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International Paint

Names G.J. Robinson

George J. Robinson

Thomas M. Reinhardt, president of International faint Company,

Inc., recently announced the ap- pointment of George J. Robinson as assistant vice president. Mr.

Robinson will "be located at the corporate and sales offices of Inter- national 'Red Hand Marine Coat- ings, located at >21 West Street,

New York, N.Y.

Mr. Robinson has been active in the marine industry over the past 30 years. This would include his service as an officer in the United

States Navy, employed by a ship repair firm for five years after the war, and for the past 20 years he has been involved in giving guid- ance and assistance to owners, na- val architects and shipyards in the selection of marine paints and coat- ings.

Mr. Robinson attended Niagara

University and is active in several marine-oriented organizations such as The Propeller Club, Whitehall

Club, Robert Hague Post and oth- ers.

Whitehall Corp. To Build 175-Foot Survey Vessel

The earth science group of

Whitehall Corporation' (WHT-

ASE), 1133 Empire Central, Dal- las, Texas 75247, has been awarded a oontract to build and equip, and arrange the personnel training for, a 175-foot oceanographic seismic survey vessel for the Oil and Natu- ral Gas Commission of the Gov- ernment of India, Lee D. Webster,

Whitehall's chairman of the board and president, recently announced. "This new ship for India will be similar to but larger than the two seismic survey vessels designed and now operated by our Seismic

Explorations International, S.A. subsidiary, and will cost more than $4,000,000," George M. Pavey, president of the Whitehall subsid- iary stated. "To be staffed by 16 scientists and technicians as well as a 24-man crew, the craft will foe used to develop seismic data on po- tential mineral-bearing locations off the coast of India and in the Bay of Bengal."

P.K. Lahiri, Member-Stores, Oil and Natural Gas 'Commission, rep- resented the Government of India at the contract award signing; Mr.

Pavey represented Whitehall.

The new ship is designed to tow a two-mile4o.ng streamer contain- ing 2,000 sensitive hydrophones.

Signals generated by an air-gun ar- ray will be echoed off subsurface strata, received by the hydrophones and recorded on digital magnetic tape. This recorded data is later interpreted to create a subsurface geologic map.

Much of the survey equipment was developed and will be manu- factured or assembled by the 30- year-old Seismic Engineering Com- pany subsidiary of Whitehall.

Ship construction and installa- tion of maritime equipment will be subcontracted by Seismic Explora- tions International, S.A.

Cleveland-Cliffs Iron

Names Wallace Rohn

Marine Superintendent

Wallace J. Rohn has been named marine superintendent for The

Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company,

Cleveland, Ohio, according to Sam- uel K. Scovil, senior vice president.

Mr. Rohn was formerly manager of marine traffic and in his new position will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Cliffs fleet, reporting to Richard P. Eide, manager-marine department. He will continue to be in charge of marine traffic and will have the marine personnel section—headed by Peter J. Collins—under his guidance.

A former Air Force staff ser- geant, 'Mr. Rohn attended Cleve- land State University and Case

Western Reserve University, join- ing Cliffs in 1947. He served in a variety of accounting positions un- til 1956, when he moved to the marine department as a dispatcher.

He was named manager-marine traffic in 1970.

LAUNCHED SEPT. 29,1973

SOME SAID IT COULDN'T AND WOULDN'T BE DONE.

Six thousand tons of sophisticated dril- ling rig. Built in the famous Clydebank yard that built the Queens. Grace and beauty giving way to strength and utility to mine the treasure of the North Sea.

And it was done in the midst of the yard's reconstruction program.

Only 13 months from the day we came in the yard till the rig was off the stocks and into the Clyde. We suggest that adds a small something to the proud reputation to which we are the heirs. Marathon LeTourneau

Offshore Company, Marathon Building,

Suite .1700, 600 Jefferson, Houston,

Texas 77002. A Subsidiary of Marathon Manufacturing

Company.

Shipyards in Vicksburg, Mississippi, U.S.A.; Brownsville, Texas, U.S.A,; Republic of Singapore; Clydebank, Scotland marathon

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