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Blackinton To Manage

Beth Marine Construction

Operations And Facilities

Richard E. Blackinton has been appointed general manager of operations and facilities of Beth- lehem Steel Corporation's marine construction department, it was announced recently by David H.

Klinges, vice president in charge of marine construction.

Mr. Blackinton, who is general manager of Bethlehem's ship- yard in Hoboken, N.J., is suc- ceeding Herbert I. Freinberg, whose retirement has been an- nounced.

In his new position at corpo- rate headquarters in Bethlehem,

Pa., Mr. Blackinton will be re- sponsible for all shipyard produc- tion matters in addition to cap- ital planning and budgeting, overhead maintenance budgets, and maintenance practices of the marine construction department.

Mr. Blackinton joined Bethle- hem Steel's management training program for college graduates in 1951 and was initially assigned to the Hoboken Yard.

The name for overall economy

The confirmed low fuel consumption of RTA Superlongstrokes is a bonus for shipowners that have already ordered them. But low consumption alone will not ensure economical operation. And ultralow fuel consumption and shaft speeds have their price. The answer: optimization of all the cost factors found in the overall economy of our R-type diesels; rugged, reliable design combining experience with future needs; short engines and length-saving power take-off concepts for economic auxiliary power generated by the main engine. Where engine room heights are limited, the Sulzer medium-speed Z/ZA40 and AS/AT25 engines offer equivalent overall economy on heavy fuel, too. And when it's time to part, the Sulzer engine will increase the selling price of your vessel.

Overall economy including low fuel consumption is no surprise.

After all, our name depends on it.

Sulzer overall economy is no surprise so I should like to know more about • RLB diesel engines • RTA Superlongstroke engines • Z/ZA40 engines • AS/AT25 engines • Service

Name

Company name and address

Company position

Send to Sulzer Brothers Limited, CH-8401 Winterthur, Switzerland

Diesel Engine Division

Telephone 052 811122, Telex 896165

MR

Richard E. Blackinton

He was transferred to the cor- poration's former yard in Brook- lyn in 1953 and two years later returned to Hoboken as a plan- ner and then estimator. In 1957 he was assigned to shipbuilding headquarters, then located in

New York City, as assistant to construction engineer and later as technical assistant to vice president. In 1966 he returned to the Hoboken Yard as a ship su- perintendent and became assist- ant project superintendent at the

San Francisco Yard later that year.

Mr. Blackinton was promoted to general superintendent at

Bethlehem Steel's shipyard in

Beaumont, Texas, in 1969 and subsequently served there as plant engineer, methods engi- neer, and assistant to general manager. He returned to the Ho- boken Yard as general superin- tendent in 1978 and the following year was named general man- ager.

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Offered On Comfort Mate

Line Of Marine Furniture

Comfort Mate, Inc. of Miami,

Fla., is offering a full color four- page brochure describing in text and in photographs its line of marine deck furniture.

The brochure includes specifi- cations for deck chairs, single and double tube sitting chairs, bar stools, deck tables, deck um- brellas, and Ping-Pong tables.

Also included is information on custom fabrication, special serv- ices provided by Comfort Mate, and details of some of the con- struction features of the marine furniture.

For a free copy of the brochure,

Write 49 on Reader Service Card $7-Million Contract For

Seven Navy Warping Tugs

Awarded To Jeffboat

Jeffboat Incorporated, Jeffer- sonville, Ind., has been awarded a $7,662,095 fixed-price contract for the construction of seven side-loadable warping tugs for delivery to the Naval Amphibi- ous Base, Little Creek, Virginia

Beach, Va. The tugs will be built in Jeffersonville and assembled in

Norfolk. The Naval Facilities En- gineering Command, Alexandria,

Va., is the contracting activity (N62472-82-C-1661).

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