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Others assigned to the Bahrain headquarters include G.R. Chaffin and Robert C. Paulson Jr., area operations managers, and W. Van

Stuijvenberg, area financial admin- istrator.

Besides staff offices, facilities there will- include an equipment yard and dock space for the com- pany's construction vessels operat- ing in the Middle East.

Two major Santa Fe construc- tion units are being transferred from the Gulf of Mexico to the

Middle East because of increased company'activities there. These are the 325-foot 400-ton derrick/pipe- laying barge (Navajo and the Shaw- nee, a 250-foot launch barge.

Santa Fe recently purchased two cargo'barges, the Miwok IX and X, which are now under tow to the

Middle East from Singapore. The company also has awarded a con- tract to a Singapore shipyard for the construction of a crane barge and four work barges to be assign- ed to Bahrain following their com- pletion about mid-year.

Santa Fe vessels currently work- ing in the area include two smaller derrick barges, Pacific Atlas and

DB-21, plus support equipment.

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Kerr Moves To New

Bahrain Headquarters

For Santa Fe Engr'g

Donald A. Kerr

Santa Fe Engineering & Con- struction Co., a division of Santa

Fe International Corp., Orange,

Calif., announced plans for a new operations base in Bahrain to serve as its Middle East headquarters.

Donald A. Kerr, vice president, will relocate in Bahrain from Saudi

Araibia as area manager in charge of Middle East construction activi- ties. Current Santa Fe operations in the area include projects in Saudi

Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Das Island,

Iran and Kuwait.

Participants in the Philadelphia Section meeting, left to right: (seated) David C. Weong,

Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., discusser; D.F. McMullen, J.J. Henry Co., Inc., co- ordinator; Dr. Herman E. Sheets, University of Rhode Island, author; M.A. Morris, I.T.E.

Imperial Corp., Philadelphia Section secretary-treasurer, and TJ. Kavanagh, Philadelphia

Naval Shipyard, Section chairman; (standing) F. Beltz, Delaval Turbine Inc., Section executive committee; H.T. McVey, Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Section vice chairman; S.S. Morse, Atlantic Richfield Co., discusser; W. Wiley (ret.) discusser for

Richard Neuendorffer, Sperry Marine Systems, and A.C. Brown, J.J. Henry Co., Inc.,

Section executive committee.

SNAME Philadelphia Section Hears Paper

On Submarine Tankers For The Arctic

The subject of the April meeting of the Philadelphia Section of The

Society of Naval Architects and

Marine Engineers was submarine tankers for the Arctic.

Dr. Herman E. Sheets, Univer- sity of Rhode Island, presented his paper titled "Submarine Tankers for the Arctic."

The paper is a general review of the "past and current concepts of submarine tankers for the transport of oil. A review of existing nuclear surface ships and their power plant is presented to analyze their op- erational and economic experience.

The submarine tanker has advan- tages for certain Arctic routes, and it has been proposed in large sizes.

The critical technical systems are the power plant and underwater navigation. The submarine tanker must be considered as an element of a subsea transportation system requiring substantial investments.

The submarine tanker may also find applications in the future for sub-surface oil completion systems in conjunction with sub-surface storage systems."

David F. McMullen, J.J. Henry

Co., Inc., coordinated the meeting for the local section.

Discussers included Samuel S.

Morse, Atlantic Richfield Co.; Da- vid C. Weong, Sun Shipbuilding &

Dry Dock Co.; Joseph Richartz,

J.J. Henry Co., Inc., for John Klose of the same company, and W. Wi- ley (ret.) for Richard Neuendorffer of Sperry Marine Systems.

SNAME HAMPTON ROADS SECTION MEETS: The Hampton Roads Section of The Soci- ety of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers met recently at the Mariners Museum in Newport News, Va. On this occasion of the annual Ladies Night, Robert- H. Burgess, curator of publications of the Mariners Museum, gave an entertaining lecture titled "A

Voyage on a Four-Masted Schooner, Doris Hamlin—1936." Mr. Burgess sailed on that vessel as a seaman, and the pictures he took were used to illustrate his talk. Section chairman C.E. Peacock introduced the newly elected officers for the 1974-75 term, they are: R.C. Strasser, chairman; C.M. Brooks, vice chairman; C.W. Coward, secretary- treasurer, and B.L. Skeens, new member, executive committee. Shown above, left to right, Messrs. Brooks, Yeager, Peacock, Wilkinson, Strasser, and Burgess.

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