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Write 497 on Reader Service Card 143 Ships In Five-Year

Naval Shipbuilding Plan

Pentagon correspondent Charl- es W. Corddry recently reported in The Baltimore Sun: "The Navy has proposed a vastly expanded five-year shipbuilding plan calling for 143 ships—including two nuc- lear-powered aircraft carriers— that could double the construction budget of the service already most favored financially under

Administration defense goals."

In addition to carriers (CVN) and several Trident submarines (SSBN), he says the plan antici- pates 17 Aegis cruisers (CG-47 class), 14 attack submarines (SSN-688 class), six destroyers (DDG class), nine guided missile frigates (FFG-7 class), nine am- phibious ships, and "86 others for fleet support, mine warfare, (and) storage of equipment.... "The Navy's proposal, on which the defense chief (Secretary Cas- par W. Weinberger) and his staff have yet to act," Mr. Corddry adds, "would increase by more than 75 percent the number of ships in the last five-year con- struction plan given Congress by

President Jimmy Carter. The

Navy hopes to expand the active fleet to 600 ships by 1988. That would be a net gain of about 150 vessels. . . ."

R.A. Simpson Promoted

To Newly Created VP

Post At Crowley Division

Richard A. Simpson has been promoted to the newly created position of vice president, com- mon carrier services of Crowley

Maritime Corporation's Caribbean

Division, according to a recent an- nouncement by Robert G. Homan,

Jacksonville, Fla., Crowley senior vice president and general man- ager of the division.

The new position was estab- lished to unify the division's com- mon carrier services under one organization unit. Mr. Simpson assumes responsibilities for the operations, maintenance, market- ing and sales, pricing and regu- latory matters and all division offices in the United States and the Caribbean. Previously vice president of marketing for Crow- ley's Caribbean Division, he has some 25 years' experience in transportation and marketing. He is based at the division head- quarters in Jacksonville. ...

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