Page 28: of Maritime Reporter Magazine (July 15, 1974)

Defoe To Convert

Pickands Mather Laker

To Self-Unloader

Pickands Mather & Co., Cleve- land, Ohio, a subsidiary of Moore

McCormack Resources, Inc., has announced that The Interlake

Steamship Company's steamer

Herbert C. Jackson will be con- verted to a self-unloader during the upcoming winter layup sea- son, at a cost exceeding $5 mil- lion. The 690-foot vessel will be delivered by January 1, 1975 to the Defoe Shipbuilding Company located at Bay City, Mich. Work is expected to be completed and the vessel ready for unloading tests by June 1975.

The conversion work involves altering the cargo holds to a free- running, hopper configuration, ad- dition of an unloading belt which will run the length of the vessel, a 250-foot unloading boom mount- ed aft, and deckhouse alterations to suit the loop belt elevator and house generators. Diesel gener- ators totaling 1,600 kw will be installed to power the unloading equipment.

The Jackson, built in 1959, cur- rently carries 24,400 gross tons per trip. Although the addition of self-unloading equipment will slightly decrease the per trip ca- pacity, the flexibility and speed of unloading (6,000 gross tons per hour) will permit the vessel to have a quicker turnaround time, allowing it to complete more trips annually.

Conversion of the Jackson marks the fourth step since 1971 that Interlake has taken to fur- ther increase the efficiency of its fleet of 12 bulk vessels. In 1971, the company lengthened the steamer Charles M. Beeghly. This was followed by the lengthening of the Beeghly's sister ship, the steamer John Sherwin, in 1972.

In November 1973, the company announced the construction of two 1,000-foot self-unloading bulk freighters. According to David A.

Groh, vice president-marine for

Pickands Mather, "The conver- sion of the Jackson is another step to best serve our customer needs."

Pickands Mather, in addition to operating Interlake, manages and participates in the ownership of iron ore mines in Minnesota,

Canada, and Tasmania; coal mines in West Virginia and Kentucky; a limestone quarry in southeast- ern Ohio; acts as sales agent for pig iron, coal and ferroalloys, and operates a coking facility.

Moore McCormack Resources,

Inc., Stamford, Conn., is a water transportation and natural re- sources company. Other subsidi- aries of Moore McCormack include

Moore-McCormack Lines, Incor- porated, Moore-McCormack Bulk

Transport, Inc., and Moore-Mc-

Cormack Energy, Inc.

Rudman & Scofield

Appoints Petersen

Exec. Vice President

Edwin J. Petersen Jr. has been appointed executive vice presi- dent of Rudman & Scofield, a di- vision of Frigitemp Corp., manu- facturers of marine refrigeration and galley equipment.

Since joining the Frigitemp family in June 1972, Mr. Petersen has held the position of director of engineering in their Marine

Division, and in only one year was appointed vice president of operations. Today, as executive vice president, he is responsible for coordinated planning, layout and design, engineering/manufac- turing and installations, which encompasses the total marine package of interiors for both

Navy and commercial ships.

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