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U.S. Navy survey ship. Chauvenet. with Marisat

CASE HISTORY 4

With the Marisat System, Military Seal.ft

Command oceanographic survey ships can transmit compiled data to computer centers on a daily basis." 'Previously tapesot stored into port." explains Commander I" 0, a shjp, repeat part of discovered to. days or weeks., jt might e.enrw h , veri,icat,on ol data at 38 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News ply vessel. This construction pro- gram will bring to 97 the total number of vessels of Pott Indus- tries Offshore Marine Services

Division, which provides a full scope of Marine Services trans- portation services to the offshore petroleum industry on a world- wide basis.

Pott Industries, St. Louis, Mo., is a wholly owned subsidiary of

Houston Natural Gas Corporation (HNG) of Houston, Texas.

Houston Natural Gas Corpora- tion's other lines of business in- clude construction and repair of barges and towboats, inland wa- terways transportation, intrastate natural gas transmission, oil and gas exploration and production, coal mining, and production and marketing of industrial gases.

Mr. Thorell brings to Todd more than 26 years of shipbuilding ex- perience in new construction and repair of Naval and commercial submarines and surface vessels.

After serving as Planning and

Estimating Officer at Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and

Repair, USN, Groton, Conn., Mr.

Thorell was employed by General

Dynamics Corporation and spent over 22 years at Electric Boat Di- vision, General Dynamics' Wash- ington office and Quincy Ship- building Division in various key engineering, project engineering, marketing, legal and program management assignments.

A graduate of the University of Bridgeport with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering,

Mr. Thorell is a member of The

National Management Association and The Society of Naval Archi- tects and Marine Engineers.

In addition to a heavy work- load in repair and overhaul of

Naval and commercial vessels,

Todd Pacific's Los Angeles Divi- sion currently has under contract the construction of nine FFG-7

Class Guided Missile Frigates for the U.S. Navy.

Gulf Mississippi Adds

Two Vessels To Fleet

For Offshore Service

Gulf Mississippi Marine Corpo- ration, New Orleans, La., one of the principal operating companies of the Offshore Marine Services

Division of Pott Industries, has taken delivery of a new 185-foot by 38-foot by 14-foot, 3,600-hp- class supply vessel. The Gulf

Fleet No. 31 was constructed by

Quality Equipment, Inc. of Hou- ma, La., a wholly owned subsid- iary of Pott Industries.

This marks the second vessel delivered to Gulf Mississippi Ma- rine Corporation within the last six weeks, with the first being a 260-foot by 72-foot by 17-foot off- shore deck-cargo barge, the Gulf

Fleet 262. The barge was built in

New Iberia, La., by Houston Sys- tems, Inc., and brings the total number of offshore deck barges in the fleet to 10.

The delivery of these two ves- sels represents a part of an on- going aggressive construction pro- gram which currently has sched- uled for delivery during the last five months of 1978 an additional four tugs, three supply vessels and one combination towing/sup-

Lennart Thorell Joins

Todd Pacific Shipyards

Lennart M. Thorell has joined the Los Angeles Division of Todd

Pacific Shipyards Corporation as manager of engineering, accord- ing to a recent announcement by

H.K. Schaefer, vice president and assistant general manager.

Lennart M. Thorell

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