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Richard C. Fay, president, American

Society of Naval Engineers, 1981-83. and Engineering, Naval Sea Sys- tems Command. Len M. Thorell, vice president and general man- ager, Todd Pacific Shipyards;

Capt. J.P. Harrison, USN, Direc- tor of Engineering, Naval Ship

Weapon Systems Engineering

Station; and Capt. D.R. Ander- son, USN, Commanding Officer,

USS Fox (CG-33).

The program will conclude with an address by Rear Adm. Wayne

E. Meyer, USN, Project Man- ager, AEGIS Shipbuilding Proj- ect, and closing remarks by Ad- miral Otth.

A reception will be held, start- ing at 6:30 p.m. in the Santa

Rosa Room of the Casa Sirena

Marina Hotel, following the tech- nical sessions.

The ASNE Sections in south- ern California also have arranged for a bus trip to Solvang, a Da- nish community, and to a winery for guests of those attending the

ASNE meeting. The bus will pick up participants at the Casa

Sirena Marina Hotel and at the

Oxnard Hilton Inn for the day tour. The charge for the tour, which will return in ample time for the reception, is $12 per per- son. Rooms have been reserved for conference registrants at the two hotels.

The technical sessions are clas- sified "Confidential," and the necessary clearance must be se- cured prior to attendance.

Cost of the meeting is $40 for

ASNE members and $65 for non- members.

Additional details and regis- tration, hotel, and security clear- ance forms may be secured by writing ASNE, West Coast Com- bat Systems Meeting, 1012 14th

Street, N.W., Suite 807, Washing- ton, D.C. 20005. Tel. (202) 737- 0757.

Elliott Awarded Additional

Contract For Thruster Unit

Elliot Company's Springfield,

Ohio operation, a subsidiary of

United Technologies Corporation, has been awarded a contract to supply a thruster to Woods Hole

Oceanographic Institute, Woods

Hole, Mass.

The unit, which is the fourth

Elliot White Gill Thruster con- tracted by Woods Hole Oceano- graphic Institute within the past several years, will be retrofitted into the research vessel R.V.

Atlantis II to replace a tunnel thruster. The vessel will act as a mother-ship to a small sub- mersible. During such operations, propellers cannot be operated due to the danger of cutting life sup- port lines.

The Elliott White Gill Thruster is a low head, high axial pump capable of delivering thrusts of up to 38,000 pounds (17,000 kg).

It has no external propeller, but provides 360 degrees of thrust without extending beyond the hull lines of the vessel. The main engines of the Atlantis can be shut down, and the Gill unit will be used to provide thrust in pre- cisely the amount and the di- rection required to maintain a steady position or to maneuver with ease to extend the range of the sub.

The Oceanographic Institute's other three Elliott Gill Thrusters are also used on vessels requiring precise dynamic positioning. Sea trials for the R.V. Atlantis II are scheduled for March 1983.

Roger Ffooks Appointed

European Representative

For J.J. Henry Firm

J.J. Henry Co., Inc. of New

York City, one of the leading naval architects in the U.S., re- cently announced the appoint- ment of Roger C. Ffooks of Lon- don as the company's European representative.

J.J. Henry Co. has engaged for many years in the design of ships and systems for the transport of liquefied gases, including LNG,

LPG, anhydrous ammonia, and other similar cargoes. The com- pany's early work in the 1950s led directly to the building of

Methane Princess and Methane

Progress in 1962-64 and to the development of the design phi- losophy and regulatory rules gov- erning liquefied gas transport.

J.J. Henry's position in this spe- cialized engineering discipline has remained strong to the present day.

Mr. Ffooks, a naval architect, has long occupied a position of importance in the liquefied gas transport industry, commencing in the middle 1950s. During his long association with Conch

Methane Services Ltd. and, later as an independent consultant, he has contributed significantly to the development of all aspects of liquefied gas technology re- lating to hull design, cargo con- tainment, and cargo handling.

He has also written authoritative histories of the marine liquefied gas industry.

BWA To Design Artificial

Island For Sohio's Drilling

Program In Beaufort Sea

Houston-based consultant,

Brian Watt Associates, Inc. (BWA), has been retained by

Sohio Construction Company to design an artificial island for its

Mukluk prospect in the Beaufort

Sea, off Alaska's north coast and west of Prudhoe Bay.

The island will be constructed in 48 feet of water at the junc- tions between Tracts 191, 192, 205, and 206 which were jointly leased by Sohio, Shell, and Tex- aco, during the October 1982 fed- eral outer continental shelf lease sale. Island construction will take place in 1983 and spudding of the first exploratory well is planned before year's end. Mukluk will be the largest exploratory island constructed to date in the Beau- fort Sea. Representing Sohio on the project is Norman Ingram and the BWA project engineer is John Wang.

Sohio Construction Company of

San Francisco is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Standard Oil

Company (Ohio) with headquar- ters in Cleveland, Ohio. $520-Million Contract

Awarded Electric Boat

For Two Nuclear Subs

General Dynamics Corporation,

Electric Boat Division, Groton,

Conn., has been awarded a $560,- 211,100 fixed-price-incentive con- tract for construction of two FY- 83 SSN 688-class submarines (SSN 751 and 752). The Naval

Sea Systems Command, Wash- ington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-82-C-2039).

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