding high-performance coatings as re- quired.

Some 900 tankers a year call at

Freeport, where a large oil refinery recently began operations. Because vessels returning to the Persian Gulf and other oil-producing areas usually face a long voyage with good weather, they often take on several hundred gallons of marine coatings to be ap- plied during the trip. To speed load- ing of larger volumes, Freeport

Trading Company provides for pal- letized cargoes of coatings.

Freeport is one of the few ports in the world capable of serving the new class of 200,000-plus-dwt super- tankers. Mobil marine coatings are available at most of these terminals and at major ports around the world.

Building Fund Used

First Time On Lakes

To Enlarge Vessel

Pickands Mather & Co., a unit of Diamond Shamrock Corporation, has announced that the 710-foot

Steamer Charles M. Beeghly of its

Interlake Steamship Co. Division fleet will ibe lengthened to 806 feet this winter. The vessel's iron ore carrying capacity at mid-summer draft will be increased from ap- proximately 26,000 to 30,000 gross tons, making it the largest straight- deck bulk cargo vessel in service on the Great Lakes.

The project will be financed through a capital construction fund established by Pickands Mather under terms of an agreement sign- ed with the U.S. Department of

Commerce's Maritime Administra- tion on September 13, 1971. In the

Merchant 'Marine Act of 1970, the

U.S. Congress extended to Great

Lakes shipping firms the privilege of establishing such funds. Length- ening of the Steamer Beeghly will be the first construction project ever financed in this manner by a

Great Lakes fleet.

The vessel will be placed in dry- dock at Fraser Shipyards, Inc., Su- perior, Wis., early in December and should be ready to sail again dur- ing May 1972. The hull will be completely severed slightly aft of midship, and the forward section will be floated 96 feet away. A new 96-foot section will be built be- tween the ends and reinforced with deck and bottom straps. Although the vessel's 75-foot beam will re- main unchanged, the number of cargo compartments will be in- creased from 4 to 5 and the num- ber of hatches from 21 to 25.

Built in 1959 at Toledo, Ohio, the vessel was originally called the

Steamer Shenango II. It was ac- quired by Pickands Mather in 1967 and renamed in honor of Charles

M. Beeghly, former chairman of the board of Jones & Laughlin Steel

Corporation. One of the most mod- ern of the 15 bulk-cargo vessels in the Interlake Steamship fleet, the

Steamer Beeghly is highly auto- mated and is powered by an 8,500- hp oil-fired steam turbine engine.

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