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Tracor Marine Awarded $3.6-Million Navy Contract

A $3.6-million contract to con- duct acceptance testing of sono- buoys for the United States Navy has been awarded by the Naval

Avionics Center, Indianapolis,

Ind., to Tracor Marine, Inc., Port

Everglades, Fla., subsidiary of

Tracor, Inc., Austin, Texas.

Jean Fitzgerald, president of

PACIFIC SHIPYARDS CORPORATION

Tracor Marine, said the contract is for 15 months, effective July 1, and contains two successive 12- month options of approximately $3 million each.

According to Mr. Fitzgerald, the contract involves measuring and documenting performance pa- rameters of activated sonobuoys.

The sonobuoys, which are produc- tion units selected at random, undergo critical analysis and eval- uation in a number of test proce- dures. These tests are conducted by a Tracor Marine team of nearly 100 engineers, scientists, and crew members at Tracor Marine locations in Brunswick and South

Bristol, Maine, Port Everglades,

Fla., and Ham's Bluff and Gal- lows Bay, St. Croix, the Virgin

Islands.

Cold-water testing is conducted off the coast of Maine, and deep- water tests are performed in the

Caribbean. In both areas, the sonobuoys are flown aboard U.S.

Navy aircraft, operated and main- tained by Tracor Marine crews, and are dropped into the ocean and retrieved aboard Tracor Ma- rine recovery and test research vessels.

Throughout the testing, the sonobuoys undergo analysis on

Tracor-operated test equipments.

Following completion of tests, the sonobuoys are refurbished at

Tracor Marine's South Bristol lo- cation.

Tracor Marine, headquartered in Port Everglades, operates a full-service commercial shipyard and owns a fleet of research ves- sels which it charters and crews for large-scale ocean research projects of government, indus- try, and educational institutions.

The company is part of the Sci- ences & Systems Group of Tracor,

Inc., an international technological products and services company.

Sheridan Lee Opens

New York Office

Sheridan I. Lee

Sheridan I. Lee has announced the opening of his own consulting and surveying company.

Mr. Lee graduated from South

Shields Marine College, England in 1962, and followed a career at sea with the London shipowners

Furness, Withy and Co., Ltd., ob- taining his chief engineer's li- cense in 1966. In 1967, he joined

Hemisphere Transportation Cor- poration, Wilmington, Del., as a ship superintendent, and was with them until May 1971 when he joined Kaiser International Ship- ping Corporation, Oakland, Calif, as assistant manager of construc- tion and engineering.

At the completion of Kaiser's shipbuilding program in October 1973, Mr. Lee formed Harwich

Tonnage, Inc. in Los Angeles, and for the next 3Vo years was ac- tively involved in consulting work for shipowners, major corpora- tions and trading companies. Dur- ing this period, he also became involved in chartering and the management of time-chartered vessels, which culminated in his joining Navarino Shipping and

Transport S.A. of Piraeus, Greece, in January 1977 as manager of chartering and operations, and establishing their New York office.

Mr. Lee is working under his own name at 104 East 40th Street,

New York, N.Y. 10016.

We convert little ones into BIG ONES.

The ship on the left (Mormacaltair) shows how the ship on the right (Mormacdraco) used to look before Todd Galveston added to her length and her value to her owners, Moore-McCormack Lines,

Inc., a subsidiary of Moore McCormack Resources,

Inc. The new enhanced ships are now 665 feet long—a hefty 115 feet longer than before—yet they travel at the same speed and use the same amount of fuel. If your cargo dollars want stretching, talk to Todd.

SHIPYARDS: LOS ANGELES • SEATTLE

A subsidiary of Todd Shipyards Corporation

SHIPYARDS CORPORATION

SHIPYARDS: BROOKLYN - NEW ORLEANS • GALVESTON

HOUSTON - SAN FRANCISCO

Executive offices: One State Street Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10004. (212) 344-6900. Cable: Robin New York

DESIGNERS & PLANNERS, INC. (Naval Architects): New York - Galveston - Washington, D.C.

A subsidiary of Todd Shipyards Corporation 10 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News