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Shipbuilders Council

Elects Officers And

Board Of Directors

The following senior executives of the United States shipbuilding industry were elected to the board of directors of the Shipbuilders

Council of America at its 52nd An- nual Meeting in Washington, D.C., on Mlarch 7, 1973:

L.C. Ackerman, Newport News

Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Com- pany, Paul E. Atkinson, Sun Ship- building & Dry Dock Co., John V.

Banks, National Steel & Ship- building Co., Reid S. Byers, The

Ingalls Iron Works Company,

Thomas J. Defoe, Defoe Shipbuild- ing Company, John T. Gilbride,

Todd Shipyards Corporation, James

F. Goodrich, Bath Iron Works Cor- poration, Edwin Hartzman, Avon- dale Shipyards, Inc., J.T. Hayward,

General Dynamics Corporation, Jo- seph Lieb, Maryland Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., J.R. Maumenee,

Alabama Dry Dock & Shipbuild- ing Co., R.E. MingledorfF, Savan- nah Machine and Shipyard Co.,

R.W. Naye, Jeffboat, Inc., Fred W.

O'Green, Litton Industries, Inc.,

C.A. Patten, Dravo Corporation,

Edward Renshaw, St. Louis Ship,

Division of Pott Industries, Inc.,

John L. Roper II, Norfolk Ship- building & Dry Dock Corp., George

M. Steinbrenner III, The Ameri- can Ship Building Co., James J.

Sugrue, Jacksonville Shipyards,

Inc., and Walter F. Williams/Beth- lehem Steel Corporation.

Results of mail ballot, announced on that occasion, included the elec- tion of the following allied indus- tries officials who will serve on the

Council's board for a period of one year: Bernard J. Bannan, Western

Gear Corporation, William C.

Freeman, marine department, Com- bustion Engineering, Inc., and A.

H. Van Wormer, Sperry Rand Cor- poration, Vickers Marine and Ord- nance Division.

Officers elected for the coming year are: chairman of the board,

Edwin M. Hood; secretary, Ed- ward P. Ruddy; treasurer, Beverly

C. Kendall. Regional vice presi- dents : East 'Coast, James F. Good- rich; Gulf Coast, Edwin Hartzman;

Great Lakes, Thomas J. Defoe;

West Coast, John V. Banks, and

Inland Rivers, R.W. Naye.

Mr. Hood will continue as the

Council's president, a nonelective post. Mrs. Kendall also serves as special assistant to the president.

Versatile Bulk Carrier

Delivered By NKK

The Zwijndrecht, a 66,000-dead- weight-ton bulk carrier, has been de- livered to her owner, Shipping Com- pany Zwijndrecht N.V. of Nether- lands Antilles, at the Tsurumi Yard of Nippon Kokan (NKK), Japan's only integrated shipbuilder - steel - maker-fabricator.

NKK's New York shipbuilding department said the vessel was built to a standard design for 66,000-dwt- class bulk carriers of the company- developed Panamax type, the maxi- mum vessel size capable of transiting the Panama Canal.

The ship design features adoption of nine, instead of the seven holds conventional on regular Panamax carriers. Design of the smaller holds affords improved stability in rough seas. The vessel can therefore haul iron ore, as well as coal and grain.

The Zwijndrecht carries the Auto- matic Control System for Unattend- ed Engine Room certification by the

American Bureau of Shipping.

The vessel's overall length is 734.9 feet; length between perpendiculars, 702.1 feet; breadth molded, 61.4 feet, and draft, 44.5 feet. The Sumitomo

Sulzer 6RD90 main engine develop- ing 15,000 bhp at 122 rpm gives the 34,000-gross-ton ship a service speed of 16.1 knots.

Belcher Oil Company

Names New Officers

The election of new corporate of- ficers for Belcher Oil Company of

Miami, Fla., has been announced by E.N. Belcher III, president of the firm.

The officers named include Gary

G. Williams Jr., equipment sales and service, and James E. Cashon, marine sales, who were elected vice presidents. Stanley E. Brink was elected secretary, and Robert L.

Dent was named treasurer.

In addition to fuel oil and equip- ment, Belcher Oil Company sup- plies asphalt, bunkers, and provides tug service to ships and operates its own fleet of tugs and barges and tank trucks.

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