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Model Of National Monument Honoring

American Seamen Unveiled On Maritime Day

At the unveiling of a miniature of the monument, which will be 25 feet high, are left to right: (Front Row) George McCartney, vice president of Seafarers International

Union; Mel Barisic, secretary-treasurer, National Maritime Union of America; Adm.

William F. Rea III, USCG, Commander Atlantic Area, Third USCG District, and Adm.

John M. Will, USN (ret.), president of Arthur Tickle Engineering Works. (Back Row):

Dr. William J. Ronan, chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and chairman of World Trade Week Committee 1977; Capt. Thomas A. King, Direc- tor, Eastern Region, U.S. Department of Commerce and president of The Propeller

Club, Port of New York; the Honorable John M. Murphy, Chairman of the House

Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee; James P. McAllister, chairman of the board, McAllister Bros., Inc. and honorary chairman maritime industry, World Trade

Week Committee, and Capt. Robert E. Hart, president, Marine Index Bureau, Inc., and general chairman, National Maritime Day 1977.

America's merchant marine in- dustry, after 200 years, will build a national monument on the New

York waterfront to the thousands of merchant seamen who died at sea in the service of their coun- try in war and peace.

Announcement of the Merchant

Mariner's Memorial was made, appropriately, on National Mari- time Day by Congressman John

M. Murphy, Chairman of the

House Merchant Marine and Fish- eries Committee. The Congress- man was a special guest of honor at the New York observance.

Port Authority chairman Wil- liam J. Ronan and Congressman

Murphy unveiled a model of the

Memorial at public ceremonies on the plaza of the World Trade Cen- ter, also marking the start of

World Trade Week.

Dr. Ronan, who spoke in his role as chairman of the World

Trade Week Committee for the

New York-New Jersey Port area, told several hundred invited guests and several thousand Trade Cen- ter employees and members of the general public that foreign trade was the keystone of the area's economy. "Nearly half a million people earn their livelihood from the Port," he said, "and foreign commerce valued at $48.5 billion moved through the New York-

New Jersey area last year."

It was a day long to be remem- bered in the annals of the World

Trade Center, which will mark its seventh anniversary of operation in December. It was the first time that the five-acre plaza—the larg- est such public space in New York

City—was opened to the public.

Maritime Day ceremonies on the plaza were the occasion for a stirring review by cadets from the U.S. Merchant Marine Acad- emy at Kings Point, N.Y., which included the Regimental Band and

Color Guards under the direction of Comdr. Kenneth R. Force. The review featured marching and exercises by the Precision Rifle

Squad, including 100 parading color bearers carrying 50 state flags and an equal number of

American flags.

Not to be outdone, Director

William Reynolds and the Color

Guard and Glee Club of the State

University of New York Maritime

College at Fort Schuyler pre- sented their own review. They presented three sea chanteys, to bring a proper nautical touch to the observance of National Mari- time Day in the nation's leading port.

It was a solemn day too.

Invited guests from the mari- time industry earlier in the morn- ing had begun Maritime Day with an ecumenical service at the Sea- men's Church Institute on nearby

State Street. There, they observed a moment of silence for those merchant seamen who lost their lives at sea in the last year.

At the plaza, representatives of labor, management and govern- ment from the maritime industry laid the traditional memorial wreath, normally cast into the waters of the harbor, instead at the base of the model of the New

York waterfront monument, to merchant seamen lost at sea.

Then the model was unveiled by Congressman Murphy, assisted by Dr. Ronan. Also participating were James P. McAllister, hon- orary chairman of World Trade

Week for the maritime industry, and Capt. Robert E. Hart, USN (ret.), general chairman of the

Maritime Day program. Repre- sentations of four white ships' bows, pointing to each direction of the compass, surrounded a gleaming golden flag pole in the center of the model.

In actuality, each ship's bow will be of white steel, 25 feet high. The bows will come from a shipyard in each of the nation's four coastal regions, it is hoped by the nonprofit group from the maritime industry sponsoring the

Memorial.

Captain Hart, president of the

Marine Index Bureau, Inc., who directed the committee which put the program together, presided over the hour-long ceremony.

The plaza will remain open as a landscaped haven for thousands of office workers in the Trade Cen- ter and surrounding areas. The park-like area will also attract many thousands of visitors.

Many will go in clear weather to the rooftop observation deck of the South Tower Building,

Two World Trade Center. There, 1,377 feet above the plaza—more than a quarter of a mile high— they will look out into the bistate harbor. They will see the stately procession of ships manned by our own merchant marine and the merchant seamen of America's trading partners, steaming in and out of port.

Research Contracts To

Combustion Engineering

And Mortada International

The Maritime Administration has awarded two research and de- velopment contracts concerning marine fuels. The first is a $172,000, nine-month contract to

Combustion Engineering, Incor- porated, Windsor, Conn., to de- velop and test a device to meas- ure the effectiveness of various marine burners in atomizing re- sidual fuel oils. When completed, the device will be installed in

Combustion Engineering's Fuel

Burning Test Facility and used to evaluate atomization improve- ments on marine burners.

The second contract, for $102,- 000 and one year, was awarded to Mortada International, Dallas,

Texas, to study the pricing of marine bunker fuels. The study will analyze elements that deter- mine the cost of marine bunkers, such as production, refining, transportation, tariffs, duties, and taxes, and the impact of various domestic, social, environmental, and industrial factors on No. 6 bunker "C" fuel and marine diesel fuel.

The firm will also evaluate the influence which fuel prices have on freight rates and the effects of capital cost improvements in reducing fuel costs. Ultimately, a mathematical model will be de- veloped to permit shipowners and operators to evaluate available options for reducing fuel costs while maintaining a reasonable degree of service.

New GE MST-21 9,000-19,000 SHP

Steam Turbine Available

The new General Electric MST- 21 low-horsepower, geared ma- rine steam turbine ship-propulsion power plant, designed specifically for the 9,000-19,000 shp range, is now available.

The MST-21 was developed by

GE to meet the propulsion re- quirements of low-horsepower ships, such as coastal tankers and container feed ships.

Featuring a base plant all-pur- pose fuel rate of below 0.50 lbs/ shp-hr at 9,000 shp, the MST-21 brings traditional steam-plant re- liability and economy to the lower horsepower ranges. To further improve savings, the MST-21 of- fers special options, which can improve fuel rate by as much as 19 percent.

Manufactured by the General

Electric Medium Steam Turbine

Department in Lynn, Mass., the

MST-21 meets the requirements of shipowners and shipyards for a propulsion plant that operates on inexpensive, low-grade fuels while keeping maintenance costs low. The MST-21 is modularized in construction for simple oper- ation, and does not require spe- cialized crew capabilities.

The base plant is a bridge- controlled, geared, cross-com- pound marine steam turbine with steam conditions of 850 psig at 950F non reheat, at 1.5" Hga, with power ranges from 9,000- 19,000 shp. The MST-21 has four stages of feedwater heating, dual economizers and steam air heater, and cascaded extractions for im- proved part-load performance. Al- though designed for single-screw applications, with two boilers standard, the MST-21 offers great flexibility in individual design.

Various options available for the MST-21 can improve the fuel rate by as much as 19 percent.

The options include attached gen- erator and boiler feed pump, re- duced condenser pressure, regen- erative gas air heater, initial steam pressure 900 psig, reheat,

Therma-Coupled™ turbines, for twin-screw ships, and low propel- ler speed. Other MST-21 options include a choice of axial or down- ward exhaust turbines, boiler-and- a-half arrangements and a c-p propeller.

Available now, the new MST-21 fills the requirements of ship- owners and operators for econ- omy, reliability, and flexibility in low-horsepower ship propulsion power plants. For a complete de- scription of the MST-21, write to

F.G. Folsom Jr., General Electric

Company, Medium Steam Turbine

Dept., 1100 Western Avenue,

Lynn, Mass. 01910.

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