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Merger Of Lykes Bros.

Into LTV Corporation

Approved By MSB

The Maritime Subsidy Board has approved the merger of Lykes

Corporation, the parent company of Lykes Bros. Steamship Co.,

Inc. into LTV Corporation. Addi- tionally, the Assistant Secretary has granted written permission for the domestic operation of ves- sels by an affiliated company of

LTV.

Under the terms of the merger,

Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc. would be established as a separate wholly owned subsidiary of Jones & Laughlin Industries, Inc., which is a wholly owned subsidiary of

LTV. The Attorney General of the United States approved the merger June 21, 1978.

The Transportation Division of

Jones & Laughlin Steel Corpora- tion, a subsidiary of LTV, owns and operates five towboats and owns or charters and operates some 210 barges for the transport of coal on certain inland water- ways. Since Lykes Bros. Steam- ship Co., Inc. is a recipient of operating-differential subsidy (ODS), written permission from the Maritime Administration was required for these activities to continue.

Section 805 (a) of the Merchant

Marine Act of 1936, as amended, provides that recipients of ODS, or their affiliates, cannot own or operate vessels in the domestic trades without such written per- mission.

Acetylene Gas Used To

Straighten Ships' Decks

Sunderland Shipbuilders, part of British Shipbuilders, is using a new system of heat treatment to straighten the decks of ships.

The technique, known as "flame straightening," uses dissolved acetylene gas in a specially de- veloped blowpipe.

When a ship's deck is being constructed, stiffeners are posi- tioned under the deck panels at spaces of between 700 and 800 millimeters. In between the stiff- eners, ripples occur which can be as much as 25 millimeters deep.

Previously, straightening was achieved by positioning 76 milli- meter flats underneath the deck, which was an expensive and time- consuming method. It is in the shipbuilder's interest to straight- en some decks, as subcontractors applying covering compositions charge more if ripples are exces- sive.

Using the flame-straightening technique, Sunderland Shipbuild- ers has reduced the ripples to five millimeters variance with an av- erage of two heat cycles. For par- ticularly bad areas, three or four cycles may be necessary.

Panels are first checked using a straight edge, and then are heat treated using the gas in specially developed plate straightener blow- pipes. Decks treated to date have a plating thickness of between eight and 12 millimeters.

Flame straightening has two significant advantages over pre- vious techniques. These are a faster and more efficient opera- tion with the multi-nozzle blow- pipe, and the fact that the prin- ciples of application are easily learned by the average workman.

The method is now being used

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Southern Marine Supply Co., Inc.

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Tate Temco, Inc.

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Beacon Packing & Equipment Co., td.

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American-Pacific Corp.

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Southeastern Supply Co., Inc.

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Texas Marine & Industrial Supply Co.

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May & Smith Company

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Verfaillie & Elsig SPRL

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Hubevo Marine Plastics, Halifax

FLORIDA—Miami

Seastores Wholesale Co. by Sunderland Shipbuilders at each of its three yards in north- east England, and additional blow- pipes are on order. At present, the accommodation decks only are treated in this way, but there is a possibility that hulls will also be treated by the same method.

Ships currently being treated are dry cargo vessels for the

Bank Line of London, and bulk carriers for Yugoslavian owners. n Avenue

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The flame-straightening operation takes a man on average one week per ship.

The company has been using the system for six months, and group welding engineer Don Cuth- bert reports that it is "the best method we have used to date."

The process was developed by

British Oxygen Company (BOC) in collaboration with Sunderland

Shipbuilders.

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