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Jurong Converts Bulk Carrier

To Great Lakes Ore Carrier

In November 1976, Jurong Shipyard Lim- ited of the Republic of Singapore signed a major conversion contract, valued at $4.5 million, with Nipigon Transport Ltd. of Can- ada for jumboizing a bulk carrier, the M/V

Lake Nipigon, from 22,000 dwt to 25,000 dwt for Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River service.

A main feature of the conversion was the jumboization of the vessel with an addi- tional 202 feet of parallel midbody. The new vessel is 729 feet 7 inches long and has a breadth of 75 feet.

The Lake Nipigon arrived at the yard on

November 20, 1976, carrying her last trans- oceanic bulk cargo of cement kinker from

Japan. After completion, she left the yard at the end of March this year for Canada.

In his remarks at the christening cere- mony of the vessel, the chairman of Nipigon

Transport Ltd., Howard F. Andrews, re- ported that the Lake Nipigon would spend her time in the international movement of iron ore and grain. She will transport high- grade iron ore from Sept-Iles, Quebec, on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, some 900 miles into the lower Great Lakes. She will then proceed in ballast north to Lake Superior.

There, she will pick up grain and move it out to either the Canadian or American side of the St. Lawrence River. Part of the grain will be processed for consumption in North

America, and part will be transshipped around the world.

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TYPE OF VESSEL(S) ceremony of the vessel included the Cana- dian High Commissioner to Singapore, R.K.

Thomson, Mrs. R.K. Thomson, and the chair- man of Jurong Shipyard Limited, Tan Teck

Chwee.

Bethlehem Announces Promotions —John Estes To Beaumont Yard —Sherman Perry To Singapore Yard

John C. Estes Sherman C. Perry

The promotions, effective May 1, of John

C. Estes and Sherman C. Perry to general managers of Bethlehem Steel Corporation shipyards were announced in Bethlehem, Pa., by William C. Brigham, vice president in charge of shipbuilding.

Mr. Estes will become general manager of the Beaumont, Texas, shipyard and Mr.

Perry will become president and general manager of Bethlehem Singapore Private

Limited. Mr. Estes will succeed Ralph A.

Leaf, whose retirement has been announced.

Mr. Perry will succeed Mr. Estes as presi- dent and general manager of the shipyard in Singapore.

A native of Birmingham, Ala., Mr. Estes received a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas in 1946. He served in the U.S. Navy from November 1943 to June 1946 and again from February 1952 to December 1953, at- taining the rank of lieutenant.

Starting his career in shipbuilding in 1946, Mr. Estes joined Bethlehem Steel in 1949 at the Beaumont facility as a design engineer. After he returned to the yard in

December 1953 from naval duty, he became assistant chief of design in 1954 and chief of design in 1958. About V/o years later he became chief engineer, and in November 1971 he was named assistant to general manager of the Beaumont Yard.

Two years later, Mr. Estes was appointed president and general manager of Bethle- hem's shipyard in Singapore.

He is a member of The Society of Naval

Architects and Marine Engineers, American

Society of Mechanical Engineers, and is a licensed professional engineer in Texas.

Mr. Perry, a native of White Sulphur

Springs, W. Va., joined Bethlehem Steel in 1942 at its former Fairfield, Md., shipyard, where hundreds of Liberty ships were pro- duced during World War II.

He was transferred to the corporation's shipyard at Sparrows Point, Md., in 1945, where he worked with planning activities.

He became a supervisor in production plan- ning in 1951, and then held various man- agement positions in the yard, becoming assistant general superintendent in 1968. A year later, he was transferred to the Balti- more Yards as assistant chief planner.

In 1971, Mr. Perry was assigned to the

Singapore facility as assistant to general manager and was promoted to assistant gen- eral manager in 1975, the position he held until his appointment as president and gen- eral manager of the Singapore Yard. 28 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News