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Merchant Shipbuilding
Prospects Listed
Review of documents on file with the Maritime Administration lists the following pending projects in- volving application of construction differential subsidy (CDS) funds un- der provisions of the Merchant Ma- rine Act of 1970.
Three 125,000-cubic-meter lique- fied natural gas (LNG) tankers to be built by General Dynamics Cor- poration's Quincy (Mass.) Ship- building Division for affiliates of
Burmah Oil Co.
Three 125,000-cubic-meter LNG tankers to be built by Tenneco's New- port News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock
Co., Newport News, Va., for sub- sidiaries of El Paso Natural Gas Co.
These are in addition to the initial contract for three.
Two 125,000-cubic-meter LNG tankers to be built by Newport News
Shipbuilding for subsidiaries of Amo- co International Oil Co., and Natu- ral Gas Pipeline Co. of America.
Six 380,000-dwt very large crude carriers (VLCCs) to be built in the new Todd Shipyards Corporation facility at Galveston, Texas, for affili- ates of Burmah Oil Co.
Two 25,000-dwt VLCCs to be built by Seatrain Shipbuilding Corpora- tion, Brooklyn, N.Y., for subsidiaries of Seatrain Lines, Inc.
Two oil/bulk/ore vessels to be built by a not yet publicly designated
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On the basis of pricing data at hand, these projects would appear to require about $550 million in CDS funding. MarAd has presently avail- able approximately $200 million in uncommitted funds previously ap- propriated by Congress. The balance could be accommodated as part of
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John I. Brangan
Appointed General Mgr.
Of Beth-Hoboken Yard
John J. Brangan
The appointment of John J. Bran- gan as general manager of Bethle- hem Steel Corporation's Hoboken,
N.J. shipyard was announced by
Walter F. Williams, vice president, shipbuilding.
Mr. Brangan is advancing from assistant manager of Bethlehem's
San Pedro, Calif., shipyard. He suc- ceeds Joseph D. Ingham, whose promotion to general manager of the Bethlehem shipyard in Balti- more, Md., has been announced.
Before being named assistant manager of the San Pedro yard in 1969, Mr. Brangan had been gen- eral superintendent of the Hoboken yard for eight years. Except for his assignment at San Pedro, he has spent his entire 39-year career with
Bethlehem at its ship repair yards in the New York City area.
He joined Bethlehem in 1933 at its former Brooklyn 56th Street yard as an apprentice and advanced to special supervisor at that facility before being named assistant su- perintendent of the Hoboken yard in 1949- He subsequently served as manager of pierside repairs for
Bethlehem's New York yards be- fore being appointed general su- perintendent of the Hoboken yard in 1961.
A Brooklyn, N.Y., native, Mr.
Brangan is a member of The So- ciety of Naval Architects and Ma- rine Engineers, Society of Port En- gineers, and The Propeller Club. 8 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News