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Kawasaki Builds

Highest Capacity

CP Propeller

Kawasaki Heavy Industries,

Ltd., Kobe, Japan, recently de- veloped the highest capacity con- trollable-pitch propeller in the world.

The 45,300-shp propeller ex- ceeds the previous record of 34,700 shp.

The propeller is driven by a multi-geared main diesel power unit of three medium-speed large- capacity engines for the shaft.

An electric governor is used for overall control, including the pro- peller. The control functions in- clude automatic load control by pitch angle and automatic load balancing of engines.

The propeller utilizes both the technologies of the technical part- ner company Escher Wyss GmbH of West Germany and unique technologies developed by Kawa- saki.

It will be used in an Austra- lian National Line's 22,760-dwt roll-on/roll-off 1,400-units-capac- ity containership scheduled for launching next month and com- pletion in December this year.

Kawasaki is now manufactur- ing a second propeller for a con- tainership of Australian Flinders

Shipping Co., Ltd.

Specifications of the propeller are: Kawasaki-Escher Wyss Type

B-2400/Sf-700, four-blade, nickel- aluminum-bronze, 45,300 shp 122.8 rotations/minute, electric- hydraulic control system, diam- eter—7.3 meters, Hub diameter— 2.4 meters, and weight, about 170 tons.

Ocean Industries

Association Elects

Frankel To Board

Bernard Frankel, president of

IMODCO International, Inc., Los

Angeles, Calif., has been elected to the National Ocean Industries

Association's board of directors for a three-year term, it was an- nounced by chairman G.B. Graf- ton.

NOIA represents over 210 com- panies in 20 states and the Dis- trict of Columbia as the legisla- tive and administrative spokes- man at the Federal level for all facets of the nation's offshore and ocean-oriented industries.

Mr. Grafton said Mr. Frankel, who has made frequent appear- ances before Congressional com- mittees in Washington on behalf of the association, has been sin- gled out to serve on its Congres- sional Action and Industry and

Government Liaison Committees.

A native of Philadelphia, Pa.,

Mr. Frankel completed 21 years of service in the United States

Navy, retiring with the rank of commander. During his Naval career, he commanded the de- stroyer Watts and the large aux- iliary Pollux. He also had exten- sive experience in Naval logistics, antisubmarine warfare and in hydrographic survey work.

Commander Frankel has been with IMODCO since 1962, first as U.S. representative for AB

IMODCO, then as general man- ager and vice president. He was subsequently elected president of

IMODCO, Inc. in October 1967.

With company reorganization in 1973, he became vice president of

IMODCO, Inc. and president of

IMODCO International, Inc.

Commander Frankel was edu- cated at the Pennsylvania Mari- time Academy and the United

States Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, Calif. He is also a licensed master mariner, is a member of the American Council of Master Mariners and many other professional maritime or- ganizations. marathon

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Drilling in North Sea.

CLYDEBANK, SCOTLAND Penrod 64, jackup, hull dimensions of 230' x 200'x 26'; 6,000 tons. Designed for TD of 30,000'. Crew of 78. Scheduled to operate in North Sea.

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Scheduled to drill off the coast of Northern Australia. - m

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