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All kinds of sandblasters but one kind^ of quality: a first i class 11

Pauli & Griffin sandblast equipment.

Variety-from 1-quart ca- pacity units to 40-ton!

Famous Feathertouch® Re- mote Control - ultimate in safety, prevents over-blasting, and reduces fatigue.

Guaranteed Nozzles-diamond-lapped for precision. Replacement guarantee -no questions asked. i \

PAULI & GRIFFIN CO. 285 Lawrence Avenue

South San Francisco, CA 94080 (415) 873-4540

P&G equipment meets

OSHA specifications

REPAIR at the CROSSROADS

Ideally Located for Speed, Economy and Convenience

A Complete American SHIP REPAIR SERVICE • 10OO ft. concrete outfitting pier • 691' reinforced concrete graving dock • Four mobile cranes • 2000 ton steel floating drydock • Complete machine—pattern- boiler plate—electrical—fabricating shops • Foundry • Design division • Ideally located for voyage or annual repair enroute

Plus—all the modern port facilities of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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P.O. Box 2209 •Telephone 723-6010 • 723-0769 • Cable address "Drydock"

Revised Edition Available On

MarAd Standard Specifications

For Merchant Ship Construction

The Maritime Administration has announced the publication of the latest edition of its Standard

Specifications under the title "Standard Specifi- cations for Merchant Ship Construction" dated

December 1972. This document supersedes the previous issue dated March 1968. It has been updated and broadened to include text for appli- cability to the container, LASH, OBO, and tanker vessels, in addition to the general cargoship. Vol- ume of text has been condensed to eliminate detail repetition of requirements of regulatory bodies, MarAd administration requirements as contained in the contracts, and restrictive ship- yard practices unless essential for quality control.

The purpose of the MarAd Standard Specifi- cations is to provide guidance to the maritime industry in the preparation of detail ship specifi- cations, especially where construction differential subsidy is involved. They are complete in all as- pects of required contract work and embody the following pertinent features: — Establish levels of quality as a bench mark for construction differential subsidy. — Identify current requirements of regulatory bodies. — Reflect latest technological developments. — Indicate measures of standardization to en- courage mass production techniques. — Include standard text to reflect legal aspects of contract work.

It is intended further to update the MarAd

Standard Specifications periodically to reflect con- tinuing technological developments and pertinent results of research and development investiga- tions ; for example, the recently completed study of regulatory constraints and design practices prepared for the Maritime Administration by the

Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Com- pany (report has not as vet been completely incor- porated in these Specifications). Future editions will also include applicable text for LNG, tug- barge combinations and other specialized designs, as well as other forms of propulsion machinery (diesel, gas turbine, nuclear, etc.), in addition to the steam turbine already in the current text.

Copies of these latest Specifications are avail- able from the National Technical Information

Service, U.S. Department of Commerce, 5285

Port Royal Road, Springfield, Va. 22151, at a cost of $12.50 per copy. (Refer to Publication

No. COM-72-11469) "3