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Ingram Asks Title XI American Ship Building

To Build 3 Towboats Names R.E. Bartlome

Costing $8.7 Million VP For Administration

Ingram Towing Co., 4304 Hard- ing Road, Nashville, Tenn. 37205, a subsidiary of Ingram Industries,

Inc., has applied for a Title XI guarantee to aid in the construc- tion of three diesel-powered tow- boats to be operated in the inland waterways of the United States.

One of the vessels, to be built by St. Louis Ship, St. Louis, Mo., will be 200 feet long with 9,000 horsepower, and is scheduled to be delivered on May 1, 1980. An- other, to be built by Janoush Ma- rine, Inc., Rosedale, Miss., will be 100 feet long with 2,280 horse- power, and is scheduled to be de- livered on December 15, 1980. The third will be 60 feet long, with 700 horsepower. No contract for its construction has yet been awarded.

If approved, the Title XI guar- antee would cover $6,570,000 or 75 percent of the actual cost of $8,760,830 for the three vessels.

Robert E. Bartlome has been recently named to the new posi- tion of vice president of adminis- tration of The American Ship

Building Company, Cleveland,

Ohio.

Mr. Bartlome, who joined the company in 1965, was vice presi- dent of personnel as well as as- sistant secretary, a responsibility he retains in the new position.

Earlier, he was secretary of sev- eral corporate subsidiaries in- cluding Nabrico Division (Nash- ville Bridge Company), and both

Standard Metal Fabricating Com- pany and the Cincinnati Sheet

Metal and Roofing Company, which were joined to form the existing Building Products Divi- sion. From 1945 to 1955, Mr.

Bartlome worked in an executive capacity with Thew-Lorain Com- pany. He holds a B.A. degree from

Hiram College.

Self-Dumping Barge Launched By FMC

With a traditional crash of champagne against its hull, a 258-foot hydro-dump barge was launched recently by the Marine and Rail Equipment Division of

FMC Corporation, Portland, Ore.

The barge (shown above) was christened by Marge Dolle, wife of Henry Dolle, a recently retired employee of Smith-Rice Company, a dredging business based in San

Francisco, Calif. Smith-Rice pur- chased the barge for transporting and dumping dredge material in the San Francisco Bay region.

According to William R. Gal- braith, FMC's vice president of sales, "The 3,000-cubic-yard-ca- pacity barge was built in two halves along its longitudinal axis, and incorporates an unusual self- dumping design. Two giant hinges connect the barge at either end.

A large hydraulic cylinder near each hinge and powered by a die- sel engine controls the opening and closing sequence. The system can be operated remotely by radio from a tugboat. "The best feature of the self-dumping design is its economy of operation in that it can be loaded in the conventional way and then dumped at a prime disposal area without further equipment. Radio control adds to the safety, speed, and simplicity of operation."

The Marine and Rail Equipment

Division of FMC is a manufac- turer of two types of transporta- tion equipment in Portland—ma- rine vessels and railroad freight cars. FMC Corporation, headquar- tered in Chicago, 111., is a major producer of machinery and chem- icals for industry and agriculture, with 1979 sales of $3.31 billion.

Worldwide, the company has more than 45,000 employees located at 136 manufacturing facilities in 33 states in the United States and 14 other nations.

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Four multipurpose support ves- sels for offshore applications, un- der construction at Oresundsvar- vet, Landskrona, Sweden, are de- den. The first unit, MSV Stena

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The new ships—with a crew of 82—are designed to supply oil- drilling platforms with drilling pipe, cement, fresh water and drilling water. They also permit repair and maintenance work to length of 112 meters (367 feet) and a beam of 20 meters (66 feet).

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