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U.S. Maritime Industry's

Safety Excellence

Cited At Award Ceremony

A total of 31 United States maritime industry operations were cited recently for outstand- ing achievements in safety, in- cluding one that has functioned for more than seven years with- out an accident resulting in lost time among crew personnel of the vessel.

Co-sponsored by the American

Institute of Merchant Shipping (AIMS) and the Marine Section of the National Safety Council (NSC), the award ceremony at the Downtown Athletic Club in

New York included top govern- ment officials and maritime com- pany representatives in a broad range of industry activity throughout the country.

Known officially as the Annual

Ship Safety Awards Luncheon, the event was hosted jointly by the two key organizations, which spearhead accident reduction ef- forts nationwide in the maritime industry. The awards program covered operations of oceangoing general cargo ships, tankers, and passenger vessels, shipbuilding and vessel repairing, stevedores, barge and towing services, and other activities of companies rep- resented by both organizations.

Each group handled awards for its own member companies.

Presentations by the AIMS group are known as the Jones

F. Devlin Awards, and are based on accident-free operations by

United States-flag ocean vessels of at least two years duration.

Award presentations were made by retired Coast Guard Rear

Adm. William R. Benkert, presi- dent of AIMS, and Capt. Jones

F. Devlin, a former official with

United States Lines Company and an acknowledged leader in maritime safety, after whom the

AIMS awards are named.

The Marine Section presented separate citations to member companies of the National Safety

Council who achieved accident- free records over the past cal- endar year based on specified standards of activity. The Marine

Section presentations were made by Edward F. Mclntyre, man- ager of safety and loss prevention at Farrell Lines and deputy gen- eral chairman of the Marine Sec- tion. He was assisted by Capt.

David J. Linde of the U.S. Coast

Guard.

Six U.S. companies were eli- gible to receive Devlin awards from AIMS this year, and 23 in- dividual American-flag vessels were cited for continuous opera- tions with no member of the crew missing a turn at watch due to injury. Devlin awards are based on three catergories of accident- free operations—two years, four years, and five years or more.

In the category of five years or more, AIMS awarded plaques to two operations. The vessel names and company affiliations are Amoco Connecticut of the

Amoco Shipping Company; and the oceangoing barge Interstate 55 of the Interstate & Ocean

Transport Company, which was cited for accident-free operation of 2,795 consecutive days, or more than seven years.

In the AIMS category of four years, awards were made to four vessels of Interstate & Ocean

Transport Company. Included were Interstate 50, Ocean 115,

Argoil 160, and Transporter.

A total of 17 vessels were cited for safety records covering at least two consecutive years but less than four years. They in- cluded the Middletown of Colum- bia Transportation; the Mobil

Aero of Mobil Oil Corporation; the Exxon Bangor, Exxon Gal- veston, and Exxon Philadelphia of Exxon Company, U.S.A.; and the dry cargo vessels Thompson

Lykes, Mallory Lykes, and Eliza- beth Lykes of Lykes Bros. Steam- ship Company, Inc.

Also included in the two-year category were nine vessels of In- terstate & Ocean Transport Com- pany. They were Elk River, Chem

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