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N.Y. Marine Society

Annual Set For April 14 —M. Lee Rice To Speak

The 210th Annual Dinner of The Marine

Society of the City of New York will be held on Monday, April 14, 1980, at the

Plaza Hotel in New York City. M. Lee Rice, president and chief executive officer of Ogden

Transportation Corporation, Inc., will be the honored guest and speaker. Reservations for the dinner, which will be held in the Grand

Ballroom of the Plaza, following a reception from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., may be made by calling the secretary at The Marine Society, (212) 425-0448. Capt. Thomas Pineault, 1st vice president of The Marine Society, is chairman of the Dinner Committee.

Sayville Ferry Service

Adds New Vessel To Fleet

Sayville Ferry Service Inc. recently an- nounced the addition of the Fire Island

Clipper to its fleet.

The Clipper (shown above), built by Rob- ert E. Derecktor at Mamaroneck, N.Y., was placed into service on the company's Say- ville, N.Y., to Fire Island run immediately upon delivery.

Designed by John K. Roper Associates,

Inc. of Hancock, N.H., the Clipper is par- ticularly well-suited to her environment. She is powered by three Detroit Diesel 12V71 naturally aspirated engines and will carry up to 344 passengers at speeds in excess of 20 mph in less than 4 feet of water. To do this, she has an efficient aluminum hull structure designed to take full advantage of the bottom effect.

Performance predictions, based on model tests conducted by Daniel Savitsky and

Pierre De Saix at Stevens Institute of Tech- nology, have been fully confirmed in op- eration.

Owner Ken Stein, president of Sayville

Ferry Service, reports that the Clipper has met or exceeded all of his expectations in service on Great South Bay, and predicts that craft of this type will be used exten- sively in the passenger service industry.

Fire Island Clipper

Main Engine 3 Detroit Diesel (Allison Div.)

RC 7122-7000

Engine Controls Panish Controls

Shaft Size/Material 2Vz" Aquamet 17

Propeller Columbian type 316 stainless 4-Blade 32" Dia.

Pumps, Bilge Jabsco 18-320-0001

Radar Raytheon 3900

Radiotelephone SSB Modar MO 3002

Searchlight Jabsco Rayline 40833-0240

Running & Navigation Lights Pauluhn Electric Mfg.

Fink And Calvert Named

At Wichita Clutch Co.

Robert P. Fink David Calvert

The appointments of Robert P. Fink as sales manager and David Calvert as parts sales supervisor of Wichita Clutch Company, division of Dana Corporation, P.O. Box 1550,

Wichita Falls, Texas 76307, have been an- nounced by Thomas F. Long, general man- ager of the division.

Mr. Fink joined the Formsprag Company, which is now a unit of Dana Corporation, in 1976. He was a sales engineer in the Cin- cinnati, Ohio, area until assuming this cur- rent assignment. Mr. Fink received his

Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from the University of Michigan in 1972, and his master's degree in business admin- istration from Wayne State University in 1975.

Mr. Calvert joined Wichita Clutch in 1976.

Before assuming his new position in parts sales, he was a production control super- visor. Mr. Calvert was graduated from Texas

A & M University with a B.S. degree in in- dustrial technology in 1972. Prior to that, he was an officer in the U.S. Army.

Wichita Clutch Company produces a broad line of quality air-operated clutches and brakes for the marine and a wide range of other industries. 56 ZIDELL Maritime Reporter/Engineering News

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