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PORT ELECTRIC

MEW YORK'S LARGEST

AND MOST DIVERSIFIED

MARINE ELECTRICAL SPECIALTY HOUSE

Complete line of domesf/c and foreign electrical supplies, equipment and replacement parts for all leading manufacturers, including....

AlR CONDITIONING & REFRIGERATION

Complete. Equipment & Conlralfc-

Refrigerants — Accessories

Replacement Parts

BATTERIES, STORAGE, WET glide' - Surrette — Willard:

BRAKES. ELECTRIC

Stearns- Brake. Co.

Westinghouse Electric ttorp.

CARBON RINGS & BRUSHES

National Carbon Co.

Spear Carbon Co.

CIRCUIT BREAKERS

F.P.E. - General Electric

I.T.E. — Westinghouse

COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT

Audio Equipment Co.

Portable Power Megaphones.

Federal Sign & Signal > C&

Horns. Sirens, Signal' Civile

Hose McCann Telephone. Co:

Alarm Bells, Sound Powered;

Telephones.

ELECTRONIC TUBES

FLOODLIGHTS.

Girtlfe D! — Grouse Hlmlfc

Portable' Light Coi

Westinghouse

FUSES AND ACCESSORIES fiussmaxr. Mtg; Coi

Shawffiut< Fuse' Obi

Ecanorfiy Fuse: db>

GALLEY RANGE EQUIPMENT

Elextric: Range Parts

Hot Plates. (AC ttti

Percolators — Toasters

Water Heaters: (A£OC)'

INSTRUMENT

ELECTRICAL TESTING:

ArmnstBr. Voltmeters;

Oltnr Meters, Meggjrs,

VftlhQHnr Meters

INSULATION MATBJ1ALS

MimfEota. Miiriirg: E KtTg. Gm

Wtet'ingfimiEEr Elerflna Carpi

LAMPS (URGE AND MINDPTO)

Westifighausr — Incandescent'

NAVIGATION UGHTS

Perkins Marine (PertmV

TOOLS, ELECTRIC;

Slack & decker. Milwaukee

Stanley. Thor -TURBINE & GENERATOR (RENEWAL PARTS)

Westinghouse Electric. Corp.

VACUUM CLEANERS & BLOWERS

Ideal? Industries

Marti ndalfe

WASHERS AND DRYERS

Mayt&g. — Speed Queen

WATERTIGHT FITTINGS &

LIGHTING FIXTURES

Lovell-D/essell

Murlin Mfg, Co.

Oceanic Ele&tical Mfg. Co.. Inc.

Panlahti Dectrrc Mfg. Co.. Inc.

Russell 6 Stall Co.

Simes Cu-

FANS, ELECTRIC (AC-DC)

Hunter Mfg. Co.

Mueller Electric Co.

FLASHLIGHTS & BATTERIES

Bright Star — EvareadV.'

Ray-0 Vac - S.R. Browne:

FluoTBscciTt — NTercurR' — RhtrfO' wjDr a CABLE

LIFE SAVING EQUIPMENT itf£ #45 - u.l. Spec. tie Satety ftjjpttancss. Portable Cords

MOTOR CONTROL EQUIPMENT ffllto BnUl« ""S"" ""» •art CmmolteP HIRING DEVICES.

Craus? Hinds — Culler Hammer .

Federal Pacific Electric Cir. S—m^J™"

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TURBINE DIVISION — Turbine and replacement parts

REFRIGERATION DIVISION —Compltete equipment! and replacement parts

SUBSIDIARIES AND AFFILIATES

Supply Divisions

Comet Marine Supply' Carp.

Elkan Electric Cable Cm

Manufacturing Divisions

Hose McCann Telephone Co., Inc.

Oceaifc Electrical Manufacturing Co., Inc.

PORT ELECTRIC SUPPLY CORP. 155-157 Perry Street

New York-, NewVork 10014 (212) 255-4530

Schoonmaker

A. G. Schoonmaker Co., Inc. Est. 1898

Foot of Spring Street, Box 757, Dept. MR6

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TELEX: 340-155

Western Co. Of North America

Receives $4-Million Increase

In Title XI For Drilling Rig

Western Company of North America has received approval from the Maritime Ad- ministration for an increase of $4 million in

Title XI mortgage insurance covering con- struction of a semisubmersible drilling rig.

Instead of the original plan to operate at 6GQ feet in the North Sea, the new plan is to drill in 1,200 feet of water in the Gulf of

Mexico. The increase was needed to cover additional drilling equipment necessary tn do this. The new guarantee is $28.7 million,

Farrell Lines Asks Subsidy

For Jumboizing Four Ships

The Maritime Administration has received an application from Farrell lines Incorpo- rated of New York, N.Y., for construction subsidy to aid in rebuilding its newest con- tainerships—the AustraJ Envoy, Austral

Ensign, Austral Endurance and: Austral

Entente. The four ships would be enlarged by inserting a new 144-foot midbody that would provide three additional holds for refrigerated containers, and fitting new con- tainer-securing devices that would permit higher stacking on deck.

Farrell Lines estimates the cost of the expansion at $12.8 million per ship. No ship- yard was named in the application.

Kockums, Supertanker Shipyard,

To Build New Rescue Mini-Sub

Kockums, Malmo, Sweden, Europe's largest shipyard and supertanker builder, will build a mini-sub to serve as a rescue vessel for the crews of standard-size submarines dis- abled undersea.

The newly designed $2,700,000 underwater rescue vessel (URV), ordered by the Swedish

Defense Material Administration, will be ready for delivery in 1977.

For Kockums, which for years has been producing submarines for the Royal Swedish

Navy, the mini-sub will be its first. Kockums, with an eye to the future, considers the mini- sub as a step into civilian underwater tech- nology. Planners at Kockums, now turning out a series of 360,000-deadweight-ton tank- ers, believe that its experience with the rescue vessel can lead the innovative ship- yard into the growing field—demand—for small submarines for inspection of offshore oil field, underwater pipelines, etc.

The URV, with a displacement of some 49 tons, will carry a crew of five—two pilots, two divers, and one engineer—-and will con- tain rescue capacity for 25 more men.

Measuring 44 feet long, 14 feet at beam, and 13 feet high, the mini-sub will have a diving depth of 1,510 feet, which is the maximum depth of the Baltic Sea. The URV will have a maximum speed of 8 knots.

Utilizing the air cleaning system, the URV can stay submerged for 40 hours. At 2 knots' speed, the endurance time will be 10 hours.

The rescue submarine was designed, by

Kockums in cooperation with Comex, the

French diving company, which will also pro- duce several of the components for the URV.

The URV will replace the Swedish Navy's present system involving rescue bells.

The rescue submersible will be stationed and operated from the new Royal Swedish

Navy Center to be constructed just south of

Stockholm, and to serve as a diver training center. Comex will deliver a decompression chamber for the Center, and Kockuim will set up other installations.

Experts at Kockums are to develop new welding techniques for the. hull of URV, which wfH require high tensile, steel of a type not used in Sweden up fe now. The

URV will also provide several construction innovations.

Once towed to the approximate area of the disabled sub, the URV will home toward the distressed vessel guided by acoustic signals*

URV divers would carry out the undersea connection of tie two vessels.

John J. McMullen Associates

Name Schmidt To Managerial Post

John J. McMullen Associates, Inc., the internationally known firm of naval archi- tects, marine engineers and transportation consultants, has announced the appointment of John. W« Schmidt as. manager of com- mercial marketing.

Mr. Schmidt will assist the corporate man- agement in the development of commercial business for the firm. He reports directly to

George R. Knight, vice president for naval architecture, and fe Norman K, Basile, vice president for engineering.

Mr. Schmidt has a B.S. degree in naval architecture and an M.S. degree i® mechan- ical engineering from M.I.T., and an M.B.A. degree from Fordham University. He has had extensive design and program develop- ment experience in the marine industry and was formerly associated with the Bird-

Johnson Company as U.S. representative for

Karlstads Mekaniska Werkstad, manufactur- ers of KaMeWa controllable pitch propellers.

The McMullen firm has its headquarters

One World Trade Center in New Y©rk and maintains offices in Washington, D.G.,

Hyattsville, Md., Fascagoula, Miss., and

Boston, Mass., as well as offices in London and Madrid, 60

ONE-MILLIONTH YARD OF CONCRETE was poured at Smithland Locks on the Ohio

River near Paducah, Ky. The locks are being built under a $90-million contract from the

U.S. Army Corps of Engineer® by a joint venture sponsored by Dravo Corporation,

Pittsburgh, Pa. Other participants are SX

Groves & Sons Company, and Gust, K. New- burg Construction Company. Bmlthlandl

Locks will be the first Ohio River navigation facility with two 1,200-foot-long chambers, which will'h'elp alleviate the congestion of increasing traffic on the river. The project, begun in July 1971, is scheduled for com- pletion in late 1975,

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