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Bethlehem Steel

Subsidiaries Name

Collins And Coulahan

Two New York City office ap- pointments in the water trans- portation subsidiary companies of Bethlehem Steel Corporation were announced by Steven M.

Moodie, vice president, water transportation services. nies in 1954, serving as a clerk in the bulk ore operating depart- ment.

In 1960, he was appointed sen- ior transportation assistant, serv- ing in several capacities until 1964, when he was named East

Coast freight representative for

Calmar Steamship Corporation.

He later served Calmar as its manager of market development.

Mr. Collins became manager of the chartering department in 1975.

George W. Collins

George W. Collins was named assistant vice president of Inter- ocean Shipping Company, Steam- ship Service Corporation, and

Yenore Transportation Company, all wholly owned subsidiaries of

Bethlehem Steel. He succeeds

Anthony J. Germano, who re- tired May 31.

John P. Coulahan was ap- pointed manager of chartering for the same companies, the po- sition formerly held by Mr. Col- lins.

Mr. Collins, a graduate of

Seton Hall University, joined the

New York offices of the water transportation subsidiary compa-

John P. Coulahan

Mr. Coulahan, a graduate of

St. John's University, joined the water transportation subsidiaries in New York in 1952, serving as transportation assistant.

He was transferred to Spar- rows Point, Md., in 1962, and was promoted to manager of domestic operations in 1963. He served in that capacity until 1972, when he was appointed to head marine personnel at Sparrows Point.

Transferred to New York in 1975, he was named manager of plan- ning and assistant manager of chartering.

Hitachi Delivers First Of Two

Multipurpose Carriers To West German Owner

The Tabora, a UC-20 multi- purpose cargo carrier (shown above), was recently completed at Hitachi Zosen's Mukaishima

Shipyard and delivered to her owner, Dal Deutsche Afrika-Lin- ien GmbH of West Germany.

The Tabora is the first exam- ple of Hitachi Zosen's standard 20,000-dwt-class multipurpose

Universal Cargo (UC-20) ship, and the first of two sisterships ordered by the West German company.

She is equipped to carry a wide

Gotaverken Converts

Cargo Ship To Carry 32,000 Live Sheep

Major conversion work on a 13,000-dwt general cargo vessel carried out at the Gotaverken shipyard in Goteborg, West Swe- den, has resulted in the ship's transformation into a sheep car- rier able to carry some 32,000 live sheep. The converted vessel, the Dorrit Clausen, has recently been redelivered to its Danish owners.

Six new decks—three of them below the weather deck — have been added, with five interme- diate platforms, on which over 800 pens have been installed for the accommodation of the sheep.

Pelletized feed is carried to troughs by automatic conveyor system from feed silos at fore and aft of the ship, while water is supplied from freshwater tanks.

A comprehensive ventilation system has been installed, and manure and urine are removed via gutters, ejectors, and con- veyors. A special washdown sys- tem alloys the pens to be hosed down. Loading and unloading of the sheep is chiefly by the "walk- on, walk-off" system, via special ramps.

Decks and platforms above the weather deck are built in light alloy, while other new deck and platform structures are of gal- vanized steel. Deck surfaces have been coated with plastic composi- tion or concrete, owing to the highly corrosive atmosphere to which they will be exposed.

Since an especially large crew will be required for the care of the sheep, an additional deck- house housing 16 persons has been erected, and the existing deckhouse has been enlarged. A new wheelhouse has been built on top of the latter to provide a view over the new superstructure,

Gotaverken says. variety of cargoes, such as grains, coal, ore or other bulk products, general, containerized or heavy cargoes, and lumber. To handle these products, she has one 180- ton heavy-duty derrick and two 31-ton twin cranes. Two rows of large hatchways are provided to facilitate container loading and unloading.

Powered by a Hitachi B&W 7K67GF type diesel engine, the

Tabora has a length overall of 530 feet, a molded breadth of 75 feet, and a molded depth of 45 feet.

Has The Answer To Your Corrosion Problems --- .

Avondale To Install

Iron Cargo Piping

Aboard U.S. Tankers

Clow Corporation, manufac- turer of cast and ductile iron pressure pipe, has announced it has received a contract from

Avondale Shipyards, New Orleans,

La., to supply 14-inch, 18-inch, and 20-inch-diameter ductile iron pipe for cargo piping in four tankers.

Although centrifugally cast ductile iron pipe has been used for ships' piping for several years by Europeans, the Avondale use, it is believed, will be its first in- stallation on a U.S.-flag vessel.

Pipe selected is standard 60,000 tensile ductile pipe which is in widespread use for underground pressure piping, except that the ductile iron will be alloyed with 2 percent nickel for added corro- sion resistance. Pipe will be plain end and joined by couplings, duc- tile was chosen on the basis of an anticipated extended life in service, despite a higher initial cost.

The choice of ductile pipe was made following U.S. Coast Guard and American Bureau of Ship- ping approval for the use of this pipe for "cargo and ballast sys- tems."

Clow Ductile pipe and fittings, alloyed with 2% nickel, offer the most economical corrosion resistance for cargo or ballast piping. For crude, saltwater, or similar service, investigate

Clow Ductile. Clow's cargo and ballast piping meets or exceeds the require- ments of the American Bureau of

Shipping and U.S. Coast Guard.

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