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St. Louis Ship/ARTCO Contract Signing

Pictured at the signing, left to right (front row): H.T. Pott, chairman, Pott Industries

Inc.; E. Renshaw, president, St. Louis Ship; W.R. Murphy, president, American River

Transportation Co., and R.L. Erickson, secretary, ARTCO; (second row): R.P. Conerly, president, Pott Industries; R.J. Patrick, vice president-engineering, St. Louis Ship;

A. Zang, vice president-production, St. Louis Ship; Z.G. Tobin, vice president-sales, St.

Louis Ship, and M.R. O'Daniels, marine department, ARTCO.

American Legion Presents Trophy To President

The American Legion's most important annual maritime award, the Robert L. Hague

American Legion Merchant Marine Trophy, was presented to President Nixon on May 23, 1 973, in a brief ceremony in the Oval Office at the White House. The President was presented the award because of the far-reaching magnitude of the Administration- sponsored Merchant Marine Act of 1970. Above, the President poses with (from left to right) Walter L. Vaughan, Commander of the Robert L. Hague Marine Industries Post #1242, Senator Jacob K. Javits of New York, and James R. Wilson, director of The

American Legion's National Security and Foreign Relations Division. The actual presenta- tion was made by Commander Vaughan. The trophy will remain in the White House for one year, at which time it will be returned to the Robert L. Hague Post, and President

Nixon will receive a miniature.

A formal contract signing was recently held at St. Louis Ship's office to cover the three 8,400-hp triple-screw towboats recently or- dered by American River Trans- portation Co. (ARTCO) of St.

Louis, Mo.

All three towboats are sched- uled for delivery in 1974 and will feature St. Louis Ship's exclusive

Hydrodyne Hulls and latest Kort nozzle design. Overall dimensions are 200 feet by 50 feet, by 11 feet 6 inches.

The "Artco Triplets" have been appropriately named for American

New System Improves

Icebreaking Capabilities

Of Seagoing Vessels

Details of a new Pneumatically In- duced Pitching System (PIPS), de- signed to improve the icebreaking capabilities of seagoing vessels, were recently given by Arctic Engineers and Constructors, a joint venture of

Raymond International Inc., Hous- ton, Texas, and Global Marine Inc.,

Los Angeles, Calif.

An experimental prototype system installed in the tug Amherstburg for midwinter tests in ice-covered waters demonstrated the system's ability to facilitate icebreaking passage and to increase the maneuverability and speed of an icebreaker. A model of an icebreaking drill ship (IBDS) incorporating the PIP system was displayed at the recent 5th Annual

Offshore Technology Conference held in Houston.

The PIP system induces large am- plified vertical bow motion at the natural pitch frequency of a given ship's hull. It can be adapted to ship's of all sizes and types and can be used in Arctic waters or wherever ice- breaking capabilities are required.

Modification of hulls is minimal with the PIP system, a factor which allows expansion of icebreaking capabilities without excessive costs for modifica- tion or for design or fabrication of special vessels.

One of the earliest PIPS applica- tions was the incorporation of the system into the design of an offshore rivers as a reminder of America's great rivers. The vessels will be christened the M/V St. Mary's

River, M/V Hudson River, and

M/V Potomac River.

American River Transportation

Co. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Archer Daniels Midland Com- pany, and was formed January 1, 1972. In less than two years they will have constructed and/or ac- quired a total of 305 barges. At present, ARTCO has a total of seven chartered towboats operating exclusively in their service. drilling ship for Arctic operations.

Ice basin model tests of the icebreak- ing drill ship have been completed at the HSVA facilities in Hamburg,

West Germany, and the Wartsila fa- cilities in Helsinki, Finland.

Arctic Engineers and Constructors was formed in 1971 to provide re- search, design, engineering and test- ing of specialized equipment suitable for Arctic operations in support of the energy industries. In addition to the PIPS and the IBDS systems,

Arctic Engineers and Constructors has developed a variety of advanced systems and equipment for Arctic drilling, pipelaying and construction.

This includes the ACT-100, the world's heaviest air cushion trans- porter designed for year-round Arc- tic use and application to operations in swamps and marshlands.

Seaspan International

Appoints W.D. Traill

A.M. Fowlis, vice president-ad- ministration of Seaspan Interna- tional Ltd., 'North Vancouver, Brit- ish Columbia, has announced the appointment of W.D.Traill as com- ptroller.

Prior to this appointment, Mr.

Traill held various positions in the

Marine and Shipyards Divisions.

Seaspan's operations include coastal and deepsea transportation as well as shipbuilding, and is one of the Genstar group of companies.

E.L. Post & Co.

Appoints Distributor

In Piraeus, Greece

Walter L. Vaughan, manager oif

E.L. Post & Co., Inc., 233 Broad- way, New York, N.Y., recently an- nounced the appointment of C.

Cartoudis & D. Mandicopoulo of

Piraeus, Greece, as the official sole distributors and warehouse sales agents for Post's Babbitt metals in the Eastern Mediterranean area.

Two tons of their leading brand,

Post's DubKDu-T Motor Metal and Motor Marine were recently shipped on the Export Leader of

American Export Lines, destined for their warehouse at Salaminos 25, Piraeus 23, Greece. Post, known as the House df Babbitt, has been supplying the marine industry with

Babbitt .metal for almost a century.

Lockstad To Supply

Chain Pipe Covers For

Three Margate Tankers

Lockstad Co., Inc. of 179 West 5th

Street, Bayonne, N.J., recently an- nounced the receipt of an order for three sets of chain pipe covers from

National Steel & Shipbuilding Co.

The patented chain pipe covers will be installed aboard the three 38,300- dwt Margate tankers now being con- structed at NASSCO's San Diego yard.

Lockstad stated their covers are now specified for approximately 80 percent of the larger vessels currently under construction in U.S. yards, in- cluding the LASH vessels being built at Avondale Shipyards and the ma- jority of the tankers now under con- struction at Bethlehem Steel's Spar- rows Point shipyard. "TOO BA2> SUE COULD/S'T MAKZ

LAVtSGW/A/f OA/ TH£ C0/4S7-: "

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