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Mobil Shipping Orders

Three Giant Tankers

Three giant tankers, two 274,000 tonners and one of 271,000 dead- weight tons, will be built for Mobil

Shipping and Transportation Com- pany under contracts signed in New

York.

The vessels are scheduled to be delivered in 1975. The twin 274,000 tonners will be built by Sumitomo

Shipbuilding & Machinery Co. Ltd. at its Oppama shipyard. They will be the fourth and fifth ships to be built

In our first ad in this series we told you about the basic tendering sys- tems and bumpers which Byron

Jackson makes available for ma- rine service. We emphasized the different ways in which they're able to absorb energy since, of course, protection is the first requirement in a tendering system.

FITTED TO YOUR NEED

Next to protection in importance is a fender's ease of installation and its adaptability to your own facili- ties and tendering needs. That's why Byron Jackson manufactures five completely different systems in a wide range of sizes, shapes and configurations. It's also why these systems are part of some of the newest advancements in marine technology, like single buoy moor- ing systems for super tankers, as shown in photo #1.

A LITTLE HELP

FROM OUR FRIENDS

And customers consistently dis- cover ways to use our tendering systems that surprise even us.

Photo #4 for example shows our "D" shape Heavy Duty Modular Fenders by Sumitomo for Mobil. The 271,000 tonner on order will be built by Sase- bo Heavy Industries Co., Inc. It will be the seventh built for Mobil by

Sasebo.

Each of the new vessels will be 1,115 feet long, and will have a speed of 16.5 knots. The Sumitomo vessels will have a beam of 178 feet and a depth of 88 feet, and each will be powered by a 38,000 - horsepower steam turbine. The Sasebo vessel will have a beam of 175 feet, a depth of 91 feet, and will be powered by a 36,000-horsepower turbine. installed on the hull of a tugboat — an application we hadn't consid- ered because of our large line of

Push nee Bumpers for vessels in- volved in contact operations. Our

Modular Fenders are secured by welded mounting plates perma- nently bonded to the rubber. Byron

Jackson's rubber-to-metal bonding process has been perfected over many years of producing marine bearings and rugged oilwell drilling products.

The two photos in #2 of "O" bore

Extruded Fenders chain hung at dockside, illustrate how easily our systems can be installed.

ENERGY ABSORBING

BUCKLING

Also quickly and easily installed with mounting plates are the Con- trolled Buckling Fenders shown in photo #3. These low-reaction fen- ders absorb energy as a load is applied, then buckle in a controlled manner to absorb additional energy without building further reaction forces. Byron Jackson's patented end plate design, which features both a chemical and mechanical bond between rubber and metal, $27.5-Million Shipyard

Firm Formed In Taiwan

The Nationalist Chinese Ministry of Economic Affairs in Taipei has announced a new $27.5-million ship- yard corporation that is planning to build a construction facility for 360,- 000-deadweight-ton tankers in south- ern Taiwan.

A venture of the Nationalist Chi- nese Government and private United

States and Taiwanese business and shipping interests, the new China

Shipbuilding Corp. will officially come permits precise control of the direc- tion and amount of buckling.

HOW CAN WE HELP YOU?

We'll continue to keep you in- formed of ways in which BJ tender- ing systems are being used throughout the world. In the mean- time, for more information mail the coupon below.

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BJ MARINE PRODUCTS

A Subsidiary of Borg-Warner Corp.

P.O. Box 2709, Terminal Annex

Los Angeles, California 90054 (213) 583-1811

P.O. Box 888, Keokuk, Iowa 52632 (319) 524-8430

I need better protection. Rush me more information on: • Extruded Fenders • Pushnee® Bumpers • Modular Fenders • Controlled Buckling Fenders • Shear-Type Fenders

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State Zip into being in June, according to the reports. The Taiwan Government and local interests will control 55 percent of the new firm, with the re- mainder under Gata Oswego Corp.,

Camerna Navigation Corp., and the

Associated Maritime Industries.

The new yard, to be built in Kaoh- siung, is designed to deliver four of the 360,000-dwt-class tankers annu- ally at a cost reported to be $50 mil- lion each. Spokesmen said that in addition to the construction of new giant-size vessels, the yard will repair some 2.5-million tons of shipping a year.

While the company is still to be formed officially, it reportedly has re- ceived 10 orders for the new tankers, the first of which will be launched in 1975. Construction of the facility will begin as soon as practicable, the spokesman said. "We will build the shipyard and start building the ship at the same time."

Jacuzzi Bros., Inc.

Names Dave Norris

Marine Accounts Rep

Dave Norris

Dave Norris has been appointed

Eastern accounts representative for the marine products department of

Jacuzzi Bros., Inc., Little Rock,

Ark.

In addition to sales, he will pro- vide specialized consultation to

JacuzziJet customers covering various applications for its jet drive systems.

Mr. Norris recently joined Jacuzzi after working a number of years in sales and purchasing positions for pleasure boat manufacturers in

Tennessee, Minnesota and Arkan- sas.

Naming Mr. Norris to the new position coincides with Jacuzzi's current expansion program on its "JacuzziJet" line of marine jet pro- pulsion systems. The company manufactures jet drives in 12 to 36- inch stock sizes and larger units to customers' specifications.

American Ship Building

Reports Record High

Quarterly Net Earnings

The American .Ship Building Co. of Cleveland, Ohio, has reported the highest quarterly net earnings in the company's 74-year history in the three-month period ending

March 31, according to board chairman George M. Steinbrenner

III. The earnings of $1,355,148 were some 24 percent above the same quarter one year ago, he said.

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FENDERING SYSTEMS: ONCE YOU'VE LEARNED HOW TO MAKE THEM

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