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Todd And JJ. Henry Join

Aerojet Team Bidding To Build

Huge Surface Effect Ship

Todd Shipyards Corporation has joined the industrial team formed by Aerojet Surface Ef- fect Ships Division as a key member to com- pete for the job of building a 2,000-ton-class high-speed ship for the U.S. Navy.

E.D. Ward, vice president and general man- ager of the Tacoma, Wash.-based Aerojet Di- vision, said: "Todd's more .than 55 years of experience in building naval ships of all kinds gives our team a powerful boost,"

The craft to be built is a 'large surface effect ship (SES)—a vessel designed to move on a cushion of air while riding the sea at high speeds.

Todd's role will be carried out by its Seattle

Division, builder of a wide variety of naval and commercial ships. Most recently, the facility has turned out destroyer escorts and guided missile destroyers.

Mr. Ward said another key team member is the internationally known naval architectural and marine engineering firm of J.J. Henry Co.,

Inc. "We feel that with the combination of

Todd's know-how in marine construction, J.J.

Henry's established talent in ship design, and

Aerojet's own experience in. surface effect ships, we will be able to give the Navy a seaworthy

SES ship, and not just a high technology ves- sel," Mr. Ward said.

J.T. Gilbride, president of Todd Shipyards, said: "After careful study of SES technology, we have every confidence that we can contrib- ute advanced construction principles appropri- ate to such advanced ships."

Mr. Ward's division managed the design and construction of the Navy's 100-ton experiment- al prototype SES which is now conducting a sea-test in Commencement Bay at Tacoma.

Aerojet is one of four companies selected by the Navy currently engaged in preliminary de- sign competition to construct a 2,000-ton ver- sion.

Of approximately $100,000,000 that the

United States has invested during the past six years in developing 'SES technology for use in the fleet, two-thirds has been invested by the

Navy toward two experimental 100-ton proto- types, of which the Aerojet-built craft is one.

In addition, Aerojet has been developing an amphibious assault landing craft air cushion vehicle for the Navy, which is a related tech- nological development. To construct this so- phisticated craft, Aerojet has selected another highly rated Pacific Northwest firm, Tacoma

Boatbuilding Co., which also fabricated the 100-ton SES. To date, the 'Government has in- vested approximately $40,000,000 in advanced ship technology at Aerojet.

Other members of the Aerojet 2,000-ton

SES team include: Weapons Command and

Control—Sanders Associates, RCA, Honeywell and Univac; Lift Fans—'Garrett Corporation ;

Waterjet Propulsion Pumps—Aerojet Liquid

Rocket Company ; and The Boeing Company is looking at possible application of its hydro- foil experience to SES technology.

Puget Sound Tug & Barge

Promotes McLean And Watkins

Two executives of the Puget Sound Tug &

Barge Co. have been promoted to key positions as a result of the company's recently announced participation in a Canadian-sponsored trans- portation consortium, Arctic Transportation,

Ltd.

William D. McLean, formerly vice president- operations, has been named senior vice presi- dent, and G.A. (Al) Watkins, formerly gen- eral sales manager, has been appointed vice president in charge of marketing and sales, ac- cording to Leo L. Collar, president of the Se- attle, Wash.-based tug and barge firm.

Mr. Collar said that "because of the potential for increased transportation requirements in the Arctic, we have joined in the formation of

Arctic Transportation, Ltd., and have initiated some changes to accommodate this business expansion and make our firm even more Arctic- oriented than it has in the past. "In addition to a broad range of towbaat experience, both Mr. McLean and Mr. Watkins have in-depth Arctic experience, which gives them the necessary expertise and knowledge to develop and operate transportation services to the North," stated Mr. Collar.

Mr. McLean, who has been with the com- pany since 1949, first became involved with specialized transportation to the Arctic when the Red Stack company formed Arctic Marine

Freighters to deliver 7,000 tons of cargo to

Foggy Island in 1968 for British Petroleum.

In 1969. he was assigned as project manager for delivery of 70,000 tons of drilling supplies and materials to Prudhoe Bay on Alaska's

North Slope, and in 1970, he was general man- ager for the 187,000-ton sealift to Prudhoe Bay, the largest commercial sealift in history.

Since then, Mr. McLean has been vice presi- dent and general manager of Arctic Marine

Freighters, directing the total operation in 1971 and 1972.

Mr. Watkins joined Puget Sound Tug &

Barge in 1969, and has also been active in su- pervising the firm's Arctic operations since then. He first became involved in transporta- tion to the Far North in 1965, when he planned and supervised a tow to Point Barrow, the northernmost tip of Alaska, for another tug and barge firm.

Although Mr. Watkins is in charge of gen- eral sales, his primary area of activity under his new assignment will be developing Arctic business.

IF YOU RdTE EXPERIENCE HIGHLY, ^NCIhrD tWiIN YODIf U|M inside out. After all, 35 years of working

VV/I uil/kn VnMI 1 Iwnll rllll*** in boiler repairs has taught him a

IJC'C OCCN th'ng or tw0 at30Ut his work. It's made him quite an expert. But Chan v DLUl V^l I York Hin always has been just that. Because even when he joined us

TUC IOD /IT MCDDCI 'way back in 1938, he already was a skilled Boilermaker.

I nC IvD M I nCr r LL He just had to prove it to us. And to our customers. * • Yf/IBO I And that s exact|y what he did. So over the years Chan York Hin

WW I CHKd I patiently and methodically worked his way up. Up the long ladder of experience until he earned the title of Chargehand.the position he holds today.lt's a position that places him in a supervisory capacity over a team of 30 boilermakers. And because they've got Chan York Hin to guide them, they're a very skilled team indeed. They're skilled and professional I'ike all Keppel men. And there are plenty of them-3,000 men in all. It's these Keppel men who make our shipyard one of the finest in Asia. We have the capacity to undertake any type of work on any type of vessel. And that includes ship repair and maintenance, conversions, annuals and specials. If you're in shipping and you rate experience highly, think of Keppel Shipyard. Think of the Keppel men.

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