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Joseph Hurley

Named President

ITT Decca Marine

For a considerable length of time, Derek Paget-Clarke has been acting as general manager of ITT Decca Marine, pending the appointment of a new president for the company.

Mr. Paget-Clarke carried out extensive reorganization of the company, was responsible for the recent move to Palm Coast, Fla., and took care of directing day- to-day business.

Joseph Hurley has now been appointed president of IDM and will take up his duties immedi- ately, with Mr. Paget-Clarke re- maining on the board of directors and advising and assisting Mr.

Hurley for a time.

Mr. Hurley is a graduate of the

U.S. Naval Academy and has a wide background in high tech- nology electronics in the U.S. and

England. His naval experience ranges from a tour on the USS

Missouri to destroyer escorts.

Commercial experience spans 23 years in electronics and semi- conductors.

Mr. Hurley has long been as- sociated with ITT Corporation, where he has managed Portugal and California operations. Since 1969, he has been general man- ager of the ITT Semiconductor

Company, based in Sidcup, Eng- land. One of the major programs there was special reliability am- plifiers for trans-Atlantic cables. "I am pleased to join a com- pany with such a favorable posi- tion in its field," Mr. Hurley said when taking over his new job. "Both Decca and ITT have long established leadership positions in advanced electronic equipment, especially in high reliability ap- plications."

Joseph Hurley

Over half the large ships in the world depend on Decca radar for the reliability they must have, he pointed out. And ITT transocean telephone cables, with more than a thousand amplifiers, must have a life expectancy of 25 years be- fore an amplifier failure. "Today's ecological demands have greatly increased the need for marine electronics," Mr.

Hurley added. He cited current government consideration of a proposal to require all large ships entering U.S. waters to carry

Loran-C navigation equipment in order to reduce the number of groundings and accidental oil spills.

Houston System Buys

Shipyard In Louisiana

W.F. Haley, president of Hous- ton Systems Manufacturing Com- pany, 6022 Cullen Boulevard,

Houston, Texas 77021, has an- nounced the acquisition of the assets of Gulf Overseas Service

Corporation located at the Port of New Iberia, La. The assets acquired include a 30-acre ship- yard with over 3,000 feet of slip frontage, an office building, a 2,000-ton barge launchway, cranes and other equipment used in ma- rine construction and heavy steel fabrication. Mr. Haley stated that the addition of this shipyard, which is adjacent to Houston

Systems' marine construction fa- cility at the Port of New Iberia, enables Houston Systems to fab- ricate larger offshore production platforms and to build custom, oceangoing barges including deck- cargo, hopper and fuel barges.

Houston Systems, with head- quarters in Houston, designs and manufactures onshore and off- shore drilling equipment, offshore platforms, drilling and produc- tion modules, marine cranes, spe- cial lift and handling systems, and other large, specialized hy- draulic systems for energy- related industries worldwide. from 15 up to 4.500 kW with fixed or c. p. propellers

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