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Boston Naval Shipyard

Engineers Establish

Consulting Firm

A marine engineering and man- agement consultant firm known as

Marine Systems Corporation has been formed in Boston, Mass. by former Boston Naval Shipyard em- ployees of the Office of Planning and Engineering for Repairs and

Alterations for Anti-Submarine

Warfare Ships PER A (ASW).

The principals—John A. Tirrell,

P.E., B.A. degree, physics, presi- dent; Peter M. Bzwoski, B.S.M.E. degree, vice president; Robert E.

Hollstein, associate; Vito D. Torre, associate, and Joseph E. Stevens,

P.E., B.S.M.E. and M.S.M.E. de- grees, associate—have an average of 19 years of diversified experience in the various engineering disci- plines associated with the operation of Naval shipyards and Naval Man- agement Programs.

Prior experience of the princi- pals include working on the devel- opment of the following Standard

Navy Programs: Shipyard Manage- ment Information System, Manage- ment Plan for PERA (ASW),

Ships Force Overhaul Management

Systems (SFOMS), Standard Li- brary of Scientific and Engineer- ing Computer Programs, Integrat- ed Overhaul Repair Planning Pro- gram and the initial implementa- tion of PERT/OPM in a Naval shipyard. Other experience includes hull, machinery and electrical de- sign, design of steam test plants, preparing purchase and test speci- fication, descrepancy investigation and recommendations of corrective action or marine equipment, plan- ning/estimating and scheduling (PERT/CRM & GANT) for the overhaul/modernization of naval vessels.

Marine Systems 'Corporation is located at Suite 2, 416 Medford

Street, 'Charlestown, Mass. 02129.

Seatrain Shipbuilding

Names Garvin To

Newly Created Post

John O. Garvin Jr.

John O. Garvin. Jr. has joined

Seatrain Shipbuilding Corp. in the newly created position of director of quality control.

Mr. Garvin comes to Seatrain's facility at the former Brooklyn

Navy Yard with more than 20 years' shipbuilding experience with particular emphasis in the quality assurance/quality control fields.

Before joining Seatrain Ship- building, Mr. Garvin was a man- ager of quality control at the In- galls Shipbuilding Division of Lit- ton Industries in Pascagoula, Miss.

His duties there included the re- sponsibility for all source inspec- tions and vendor surveys through- out 18 Eastern states and two Ca- nadian provinces. He has also held several additional positions in the quality assurance/quality control areas at that yard and at the Mare

Island Naval Shipyard in Cali- fornia.

In his new position at Seatrain

Shipbuilding, Mr. Garvin oversees all quality control activities associ- ated with the inspections and tests for the 225,000-dwt supertankers currently under construction. Sea- train Shipbuilding Corp. is a sub- sidiary of Seatrain Lines, Inc., owner and operator of oceangoing tankers and container cargoships.

A native of Vallejo, Calif., Mr.

Garvin is a member of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine

Engineers.

Bath Iron Receives $92.4-Million Award

For Patrol Frigate

Bath Iron Works Corporation, a unit of Bath Industries Inc., re- ceived a $92.4-million Navy con- tract for design and construction of the! first ship of the new patrol frigate class.

The Navy hopes to purchase 50 ships of the patrol frigate class at an average unit price of under $50 million. Plans have called for building the 3,400-ton warships in at least two shipyards. In addition to Bath Iron Works, design work on the patrol frigate was done by

Todd Shipyards Corporation.

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Halter Marine introduces the new river towboat class HUSTLER.

Under development for two years, the new HUSTLER class towboat has overall dimensions of 140 feet x 38 feet x 11 feet 6 inches, with a draft of 8 feet 6 inches. Two of the new series are under construction now and will be powered by two Polar Nohab diesel engines that develop 4200 horsepower. Facilities are available for additional orders. This new class is the result of nearly twenty years of experience in building boats for use all over the world, on all oceans, and on the rivers of dozens of countries. There are new pollution control systems and new corrosion control coating systems incorporated in the HUSTLER class. Its powerful configuration will make your inland waterway operations more efficient and more profitable.

For complete details on the new HUSTLER class, please write or call us.

HALTER MARINE SERVICES, INC., P.O. Box 29266, New Orleans. La. 70129, 504/254-1222, Telex: 584-200, Cable: HALMAR. 42 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News