Two Big Bulkfleet Barges Christened At Quincy Yard

General Dynamics' Quincy Shipbuilding Division recently christened two large oilcarrying barges during a colorful twin ceremony at the shipyard. The barges, Bulkfleet Pennsylvania and Bulkfleet Texas, were both built for Bulklfleet Marine Corporation of Houston. The 503-foot, 33,400-dwt vessels each have a capacity of 210,000 barrels of petroleum products.

While a crowd of several hundred invited guests and shipyard employees looked on, Mrs. James N. Brown, wife of the marine operations manager of Gulf Oil Company- U.S., snipped a ribbon activating a mechanical arm that smashed the traditional bottle of champagne on the bow of the Bulkfleet Pennsylvania. Minutes later, Mrs. J. Barry Snyder, wife of Bulkfleet's president and chief executive officer, snipped another ribbon to christen Bulkfleet Texas. Mr. Snyder was the principal speaker. The barges were floating bow to bow in one of the shipyard's huge construction basins.

Representing General Dynamics in the ceremony were David S. Lewis, General Dynamics' chairman and chief executive officer; P. Takis Veliotis, executive vice president- marine, and Gary S. Grimes, Quincy Shipbuilding Division general manager. Also on hand for the event were senator Paul Tsongas (D-Mass.) and Buck Miller, president of Gulf Oil Company-U.S.

The christening was the third at Quincy during 1980. Earlier, the shipyard christened the liquefied natural gas tankers Lake Charles and Louisiana, the last in a series of ten 936-foot LNG vessels built there over the past several years.

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