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Ports to call for York 24-hour service.

Factory-trained air condition- ing and refrigeration experts for 24-hour marine service. A full stock of York parts for anything you have on board. A complete range of York units to order without weeks of waiting. You can expect it all around the free world from York — from these York marine experts. 1. AA REFRIGERATION 4721 Broadway, Galveston, TX 77550 (713) 744-0957 2. ADRICK COOLING CORP. 30 B. Remington Blvd.,

Ronkonkoma, NY 11779 . (516) 585-4231

Branch: Adrick Marine Corp. 77 River St., Hoboken, NJ 07030 (201) 420-1339 3. BAILEY REFRIGERATION CO..

INC. 74 Sullivan St.,

Brooklyn, NY 11231 (212) 855-3958

Branches: 2323 Randolph Ave.

Avenel, NJ 07001 (201) 382-1225 524 N.E. 190th St.

North Miami, FL 33179 . . .(305) 651-4160 4. BAILEY CORPORATION 632 Alvar St., New Orleans, LA 70117 (504) 943-2461 5. GENERAL MARINE

REFRIGERATION 1100 N. Front St., Philadelphia, PA 19123 (215) 922-6293

Branches: Chesapeake Marine

Refrigeration Corp. 2626 Cromwell Rd.,

Norfolk, VA 23509 (804) 853-6856

Key Marine Refrigeration, Inc. 1625 Fleet St., Baltimore, MD 21231 (301) 563-2880 6. JW MECHANICAL SERVICE CO. 6540 Federal Blvd., Lemon Grove, CA 92045 (714) 582-6320 7. PSER. INC. 3441 17th Ave., West, Seattle, WA 98119 (206) 283-3200 8. QUALITY REFRIGERATION 533 North Fries Ave.,

Wilmington, CA 90744 . . .(213) 549-1532

Los Angeles, CA (213)775-2735 9. TOMLINSON REFRIGERATION

AND SUPPLY CO. 324 Broadway, Elizabeth, NJ 07206 (201) 351-1350

For any kind of marine air con- ditioning or refrigeration service, call the experts in every port.

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January 1, 1981

McDermott International

Buys Pipelaying Barge

For $85 Million

McDermott Incorporated has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, McDermott

International, Inc., has purchased the semi- submersible pipelaying barge Viking Piper from Viking Jersey Equipment Limited, a 75-percent-owned affiliate of Santa Fe Inter- national Corporation, for the sum of $85 million.

The barge, with a gross weight of 19,968 tons and a displacement of 50,410 tons, will be redesignated the McDermott Lay Barge 200, and be based in the North Sea area.

The company plans to employ it there and in other regions where weather conditions require a semisubmersible operation. Acqui- sition of this modern vessel allows McDer- mott to offer its customers increased capa- bility for pipelaying operations on a world- wide basis, according to J.E. Cunningham, chairman of the board and chief executive officer.

The LB-200, with accommodations for a crew of 500, is a stern ramp lay barge capa- ble of laying pipe with up to a 60-inch out- side diameter at depths of up to 2,000 feet.

It is 550 feet long, 192 feet wide, and 109 feet high. It has a line station feed with 10 stations, six of which are welding stations, and two pipe tensioners with a combined tensioning strength of 300,000 pounds and capable of feeding pipe at a rate of 100 feet per minute. The barge is also equipped with a saturation diving system, which operates at depths of up to 1,000 feet. $5.9-Million Contract For

Navy Overhaul Awarded

To Southwest Marine

Southwest Marine Incorporated, San Di- ego, Calif., is being awarded a $5,878,000 formally advertised firm fixed price con- tract for the regularly scheduled overhaul of the tank landing ship Bristol County (LST-1198). The Supervisor of Shipbuild- ing, Conversion and Repair, USN, San Di- ego, Calif., was the contracting activity. (N62791-77-C-0001)

OPS Forms New Marine

Design Services Division

Roy Thomas Named Director

Offshore Power Systems (OPS), located in

Jacksonville, Fla., has recently formed a ma- rine design services division. A staff of over 100 engineering, design personnel comple- mented by a Computer-Aided-Design and

Drafting System, a fully equipped and pro- fessionally staffed model shop, and a modern testing laboratory are available to serve the marine industry.

Offshore Power Systems, a Westinghouse enterprise, was originally formed as a joint venture between Westinghouse and Tenneco (Newport News Shipbuilding) with total re- sponsibility for the engineering, design, analysis, licensing and manufacture of Float- ing Nuclear Plants. OPS is currently provid- ing design services for two major shipyards.

Roy Thomas will be director of the Ma- rine Design Division, and Clinton Dotson will be chief engineer of naval architecture and marine engineering. Mr. Thomas will be responsible for organizing and directing all marine design and engineering services pro- vided to the maritime industries. He has over 20 years' experience in the marine field in design, engineering, supervision, project management and administration. Mr. Thomas spent 15 years at Newport News Shipbuild- ing prior to joining OPS as chief engineer, design.

Mr. Dotson will be responsible for all en- gineering work on marine design projects.

He began his 25-year career in the marine industry as an apprentice in the Newport

News Shipbuilding Apprentice School. He gained extensive experience in the design and analysis of both Navy and commercial vessels during his 19 years of employment at Newport News Shipbuilding, and held the position of engineering section manager in the Hull Technical Department prior to joining OPS in 1972 as manager, naval ar- chitecture.

Skaer Appointed Vice

President-Marketing

For Wall Industries

D. Philip Skaer II has been named vice president of marketing by Wall Industries,

Inc., Beverly, N.J., manufacturers of diverse rope constructions for marine, industrial, hardware, utility, and fishing markets. He was formerly vice president and general manager of Tubbs Cordage Company's Jack- son Rope Division. Prior to that, he was sales manager of the Broderick and Bascom

Rope Company in St. Louis.

Wall also named Russell Masson, Jackson- ville, Fla., as sales representative covering the Southeastern United States. He was formerly with the Cordage Group for 27 years.

Wall Industries, Inc. is the parent com- pany of Yale Cordage, Inc., Yarmouth,

Maine; Wall Rope Works; and the New Bed- ford Cordage Company, Beverly, N.J. The company is currently celebrating its 150th anniversary as a major rope manufacturer.

Title XI Approval For

Schmidt's Tank Barge

To Cost $1.68 Million

Assistant Secretary of Commerce for

Maritime Affairs, Maritime Administration,

Samuel B. Nemirow has approved in princi- ple an application by O.L. Schmidt Barge

Lines, Inc., for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of a double- skinned tank barge.

The vessel, which was scheduled for de- livery by the end of 1980, will have an over- all length of 275 feet and a molded beam of 54 feet. It is expected to operate in the cartage of residential fuel in the Lake

Michigan area, mostly between Chicago, and

East Chicago, Ind. Port of Brownsville Ship- yard, Inc., Brownsville, Texas, is the builder.

Title XI financing will cover $1,470,000, or 87Vo percent of the estimated cost of $1,680,000.

Electric Boat Gets

Two Navy Contracts

Totaling $16.5 Million

General Dynamics' Electric Boat Divi- sion, Groton, Conn., has been awarded an $11,000,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for

SSBN (fleet ballistic missile submarine) plan- ning yard support. The Naval Sea Systems

Command is the contracting activity. (N000 24-81-C-2004)

Electric Boat also was awarded a $5,460,- 000 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for SSN (at- tack submarine) planning yard support. The

Naval Sea Systems Command is the con- tracting activity. (N00024-81-C-2005) 13