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Three Firms Receive

MarAd Approval To

Construct Vessels

The Maritime Administration re- cently approved three Title XI .ap- plications.

A subsidiary of Arctic Tankers

Group, Inc., Arctic Liquid Gas Co., won approval for one integrated tug/harge unit. To be used to transport ammonia between Alaska and Oregon, -the 7,500-shp tug and 12,000-cubic-meter capacity barge will be built by John A. Maritinoli

Shipbuilding Corp., Tacoma,

Wash., at an estimated cost of $9,430,350.

The application from Pacific Far

East Line covered 50 LASH barges which are to be built by Equitable

Equipment Co., New Orleans, La., at an estimated cost of $2.5 .million.

Approval for four 7,000-bhp, 149- foot oceangoing tugs was won by

Nolte J. Theriot, Inc., Golden

Meadow, La. ' The tugs, also to be built by Equitable at a total esti- mated cost of $13 million, will be used in the 'North Sea.

Dave S. Miller

Joins State Boat

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Dave S. Miller

Dave S. Miller has joined the

State Boat Corporation, Houston,

Texas, as manager of finance and will work out of the firm's Hous- ton office. In addition to supervis- ing financial matters, Mr. Miller will be involved in new vessel pro- curement and other facets of State

Boat's expansion.

His background includes an

M.B.A. degree from Harvard Grad- uate School of Business, and a bachelor's degree in naval architec- ture and marine engineering from the University of Michigan. Also,

Mr. Miller has at varying times served as executive officer, diving officer, navigator and first lieuten- ant of an oceangoing tug in the

U.S. (Navy.

He is currently an associate member of The Society of Naval

Architects and Marine Engineers.

Waterways Company

To New Quarters

The Waterways 'Company, de- veloper and manufacturer of the

Steermaster bow steering system for river towboats, has moved its offices from New Orleans, La., to

Pass Christian, Miss. The new of- fice address for The Waterways

Company is 109 East Scenic Drive,

Pass Christian, Miss. 39571, tele- phone (601) 452-9456.

Santa Fe International

Designing Reel Ship

To Lay Large Pipelines

Santa Fe International Corp.,

Orange, Calif., has announced that it is designing a new reel ship to lay large-diameter pipelines in deep water.

President E.L. Shannon Jr. said plans call for construction of a 540- foot self-propelled ship utilizing the patented reel techniques acquired last May from Fluor Ocean Serv- ices, Inc. The new ship, which would be capable of spooling 70,000 feet of 18-inch pipe, is expected to be completed before the 1976 con- struction season.

The vessel is designed with a shipshape hull for operation in deep, hostile waters such as the far northern area of the North Sea and across the Norwegian trench, where water depths of nearly 1,000 feet make present pipelaying tech- niques inefficient.

Preliminary plans indicate the new vessel will be nearly twice the length of Santa Fe's Chickasaw, formerly known as the RB-2. This unit has been operating in the Gulf of Mexico since 1970, and uses the reel method to lay pipe up to 12 inches in diameter. metal chocks. With CHOCKFAST®, pourable resin chocking systems, the heaviest equipment can be precisely positioned, permanently aligned without machining foundations or base plates. Used in over 300 shipyards for commercial marine and Navy ship construction and overhaul — over ten million in-service operating hours. Fully approved by major classification and regulatory agencies. Write for

Bulletins 602 and 603.

Philadelphia "^esins

PHILADELPHIA RESINS CORP. 20 COMMERCE DRIVE, MONTGOMERYVILLE, PA. 18936

Phone (215) 855-8450 TELEX 846-342 steam and diesel power replaced sails replaced rivets and EE has replaced

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