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Newport News Shipbuilding

Delivers Attack Submarine 'Olympia'

Newport News Shipbuilding in

Virginia turned over its 12th Los

Angeles Class (SSN-688) attack submarine to the U.S. Navy recently when it delivered the USS Olympia (shown above on sea trials). The new ship is the 36th submarine the

Newport News yard has built for the

Navy.

Olympia (SSN-717) was commis- sioned and officially entered the fleet shortly after delivery, during ceremonies at the Norfolk Naval

Shipyard. The ship's keel was laid on March 31, 1981, and she was launched April 30, 1983.

The Los Angeles Class subs are 360 feet long, with a beam of 33 feet and submerged displacement of 6,900 tons. They accommodate 12 officers and 115 enlisted men. New- port News Ship currently is building six other attack submarines, along with three Nimitz Class aircraft car- riers. One submarine, the Chicago (SSN-721), plus the aircraft carrier

Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), were launched recently.

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Named executives at Hughes companies for current year were (L to R): Joseph W. Hughes, vice president of both Hughes Bros., Inc. and James Hughes, Inc.; Robert J. Hughes Jr., president of James Hughes, Inc.; and William J. Hughes Jr., president of Hughes Bros.,

Inc.

Fifth Generation Of Family Named

To Executive Posts

At Hughes Companies

At the recent annual director's meeting held in New Brunswick,

N.J., Robert J. Hughes Sr., chairman of James Hughes, Inc., and William J. Hughes Sr., chairman of Hughes Bros., Inc., an- nounced new appointments in the family-held marine businesses. The meeting also commemorated the 90th anniversary of the Hughes

Barge Line, founded in 1894.

The Hughes roots go back to Mi- chael Hughes, a barge builder, who arrived in New York in 1843 and relocated to New Brunswick in 1862. His son, James Hughes Sr., worked in his father's shipyard and in 1894 began to operate barges on the Delaware and Raritan Canal, transporting coal from Pennsylva- nia to New York. In 1910, with his barge and tug fleet growing, he opened an office in New York City.

His son, James Hughes Jr., ex- panded tbe business from canal to coastwise transportation, repre- senting the third generation of the family. Known in marine circles as "The Captain," he led the business until his death in 1949. James

Hughes, Inc. was incorporatecd in 1934, and became an iCC-certified water carrier in 1944. His three sons,

Bill, Bob, and Jim (the latter died in 1965), joined the firm in the 1930s. With expanding business they set up the separate corporation of Hughes Bros., Inc. in 1945 to han- dle chartering and sales activities under the slogan "Clearing House for Marine Difficulties."

The Hughes organization contin- ued to expand, operating and rent- ing their fleet of barges, transport- ing oversize objects by tug and barge, and providing or selling all types of floating equipment and molded Uniroyal marine fenders through its Sales Department. Bob

Hughes Sr. is widely known throughout the industry, having for- merly served as chairman of The

American Waterways Operators,

Inc. Bill Hughes has long been active in the Moles and the White- hall Club, of which he served as president.

While remaining as chairmen and chief executive officers of the two family firms, the Hughes brothers have revived a tradition observed for many years of rotating annually the presidency of the corporations.

Accordingly, they have named for the current year, fifth-generation family members—William J.

Hughes Jr. as president of Hughes

Bros., Inc.; Robert J. Hughes Jr. as president of James Hughes, Inc.; and Joseph W. Hughes as vice president of both companies.

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