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500,000-Dwt Tanker

Ordered From Hitachi—

Second From Andreadis

The Ariake shipyard of Hitachi

Zosen has received an order for the construction of a second 500,000- dwt tanker from the Andreadis

Group. The contract was signed on

October 15 'by Prof. Stratis G. An- dreadis, chairman, and Nobuo In- ouye, executive vice president of

Hitachi Zosen. Payment terms were fixed in yen to be paid on a cash basis.

The contract for the first tanker of this size was signed in March of this year.

Built to ABS specifications, pro- pulsion will be supplied by a 45,000- hp steam turbine to provide a speed of 15.3 knots. The new tanker will measure 1,280 feet in length (be- tween perpendiculars), have a molded breadth of 233 feet and a molded depth of 102 feet.

The Andreadis Group recently began construction of an oil re- finery in the Megara area, west of

Athens. This refinery, when com- pleted in the first quarter of 1975, will have an annual production ca- pacity of 120,000 barrels a clay.

The two 500,000-dwt tankers, scheduled for delivery in December of 1976 and December of 1977 re- spectively, and a 280,000-dwt tank- er ordered in December of 1972 and currently under construction in

Hitachi's Sakai shipyard, will be engaged in the transportation of crude oil to this refinery.

Institute of Navigation

Holds 2-Day Seminar

At Kings Pt. Academy

The Institute of Navigation (ION) recently completed two days of seminars and discussions at the United State's Merchant Marine

Academy at Kings Point, N.Y. The general theme of the meeting was "New Frontiers in Marine Naviga- tion."

Rear Adm. William F. Rea III,

USGG, the Chief of the Office of

Merchant Marine Safety, was the guest 'lecturer at the highlight of the two-day meeting, a special ban- quet at Leonard's, in Great Neck,

N.Y. He was introduced by the toastmaster for the evening, Dr.

Tom Nicholson, who is an Acade- my alumnus and the director of the

American Museum of Natural His- tory.

Luncheons were held on both days of the seminar for the 120 members and guests of ION who attended the meeting. The Super- intendent of the Academy, Rear

Adm. Arthur B. Engel, USCG (ret.), introduced at the first lunch- eon S.A. Conigliaro, the president of Sperry Rand Corporation, whose topic was "From Polaris to Trident

Navigation." The speaker at the next day's luncheon was 'Capt. Lau- ren McCready, who discussed the role played by the National Mari- time Research Center in marine navigation. 'Captain McCready is the head of NMR'C, whose offices are located on the Academy grounds.

Representatives of the Sperry

Rand Corporation were among the most active participants at the meeting. Speakers from that firm at both the morning and after- noon seminar sessions were: J.R.

Grymes, who spoke on "Operation of the Sperry Collision Avoidance

System ;" J. Knitz, "A Doppler So- nar Log for Water-Speed Measure- ment ;" and C. Sangiovanni and J.

Moryl, "Mixed Inertial Navigation

Systems for Surface Effect Ships."

The meeting was administered and coordinated iby Capt. Raymond

Eisenberg of the Academy. Other

Academy participants were Capt.

Laurence Jarrett, who spoke about the legal frontiers of navigation, and'Capt. Alfred Fiore, whose topic was "Marine Instrumentation De- velopments."

A total of 19 topics were exam- ined in detail during the seminar portion of the meeting. Represen- tatives of Government agencies and private industries related to the field of marine navigation were on hand to give their views on the many subjects.

The U.S. Merchant Marine

Academy at Kings Point is a na- tional institution, part of the Mari- time Administration of the Depart- ment of Commerce.

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