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Three New Vice Presidents

Named At CDI Marine Co.

Paul I. Beining, president of

CDI Marine Company, Jackson- ville, Fla., recently announced major changes in the organiza- tional structure of the company.

Donald W. Jett has been pro- moted to executive vice president responsible for the operation of the firm's nationwide network of marine design offices. Mr. Jett, a member of CDI Marine man- agement since 1974, previously served with Newport News Ship- building as a member of the hull structural design division en- gaged in both aircraft carrier and submarine design.

James C. Gibson Jr. has been promoted to vice president, south- ern region. His responsibility is for the technical direction and accomplishment of all engineer- ing and design work performed in the Jacksonville, Charleston and Pascagoula offices. Mr. Gibson has been with CDI Marine Com- pany since he retired from the

U.S. Navy with the rank of cap- tain.

Jimmy R. Phillips has been promoted to vice president, north- ern region, which includes the

Boston, Groton, Philadelphia,

Hampton, and Chesapeake design offices. Prior to joining CDI Ma- rine in 1976, Mr. Phillips worked with Newport News Shipbuilding as a member of the machinery design division engaged in the design of submarines, cruisers and aircraft carriers.

CDI Marine Company, a major division of CDI Corporation of

Philadelphia, is a supplier of na- val architectural and marine en- gineering services to shipyards, both Navy and commercial, and to their supporting industries.

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Two Lightships Ordered

For Australian Waters

Two 23-meter (about 75-foot) long lightships are to be built at

Ocean Shipyards, Fremantle,

Western Australia, for the Aus- tralian Department of Transport at a cost of 2.4-million Australian dollars.

On completion, scheduled in 1982, one will be stationed at the

Carpentaria Shoal, Torres Strait, and the other at Breaksea Spit at the southern end of the Great

Barrier Reef. There is an option for a further two vessels for use in the Bass Strait, where a traf- fic separation scheme is planned.

The vessels will be built to the design of the naval architectural firm of Sir J.H. Biles & Co., Ltd., who were responsible to AGA

Navigational Aids, Ltd., Brent- ford, England, for the lines and specification for two similarly de- signed vessels for the U.K.'s Trin- ity House. The Australian ves- sels will carry the same AGA 17-mile-range acetylene lighting system which will maintain the lightbeam on a horizontal plane, regardless of pitch and roll. They will also be fitted with radar re- sponders to help location and identification by ship-borne radar.

These vessels will have the same service life of two years on station without attention. Differ- ences in design include the addi- tion of a diesel hydraulic wind- lass for mooring, no bulwarks on the foredeck for easier mainte- nance, and no recessed boarding ladders amidships. Stainless steel will be extensively used for lad- ders, rails and fittings. The hull will be painted with a chlorinated rubber system. At 22.72 meters

LOA, these vessels will be about a meter longer than the AGA vessels bought by Trinity House.

Lighting equipment will be made at Brentford and supplied through AGA Products Australia

Pty. Ltd., Melbourne.

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