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Four More Rigs Ordered

At General Dynamics'

Charleston Facility

General Dynamics' Charleston (S.C.) Facility will fabricate com- ponents for four offshore drilling rigs under a $33-million contract from Bailey & Shannon Drilling

Company, Inc. of Stafford, Texas.

The award involves construction of major portions of steel work on the rigs.

The components will be used in jackup drilling rigs with a 16,000- foot drilling capability and in workover rigs capable of drilling to 25,000-foot depths. The rigs will be used off the Gulf Coast.

This is the second contract that

General Dynamics has received for major portions of steel work on offshore drilling rigs in four months. Last December, the firm was awarded a contract for com- ponents for two rigs for the same owner. The new contract work will begin late this year, with delivery of the components sched- uled in 1982.

The work will provide jobs for approximately 250 employees at the Charleston Facility. The new contract, along with other awards, has boosted the backlog at the fa- cility from $8 million to $48 mil- lion since January.

Hitco Awarded $9.6-Million

Navy Contract For Sub

Bow Domes & Accessories

Hitco, Gardena, Calif., is being awarded a $9,585,305 firm fixed price contract for bow domes and attachment rings and spiders for

SSN-688, SSN-594, SSN-637, and

SSBN-726 class submarines. The

Naval Sea Systems Command is the contracting activity. (N00024- 81-C-4319)

New Officers Elected

For Marine Society Of

City Of New York

The 211-year-old Marine Soci- ety of the City of New York has announced the election of the fol- lowing officers: president, Capt.

T.H. Pineault (American Bureau of Shipping) ; 1st vice president,

Capt. Richard N. LePage (Farrell

Lines Incorporated) ; 2nd vice president, Capt. Gilbert S. Schu- gart (National Cargo Bureau) ; secretary, Capt. Richard M. Perry (F.W. Hartmann & Company) ; and treasurer, Capt. Dino S. Sa- vastio (Moore-McCormack Lines,

Inc.).

Symposium On Ship

Operations To Be Held In

New York November 17-19

An International Symposium on Ship Operations (ISOSO) will be sponsored in New York City

November 17-19 by five major maritime industry organizations, each representing a separate dis- cipline within the industry. The

Symposium will be held in the spacious Passenger Terminal on the Hudson River at the foot of

West 55th Street. A major por- tion of the facility will be given over to exhibit space, and there will be two conference areas to provide for concurrent sessions.

The five sponsoring groups are:

The Hydrographic Society, Amer- ican Institute of Merchant Ship- ping, The Council of American

Master Mariners, Inc., the Coun- cil of American Flag Ship Oper- ators, and the host of the orga- nization, the Maritime Associa- tion of the Port of New York.

Exhibitors in the area of com- munications, weather, navigation, deck and engine equipment, ship maintenance, ship services, safe- ty, lighting, fuel and fuel quality control, and any other product or service affecting the economics and profitability of ship operation will find a responsive audience at

ISOSO, according to N. Nick

Cretan, Maritime Association ex- ecutive director.

Details on conference sessions and exhibiting can be obtained from any of the sponsoring or- ganizations or from the Maritime

Association ISOSO office, 34th

Floor, 80 Broad Street, New York,

N.Y. 10004; telephone (212) 425- 5704.

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