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Foster Wheeler To Supply

Inert Gas Systems For

LNG Tankers At Quincy

Foster Wheeler Boiler Corpora- tion, 110 South Orange Avenue,

Livingston, N.J. 07039, has re- ceived a contract from the Quincy

Shipbuilding Division of General

Dynamics Corporation to supply inert gas generators and dry air plants for two liquefied natural gas (LNG) tankers under con- struction by the Massachusetts shipbuilder. Value of the contract is more than $1 million.

Each inert gas-dry air plant will produce 9,000 cubic meters per hour (5,600 cubic feet per minute) of gas to blanket the cargo areas of the ships. The tankers, hull numbers LNG 53 and 54, are 125,000-cubic-meter- capacity vessels being constructed for Lachmar, Lafayette, La.

Inert gas systems have drawn increasing attention from the ma- ritime community as a means of protecting flammable cargoes from fire and explosion. Last year, Foster Wheeler Boiler Cor- poration was licensed by Moss

Rosenberg Verft A.S. of Norway to manufacture and sell inert gas systems for marine and industrial applications. FWBC currently markets these units in the United

States, Canada, Central and South

Neverleak... no lube oil to seep out or seal to fail.

The water under your keel lubricates the

Moffitt-engineered Cutles^rubber bearing.

Fresh water, salt or sand-filled. Freedom from oil-seal failure prevents excessive bearing wear and expensive seal replacement.

Exclusive "Water Wedge" channels push a full flow of water between shaft and rubber bearing liner molded of B.F. Good rich-formu- lated rubber. The low friction of metal turning on water-wet rubber improves horsepower utilization, reduces fuel consumption, lengthens bearing life. The soft/firm rubber liner flushes itself free of sand and yields slightly to absorb slight shaft misalignment.

Cutless bearings are available world-wide from yards and marine stores. Or phone us for same-day shipment from our 20,000-bearing stocks.

LUCIAN

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I NATIONAL and INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTORS

P. 0. Box 1415. AKRON. OHIO 44309

America. A wholly owned sub- sidiary of Foster Wheeler Cor- poration, FWBC supplies marine steam generators to the world's fleets and industrial boilers for a wide range of stationary applica- tions.

Foster Wheeler Corporation is a worldwide engineering, manu- facturing and construction orga- nization which operates through 26 subsidiaries. Its major U.S. operating subsidiary, Foster

Wheeler Energy Corporation, de- signs, fabricates and constructs steam generating equipment, pro- cess plants and fired heaters for electric utilities, shipbuilders, pe- troleum refiners, and chemical producers. Both corporations are headquartered in Livingston, N.J.

C.F. Bean Corporation

Names John Lescroart

Executive Vice President

John E. Lescroart, former Fed- eral Administrator of the Deep

Water Port Act of 1974, has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer of C.F.

Bean Corporation, New Orleans,

La.

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John E. Lescroart

Mr. Lescroart, promoted from vice president of Bean's Washing- ton, D.C., office, will relocate to

Bean's New Orleans office and will be responsible for the company's worldwide operations, according to

Bean president J.W. Bean.

As Federal Administrator of the

Deep Water Port Act, before join- ing Bean, Mr. Lescroart was re- sponsible for overseeing issuance of a federal license to the Louis- iana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP) and reported directly to Secretary of

Transportation William T. Cole- man Jr. LOOP will be the coun- try's first deepwater offshore oil terminal capable of handling su- pertankers.

In all, Mr. Lescroart has 30 years' experience in the dredging industry and related businesses.

He served as president of the

Atlantic Gulf, and Pacific Com- pany from 1971 until 1975, when he entered government service.

C.F. Bean Corporation is an in- ternational dredging and marine construction company with head- quarters in New Orleans. It op- erates on the West, East, and

Gulf Coasts of the United States and internationally has worked in

South America, Central America, the Caribbean, the Middle East,

Africa, and the Far East.

Middle East

Sales Manager: John A. Skelton, P.O. Box 4134, Nicosia, CYPRUS. Telex: 233X Mickey's Attn. Skelton

European Marine & Machinery Agencies, Balmer Lawn Rd., Brockenhurst, Hants

S04 766, ENGLAND

Telex 47509

European Agent:

CARRINGTON SLIPWAYS

PTY. LTD AUSTRALIA

Old Punt Road, Tomago, N.S.W. 2322

Telephone (049) 64 8071, Telex AA28185,

Cable "Carringtons"

M.T. "Broadsound" 35M Tug powered by two 2800 S.H.P. en- gines producing a bollard pull of 75 tonnes. "Broadsound" is fitted with a high pressure foam/water/jet spray fire monitor installed atop the wheelhouse. 10 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News