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Edwin Roland Elected

Vice President Of

The Coastal Corporation

Edwin J. Roland Jr. has been elected vice president of The

Coastal Corporation, a Houston- based energy supply company. He will be responsible for Coastal's marine operations, which include owned, time-chartered and spot- chartered tankers. The combined deadweight tonnage of the 18 vessels currently in Coastal's ser- vice is about 1.8-million tons.

Prior to joining Coastal, Mr.

Roland was manager of vessel trading and traffic for Conoco,

Inc. During his eight years with that company, he also served as technical director and later as manager of marine engineering in

Connecticut before moving to

Houston.

The Henschel Digital Master

Clock System provides a syn- chronized display of time in various shipboard locations. The master clock displays both local time and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

This crystal controlled, microcomputer based master clock transmits multiplexed time (hours, minutes and seconds) and date (month, day and year) information to a maximum of 40 remote repeater clocks and/or data and bell loggers.

The remote repeater clocks display either local time or GMT J J -i i- '-I 5 in various mounting configurations to suit most applications.

Time is continuously displayed on both the master and repeater clocks by red, 6 digit LED displays, easily viewed up to 25 feet away. The date is displayed on the master clock by use of a front panel switch. This calendar function is set to maintain the correct date for changes in month, day, year and leap year.

Battery back-up is provided to maintain both time and date in the master clock and in a few selected repeater clocks during any loss of input power.

Clock accuracy is maintained independent of the input power frequency by a self-contained crystal oscillator. Time and date are easily set by means of pushbuttons on the front panel. When changing time zones, hours may be changed independently of minutes and seconds so that time accuracy is not lost. ®

Henschel Corporation, a unit of General Signal 14 Cedar Street, Amesbury, Massachusetts 01913 USA

Telephone: 617-388-1103, Telex: 94-7444

Shaver Transportation Acquires

Big Towboat "Cascades'

Expanding demand for grain movement from Idaho, eastern

Oregon and eastern Washington prompted the acquisition by

Shaver Transportation Company of its 13th vessel, the Cascades (shown above). The big towboat recently began service between

Lewiston, Idaho, and Portland,

Ore., according to George H.

Shaver, president of the 101-year- old marine transportation firm.

In the past year and a half,

Shaver Transportation has placed in service new grain barges cost- ing approximately $5 million, which are the largest on the Co- lumbia River, holding approxi- mately 3,700 tons each, Mr.

Shaver said. In 1980, Shaver

Transportation moved 14 million bushels of grain down the Colum- bia River. Grain from the Inland

Empire is shipped all over the world.

A pusher towboat, the Cas- cades has an overall length of 100 feet, a 36-foot beam, and a lO1/^ foot draft. With 3,000 bhp, she has a fuel capacity of 42,000 gal- lons. The vessel was named after a fast, beautiful sternwheeler that Shaver operated from 1909 to World War II. That Cascades was originally built for use by the

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during the construction of Cas- cade Locks.

The new Cascades was built by

Scully Bros. Boat Builders in

Morgan City, La. She was ac- quired by Shaver from Columbia

Marine Service, Inc., which oper- ated the towboat on the Missis- sippi River. Purchase price was over $1 million. Shaver Transpor- tation has upgraded the electron- ics systems and engines in addi- tion to painting the vessel.

In addition to the Cascades,

Shaver recently placed in service the 2,500-bhp oceangoing tug

Shaver, acquired at a cost in ex- cess of $2 million. Besides its headquarters operations out of

Portland, Shaver Transportation has vessels serving out of British

Columbia, Alaska, and San Fran- cisco.

Vosper Singapore Gets

S$25-Million Contract

For Five Naval Craft

Vosper Private Limited Singa- pore has been awarded a S$25- million (about $12 million) by the

Oman Ministry of Defence for the supply of five naval craft and support services. Four of the craft are to be Vosper 25-meter fast patrol craft that will be de- ployed on surveillance duties in

Oman's territorial waters, includ- ing the Straits of Hormuz. The craft are specifically equipped for long-range cruising at maximum fuel efficiency.

The fifth craft, a 30-meter ramped landing craft, is designed for transportation of armored fighting vehicles and/or general cargo, including fuel and fresh- water supplies. The principal fea- ture of the design of the craft is its ability to beach in strong surf and operate along a coastline ex- posed to the Indian Ocean.

New Catalog Describes

Proform's Fiberglass

Reinforced Barge Covers

A 12-page four-color catalog describing fiberglass covering sys- tems for the marine transporta- tion industry has just been re- leased by Proform, Inc. of Min- neapolis. The new catalog includes information on lift-off and roll- top barge covers, oceangoing, and

LASH barge covers. All are con- structed of tough yet lightweight, corrosion-resistant, Structural Fi- berglass Reinforced Plastic®. The literature explains and illustrates the uses and benefits of cost- effective SFRP covers.

For a free copy of the brochure,

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