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MacMillctn Bloedel

Orders Log Carrier

At Cost Of $14 Million

MacMillan Bloedel, Vancouver,

British Columbia, has ordered the world's second self-propelled log carrier to be built in Victoria by

Yarrows Ltd., at a cost of almost $14 million.

The keel will be laid October 1 in Victoria, British Columbia by

Yarrows, a member of the Bur- rard-Yarrows Group, and the new vessel will begin operating in Oc- tober 1978.

The contract will create em- ployment for 225 men for a year at Yarrows, and an additional 50 jobs in subcontractor companies.

James Lawson, MB's group vice president, raw materials, said the 398-foot-long carrier would have a load capacity of 9,700 short tons. Powered by twin diesels, it has been designed to transport logs from company logging oper- ations to Port Alberni mills and to log storage areas on the south mainland coast.

MB pioneered and now owns the world's first self-loading, self- dumping, self-propelled log car- rier, the Haida Monarch, which began operating in January 1975.

The new vessel will be an improv- ed version of the Haida Monarch, with heavier lift gear.

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The new log carrier, the first designed to load logs in bundles, will allow MB to deliver logs from remote dryland sort locations to the booming grounds and mills without loss from sinkage or es- capement. To achieve this, two special cranes are being installed on the carrier to load 40-ton bundles.

Construction of the carrier was announced earlier this year by

MB president Calvert Knudsen as one of the projects in a $450-mil- lion five-year capital spending program to improve productivity in MB operations and facilities in British Columbia.

The self-propelled, self-loading, self-dumping carrier concept was conceived by MB, and Mr. Lawson said the performance of the Hai- da Monarch has more than justi- fied the investment. Its average load, speed and turnaround time in actual service have exceeded the company's original expecta- tions.

C-E Names Matthews

Manager Of Contracts,

Marine Power Systems

Thomas E. Matthews

The Power Systems Group of

Combustion Engineering, Inc.,

Windsor, Conn., has announced the appointment of Thomas E.

Matthews as manager of con- tracts, C-E Marine Power Sys- tems.

Mr. Matthews will be respon- sible for the overall performance and administration of marine contracts, including direction of production planning, purchasing, contract administration, and proj- ect engineering, reporting to Rob- ert B. Hedges, general manager,

C-E Marine Power Systems.

Mr. Matthews joined C-E in 1964, and has advanced through various design engineering and project engineering positions, in- cluding project manager for the

U.S. Navy's DE-1052-Class De- stroyer Ship Program, and the new LHA-l-Class Amphibious

Helicopter Assault Ship Pro- gram. Most recently, Mr. Mat- thews has been serving as as- sistant manager of marine en- gineering.

Mr. Matthews received a bach- elor's degree in marine engineer- ing at the State University of

New York's Maritime College.

He is a member of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine

Engineers and the American So- ciety of Naval Engineers.

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