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SNAME Southeast Section

Hears Paper On Drydocks

By Guest From Germany

The Southeast Section of The Society of

Naval Architects and Marine Engineers held its 1973 fall meeting at .the Hidden Hills Golf

Club in Jacksonville, Fla.

Papers chairman Tom Young organized a unique program around Jacksonville Ship- yard's new floating drydock and sent invita- tions to several interested members outside the Section. The groundwork by him and his colleagues paid off in one of the most well- attenided technical meetings of the Southeast

Section.

Frank De Grim, meetings chairman, started the morning meeting with an introduction of the guests from Germany—H.J. Warnke, O.

Ristow, K.H. Trainer, and A.B. Walter, all of Gutehoffnungshutte A.G. (GHH)—and wel- comed to Jacksonville the new members work- ing at Offshore Power Systems.

The moderator, Clinton Dotson, naval archi- tect at Offshore Power Systems, chaired the technical session. The paper, "The Construc- tion and Testing of a 33,000 Ton (M) Lift

Floating Drydock," authored by Helmut J.

Warnke, naval architect of GHH, the build- ers of the drydock, was abridged and read by prominent Jacksonville naval architect R. Mat- zer. This was followed by a short talk by

Edward T. Motter, manager of engineering at Jacksonville Shipyards, in which he de- scribed various civil engineering aspects and problems of constructing the drydock berth.

After a coffee break, prepared discussions by Paul Crandall and Edwin Phillips were read before opening the floor to a question and an- swer period.

A luncheon served in the clubhouse permit' ted those present to continue the exchange of ideas. Later, a brand-new air-conditioned city bus trams ported the members and guests across town to visit the 33,000-ton drydock. with best wishes for a

Holy and Happy Christmas and a Prosperous New Year

LIGHTERAGE AND TOWING

Shown at the Southeast Section meeting at the Hidden

Hills Golf Club, left to right: Helmut J. Warnke, GHH, author; K.H. Trainer, GHH; O. Ristow, GHH; Edward T.

Metter, Jacksonville Shipyards, Inc., and Clinton Dotson,

Offshore Power Systems, presiding officer.

In the evening, a banquet attended by 76 guests and their ladies was held at the Hidden

Hills Club, preceded by a cocktail hour hosted by Jacksonville Shipyards. Jack Lindgren, re- tired president of U.S. Salvage Association,

Inc., gave an after-dinner talk illustrated with slides, covering the subject of towing large floating structures in ocean waiters.

This concluded a beautiful sunny day, and all those who attended were happy to have had the opportunity to meet Mr. Warnke and his colleague Mr. Ristow, who obligingly en- deavored to answer their many questions about a subject as seldom discussed as floating dry- docks.

Copies of the paper are available at $1 per set from Charles S. Smith, Marine Consultant, 2728 S.E. llith Street, Pompano Beach, Fla. 33062.

The next meeting of the Southeast Section, featuring small boat design, will be held Feb- ruary 22, 1974, at the University of Miami,

Rosentiel School of Marine and Atmospheric

Sciences, 10 Rickenbacker Cauiseway, Miami,

Fla.

FIRST OF EIGHT FOR CROWLEY: The flat deck cargo- type barge Atka (shown above), first of eight in the cur- rent barge construction program at Bethlehem Steel

Corporation's San Francisco, Calif., shipyard, is shown arriving in Seattle, Wash., for delivery to its owner,

Puget Sound Tug and Barge Company of Seattle, which is the major operating identity of Crowley Maritime Cor- poration. All eight barges, which are being built by

Bethlehem for the same firm, are 400 feet long, 99 feet 6 inches wide and 20 feet deep. Some of the barges, according to Patrick G. Filip, general manager of the yard, will be outfitted to carry railcars; the others will be used for miscellaneous deck cargo. The rail barges will be operated by Alaska Hydrotrain, a subsidiary of

Puget Sound Tug and Barge Company, and will be placed in service between Seattle and Whittier, Alaska. The cargo barges may become part of Crowley's participation in Alaska North Slope transportation requirements. De- livery of the eighth barge under the current construction program is scheduled for July 31, 1974.

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