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Luckenbach Announces $56-Million U.S. Shipbuilding Program j

Artist's conception of the proposed 56,000-dwt Luckenbach lumber carrier.

Edgar F. Luckenbach Jr., president of Luck- enbach Steamship Company, one of America's oldest maritime firms, announced that he has notified the Federal Maritime Administration of his intention to request subsidies for the construction of two 56,000-ton dry bulk car- riers. These vessels will be the largest of their class ever built in the United States.

Mr. Luckenbach stated that negotiations are in progress to build these ships, each measur- ing 700 feet, with the Lockheed Shipbuilding

Corporation in Seattle, Wash. Donaldson, Luf- kin & Jenrette, Inc., the investment banking firm, has been named by Luckenbach to nego- tiate the financing of the $56-miHion ship- building program. The designs for the new

Luckenbach ships, which incorporate many unique engineering features, were produced by the naval architectural firm of John J. Mc-

Mullen Associates.

SNAME Chesapeake Section

Announces 1973-74 Program

The Ghesapeake Section of The Society of

Naval Architects and Marine Engineers has announced the forthcoming schedule of events for their 1973-74 technical programs.

Seth Hawkins, Naval Ship Research and

Development Center, mentioned that any visit- ing members of SNAME from other sections who happen to be in the Washington, D.C!., area on the scheduled dates are cordially in- vited to attend and should contact A. Lands- burg, chairman of the meetings committee, for reservations, telephone (202) 254-7006.

The schedule is:

September 20, 1973, at Washington Navy

Yard Officers Club; paper: "ATS-4 Salvage

Tug," Robert Jamieson (NAVSEC).

October 25, 1973, at Calhoun Marine Engi- neers Benevolent Association School, Balti- more, Md.; tour and lecture: Roy Luebbe (Cal- houn School).

November 28, 1973, at Bethesda Naval Hos- pital Officers' Club; paper: "Recent Coast

Guard Research into Vessel Stability," Comdr.

E.L. Jones, U.S. Coast Guard.

January 7, 1974, at Washington Navy Yard

Officers' Club; paper: "Offshore Terminals,"

Armour S. Armstrong (MarAd).

January 19, 1974, at U.S. Naval Academy;

Chesapeake Sailing Yacht Symposium.

February 7, 1974, at Walter Reed Officers'

Club; paper: "The MarAd Pollution Abate- ment Program," George Steinman (MarAd).

March 5, 1974, at Walter Reed Officers'

Club; paper: "The Omega Navigation Sys- tem," Comdr. J.D. Richardson (U.S. Navy).

April 10, 1974, at Washington Navy Yard

In announcing the new plans for his 123- year-old family-owned shipping concern, Mr.

Luckenbach said: "The construction of these new ships, to sail under the American flag, will represent the largest lumber carriers in the world and is in total concert with the long-term maritime aims of our country as well as our company. In addition to pursuing expanded terminal and stevedoring operations in 12 United States ports, Luckenbach will now also concentrate on the building and operating of a number of special purpose ocean carriers designed to promote President Nixon's goal of rebuilding the United States merchant fleet."

Luckenbach Steamship Company, whose ex- ecutive offices are in New York, serves the maritime community today as steamship op- erators, terminal owners and operators, steam- ship general agents, maritime brokers and consultants, international freight forwarders and stevedores.

Officers' Club; paper: "Ship Mooring," Rich- ard Douglas (Bethlehem Steel Corporation).

May 9, 1974, at Walter Reed Officers' Club; paper: "Resistance Characteristics of a Syste- matic Series of Planning Hull Forms—Series 65," Jacques Hadler (NSRDC), Nadine Hub- ble (NSRDC), and H. Holling (NSRDC).

Eller Operating New 14-Acre

Marine Terminal At Tampa

Capt. Arthur E. Erb, president of Eller &

Company, Inc., one of Florida's largest steam- ship agents and stevedoring firms, has an- nounced that Eller & Company, Inc. has leased and is operating the 14-acre marine terminal at 13th and York Streets, Tampa, Fla., pres- ently known as Gulf Florida Terminal. Eller's operation of this facility began September 1, 1973.

The facility has a 1.200-foot dock and ware- house space of 146,000 square feet. Nine acres of paved area are also included and will be used for open storage of lumber, steel and containers.

Edward E. Sheffield, local manager, advises that their office will be relocated from 412

Madison Street to these premises on Septem- ber 15.

Gulf Florida Terminal Company will con- tinue to operate the 2,000,000-cubic^foot cold storage warehouse adjacent to this marine terminal.

Eller & Company has been a licensed steve- dore and terminal operator in the port of

Tampa for several years, operating at Kreher

Terminal, a public dock, and this will be a major expansion of their operation in the port.

Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock

Names Hartman And Martinson

Frank E. Hartman

Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company re- cently named Albert M. Martinson Jr. and

Frank E. Hartman as general superintendents.

In his new post, Mr. Martinson will be re- sponsible for directing the shipyard's machin- ery installation, outfitting and heavy ma- chining divisions, and Mr. Hartman will be responsible for directing the shipyard's hull, welding, plant engineering and maintenance divisions. For the present, Mr. Hartman will also continue the direction of the production control division.

Mr. Martinson joined Sun Ship in July 1971.

He held the position of chief of the machinery technical section until his present appointment to general superintendent.

Born in Cambridge, Mass., Mr. Martinson is a graduate of Webb Institute of Naval Ar- chitecture with a B.S. degree in naval archi- tecture and marine engineering.

He held a number of engineering and naval architectural posts in 17 years with the Dravo

Corporation in Pittsburgh, Pa., and was chief marine engineer of the Engineering Works

Division when he left the company in 1970.

He was then general manager of Matton Ship- yard Co., Inc. of Cohoes, N.Y., before coming to Sun Ship in July 1971 as chief of the ma- chinery technical section.

Mr. Martinson is a member of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, the American Society of Naval Engineers, and the Marine Historical Association.

Mr. Hartman joined Sun Ship in August 1969 as a guarantee engineer, and in July 1970 he was named general foreman of the Pro- duction Planning and Material Control Divi- sion, a post he held until his appointment to superintendent of production planning and ma- terial control in January 1972.

Mr. Hartman was born in Newport News,

Va., and is a 1968 graduate of William and

Mary College with a B.A. degree in account- ing.

He worked in the nuclear construction and contracts divisions of Newport News Ship- building and Dry Dock Company for 10 vears before joining Sun Ship. In January 1972, he was named superintendent of production plan- ning and material control.

Mr. Hartman is a member of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, and the National Ship Production Committee.

St. Lawrence Seaway

Names William Spriggs

William S. Spriggs has been appointed di- rector of operations for the St. Lawrence Sea- way Development Corp., according to William

H. Kennedy, resident manager at Massena,

N.Y.

Mr. Spriggs has been deputy director of operations since Tune 1972, having joined the corporation in 1958, and subsequently serving in a number of supervisory posts. In his new post, he will be in charge of lock operations, maintenance and marine services.

Albert M. Martinson Jr. 10 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News