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SNAME-Philadelphia Section Hears

Paper On Marine Epoxy Resin Chocks

Trellclean Conducts Technical

Briefing And Hull-Cleaning Demonstration

The recent meeting of the

Philadelphia Section of the Soci- ety of Naval Architects and Ma- rine Engineers featured the pres- entation of a paper entitled "Marine Epoxy Resin Chocks."

It was presented by J. Murray

Wilson, manager of Philadelphia

Resins Corporation. Meeting co- ordinator, Fred W. Beltz Jr. of

Transamerica Delaval Company, introduced the author and dis- cussers that included R. McFad- den of J.J. Henry Co., G. Mowers of Transamerica Delaval Compa- ny, and P. Mason of Lloyd's Reg- ister of Shipping.

The paper discussed the con- cept of epoxy chocking of which $4.5-Million Order Awarded

Rockwell For Shipboard

Navigation System Parts

Rockwell International Corpo- ration, Anaheim, Calif., has been awarded a $4,506,500 unpriced delivery order under a basic or- dering agreement to furnish var- ious quantities of line items in support of a Dual Miniature Iner- tial Navigation System (DMINS) (AN/WSN-1 (v)2) for use on- board ships. The Navy Ships

Parts Control Center, Mechanics- burg, Pa., is the contracting ac- tivity (N000104-80-G-0004). the variety and extent of the ap- plications is not yet generally realized. The author detailed the advantages that could be gained by the shipowner and the ship- builder. With the help of slides, the author described typical main diesel engine and auxiliary ma- chinery applications. Other ele- ments such as stern tubes, rud- der bearing, crane rails, and thruster units were also ad- dressed.

A copy of the paper can be secured from Mr. Wilson at the

Philadelphia Resins Corporation, 20 Commerce Drive, Montgomery - ville, Pa. 18936.

Newport News Receives $106-Million Modification To

Ncivy Overhaul Contract

Newport News Shipbuilding,

Newport News, Va., has been awarded a $106,050,800 modifica- tion which converts a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee con- trast to a cost-plus-incentive-fee contract to accomplish the over- haul, refueling, repair and alter- ation of USS Francis Scott Key (SSBN 657). The Naval Sea Sys- tems Command, Washington,

D.C!., is the contracting activity (N00024-81-C-2063).

Trellclean International, Lim- ited, manufacturers and world- wide operators of the Trellclean underwater hull cleaning service, held a two-day in-depth technical briefing and a live demonstration of their three types of barnacle- removing machines recently in

Long Beach, Calif.

The meeting was attended by

Trellclean-associated companies from 10 separate geographical areas of the world. Other guests included Arild Rinvoll, Senior Re- search Engineer of The Ship Re- search Institute of Norway; Jo- seph Pastore and Harold Siagel, president and treasurer of Na- tional Industrial Service Group;

E.B. Zetterlund, senior technical service representative of the 3M

Company; and John D. Koss, Un- derwater Operations Company; and also representatives of sev- eral paint companies.

Additionally, representatives of

U.S. and foreign shipping com- panies and the U.S. Navy ob- served the operation of the Trell- clean machine as it cleaned the side of a large barge. This dem- onstration was carried out at the

Dillingham base in Long Beach

Harbor.

Edward Stettinius, vice presi- dent of Trellclean, conducted the meeting, Arild Rinvoll of The

Ship Research Institute of Nor- way lectured on the economic advantages of underwater hull cleaning in general and the ad- vantages of the Trellclean system in particular.

Malte Bystrom, general oper- ating manager of Trellclean, lec- tured on the specific mechanical advantages of the Trellclean ma- chines.

Mr. Stettinius explained to the meeting that Trellclean Interna- tional manufactures its own ma- chines, holds patents or patents applied for in 18 maritime coun- tries and is continuing to effect improvements through its re- search and development.

He also stated that in order to maintain one high cleaning stand- ard on a worldwide basis, Trell- clean sells no machines. The only users of the equipment are mem- bers of the worldwide Trellclean organization which enables the company to control the use and maintenance of the very sophis- ticated machines.

Dillingham Maritime Company.

Long Beach, Calif., is responsible for Trellclean operations on the entire West Coast of the United

States, Hawaii and Guam. Raynor

T. Tsuneyoshi, vice-president, is in direct charge.

Early next year, Trellclean will hold similar meetings in Europe and the Middle East.

Information relative to Trell- clean worldwide operations is available from Transportation

Concepts and Techniques of Char- lottsville, Va.

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Principals at the SNAME-Philadelphia Section meeting were, from left, standing:

C. Lofft, vice chairman, Newport News Technical Services, Inc.; R. McFadden, dis- cusser, J.J. Henry Co.; D. Champlin, chairman, Selby Battersby & Co.; seated,

J. Murray Wilson, author, Philadelphia Resins Corp.; F. Beltz Jr., coordinator,

Transamerica Delaval Company.

Attending the Trellclean briefing are (left to right): Salvador R. Salas of Chemical

Industries, Inc. of the Philippines; H.H. Masuda of Trellclean International of Hon- olulu, Hawaii; Raynor T. Tsuneyoshi of Dillingham Maritime Corporation (PacTow) of Long Beach, Calif.; and H.E. van der Linde of Trellclean International. 44 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News