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Bergeron Industries, Inc. has announced the delivery of the barge David B (shown above) to

DBC Corporation of America,

Houston. Constructed at Berge- ron's Braithwaite, La., marine fa- cility, the David B, reportedly the largest inland service tank barge ever built, measures 370 by 54 by 12 feet and is equipped with a dual cargo pumping system and steam coils.

It is a double-skin vessel, classed by the American Bureau of Ship- ping, and possesses a loadline for limited offshore service. The U.S.

Coast Guard has certified the barge as a Type II hull under Sub- chapter 0 for carriage of chemi- cals and other Grade A and lower flammable cargoes. Its eight cargo tanks have a total capacity of 40,313 barrels, and it can carry about 4,300 tons of cargo at a 9-foot draft. The David B is now in service transporting petroleum products between Mobile, Ala., and Vulcan Asphalt Refinery in

Cordova, Ala.

Bergeron Industries has diver- sified its production and design capabilities, and now produces a wide range of deck barges, tank barges, chemical barges, drilling barge hulls, crane barge hulls, and other specialized equipment.

The company has general offices at St. Bernard, La., and marine facilities at Braithwaite on the

Misissippi River, near the Port of

New Orleans, and at Port Bein- ville, Miss.

Alfred J. Herrington

Alfred J. Herrington has been named manager of marketing ' sales at Waukesha Bearings Cor- poration. The announcement was made by Armour F. Swanson, president of the Waukesha, Wis., manufacturer of fluid film marine and industrial bearings and seals.

Mr. Herrington joins Waukesha

Bearings with 25 years' experi- ence in various sales and market- ing positions with FMC, Power

Transmission Divisions. He last served as marketing manager,

FMC Power Control Division, Mil- waukee. Prior to that, he had many years' experience with FMC

Bearing Division. He will direct marketing activities of both the

Marine and Industrial Divisions at Waukesha. His duties include planning, forecasting, new mar- ket development, as well as sales.

Waukesha Bearings, a subsid- iary of Dover Corporation, has plants in Waukesha, Butler, and

Antigo, Wis., and subsidiaries in

Tokyo, Japan, and Drunen, Hol- land.

McAdams And Perk Named

Construction Supers At

Conrad Industries

Dravo Wellman Awarded $9-Million Navy Contract

For Gantry Crane Work

Dravo Wellman Company, a

Cleveland-based subsidiary of

Dravo Corporation, Pittsburgh, has been awarded a contract in excess of $9 million by the U.S.

Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Va.

The rehabilitation work will in- clude engineering, selection of subcontractor, procurement, and construction for four gantry cranes, each with 75-ton main hoists and 25-ton auxiliary hoists on boom extensions.

Structural and mechanical re- pairs will be included in the re- habilitation project. The cranes, which were built in 1942, also will be repainted and equipped with new electrical systems. The first phase of the project, restoration of one crane to its original op- erating condition, is scheduled for completion in mid-1981. Work on the other cranes will begin after completion of the first phase.

Dravo, a diversified company with operations throughout the world, is engaged in engineering, construction, manufacturing, na- tural resources, and transporta- tion.

Gulfcoast Transit Names

Flood Executive VP-

Padgett VP-Administration

William H. Vaught, president of Gulfcoast Transit Company, has announced executive promo- tions for Gene Flood and Wendell

Padgett. Mr. Flood has been ap- pointed executive vice president.

His previous position was vice president of operations, which fol- lowed a 20-year career in which he has been involved in every phase of Gulfcoast Transit and its related company's operations.

Mr. Padgett has been appointed vice president-administration. He joined Gulfcoast Transit in 1978 and was previously assistant sec- retary and treasurer of Gulfcoast

Transit and its related companies.

A.J. Herrington Named

Marketing/Sales Manager

At Waukesha Bearings

Conrad Industries' president and founder Parker Conrad an- nounces appointments of Michael

J. McAdams and Dennis Perk Jr. as new7 construction superintend- ents. Their areas of responsibil- ity in the company, which was founded in 1948, include purchas- ing, coordinating customer proj- ects, employee supervision, barge designing, engineering, lofting, material, and coordinating speci- fications required by the United

States Coast Guard and the

American Bureau of Shipping for certain projects.

Mr. McAdams, barge building number two superintendent, joined the marine construction indstry as a helper in 1966 and progressed through many marine construction trade areas. He holds a welding certificate, has studied basic and advanced blueprint reading, drafting, accounting, and has completed seminars in per- sonal development and supervi- sion. He has supervised construc- tion crews on boats and barges as well as drilling rigs.

Mr. Perk, new construction su- perintendent for barge building number one, is a certified welder and burner, and holds certificates of completion in blueprint read- ing and drafting. He has several years' experience supervising crews on pile driving, dock con- struction and related concrete work, and surveying, and has barge construction experience.

Conrad Industries, located on the Atchafalaya River in Morgan

City, recently tripled its barge production capacity through an expansion program.

In addition to steel deck barges up to 250 feet in length by 70 feet in width, Conrad Industries specializes in fuel, spud, and self- propelled barges. The company prefabricates modular sections utilizing semiautomatic and sub- merged arc welding techniques that cut production time.

Marine Port Engineers

Fort Schuyler Forum

Scheduled For March 21

The 29th Annual Fort Schuyler

Forum, sponsored by The Society of Marine Port Engineers, New

York, N.Y., Inc. and the State

University of New York (SUNY)

Maritime College will be held on

Saturday, March 21 on the SUNY campus in The Bronx, N.Y. The theme of this year's all-dav meet- ing is Fuels—Present and Future.

Five papers will be presented, including "Problems with Exist- ing Fuel Purification and Solu- tions," by N.H. Chavasse of Alfa-

Laval, Inc., and "Alternate Fuels for the Maritime Industry," by

E.N. Cart Jr. of Exxon Research and Engineering Company.

Registration will begin at 9 a.m. in the main lobby of the

SUNY Science and Engineering

Building. The fee is $20, which includes lunch at the SUNY mess and a social hour at the Officers

Club. For further information, telephone (212) 269-4840.

New Brochure Describes

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Resins Corporation. This new brochure combines concise gen- eral information with recommen- dations for specific uses.

Also included are applicable temperature and pressure limi- tations, applied-thickness restric- tions, and other data. A conven- ient business-reply card, keyed to each of the 12 products, is in- cluded in this informative sales brochure.

For a free copy of the brochure,

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