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Kernan To Coordinate

Matson's $72-Million

Ro/Ro Ship Program

Matson Navigation Company has assigned Robert S. Kernan, vice president - southern California, to coordinate its $72-million roll-on/ roll-off ship program in San Fran- cisco, it was announced by Malcolm

H. Blaisdell, president.

Robert E. Waegner has been ap- pointed vice president - southern

California to succeed Mr. Kernan.

Mr. Waegner is returning to Mat- son after 18 months with another company.

Both Messrs. Kernan and Waeg- ner are Matson freight operations veterans, and they worked together in Tokyo on Matson's former Far

East container service.

Mr. Kernan, in his new assign- ment, will coordinate the imple- mentation of Matson's ro/ro trail- ership program. The first new ves- sel will go into Hawaii service in

August, and the second in Decem- ber.

Sperry Vickers Issues

New Bulletin Covering

Power Steering System

The highly precise and versatile

DOL-FIN power steering system for pleasure and work boats is featured in a new two-page bulletin published by Sperry Vickers.

The all-hydraulic system provides full-time power steering, is compact and easily installed, is adaptable to electrical or mechanical autopilots, offers variable rudder slew rates, and automatically reverts to manual steer- ing as an emergency backup. It con- sists basically of an engine-driven pump, helm unit pump, and steering valve/cylinder assembly for rudder actuation.

Bulletin DF731 covers system op- eration, features and benefits, avail- able options, and performance speci- fications.

Copies of the DOL-FIN Steering

System Bulletin DF731 may be ob- tained by writing to Sperry Vickers,

Aerospace - Ordnance - Marine Divi - sion, Troy, Mich. 48084.

Port Of New York

Steamship Directory

Available At No Cost

The 1973 edition of the "Port of

New York Steamship Services Di- rectory" has been issued by the Port

Authority to meet the needs of im- porters, exporters, freight forward- ers and other business organizations and Government agencies.

The 24-page directory, published annually since 1955, lists the names, addresses, telephone numbers and pier locations for 188 steamship lines and agents offering regularly sched- uled services from the New Jersey-

New York Port on international, in- tercoastal and coastwise routes. It also contains names, addresses and pier locations of the Port's terminal operators and a listing of world ports served by the bi-state harbor. In ad- dition, the new edition lists active steamship piers, together with the

April 15, 1973 25 lines, terminal operators and railroads serving them. For the first time, pas- senger and cruise services are in- cluded.

Copies of the new directory may be obtained without charge from the

Port Promotion Division, The Port

Authority of New York and New

Jersey, 111 Eighth Avenue, New

York, N.Y. 10011, or from the Port of New York Trade Development

Office at 170 Broadway, New York,

N.Y. 10038.

Lightner Yard To Build

Taubler-Designed Boat

For Collecting Debris

A contract for the construction \of a debris-collecting vessel has been awarded to Lightner's Boat Yard,

Inc., West Sayville, N.Y., by the

Department of Conservation and

Waterways, Town of Hempstead,

N.Y.

The new vessel, of catamaran type, is of welded-steel construction, diesel engine powered, and is fitted with a large debris basket between the hulls.

The vessel is capable of collecting floating debris, as well as being grounded to collect beach debris.

Principal dimensions are 30 feet 1 inch length overall, 12 feet extreme beam, and the draft is about 15 inches.

The design agent was Richard R.

Taubler, Inc., naval architects of

Brooklyn, N.Y.

Here's what happens with the new Raytheon

Watchstander System for remote monitoring of engineering, cargo and bridge parameters — as well as spares inventory, fuel consumption, cargo control, dockside maneuver- ing, satellite navigation, or just about anything else you might need a computer to do:

What happens is safe, efficient ship operation. fv? m >*t i»'

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