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Halter Marine Delivers Crewboat

For Service In Arabian Gulf

Halter-built crewboat Grayflier is shown above on trials prior to being accepted by the owner.

A new offshore crewboat, eighth in a series built for the same owner, has been delivered by Halter Marine Services, Inc., Chalmette (La.) Division, to Gray Mackenzie and Com- pany, Ltd., Bahrain.

The new vessel is the Grayflier, a 78-foot crewboat whose home port will be Dubai. It was built to Lloyd's 100-A Arabian Gulf

Service classification.

Grayflier can carry 40 passengers and its six-man crew is accommodated in a two-man officer's cabin and a four-man crew's quar- ters. There is a full galley with mess for six. The vessel, for shipping to the Arabian

Gulf, was fitted with a custom-built shipping cradle and loaded on deck of a freighter bound for Dubai.

The crewboat is powered by two General

Motors 12V71 TI diesel engines that develop 510 bhp each. Controls are Morse manual at two stations, one in the wheelhouse and one aft. The vessel has a fuel oil capacity of 1,000

U.S. gallons. Reverse/reduction gearing is

Twin Disc 2.0:1 and steering gear is Halter

Hydraulic.

The crewboat is equipped with an emer- gency diesel-driven iy2-inch pump connected to two fire stations for fire protection, two

Westinghouse air compressors, a Fairbanks

Morse sanitary water system, four tons of

Carrier heating and air-conditioning, and two 20-kw generators. Deck machinery in- cludes a Skipper Hydraulic orbitrol-driven anchor windlass; communications equipment includes a Decca 48-mile range radar, an

Intech VHF radio and a Ross fathometer.

Halter Marine Services' main shipyard is in New Orleans, La. The company owns and operates five other fully equipped shipyards in Louisiana and Mississippi, and is the world's largest builder of support vessels for the offshore oil and gas industry. These include crewboats, anchor-handling, rig- towing and supply ships, ocean tugs and vessels for the inland waterway industry.

Ogden Names Farrell President

Of Marine Terminal Subsidiary

Lee Rice, president of Ogden Transporta- tion Company, a division of the Ogden Corp., a New York-based conglomerate, has an- nounced the appointment of John J. Farrell

Jr. as president of International Terminal

Operating Co., Inc. (ITO), a subsidiary com- pany.

ITO is one of the largest marine terminal operators in the world. It operates in all major East Coast ports from Maine to

Louisiana.

Mr. Farrell, in joining ITO, is resigning as president of Howland Hook Marine Ter- minal Corp., a jointly owned subsidiary of

United States Lines and American Export

Lines.

Most of Mr. Farrell's career in the water- front industry was spent with ITO. He had resigned from ITO in 1972 as executive vice president after having spent 17 years in all operational roles. He had joined the com- pany in 1955 upon his discharge from the

Army. He is a graduate of Seton Hall Prep

School and Holy Cross College, Worcester,

Mass. He is a member of the board of gov- ernors of Essex County Country Club and the Downtown Athletic Club of New York, and is on the board of directors of New York

Shipping Association.

S.U.N.Y. Maritime College

Appoints Richard Burke

Richard Burke has been appointed adjunct instructor of naval architecture at the State

University of New York Maritime College,

Fort Schuyler, Bronx, N.Y.

As an instructor of naval architecture, he will be a member of the engineering depart- ment and will be responsible for teaching basic and advanced naval architecture courses, as well as general engineering sci- ence courses.

A 1972 graduate of Maritime, with hon- ors, Mr. Burke continued his studies at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studying for a master's degree in naval architecture, for which he had received a scholarship from The Society of Naval Archi- tects and Marine Engineers.

Since graduating from SUNY Maritime,

Mr. Burke has been employed for the United

States Salvage Association, and Mobil Ship- ping and Transportation Co.

Mr. Burke holds a U.S. Coast Guard

License as a Third Assistant Engineer for steam and motor vessels, and is an associate member of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, the American Society of Naval Engineers, and Sigma Xi.

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Electrical energy is supplied to conducting film through bus bars located at opposite edges of glass.

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