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McMullen Associates

To Study West Coast

Ship Repair Market

The international consulting firm of John J. McMullen Associates, Inc., has been selected by the Port of Port- land, Ore., to undertake a study of the West Coast ship repair market and to recommend plans for the ex- pansion of the ship repair facilities in the port area.

The study will involve a complete survey of West Coast marine activity leading to a projection of drydocking requirements through 1985, by size and type of ship. The capacity of

West Coast ship repairers to satisfy these requirements will be assessed and an economic analysis undertaken of different possible levels of expan- sion, designed to indicate the poten- tially most advantageous level of in- vestment in new or expanded facili- ties.

John J. McMullen Associates, Inc. is an internationally known firm of naval architects, marine engineers and transportation consultants en- gaged in all aspects of shipping and shipbuilding throughout the world.

One of their current projects is the development of what will be the larg- est ship repair facility in the world, at Dubai on the Arabian Gulf. This shipyard, for which McMullen de- veloped the overall concept, pre- pared- the economic feasibility study and designed the business plan, will incorporate three giant graving docks, one large enough for tankers of 1,000,000 deadweight tons and the oth- er two each large enough for tankers of 400,000 deadweight tons.

McMullen Associates is also re- sponsible for the planning, construc- tion and operation of a new ship- building yard in Curacao in the Carib- bean, to be known as Santa Ana

Shipyards Corporation. This ship- yard, in which the Island Government of Curacao and McMullen will be partners, is planned to construct ves- sels of up to 80,000 deadweight tons.

An associate company of John J.

McMullen Associates, Inc., Norton,

Lilly and Company, Inc., is well- known in West Coast marine circles as a leading steamship agency with offices in Seattle, Wash., San Fran- cisco, and Los Angeles, Calif.

Distillate Fuels

Highlights Meeting

Of Naval Engineers

The Tidewater Chapter of the

American Society of Naval Engi- neers, at their first meeting of the 1973-74 season at the Little Creek

Amphibious Base Officers Club,

Norfolk, Va., presented a program on the Navy Distillate Fuel Con- version Program.

Comdr. Robert A. Teague, Naval

Ship Systems Command Distillate

Fuel Project Coordinator, traced the evolution of Navy fuels from coal to the inception of the Distil- late Fuel Program.

During the presentation, he de- scribed highlights of the Navy's shift to "clean fuel" for all conven- tionally boilered steam-driven sur- face ships and detailed many of the major problems, such as pump standardization, encountered in achieving the program objective of converting all NSFO (Navy Special

Fuel Oil) fueled ships.

Due to Commander Teague's in- formative presentation, consider- able discussion was generated dur- ing the question and answer period.

During the regular business meeting, the chapter officers elect- ed during a recent executive com- mittee meeting were announced.

Comdr. J.A. Siebel, USCGR, ma- rine consultant, former vice chair- man, was elected chairman to re- place Capt. W.E. McGarrah, USN, who left the area for a Washington assignment. Also elected were R.S.

Gray, contracting officer SUP-

SHIPS 5, Norfolk Naval Shipyard, vice chairman; Lt. Comdr. E.S.

McGinley, USN, Submarine Type

Desk, Norfolk Naval Shipyard, secretary; Lt. J.T. Hickman,

USNR-R, nuclear engineer, Nor- folk Naval Shipyard, treasurer, and

R. Bock, Norfolk Shipbuilding and

Drydock Corp., hospitality chair- man.

National Propeller Club

Reelects Jasper Baker

Jasper S. Baker, a vice presi- dent of United Fruit Co. in Wash- ington, D.C., has 'been reelected as national president of The Propeller

Club of the United States. He has been active in the organization for more than 20 years. Elected with Mr. Baker at the San Fran- cisco national convention were

George J. Gmelch, executive vice president of Pacific Far East Line,

San Francisco, 'Calif., first vice president; Lloyd A. Strickland, vice president of Lykes Bros. Steamship

Co., New Orleans, La., second vice president; James P. McAllister, president of McAllister Brothers,

New York, N.Y., third vice presi- dent ; A.R. Philbrick Jr., assistant superintendent of the Texas Mari- time Academy, Galveston, Texas, vice president for student ports, and A.C. Filiatrault, executive sec- retary-treasurer.

Named as regional vice presi- dents were David S. Walker, Bos- ton Towboat Co., Boston, Mass., for the North Atlantic; Milton

G. Nottingham, Peralta Shipping

Agency, Inc., Washington, D.C.,

Serving the Marine Industry for over 25 years.

BEFORE YOU PUT IN FOR

REPAIRS CALL:

SLOCUM

RON WORKS

MARINE & GENERAL CONTRACTORS

POST OFFICE BOX 2506

MOBILE, ALABAMA (205) 432-5594

Middle Atlantic; Neal L.C. Har- rington, Harrington & Co., Miami,

Fla., Southeast; Capt. C. Ray

North, Gulf Oil Trading Co., Beau- mont, Texas, West Gulf; J. Merle

Lemley, State Employment .'Securi- ty Division, Little Rock, Ark.,

Mississippi Valley.

Also named, Neil H. Whitehead,

Louisville, Ky., Ohio Valley; Mi- chael M. Scheidt, American Steam- ship Co., Buffalo, N.Y., Lower

Great Lakes; C. Thomas Burke, executive director, DuluthiPort Au- thority, Upper Great Lakes; Don- ald G. Foss, Puget Sound Freight

Lines, Tacoma, Wash., North Pa- cific Coast; Capt. William V. Fi- gari, Shipowners & Merchants

Towboat Co., San Francisco, Calif.,

South Pacific 'Coast; Fabio N. Ali- otti, steamship agent, Genoa, Italy, the Mediterranean, and Charles E.

Botts Jr., Xtra Corp., Yokohama,

Japan, Asiatic region.

Ocean Fleets Ltd.

Appoints Capt. Arnold

Capt. S.R. Arnold has been ap- pointed Nautical Adviser Desig- nate of Ocean Fleets Limited, Liv- erpool, England. He will take over the appointment at the end of Feb- ruary, 1974, from Capt. A.C.

Sparks, who retires.

Captain Arnold joined Alfred

Holt & Co. in 1936 as a midship- man and was appointed master in 1959. After commanding a number of Ocean's conventional cargo- liners, he became the first master of Ocean's first Far East container- ship, the 58,889-gross-ton Tokyo

Bay, in 1972. He has since com- manded two more of Ocean's four

Far East containerships, which are operated by Overseas Containers

Limited (OCL), and manned by

Ocean Fleets.

Before taking up his new ap- pointment in February, Captain

Arnold will visit those ports in

America and West Africa with which he is not already familiar. $6.5-Million Contract

To Eguitable Equipment

Equitable Equipment Company,

Inc., New Orleans, La., has been awarded a contract 'by Union Tank

Car Company of 'Chicago, 111., for the construction of 180 LASH lighters 'for 'Central Gulf Lines, Inc.

The total estimated value of the lighters is $9 million. Equitable

Equipment 'Company's part of the contract is approximately $6.5 mil- lion. The lighters will 'be built at

Equitable's yards in Madisonville and New Orleans.

Jack R. Kruizenga, president of

Union Tank Car Co. and C.M.

Keeney, president of Equitable

Equipment Company, Inc., signed the contract in Chicago.

Equitable just completed work on 50 LASH lighters for Pacific

Far East Line, Inc., and is present- ly building 450 lighters for Water- man Steamship Corporation. Equit- able, the world's largest builder of

LASH and SEA'BEE barges, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Trini- ty Industries, Inc.

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