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Calendar Of Coming Events 1981 Oil Spill Conference Mar. 2-5

Sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute,

Environmental Protection Agency, and U.S. Coast

Guard.

Atlanta Hilton Hotel, Atlanta, GA. Contact 1981

Oil Spill Conference, Suite 700, 1629 K Street

N.W., Washington, DC 20006; (202) 296-7262.

Shipboard Management Seminar Mar. 10-13

Sponsored by Maine Maritime Academy.

Maine Maritime Academy, Castine, Maine. Con- tact Capt. George M. Marshall. Center for Ad- vanced Maritime Studies, Maine Maritime Acad- emy, Castine, ME 04421; (207) 326-4311. 4th Latin American Dredging Congress Apr. 6-10

Sponsored by the Latin American Dredging As- sociation.

Camino Real Hotel, Mexico City, Mexico. Contact

John Huston, P.O. Box 6372, Corpus Christi, TX 78411; (512) 853-6512.

International Shipboard Habitability Design

Conference Apr. 7-9

Sponsored by The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers.

Howard Johnson Motor Lodge, Arlington, Va.

Contact Joseph E. Castle, chairman, SNAME

Habitability Conference, P.O. Box 2194, Arling- ton, Va.; (202) 692-1591. 211th Annual Dinner Apr. 13

Sponsored by The Marine Society of the City of

New York.

Hotel Plaza, New York City. Contact Mrs. Char- lotte Mills at the Society, 80 Broad Street, New

York, N.Y. 10004; (212) 425-0448.

Offshore Technology Conference May 4-7

Sponsored by The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and 11 other technical societies.

Astrodomain, Houston. Contact OTC, 6200 North

Central Expressway, Dallas, TX 75206; (214) 361-6604. (Preview in April 1 issue of MR/EN)

Nor-Shipping '81: The 8th International Shipping

Exhibition May 11-16

Organized by Norges Varemesse (The Norwegian

Fair Organization).

The Sjolyst Centre, Oslo, Norway. Contact Mrs.

Else-Marie Gehrken, Norges Varemesse, P.O. Box 130 Skoyen, Oslo 2, Norway; telex 18748.

Propellers '81 Symposium May 26-27

Sponsored by SNAME under the auspices of the

Hampton Roads Section.

Cavalier Hotel, Virginia Beach, Va. Contact

Andrew Szypula, CTD, Bethlehem Steel, Sparrows

Point, MD 21219; (301) 477-6832. (Preview in

May 15 issue of MR/EN)

Portex '81: International Port Exhibition and

Conference May 26-30

Organized by Hamburg Messe und Congress

GmbH, and sponsored by the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.

Exhibition Grounds, Hamburg, West Germany.

Contact Hans J. Rathje, The Hamburg Group, 545 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022; (212) 758-4651. (Preview in May 1 issue of

MR/EN)

MARSIM '81: Second International Conference on

Marine Simulation June 1-5

Cosponsored by the National Maritime Research

Center, and others.

U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point,

N.Y. Contact MARSIM '81, National Maritime

Research Center, Kings Point, N.Y. 11024; (516) 482-8200. 8th Ocean Energy Conference June 7-11

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, and organized by The Marine Technology Society.

Capital Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.C. Contact

MTS, 1730 M Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036; (202) 659-3251.

XV Biennial Conference June 7-12

Sponsored by the International Cargo Handling

Coordination Association.

Edmonton Plaza Hotel, Edmonton, Alberta, Can- ada. Contact Peter J. Elias, conference admin- istrator, 418 Legislative Building, Edmonton,

Alberta, Canada; (403) 427-2080.

ICE TECH '81: SNAME Spring Meeting/STAR

Symposium June 16-19

Sponsored by The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, and hosted by the East- ern Canadian Section.

Chateau Laurier Hotel, Ottawa, Ontario, Can- ada. Contact SNAME, One World Trade Center,

Suite 1369, New York, N.Y. 10048; (212) 432- 0310. (Preview in May 1 issue of MR/EN) named to succeed him as manager of the company's Houston office. Both announce- ments were made by Harold J. Pecunia, president of Peterson Maritime Services,

Inc., in New Orleans. Before joining Peter- son, Mr. Benson served with the United

States Coast Guard's Gulf Strike Team,

National Strike Force, and as Coast Guard

Captain of the Ports of New Orleans and

Honolulu.

Peterson Maritime Services has offices in

New Orleans, Houston, and Mobile. Other divisions of the company include ship and barge cleaning, aviation, oil pollution, and sales and marketing. Most recently, Peter- son Maritime successfully handled the world's largest waterborne pentachlorophe- nol spill in the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet between New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico.

Two Detroit-Powered Tugboats

Completed By Manly Shipyards

John Manly Shipyards, a division of Riv-

Tow Shipyards Ltd., recently delivered two tugboats to RivTow Straits Ltd., the second largest towing company in British Colum- bia, Canada. The new vessels have joined

RivTow's fleet of 75 tugs, 175 barges, and 75 small boom boats.

Tugboats RivTow Spirit and Westminster Chinook were delivered recently by John Manly Shipyards of Vancou- ver, B.C., to RivTow Straits Ltd., Vancouver, second largest towing company in British Columbia, Canada.

The RivTow Spirit is a 64-foot 9-inch shallow-draft tug to be used at the Port of

Prince Rupert. The Mclllwain-designed tug has a beam of 24 feet, a river draft of 8 feet, and an ocean draft of 9 feet 4 inches.

She is powered by two Detroit Diesel 16V71 engines, each producing 490 bhp at 1,800 rpm, driving twin Western propellers in Kort nozzles through Twin Disc 567 reduction gears.

The Westminster Chinook is a 53-foot ship-docking and barge-handling vessel to be used in the Port of New Westminster. She has a molded beam of 23 feet 6 inches and a draft of 10 feet 9 inches. Her power pack- age is identical to the RivTow Spirit.

Both vessels comply with all applicable

Canadian Steamship Inspection requirements and with Workers' Compensation Board reg- ulations. Both have extensive sound-damp- ening and vibration-reducing systems pro- viding very comfortable decibel levels. Most interesting is the sound and vibration re- duction achieved in the Chinook's wheel- house by isolating the entire structure on pedestal mounts.

Steering systems for both vessels was provided by Wagner; electrical power is sup- plied by Detroit Diesel 4-71 generators. All closures are standard Manly windows, doors, and hatches. Life rafts are by Beaufort.

Derrick/Supply Vessel Now

In Gulf Service For Tidewater

Courtney A. Benson William L. Thomas

Courtney A. Benson, former manager of

Peterson Maritime Services, Inc. in Hous- ton, has been appointed manager of the company's newly organized Hazardous Ma- terials Division in New Orleans. William L.

Thomas, assistant to Mr. Benson, has been

The Lift Tide (shown above), a derrick x supply vessel operated by Tidewater Con- tractors, Inc., a subsidiary of Tidewater

Inc., is now in U.S. Gulf service off the

Louisiana coast following extended duty in the Middle East. Refitted with a new Amer- ican Hoist & Derrick, Model 9760, 90-ton lifting capacity, pedestal-mounted crane, the vessel is certified by the U.S. Coast Guard for unrestricted ocean service.

The Lift Tide is 186 feet by 56 feet by 14 feet 6 inches, can operate at a minimum wa- ter depth of 16 feet, and offers mobility with moderate lift capacity. Powered by two 16- cylinder GM Electro-Motive Division engines that develop 3,600 bhp, the vessel has a top speed of 12 knots.

Equipped with a new four-point mooring system pioneered by Tidewater Marine Serv- ice, Inc., the vessel is highly stable in the working mode. The system provides four 10,000-pound anchors, with each anchor sup- plied with 3,000 feet of 114-inch steel cable.

The anchors are lowered and retrieved by two new double-drum SMATCO DAW 55 winches mounted on the main deck.

The Lift Tide crew consists of seven per- sonnel and a 10-member work force that in- cludes a barge superintendent, crane oper- ator, winch operator, foreman, welder, and five riggers. Additional personnel such as divers, diving tenders, pipeline inspectors,

X-ray technicians, ultrasonic technicians, and other specialists can be added as re- quired, as the vessel is designed to provide total accommodations for 34 persons.

Tidewater Contractors operates four other four-point mooring specialty vessels in the

Gulf of Mexico in addition to the Lift Tide.

An affiliated company, Tidewater Marine

Service, Inc., one of the Tidewater Inc. group of companies, owns and operates a fleet of approximately 400 vessels in oil and gas producing areas around the world, and is the world's largest supplier of marine support equipment to the offshore drilling industry.

Benson Named Manager

Of Peterson's Hazardous

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