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Among the participants at the Maritime Day ceremonies in New York this year were (L to R): Capt. Robert E. Hart, president, Marine Index Bureau and Maritime

Day chairman; Quarles van Ufford, consul general of the Netherlands; first officer

Harry Rogers of the tanker Williamsburgh; Capt. Arthur H. Fertig, master of the

Williamsburgh; and Samuel B. Nemirow, assistant secretary of commerce for mar- itime affairs.

New York Maritime Day Ceremonies

Featured Presentation Of Two Awards

National Maritime Day was ob- served in New York Harbor with a cruise down the Hudson River aboard a Circle Line vessel, on which presentations of maritime awards and an ecumenical service were held. As some 400 members of New York and New Jersey's maritime community looked on, sponsors from government, labor, and management placed ceremo- nial wreaths on the waters of the harbor. A bugler from the United

States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point sounded taps in memory of the men and women of the merchant marine who died in the past year.

Ceremonies aboard the vessel featured the presentation of the

Gallant Ship Award to the tanker

Williamsburgh by the Honorable

Samuel B. Nemirow, Assistant

Secretary of Commerce for Mar- itime Affairs. Capt. Arthur H.

Fertig, skipper of the tanker, was honored for his role in the dra- matic rescue by sea and air of the 560 passengers and crew of the

Dutch liner Prinsendam, which caught fire in the Pacific last Oc- tober. In a last-minute program addition, Secretary Nemirow also presented the American Merchant

Marine Seamanship Trophy, a perpetual cup dedicated as a per- manent tribute to deeds of extra- ordinary American seamanship and maritime skill, to Captain

Fertig, as well as individual awards and citations to all mem- bers of the Williamsburgh.

Also in attendance and hon- ored were first officer Harry

Rogers and union officials repre- senting the shipping line, includ- ing Jerome E. Joseph, vice presi- dent District 2, MEBA, AMO, and

Leon Hall, vice president Sea- farer's International Union of

North America. Joining the group for additional speeches and me- mento presentations were ship- ping executives associated with the tanker, including Albert Gu- etta, president of Bay Tankers,

Inc., operator of the Williams- burgh during the rescue; A1 Jur- ist, vice president of the present operator of the vessel, Apex Ma- rine Corporation; Peter Marshall, general manager product trading for American Petrofina, charterer of the vessel; and Consul Gen- eral Quarles van Ufford of the

Netherlands.

The announcement of the recip- ient of the annual Merchant Ma- rine Achievement Trophy Award also was made on the cruise by

Capt. John V. Caffrey, command- er of the Robert L. Hague Mer- chant Marine Industries Post of the American Legion. Each year since 1956, the post has honored the person, company, or associ- ation that has made a significant contribution to the American merchant marine in that vear.

EXXON USA was this year's re- cipient, and the award will be made at the White House later this year.

Earlier, Vice Adm. Robert I.

Price, United States Coast Guard, made awards to a number of shipping companies from the New

York area. These awards, for sup- port of the Coast Guard's Auto- mated Mutual-Assistance Vessel

Rescue (AMVER) system, were made aboard the Maritime Day vessel before its departure from pier 81.

James P. McAllister Sr. of J.P.

McAllister Associates, honorary chairman of the 1981 World

Trade Week Committee, gave the traditional welcome aboard the vessel. Capt. Robert E. Hart, pres- ident of the Marine Index Bureau and chairman of the Maritime

Day Committee, served as master of ceremonies for the day's events.

Joining the marine and world trade executives aboard were the 1981 Maritime Queen Miss Karen

Powderly and her princess, spon- sored by the Maritime Associa- tion of the Port of New York.

Miss Powderly, an employee of

South African Marine Corpora- tion, New York, is 23 years old and resides in Ozone Park, Queens.

The ecumenical and wreath cer- emonial service in honor of those seafarers who have given their lives serving the merchant ma- rine was conducted onboard the vessel beyond the Verranzano

Bridge by the Seamen's Church

Institute of New York and New

Jersey. The Reverend Francis C.

Huntington officiated.

Officials casting the Labor

Wreath over the stern included

Mr. Hall and Mr. Joseph; Henri

L. Neraux, International Organi- zation of Masters, Mates & Pi- lots ; and Andrew Rich of the Na- tional Maritime Union of North

America.

Representatives handling the

Government Wreath were Capt.

Richard 0. Gooden, U.S. Navy,

Commander, Military Sealift Com- mand, Atlantic; Rear Adm. Thom- as A. King, superintendent, U.S.

Merchant Marine Academy, Kings

Todd Shipyards Awarded

Navy Study Contract On

DDGX Producibility

The Naval Sea Systems Com- mand recently awarded the Los

Angeles Division of Todd Pacific

Shipyards Corporation a $384,382 producibility study contract for

DDGX, the Navy's next genera- tion guided missile destroyer.

Todd will investigate techniques to modify contract design data packages to implement computer- ized design construction, deter- mine cost effectiveness of instal- lation of a Ship's Data Multi- plexing System (SDMS), as well as other cost benefit trade-off studies. Todd immediately an- nounced that the Anaheim-based

Autonetics Marine Systems Divi- sion of Rockwell International would assist in preparation of the

SDMS study.

The DDGX destroyer design is currently in the preliminary de- sign phase, with construction of the first ship scheduled to com- mence in 1986. Todd Los Angeles

Point; Rear Adm. Sheldon Kin- ney, president, New York State

Maritime College, Fort Schuyler; the Honorable Samuel B. Nem- irow, Assistant Secretary of Com- merce for Maritime Affairs; and

Vice Adm. Robert I. Price, USCG,

Commander, Atlantic and Third

Coast Guard District.

The Management Wreath was cast into the waters by Daniel

B. Curll III, president of New

York Towboat & Harbor Carriers

Association; James J. Dickman, president of New York Shipping

Association; Donald J. Schmidt, president of The Propeller Club,

Port of New York; and Robert

L. Massa, president of the Dry

Dock Association of New York & New Jersey.

Joseph F. Brady, chief officer of international trade, Depart- ment of Labor & Industry in

Newark, N.J., announced the ap- pointment of George H. Becker

Jr. of Eatontown, N.J., as the chairman of New York and New

Jersey World Trade Week for 1981, and also gave special rec- ognition to Mr. McAllister and

Captain Hart for their part in the presentation of an outstand- ing 1981 Maritime Day program in the Port of New York and New

Jersey.

The observance of Maritime

Day, in recognition of the im- portance of the American mer- chant marine and the men and women serving aboard U.S. mer- chant ships, has been held on

May 22 for the past 49 years. It commemorates the same date in 1819 when the S/S Savannah be- gan the first trans-Atlantic voy- age using steam power, from the

Port of Savannah, Ga. It was held in New York and New Jersey on

Thursday, May 21, in order not to conflict with the start of the

Memorial Day weekend. currently holds contracts for 15

FFG guided missile frigates, of which three have been delivered, and the yard is developing nec- essary facilities and personnel to be in a formidable position to win the competition as prime con- tractor to design and build the lead ship of the DDGX class.

MarAd Approves Title XI

On Oceangoing Barge

To Cost $18.6 Million

The Maritime Administration has approved in principle an ap- plication by Ocean Barge Corpo- ration, New Orleans, to aid in financing the construction of an oceangoing, 33,000-dwt dry cargo barge.

Bay Shipbuilding Corporation,

Sturgeon Bay, Wis., is the build- er. The 550-foot vessel is sched- uled to be delivered in November and is expected to be employed in the domestic U.S. coastwise coal trade. The Title XI guarantee covers $16,257,000, or 87U per- cent of the estimated cost of $18,580,000. 58 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News