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Service Engineering Gets $10.7-Million Contract

To Overhaul USNS Spica

Service Engineering Company,

San Francisco, Calif., is being awarded a $10,723,447 firm-fixed- price contract for the overhaul and upgrade of the Military Sealift

Command combat stores ship

USNS Spica. The Military Sealift

Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.

Bird-Johnson Contract

To SKF Coupling Division

SKF Steel, Coupling Division, through its U.S. sales office in

Avon, Conn., announced the re- ceipt of a contract from Bird-John- son Company, Walpole, Mass. The

Division will supply couplings for the propulsion systems of the U.S.

Navy's MCM vessels. "The couplings will be specially manufactured of stainless steel, with a very low magnetic permea- bility, to meet the Navy's strin- gent specifications," according to

G. Robin King, U.S. sales man- ager of the coupling division.

For further information on the

SKF OKF coupling,

Circle 63 on Reader Service Card

American Hoist Appoints

William Hobbs President,

American Crane Division

The dredge Jadwin undergoing repairs at Mississippi Marine shipyard.

Robert Nassau, Amhoist's president and chief executive offi- cer recently announced the ap- pointment of William B.R. Hobbs as president of American Hoist's

American Crane Division, report- ing to Mr. Nassau. Mr. Hobbs joined Amhoist in May of 1983 from FMC-Link Belt's Construc- tion Equipment Group, where he had senior managerial responsibil- ities in both marketing and prod- uct development.

In his new position, Mr. Hobbs will have responsibility for the de- sign, manufacture, sale and ser- vice of American standard crane products and the specially de- signed Marine and Energy products.

Mississippi Marine Proves Its

Strength On Mammoth Repair Job

Mississippi Marine, a Greenville based shipyard and repair facility, demonstrated its lift strength, length capabilities and drydocking expertise recently for the U.S.

Army Corps of Engineers. The job was to drydock and repair the 279- foot-long dredge Jadwin.

This was no small task as the entire hull of the Jadwin had to be lifted out of the water according to

ABS and USCG regulations. Mis- sissippi Marine lifted the Jadwin easily by using its 2,500-ton 218- foot-long drydock.

Once out of the water numerous repairs were performed consisting of removing and reinstalling rud- ders and propellers; welding and gouging cracks in tunnels and re- placing tunnel plate; cleaning and painting the sea chest; boring the two struts; re-cladding shafts; re- placing port and starboard strut bearings and additional welding, sandblasting and painting as required.

Despite extensive repairs the work was completed well within the time frame set by the U.S.

Army Corps of Engineers. 16 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News

Hynes Named Executive

VP of SCNO Barge Lines

John F. Hynes

The appointment of John F.

Hynes to executive vice president of SCNO Barge Lines, Inc., St.

Louis, Mo., was announced by Fred

S. Sherman, president of the company. "The depth and strength of the senior management of SCNO has been improved by the appointment of Jack Hynes to the position of executive vice president", Fred

Sherman said in making the announcement.

Mr. Hynes' 10 year tenure with

SCNO has been in the capacity of vice president with successive re- sponsibility for the corporate administration, fleeting opera- tions, and most recently as vice president, marketing.

Flexaust Announces

A Major Improvement

In Its Product Line

The Flexaust Company, the in- dustry leader in ventilation duct- ing, announces a major improve- ment in its product line. Most hoses are now flame retardant and are recognized as having an Un- derwriter's Laboratories 94 V-0 flammability classification.

By using a variety of construc- tions and materials, Flexaust can offer a permanently flame retar- dant product designed for use on either temporary service or on board installations involving both positive or negative pressures.

Its unique two ply, triple over- lap construction allows unlimited product utilization for moving hot or cold air, removing grit dust, welding fumes or paint vapors.

Other products made of a single ply, single overlap construction can be used in positive pressure applications involving dehumidifi- cation or paint drying.

Flexaust has over 400 stocking distributors throughout the U.S. and Canada. Prompt shipments can be made from any of its five manufacturing locations nation- wide.

For more information,

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Placing the cantilever on the rig Britannia.

Verolme Botlek Awarded Contract

For Rig Modification

Following the successful modifi- cation of the jack-up drilling rig

Britannia from a slot-type drilling unit to a cantilevered unit, com- pleted recently within the contrac- tual time, the Rotterdam Shipyard has contracted another rig modifi- cation job.

The Houston-based rigowners

Reading and Bates awarded Ver- olme Botlek a contract for the fab- rication and installation of a new heli-deck on the jack-up rig Ron

Tappmeyer. Prefabrication started immediately after the contract was signed. The rig arrived at the shipyard the end of June for the actual modification and will be re- delivered to the owners early in

July 1985.