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A specially shaped bow enhances the lead barge of a two-barge tow recently delivered to Alabama River

Barge Co. by Nashville Bridge Company. The bow is designed to provide greater speed and fuel efficiency in operation of the 297-ft. single-skin petroleum barge.

Nashville (Tenn.) Bridge Company (NAB-

RICO)has delivered an integrated two-barge single-skin petroleum tow to Alabama River

Barge Co., Mobile, Ala.

Each barge, one a lead barge and the other a trail barge, is 297 feet by 54 feet by 12 feet.

Total Capacity of the two-barge tow is ap- proximately 62,966 barrels, or 2,644,572 gal- lons of product.

The two barges are outfitted with the

NABRICO specially designed 7,500-gallon slop tank, hose cranes and winches. These items have been added to enhance the total operating efficiency of the tow.

In order to provide greater speed and fuel efficiency, the lead barge has a specially shaped bow.

Both barges have been classed by the

American Bureau of Shipping and assigned a limited loadline between Carrabelle and St.

Marks, Fla., and between Chicago, 111., and

Burns Harbor, Ind. The U.S. Coast Guard has certificated the tow for carriage of Grade "A" and lower petroleum products.

Raytheon Ocean Systems

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Mobile Mapper & Data Logger literature is available from Raytheon

Ocean Systems Company, East Providence,

R.I., on the firm's Mobile Mapper and Data

Logger. The system includes an on-board blotter, an electric positioning system, and a Hewlett Packard 88255 processor.

Some features of the new system include correlation and magnetic recording of select- ed data; real time position plot; ease of on- board modification of software by the oper- ator ; interface with shore-based computers; pre-plot; and post-plot on board.

Other Raytheon systems that may be sel- ected for integration with the Mobile Mapper and Data Logger are FADS, DE-719CSS,

DSF-600, and PDSS-200.

For more information and free literature on Raytheon Ocean Systems Mobile Mapper and Data Logger,

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New Officers Elected At

At the recent NCAA National Conference in Charleston,

S.C., outgoing NCAA president Jack Day (left), admin- isters oath of office to new president Henry Romero (center), and new vice president Joe Zurzolo (right).

The Naval Civilian Administration Associ- ation's (NCAA) 35th National Conference was recently conducted in Charleston, S.C.

The NCAA is a national organization of sen- ior-level managers employed in Navy Civil

Service. It has chapters at 13 Naval estab- lishments, including seven shipyards, three major aviation facilities, a weapons station, and a division of the Naval Facilities En- gineering Command. The Conference was hosted by the Charleston Naval Shipyard

Chapter.

Agenda items studied included opposition to administrative impediments to processing travel claims, and opposition to a Social Se- curity/Civil Service Retirement merger; concern over administration of the Merit Pay

System and over contracting-out trends; and support of a 600-ship Navy and of productiv- ity enhancement efforts. Speakers included

Jim Colvard, Deputy Chief of the Naval Ma- terial Command, and Dr. Jim Tweedale, Di- rector of Productivity in the Department of

Navy Secretariat.

New officers elected at the Conference were

Henry Romero as national president; Joseph

Zurzolo as national vice president; Ellyn

Robinson as national secretary; and Bill Cox as national treasurer. "WHAT we ACTUALLY see IS JUST THe TIP OF M icet>eR&." fairs, serving as a leader in many areas of importance. /

NABRICO Delivers

New Two-Barge Tow To

Alabama River Barge

Four Directors Elected

At Levingston Industries

Edward E. Paden, president of Levingston

Industries, Inc., announced the election re- cently of Jesse M. Calhoon, Jim I. Graves,

Ned J. Marandino, and Rear Adm. Charles N.

Payne, USN (ret.) to the board of directors of Levingston Industries, Inc., a Texas-based corporation.

Major operating units and subsidiaries of the corporation are: Levingston Shipbuilding

Company of Orange, Texas; Texas Gulfport

Shipbuilding Company, located in Port Ar- thur, Texas; Levingston-Armadillo of Tyler,

Texas; Levingston Industrial Products, lo- cated in Woodville, Texas; and Levingston

Marine, an engineering company located in

Annapolis, Md.

Ned J. Marandino RAdm. Charles N. Payne

Mr. Marandino was president of Ingalls

Shipbuilding and a senior vice president of

Litton Industries from 1969 until his retire- ment in 1976. Since then he has worked as a consultant for several companies in the ship- building and defense industries. Prior to join- ing Ingalls he was vice president of opera- tions at Litton's Guidance and Control

Division from 1964 to 1969, and had pre- viously spent 10 years with Lockheed's Mis- siles and Space Division, in a number of man- agerial positions.

Admiral Payne was president of the Webb

Institute of Naval Architecture from 1974 to his retirement last year. He retired from ac- tive duty, U.S. Navy, in 1974 as supervisor of shipbuilding at Pascagoula, Miss. In his pre- vious assignments in the Navy he was Com- mander of the Charleston Naval Shipyard;

Comptroller, Bureau of Ships, and Ship Main- tenance Officer, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, following seven years of shipboard duty and 12 years of ship design and construction experience.

Jesse M. Calhoon Jim I. Graves

Mr. Calhoon, president of the Marine En- gineers' Beneficial Association (AFL/CIO) since 1963, also serves as president of Dis- trict No. 1-Pacific Coast, and chairman of the board of trustees for the MEBA Pension

Fund. Mr. Calhoon joined MEBA in 1944 when he received his third engineer's license.

After 11 years as a seagoing engineer, he was elected business manager for MEBA's

Norfolk Local in 1955 and national secretary- treasurer in 1958, which post he held until his election as president.

Mr. Graves is a practicing attorney in

Orange, recently merging his firm of Graves and Smith with Mehaffy, Weber, Keith and

Gonsoulin. He graduated from Southern

Methodist University Law School in 1961 with a J.D. degree, and moved to Orange to begin practicing law. He is active in civic af-

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