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No. Calif. Section Discusses

Matson Navigation Company

Roll-On/Roll-Off Vessels

The Northern California Section of The So- ciety of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers recently held a dinner meeting at the Engineers

Club in San Francisco. The meeting was at- tended by 60 members and guests.

Section chairman Joseph Busch reported that the nominating committee, under the chairmanship of Jack Troyer of Todd Shipyards

Corp., past chairman, recommended the follow- ing candidates for the terms indicated: Robert

Herbert, chairman; Miklos Kossa, vice chair- man ; William Swan, secretary-treasurer; Rob- ert Boston, executive committee (two years) ;

Henry Kozlowski, executive committee (two years), and William Hamilton, executive com- mittee ('two years).

Arthur Haskell, national vice president, man- ager of engineering, Matson Navigation Co., announced the formation of a steering commit- tee for t'he 1977 National Spring Meeting to be held in San Francisco.

James Moss, papers committee chairman, in- troduced Wm. Boyer, manager of preliminary design, Matson Navigation Co., author, who presented his paper "A General Description of

Matson Navigation Company Roll-On/Roll-

Off Vessels," along with numerous slides to illustrate the various features of these vessels.

Of these two vessels, one is the fifth vessel to be named Lurline. They are of a completely different design for this type of trade, but were able to start service within an unprecedented six months of contract signing. This was possi- ble due to Sun Shipbuilding's program of pro- ducing vessels of their own design, and in ac- cordance with their optimum production sched- ule for sale to owners who may be able to utilize them at the time thev become available.

It was indicated that while no particular savings in hardware cost was effected by buy- ing the "yard design," considerable economic advantage was achieved by obtaining delivery approximately two years quicker than would normally be possible.

Shown, left to right, at the Northern California Section meeting: Wm. Hamilton, executive committee nominee, yard superintendent, Bethlehem Steel Corp., San Fran- cisco; James Moss, papers chairman, naval architect, Mar- cona Corp., and Wm. Boyer, author, manager of pre- liminary design, Matson Navigation Co.

The salient features of the ships are a turn- around time of eight hours and the ability to load all sizes and shapes of material capable of being moved on wheels to Honolulu with ap- proximately 24 hours' notice. Cargo is moved on both shipper and operator furnished trailers.

Provision is made for refrigerated vans on the main and second deck. Equipment moves aboard over two portable ramps installed at each terminal with a maximum inclination to 8 degrees.

Pictured at the Engineers Club, left to right: Robert Her- bert, chairman nominee, naval architect; Joseph Busch, chairman, H.J. Wickert & Co.; Wm. Swan, secretary- treasurer nominee, General Electric Co., and Robert Bos- ton, executive committee nominee, USCG.

Oral discussion was offered by Cmdr. L.C.

Malburg Jr., U.S. Coast Guard; Leigh Miller,

Maritime Administration; Graham Fraser,

Paceco; King-Tao Liu, Herbert Associates;

Ed McCann, Chevron Shipping; Vincent Van

Riper, American Bureau of Shipping; H.P.

Stewart, Bethlehem Steel Corp., Charles

Shields, States Lines.

Norton, Lilly Names Trust

Vice President-Finance

William M. Trust Jr. has been appointed vice president-finance of Norton, Lilly & Com- pany, Inc., steamship agents, New York, N.Y., it was announced by the company chairman,

John H. Griffith.

A graduate of the University of the City

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