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Lockheed Takes Prize

For Largest Vessel

Built In Seattle

The largest vessel built in Seat- tle, Wash., was the M/V Sugar

Islander, constructed by Lockheed

Shipbuilding and Construction

Company. It was incorrectly re- ported in the February 15, 1976 is- sue of MARITIME REPORTER/

Engineering News that the 22,500- dwt barges for Agrico Chemical

Co., the Faustina and Pierce, were the largest vessels built in Seat- tle. They are the largest barges built in Seattle, but at a length of 495 feet 5 inches, an 85-foot beam and depth of 48 feet, they are smaller than the Sugar

Islander which measures 643 feet long, with an 85-foot beam and a 57-foot depth.

American Maritime

Requests CDS To Build

Two $6-Million Ships

The American Maritime Indus- tries Inc. (AMI), One World

Trade Center, New York, N.Y., has filed an application with the

Maritime Administration request- ing construction subsidy for two small breakbulk freighters.

The applicant, which through other subsidiaries has 13 foreign- flag vessels, plans to build two 2,000-dwt breakbulk carriers to be manned by four officers and five crewmen.

No builder has been chosen.

The company expects the vessels to cost some $6 million each and make about 21 sailings a year between New York and Miami,

Fla., in the north, and various

Caribbean islands and ports in northern South America.

The two ships were to be oper- ated by a new subsidiary, yet to be organized, the applicant said.

The subsidiary to be established will be a Delaware corporation, the application said.

Marketing Expert Joins

Oil Mop As Executive VP

HYUNDAI GROWS AS THE SHIPPING WORLD

GROWS HYUNDAI ALWAYS MEETS THE

REQUIREMENTS OF SHIPOWNERS / SHIP OPERATORS,

BOTH TECHNICALLY AND ECONOMICALLY.

HYUNDAI NOW PRESENTS AS SERIAL SHIPS * HD 15M * HD 23M * HD 25B * HD 35B * HD Ro-Ro 15,000DWT multi-purpose cargo ship with container loading capacity 23,700DWT multi-purpose cargo ship 25,000DWT bulk carrier 35,500DWT bulk carrier

Various tonnage available from 5,000 to 15,000DWT.

HD Panamax: From 60,000 to 70,000DWT. 3. 3 Drydock,

J Hyundai Shipyard at (Jlsan, Korea. •

HYUNDAIbBS HEAVY INDUSTRIES CO.,LTD.

SEOUL MAIN OFFICE: 178, Sejongro, Jongro-ku, Seoul, Korea; Tel.: 72-0701 -6, Telex: K28361

OVERSEAS OFFICES: LONDON - 178, Brampton Rd., London SW3,1 HQ England Tel.:01 -584-4227/9/TLX.: 918270 HYUNDAICO LDN

Tokyo,New York,San Francisco, Tehran, Jeddah, Kuwait, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Oslo, Athens and Hamburg

Kelvin John Smythe

An expert in international mar- keting for petrochemicals and pollution control equipment has joined the New Orleans, La.-based oil spill cleanup firm Oil Mop, Inc., according to C. Horton Smith, president.

Kelvin John Smythe of Dublin,

Ireland, is the new executive vice president who brings with him an extensive background in oil and petrochemicals, shipping, ma- chine tool production, steel, elec- trical instrumentation, and over- land pipelaying.

Before joining Oil Mop, Inc.,

Mr. Smythe was president of

Richfield, Ltd., a holding com- pany with investments spread from Australia to England, and

Denniark to Nigeria. The com- pany, which he founded in 1967, is now active in oil-based plastics, and is developing an oil refinery site in southwest Ireland.

Recycling of thermoplastic wastes to produce polypropelyne, polyethelene, and polystyrene has been a major component of Mr.

Smythe's petrochemical opera- tions. Polypropelyne is the pri- mary material for Oil Mop, Inc. products. Oil Mop, Inc.'s oil spill recovery equipment and its series of oil/water separators for bilge cleaning and other industrial ap- plications employs polypropelyne fiber for its oil-attracting, water- repelling qualities.

Oil Mop, Inc. introduced its oil spill cleanup equipment and its line of oil/water separators on the international market in 1974.

Deliveries have been made to countries ranging from Korea to

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