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Amerada Hess To Build

Five Catug Units At

Cost Of $283,800,000

Assistant Secretary Robert J.

Blackwell, U.S. Department of

Commerce, Maritime Administra- tion, has approved in principle an application from Amerada Hess

Corporation, 1185 Avenue of the

Americas, New York, N.Y., for a

Title XI guarantee to aid in fi- nancing the construction of five integrated "Catug" tug/barge tanker units, each to be owned by a wholly owned subsidiary of

Hess. Bethlehem Steel Corpora- tion, Sparrows Point, Md., has been named shipbuilder.

Each unit will have an overall length of 666 feet 8 inches, mold- ed beam of 95 feet, and a full- loaded draft of 40 feet 6 inches.

Service speed will be 15 knots, under 18,200 horsepower. Gross tonnage will be 1,860 per tug, and 24,500 per barge, with the dead- weight capacity of each barge be- ing 46,238 light tons at maxi- mum draft.

The estimated actual cost of each vessel is $56,760,000, or a total of $283,800,000 for the five.

The Title XI guarantee, not to exceed 87% percent of actual cost, will be approximately $49,665,000 for each vessel, or $248,325,000 total.

The applicant indicated the ves- sels are intended to be used in the carriage of petroleum products for Hess from their Virgin Is- lands refinery to the mainland of the United States. They will be operated either by Hess or by

Apex Marine Inc., the operating subsidiary of the Berger Group.

The Hess subsidiaries which will own the vessels are First Tug/

Barge Corporation, Second Tug/

Barge Corporation, Third Tug/

Barge Corporation, Fourth Tug/

Barge Corporation, and Fifth

Tug/Barge Corporation. All are located at 100 West Tenth Street,

Wilmington, Del., but use the

Hess address for correspondence.

J.J. Henry Co., Inc. Names

Gerald Jones Manager

Portsmouth, Va. Office

J.J. Henry Co., Inc. recently announced that Gerald R. Jones has joined the firm as manager of its Portsmouth, Va., facility.

Gerald R. Jones

In his new position, Mr. Jones will direct the total engineering efforts of J.J. Henry Co.'s Ports- mouth office which specializes in developing detailed working plans and calculations for naval and commercial shipyards. The firm of naval architects, marine engi- neers and marine surveyors is one of the most respected independent marine consulting firms in the world. It is known throughout the international shipping community for its sound, yet innovative and modern ship designs.

Mr. Jones is a 1955 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology (M.I.T.) Graduate

School, with a Professional De- gree of Naval Architecture and

Marine Engineering, a 1949 grad- uate of the U.S. Naval Academy, and a 1971 Advanced Manage- ment Program graduate from the

Graduate School of Business, Uni- versity of Virginia. He joined the firm upon his retirement from ac- tive duty in the U.S. Navy as a captain, where his last tour of duty was as Commander of the

Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. He is a member of The Society of

Naval Architects and Marine En- gineers, member and past section chairman of the American Society of Naval Engineers, and a mem- ber of the U.S. Naval Institute.

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