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Waterfall Deluge Hull Lubrication

Ice Dispersal

Heeling Tank Transfer

Ballasting/Deballasting and with the same thruster elements...

Side Thrusting — Even Underway

Emergency Propulsion and Steering

No Protrusions... No Hull Change

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No Reversing Impeller

Sound Masking

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Marathon-Built

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Navy Repair

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ASNE Day

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AWO — Advocacy &

Influence —

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OTC '84

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National

Maritime Show

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Ames And O'Donnell

Named Regional Directors

For Maritime Administration

Maritime Administrator H.E.

Shear has announced the appoint- ment of Alpha H. Ames Jr. as di- rector of the MarAd Great Lakes

Region and Francis J. O'Donnell as director of the Eastern Region.

Each has been serving in an act- ing capacity.

Mr. Ames succeeds George

Ryan, who resigned from the agency in 1982 to become presi- dent of the Lake Carriers Associa- tion in Cleveland. As regional di- rector, Mr. Ames is responsible for assisting U.S.-flag ocean oper- ators and Great Lakes port inter- ests in their marketing efforts and in supporting other maritime en- deavors. The region embraces all of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illi- nois, Wisconsin and Minnesota, and parts of New York and Penn- sylvania. The region office, opened in Cleveland in 1975, was moved to Des Plaines, 111., in 1983.

Mr. O'Donnell, headquartered in New York City, administers federal programs that assist the

American maritime industry in all or parts of 17 states stretching from Maine to Florida, and Puerto

Rico and the Virgin Islands.

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