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Houston Firm Buys

Tacoma Boatbuilding

The Tacoma Boatbuilding Co. yard in Seat- tle, Wash., has been sold to a new corporation, the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., in a $3-million transaction.

The new company was formed by the Ameri- can Northland Oil Co. of Houston, Texas, with financing through the investment bankers

Whitney-Todd of New York City.

Elwin Messer will be president of Seattfle-

Tacoma Ship, with William Stutts secretary- treasurer. Donald M. Surgenor will be asso- ciated with the firm in international develop- ment and as interim yard manager.

Besides its own engineering staff, the com- pany will be assisted in new marine design work by the Seattle naval architectural firm of Nickum & Spaulding Associates, Inc.

Seattle-Tacoma Ship intends to complete all contract work under way at the yard.

New Chartering Firm

Formed In Vancouver

International Chartering Services Inc., 17

Battery Place, New York, N.Y., and Greer

Shipping Ltd., Vancouver, British Columbia, have jointly announced the formation of Inter- national Chartering Services, Ltd., which will be active in dry-cargo and liquid-cargo ship chartering. The company will also offer vessel management and vessel operations services.

Matthew DeLuca Sr. has been named chair- man of the new concern and Robert B. Greer, president. Charles W. Plester will be in charge of the chartering operation of the firm, which will be located at 1619 Marine Building, Van- couver, 1, British Columbia.

Norris Division Of Dover

Appoints Two For New Center

For East Coast Distribution t

Glen Tatum

Norris Division of Dover Corporation, Tulsa,

Okla., has announced the opening of a distribu- tion center in the New York-New Jersey area for its butterfly valve group, and has made two promotions.

Brad Bertrem, general manager of valve op- erations, announced that the distribution cen- ter, located at 5426 Tonnelle Avenue, North

Bergen, N.J. at the west end of the Lincoln

Tunnel, would serve the Atlantic Seaboard states.

Kelley Strang has been promoted to district manager northeast, and Glen Tatum has been assigned branch manager for the distribution center. "The distribution center is being established to provide better service to our customers in the Atlantic Seaboard states," said Mr. Bertrem in making the announcement. "Kelley Strang has served our organization admirably in the past years, and will be responsible for the At- lantic Seaboard area. Glen Tatum's achieve- ments at Norris have earned him the promotion to branch manager at the warehouse."

Dover Corporation, Norris Division, manu- factures and markets butterfly valves and con- trols for industrial and marine applications.

HOW OIL WOULD BE RECOVERED: Worked into the bight of q Coast Guard developed barrier designed to contain an offshore oil spill, ths experimental prototype oil recovery unit is allowed to drift down current until it can be anchored at the "U" of the barrier. A Coast

Guard boat and two inflatable craft jockey the unit de- veloped by Lockheed Missiles & Space Co., Sunnyvale,

Calif., into position. Once in position, a 300-foot 10-inch hose is passed to the support vessel which will handle the recovered oil. Also, an integrated umbilical control and refueling cable is passed to the support vessel, en- abling the unit to be operated by remote control. This scene took place on San Francisco Bay during tests of the maneuverability, durability and stability of the machine.

The oil recovery unit is based on Lockheed's patented

CLEAN SWEEP oil-water separator which has been sold to a number of companies.

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