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Halter Delivers New York Pilot Boat

The 65-foot Chapel Hill has accommodations for 19 New York Harbor Pilots.

Halter Marine Services, Inc.,

New Orleans, La., the world's larg- est builder of offshore support ves- sels for the oil and gas industry, has delivered a new 65-foot pilot vessel to the New York Pilots As- sociation. The new boat, named

Chapel Hill, will accommodate 19 pilots and has been placed into operation by its owners in New

York Harbor.

The Chapel Hill has overall di- mensions of 65 feet 6 inches by 17 feet, with a 44-inch draft. It was designed an4 built by Halter Ma- rine Services.

The boat is powered by two Gen- eral Motors 12V71N marine diesel engines and is equipped with one

General Motors 2-71-20 kw genera- tor unit, Konel Model KRA-221 radar and Motorola-Modar V.H.F. radios. The vessel is air-condition- ed in the passenger lounge, two staterooms and wheelhouse.

Halter Marine Services has a cur- rent backlog of approximately $60

Paul A. Conrado

Named President

Santa Fe Affiliate

Paul A. Conrado

Paul A. Conrado, vice president of Santa Fe Engineering & Con- struction Co., Orange, Calif., has •been named president and director of P.T. Santa Fe-Pomeroy 'Indo- nesia, with headquarters in Jakarta.

He succeeds Roger A. Lewis, who is transferring from Jakarta to California to become manager of administration for Santa Fe-

Pomeroy, Inc. at Petaluma. All three firms are affiliates of Santa

Fe International Corp.

Mr. Conrado is an engineering million in contracts to build off- shore crew boats, supply vessels, anchor handling and towing ships for the oil and gas industry.

The company's production comes from four fully equipped shipyards in New Orleans, Lockport and

Pierre Part (Louisiana) and Moss

Point (Mississippi).

Three special type vessels were recently delivered iby Halter Ma- rine Services. They include a 15,- 000-horsepower tug, the most pow- erful ever built in the United

States, and two 174-foot ocean- ographic research ships for the Na- vy Ship Command and the Navy's

Office of the Ooeanographer. One research ship will be used iby Texas

A & M University; the other will be used by the University of Ha- waii's Oceanographic Institute in

Honolulu. The new vessels are modified standard Halter Marine offshore supply/anchor handling and rig towing ships. graduate of the University of Santa

Clara, and has a master's degree in construction management from

Stanford University.

Since joining Santa Fe-Pome- roy's predecessor J.H. Pomeroy &

Co. in 1965, he has been assigned as an engineer and project mana- ger on construction jobs in Su- matra, Irian Jaya, Java, and Singa- pore. In 1972-73, he was area man- ager in charge of the company's construction operations in Saudi

Arabia. Mr. Conrado was promot- ed to vice president of Santa Fe

Engineering & Construction Co. in

May 1973, and assigned to com- pany headquarters in Orange until returning to /Indonesia in Novem- ber as Pacific area manager.

Charles Klein Joins

Pott Industries Inc.

As Tax Manager

Pott Industries Inc., St. Louis,

Mo., has announced that Charles J.

Klein has joined the company as tax manager.

Mr. Klein was formerly corpo- rate tax manager of Brown Group,

Inc.

Lightner To Build

Diesel-Powered Scow

Of Taubler Design

The Department of Public

Works, Town of Islip, N.Y., has awarded a contract to Lightner's

Boat Yard, Inc., West Sayville,

N.Y., for the construction of a steel-hulled diesel-powered work scow.

The principal dimensions of the new vessel are: length overall, 35 feet; molded beam, 13 feet; and draft, about 15 feet.

The vessel is to be fitted with a hydraulically operated boom for handling pilings, a diesel-driven jetting pump, pilothouse and work- room, A spud is also to be fitted for anchoring.

The vessel is to be used for transporting and setting piles, re- pairing and erecting bulkheading, and similar work.

The design agent was Richard R.

Taubler, Inc., naval architects of

Brooklyn, N.Y.

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