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Canadian Chief Of Ships

Addresses Northwest Section

Pictured above during the meeting of the Pacific North- west Section, left to right: Jacques Heyrman; Bob Cullen;

Graham Lockhead, author; Jim Shepard, chairman of the B.C. Area, and Derek Thompson, B.C. Area secretary.

A regular meeting of the Pacific Northwest

Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers was held on February 8, 1974, at the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The speaker for 'the evening was Graham

Lockhead, who is Chief of Ships and Com- ponents for the Canadian Department of Trade,

Industry and Commerce. Hi's topic for the evening was "Marine Research—'Development

Program—Federal Government."

In his presentation, Mr. Lockhead informed the group of the various Government subsidy programs available to Canadian industry, and in particular, to organizations in the marine field. He indicated that the emphasis of the various .programs was to stimulate progress in the marine and related fields in Canada.

The programs he discussed were in addition to the ship subsidy program which is, o'f course, available to qualified ship construction pro- grams in Canada.

Upon completion of the evening talk, George

Forbes of Burrard Drydock Co., Ltd. thanked

Mr. Lockhead for his comments.

Ro/Ro Containerships Carry

American And Canadian Logs

From Nova Scotia To Liverpool

A new regular roll-on/roll-off service of Ca- nadian timber between Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Liverpool, northwest England, has proved so successful that new techniques are being developed by Atlantic Container Line, Ltd., to handle this type of cargo.

Up to 400 tons of sawed timber and logs are (being shipped every week via ACL's fleet of roll-on/roll-off containerships. Each sailing brings 10 trailers containing 16 standards of packaged spruce.

The speed and convenience o'f the roll-on/ roll-off handling of timber shipments has cre- ated considerable interest in the North Ameri- can timber trade. In addition, ACL is hand- ling oak logs from Virginia, which arrive at the Canadian terminal by railcar.

Because of their variable dimensions, the logs are difficult cargo to ship, and ACL has developed new techniques to make the fullest utilization of the trailers, but new methods are also being investigated to meet the heavy demand from the packaged timber trade.

Capt. Michael England, ACL's terminal manager at the new Royal Seaforth Dock,

Liverpool, has visited the LTnited States and

Canada for discussions with the timber trade.

ACL operates a fleet of 10 ships on the

North Atlantic between Europe and North

America. These have the flexibility to carry up to 800 containers and all kinds of cargo not suitable for containerization. There is a mile of roadway in the ships for the carriage of cars, trailers and heavy rpobile plant and •equipment.

French Yard To Build Four

Refrigerated Banana Ships

Compagnie Generale Maritime recently placed an order for the construction of four refrigerated container carriers with Chantiers de France-

Dunkerque.

These technically advanced vessels to be built in the Dunkerque yard will be the first ships to be provided with a new system of refrigerated containers, specially designed for the transport of bananas. Roll-on/roll-off facilities will be arranged aft.

The delivery of these ships will be spread over one year, from the end of 1977 until the end of 1978.

Brochure Available

From SideBand Associates

SBA-SideBand Associates, Inc. of San Jose,

Calif.; have announced the availability of litera- ture describing an addition to their line of HF

Single Side Band Radiotelephone Equipment.

At the present time, SBA is producing and selling the model SBA-301M, a six-channel 100- watt PEP semicolumn. The model SBA-312, which has a 12/24 channel capability nominal 150 PEP output, covers a frequency range of 2 to 23 MHz.

The new model introduced is the SBA-312B. a ruggedized version of the SBA-312, which has continuous duty operation covering the same frequency range and rated at 150 watt PEP, the average. Various options and accessories are available for each model mentioned, including a 1-kw linear amplifier.

Complete literature and information can be obtained by contacting the company at 1133 Old

Bayshore Highway, San Jose, Calif. 95112.

FOR GAS TURBINE TANKER: A 1 2,500-maximum-horse- power electric motor is shown being lowered into the hull of a 650-foot gas-turbine-powered oil tanker currently under construction at FMC Corporation's Marine and Rail

Equipment Division, Portland, Ore. The continuous-speed electric motor is part of a new gas turbine-electric drive power plant developed by General Electric Company. This self-regulating system is designed for remote operation, greatly reducing crew complement requirements. The

FMC Division, formerly Gunderson, Inc., is building six of these tankers, the largest ships ever constructed in

Portland. The tankers will be operated by Chevron Ship- ping Company, San Francisco, Calif. The first vessel is scheduled for delivery this fall.

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