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Safmarine Names

Three Directors

The board of directors of South

African Marine Corporation (N.Y.) has announced the appointment of three new directors. They are Capt.

Douglas T. Breckon, vice president, marine; C.B. Parkhill, senior vice president, and H.J. Thieck, senior vice president. These three new di- rectors also serve on the company's executive committee.

Captain Breckon is a graduate of

The Louis Botha Nautical Acade- my at Cape Town and joined

South African Marine as a deck officer in 1954. He received his first command in 1959 on the Con- stantia. In 1960, he became assis- tant marine superintendent in the

United States and was promoted to his present position in 1968.

Mr. Parkhill has 30 years of ex- perience in the steamshio industry and joined South African Marine in November 1966 as general traf- fic manager. He later became vice president, sales/traffic, and was pro- moted to senior vice president in 1969.

Mr. Thieck joined South African

Marine in Cape Town in Novem- ber 1966, after having represented the line in South West Africa for 15 years. He came to the United

States the same year as vice presi-

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Marine (N.Y.) and was made se- nior vice president in 1969.

Moran Awards Todd

Contract For First

U.S.-Built LNG Barge

The first oceangoing liquefied natural gas barge to be construct- ed in the United States will be built at Todd Shipyards' Houston

Division in Texas, it was an- nounced by Thomas E. Moran, president of the Moran Towing

Corporation, and John T. Gilbride, president of the Todd Shipyards

Corporation.

The LNG carrier, expected to be completed in October 1972 at a cost in excess of four-million dollars, will have a capacity of 32,000 bar- rels of liquefied natural gas carried in four cylindrical aluminum tanks aboard the barge at a temperature of minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit.

A subsidiary of the Moran or- ganization will charter the new barge to Distrigas Corporation of

Boston, Mass.

Ellis B. Gardner Jr.

Elected AEI President

Ellis B. Gardner Jr.

At a meeting of the board of di- rectors of American Export Indus- tries, Inc., Ellis B. Gardner Jr. was elected president, chief executive officer, and a director of the com- pany, it was announced by Peter

L. Keane, chairman of the board of directors.

Mr. Gardner was previously se- nior vice president of Litton Indus- tries and was the executive in charge of Litton's Marine Group of five separate companies. Mr.

Keane, who had assumed the posi- tion of chief executive officer in

June of this year, will remain as chairman of the board.

Prior to his association with Lit- ton in 1959, Mr. Gardner was ex- ecutive vice president and a direc- tor of Hewitt-Robins. He is a mem- ber of the American Bureau of

Shipping, and a member of The

Society of Naval Architects and

Marine Engineers. He is also a member of the Maritime Transpor- tation Research Board, and a mem- ber of the Society of Naval En- gineers.

Mr. Gardner was born in Little

Rock, Ark. in 1920. A graduate of

Columbia University, he also at- tended the University of Buffalo

Graduate School of Business Ad- ministration. He is Phi Beta Kap- pa and served with the Army Air

Force during World War II. 22 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News