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Officers and guests shown in attendance at the SNAME San Diego Section's January meeting are, left to right: Angus Murdoch, chairman; Don MacDonough, secretary- treasurer; Ralph Bradford, featured speaker and author; Larry Russon, public rela- tions; Wes Hickman, vice chairman, and Dick Severs, Papers chairman.

SNAME San Diego Section Discusses

LHA Rampwell Design

At the San Diego Section of

The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers meeting held in January 1980, Ralph J.

Bradford, chief marine engineer from National Steel and Ship- building Company, presented an interesting paper entitled "LHA

Rampwell Design, a Successful

Failure."

The paper described a unique landing craft handling concept that was developed and success- fully tested —• full scale — during the LHA contract definition com- petition in the spring of 1968. The concept was applied to an un- solicited proposal for conversion of the LSD 37, 38, 39 and 40. It would have resulted in a signif- icant increase in cargo and troop capacity from conversion of exist- ing ballast tanks to troop and cargo spaces. Although the full- scale test was a success, the Navy rejected the concept. However, the author concluded with the be- lief that the concept is still viable for implementation on existing

LSD and LPD vessels.

Sixty members and guests in attendance concluded the meeting with a question and discussion period.

IMODCO Wins Ivory Coast

Offshore Terminal Contract

Societe Ivoirienne de Raffinage of Ivory Coast, West Africa, has signed a contract with IMODCO, the offshore marine terminal com- pany based in Los Angeles, Calif., for the engineering and construc- tion of a terminal system to han- dle additional imported crude oil for an expanded refinery in

Abidjan, the capital city.

The two-grade terminal for crude oil and ballast will be in- stalled offshore the Port of Bonet at a water depth of 50 meters (about 164 feet), and will be ca- pable of handling oil tankers of up to 250,000 dwt. Crude oil from incoming vessels will flow through the Catenary Anchor Leg Moor- ing terminal and an undersea pipe- line to storage tanks ashore.

The buoy will measure 12.5 meters in diameter (about 41 feet), and be able to handle wave heights of 8 meters (26 feet), and wind velocity of 50 kilometers per hour.

Completion and installation are scheduled for the fall of 1980.

George C. Cassa

Promoted At J.J. Henry Co.

Charles Zeien, president, J.J.

Henry Co., Inc., naval architects and marine engineers, has an- nounced the promotion of George

C. Cassa to the position of assist- ant chief marine engineer in the

New York City office of the com- pany. Mr. Cassa will report to

Charles H. Gross Jr., assistant vice president.

Mr. Cassa is a graduate of the

U.S. Merchant Marine Academy,

Kings Point, N.Y., with a Bach- elor of Science degree in marine engineering, and a Master of Man- agement Science degree from

Stevens Institute of Technology,

Hoboken, N.J. In addition to sail- ing as a licensed engineer for two years, he was employed for three years as an automation specialist, including on-site installation and startup supervision of propulsion plant instrumentation and control systems. Mr. Cassa joined the ma- chinery group of J.J. Henry Co. in 1974, and has been involved in plan and specification develop- ment, detailed design review and approval, and research, evaluation and development studies, includ- ing reliability improvements for vessel steering systems. He is an associate member of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine

Engineers, and serves on the

M-19 Panel (Tests and Trials) of

SNAME.

The J.J. Henry Co., founded in 1947, has principal offices in New

York City and Moorestown, N.J., and branch offices in Cohasset,

Mass.; Crystal City, Va.; Hous- ton, Texas, and Portsmouth, Va.

K.A. Steel Chemicals To

Order 2 Tank Barges-

Total Cost $1.6 Million

K.A. Steel Chemicals, 2700 Riv- er Road, Des Plaines, 111. 60018, has applied for a Title XI guar- antee to aid in financing the con- struction of two tank chemical barges. The vessels, to be 200 feet by 35 feet, are expected to operate on the Ohio, Mississippi, and Illinois Rivers.

The actual cost of the vessels is approximately $1,600,000. If approved, the Title XI guarantee would cover 871 - percent of the actual cost, or $1,400,000. The proposed shipbuilder for the ves- sels, which are expected to be de- livered in August 1980, is Jeff- boat, Inc. of Jeffersonville, Ind.

Gdynia America Line

Names Wittkamp Asst. VP

For Intermodal Operations

In anticipation of the arrival of

Polish Ocean Lines' new CONRO vessels early in 1981, Anton J.

Wittkamp has been named assist- ant vice president for intermodal operations. The announcement was made by Donald D'Agostino, executive vice president of Gdynia

America Line, Inc., New York, general agents for POL in the

U.S. and Canada.

According to Mr. D'Agostino,

Mr. Wittkamp will have total re- sponsibility for the expansion of the present intermodal operations department. A veteran of over 20 years in the ocean shipping and intermodal transportation indus- try, Mr. Wittkamp formerly served in management capacities with the Holland America Line, and most recently with U.S. Navi- gation, Inc.

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