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EQUITABLE DELIVERS 50 BARGES —

Equitable Shipyards, Inc. of New Orleans recently completed an order, for 50 river hop- per barges, 25 rake and 25 box, for Carlson

Leasing Company, Inc. of Minneapolis. Photo above shows four of the barges being moved from Equitable's New Orleans yard to Wa- terways Transportation and Trading Com- pany, one of the firms that will operate the barges. Equitable now has capacity available for 1981 deliveries of this type barge, as well as tank and coal barges.

Zapata To Acquire

Offshore Services Ltd.

From Trafalgar House

Zapata Corporation of Houston recently announced that its board of directors and the board of directors of Trafalgar House

Limited have approved an agreement for

Zapata's U.K. subsidiary, Zapata Off-Shore

Services Limited, to acquire Offshore Marine

Limited, an offshore oilfield supply vessel firm based in Great Yarmouth, England.

Zapata said that under terms of the agree- ment, Offshore Marine Limited will be pur- chased from Cunard Steam-Ship Company

Limited, a Trafalgar House Limited subsid- iary, for approximately $50 million. Offshore

Marine operates 24 oilfield supply vessels.

The transaction is subject to British govern- ment approval.

Zapata Corporation is a diversified natural resources company, primarily involved in the development of energy and proteins. In ad- dition to marine services, its businesses in- clude offshore drilling, oil and gas operations, shipping, coal mining, commercial fishing and related processing, and construction and dredging.

Colmac Coil Doubles

Plant Size—First

Step In Expansion

Colmac Manufacturing of Colville, Wash., has doubled its plant size with the recent completion of a 19,440-square-foot addition. "The plant addition is the first step in enlarging our capacity and improving our product flows," stated Roger McMillan, Col- mac Coil president. "It will also give us ad- ditional space in which to house our new engineering and sales department."

Gus Dever, Colmac Coil general manager, also announced the start of "on hand" supply of Colmac Coils' most popular products for immediate delivery.

Colmac Coil Manufacturing is a division of Colmac Industries. Colmac Coil manufac- tures air-conditioning, heating, and refrig- eration coils; it also specializes in marine coils.

Skinner And Stepnitz

Appointed Managers

For Metritape, Inc.

Ralph L. Skinner has been appointed sensor operations manager, and Claire A. Stepnitz instrument operations manager, for Metri- tape, Inc., Concord, Mass. designer and manu- facturer of advanced marine level gauging equipment.

Mr. Skinner will direct all activities involved with sensor design, production, and field ser- vice. His extensive background includes de- velopment of scientific, oceanographic, and optical instruments for such organizations as

Damon Corporation, Smithsonian Astrophysi- cal Observatory, Modicon Corporation, and

MIT Instrumentation Laboratory.

Ralph L. Skinner Claire A. Stepnitz

Mr. Stepnitz brings to Metritape more than 20 years of experience designing scientific instruments, information displays, data col- lection systems, analog signal processing, and digital controls for Ionics, Inc., Bowmar/ALI, and ITT Federal.

PIONEERING MARINE PRODUCTS

FOR OVER 45 YEARS

HOSE McCANN telephone CO., IMC.

Pioneers and originators of marine sound powered telephones over forty-five years ago,

Hose-McCann is regarded today as the finest name in I.C. Equipment, offering a wide variety of marine products, some of which are listed below.

Every Hose-McCann product is precision engineered and manufactured to provide many years of dependable, trouble-free operation. The name Hose-McCann as always, stands for reliability, integrity and the highest standard of quality. •J- v *v

STEERING

STANDS

ROTATING REACON-WT

SOUND POWERED TELEPHONE SYSTEMS vmm

FIRE AND GENERAL

ALARM PANELS

WATCH CALL SYSTEMS AND

ASSOCIATED ROOM UNITS

MARINE AUTOMATIC

DIAL SWITCHROARDS & TELEPHONE INSTRUMENTS

RUDDER ANGLE

INDICATOR SYSTEMS

OTHER HOSE-McCANN PRODUCTS: • Navy and Commercial Sound Powered Telephone Systems and Accessories • Navigation Light Panels • Engineers' Signal and Alarm Panels • Annunciator and Control Panels • Power Failure Alarm Panels • Bells and Contact Makers • Automation Equipment • Dumbwaiter Communication Systems

For further information and specifications on any of the above products, write to:

HOSE-McCAIMN

TELEPHONE CO., INC. 9 SMITH STREET • ENGLEW00D • NEW JERSEY 07631

PHONE 201-567-2030

CABLE ADDRESS: H0SETELC0 • TELEX NO. 642837

ORIGINATORS AND PIONEERS OF SOUND POWERED TELEPHONES FOR MARINE USE

Write tor Complete Catalog D-661-MR

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