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Barber Steamship

Names Executives

Edward J. Barber, president,

Barber Steamship Lines, Inc., 17

Battery Place, New York, N.Y. 10004, has announced the follow- ing organizational changes:

Edward J. Barber from presi- dent to chairman and chief execu- tive officer; William J. Shields from executive vice president to president, and Carl F. Blom from vice president to executive vice president.

GE Heavy Duty Gas

Turbines Ordered For

Two More BHP Ships

Broken Hill Proprietary Com- pany, Ltd. (BHP), owner-opera- tor of the only heavy duty gas turbine-powered merchant vessels now in service outside the Soviet

Union, has committed two addi- tional ships to heavy duty gas turbine propulsion.

The newly committed vessels, twin 43,700-dwt bulk carriers, will be powered by General Elec- tric 11,000-hp marine gas tur- bines manufactured in Schenec- tady, N.Y., by the Gas Turbine

Products Division. GE-designed 20,000-hp gas turbines power

BHP's Iron Monarch and Iron

Duke, the free world's first heavy duty gas turbine-powered ships, with service dates of October 1973 and March 1974, respectively.

A.J. Travaly, manager-marine sales for the Gas Turbine Prod- ucts Division, looks upon the re- peat order from BHP as a "highly significant milestone" in the di- vision's short marine history. "Three years ago," said Mr.

Travaly, "BHP broke with tra- dition opting for heavy duty gas turbine propulsion and establish- ing us in the marine field. Critics looked upon the company's choice of heavy duty gas turbines as 'chancy,' to say the least. "The detractors are quiet now," he continued. "The success of the

Iron Monarch and Iron Duke pro- pulsion applications has made be- lievers of the skeptics and, most importantly, confirmed all of

BHP's expectations. The com- pany's repeat order is proof posi- tive of that."

The new 670-foot-long bulk car- riers will be used to transport coal and iron ore to BHP's steel mills in Newcastle, Port Kembla, and

Whyalla, on the Australian coast.

The vessels, scheduled for deliv- ery in July 1976 and May 1977, will be built by Whyalla Ship- building & Engineering Works, a division of BHP that was also responsible for the Iron Monarch and Iron Duke.

The newly ordered gas turbine units, valued at approximately $4 million, are scheduled for ship- ment in March and September 1975. Burning Gippsland waxy residual, the two-shaft, regener- ative cycle units will develop 11,000 shp with a fuel-consump- tion rate of approximately .435 lb/hp-hr.

In the BHP bulk carriers, gas turbine power will be transmitted to a single controllable pitch pro- peller through a two-stage epi- cycle reduction gear, giving the vessels a 15-knot-plus service speed. The reduction gear will also drive an alternator to pro- vide ship service power under way.

According to Mr. Travaly, the marriage of gas turbine and epi- cycle reduction gear means a compact engine room, with re- sultant gains in cargo-carrying capacity and relatively simple in- stallation. He points out that the engine room will be classified by

Lloyd's for unmanned operation —ship's speed and direction will be controlled exclusively from the bridge.

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