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Lockheed In Joint Venture With

Rendel, Palmer & Tritton To

Seek Ocean Engineering Project

Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, a major U.S. aerospace company, and Rendel,

Palmer and Tritton, a 140-year-old British consulting and design engineering partner- ship, have entered into an arrangement whereby their combined expertise in ocean engineering can add a capability not for- merly available to the offshore industry.

Among its projects, Rendel, Palmer and

Tritton has worked throughout the world for the last 30 years, particularly in the

Middle East and more recently in the North

Sea, with marine projects and terminal in- stallations, and is currently managing the

Thames River Moveable Barrier Project.

Lockheed, heavily engaged in ocean engi- neering for more than 14 years, has designed, built and operated submersibles, is a prime contractor to the U.S. Government's De- partment of Energy for the development of ocean thermal energy conversion systems, has formed an international consortium for mining and processing deep ocean manga- nese nodules, and is currently under con- tract to several major oil companies for engineering and hardware services.

The agreement provides that either com- pany may, as circumstances dictate, assume the prime contractor role, supported as re- quired by the other. Both firms remain free to pursue independently their normal lines of business, according to James G. Wenzel, vice president for the Lockheed Ocean Sys- tems organization.

Headquartered in London, Rendel, Palmer and Tritton maintains offices in North Af- rica, the Middle East and Australia. Ocean

Systems is based at Lockheed Missiles &

Space Co., Sunnyvale, Calif. 94086, and oper- ates the Lockheed Ocean Laboratory at San

Diego, Calif.

Atlas complies with U.S. Coast Guard rules for navigation recorders!

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ATLAS DIGIGRAPH 480

ATLAS 460

Both the ATLAS DIGIGRAPH 480 and the ATLAS 460 comply with the

U.S. Coast Guard rule effective June 1,1977 requiring all vessels of 1600 gross tons or more operating on the navigable waters of the U.S. to be equipped with 'an echo depth sounding device, a device that can continuously record the depth readings of the vessel's echo depth sounding device'.

The Atlas navigation sounders ATLAS DIGIGRAPH 480 and ATLAS 460 fulfill this USCG requirement, and in addition comply with all IMCO recommendations.

The ATLAS DIGIGRAPH 480 offers a unique range selection from 5 fms for shallow navigation and berthing, to 500 fins for deep water navigation.

Operating ranges can be converted from fathoms to meters merely by pushing a button. On shallow ranges, bottom soundings from two transducers can be recorded simultaneously — (up to four transducers can be monitored in groups of two). The selected range and the bottom recording are digitally displayed, and an automatic 15 minute time mark and event marker features are included. Optional plug-in type transducers can be supplied for replacement without dry docking.

The ATLAS 460 offers the same rugged reliability as the more sophisticated DIGIGRAPH 480. The ATLAS 460's three ranges are switchable from fathoms to meters. Maximum depth is 500 fathoms (1000 meters), and the shallow water range is 0-25 fms with a minimum sounding depth of approximately 0.3 fathoms. An event marker is included. Operation with two transducers, switchable at choice, is optional. Plug-in transducers are available.

Both recorders can be fitted with remote digital readouts — ATLAS FILIA 520, and an alarm unit ATLAS ALARM 525.

ATLAS 480

ATLAS 460

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Equitable Shipyards Delivers

Third Oceangoing Deck Barge

For McDonough Marine Service

Equitable Shipyards, Inc., New Orleans,

La., has delivered a third new steel ocean- going, deck cargo barge to McDonough Ma- rine Service, New Orleans, for operation in offshore oil and gas fields. All three barges in the new fleet for McDonough have overall dimensions of 240 feet by 72 feet by 16 feet, and were built to American Bureau of Ship- ping Class "Maltese Cross A-l" unrestricted ocean service specifications and United States

Coast Guard certification requirements.

The 240-foot by 72-foot by 16-foot Marmac 3, shown above, is scheduled for operation in offshore oil and gas fields.

Two of the three barges were built at

Equitable Shipyards in Madisonville, La., and one was built at its New Orleans shipyard.

The delivery of the three barges, Marmac 1, Marmac 2, and Marmac 3, to McDonough

Marine Service marks the beginning of a major expansion of the company's service to the maritime industry. The company owns a large fleet of inland, coastal and ocean barges. The new and large vessels being built by Equitable Shipyards will expand the operational capabilities in most of the oil and gas exploration and producing areas of the world, including the North Sea, the

Arabian Gulf and Africa.

The primary business of McDonough Ma- rine is the leasing of barges for a variety of operations within the inland and offshore marine industries. The company, founded in 1946, owns its fleet and is engaged in both domestic and foreign operations. Operation offices for the company are in New Orleans; the home office is in Parkersburg, W. Va., and the firm has branch offices in Houston,

Texas.

Equitable Shipyards, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Trinity Industries, Inc. of Dallas, Texas, a manufacturer of indus- trial marine and structural metal products.

Hull And Cargo Surveyors

Brochure Describes Services

Hull and Cargo Surveyors, Inc. has re- cently published a brochure describing the services provided to both marine and marine- oriented service organizations.

A subsidiary of Marine Office of America

Corporation, Hull and Cargo Surveyors, Inc. inspects and services all types of ocean ma- rine and transportation risks, including oil rigs, LNG spheres and nuclear reactors.

Offices are located in all major U.S. ports and operate on a worldwide basis.

A free copy of the brochure is available upon request to William J. Killen, The Cor- porate Communications Department, Hull and Cargo Surveyors, Inc., 80 Maiden Lane,

New York, N.Y. 10038. 8 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News