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Automatic Power Offers 20-Page Color Brochure

On Marine Signal Systems

USCG And ASNE

Flagship Section Sponsor

Patrol Boat Symposium

A Patrol Boat Symposium spon- sored by the U.S. Coast Guard and the Flagship Section of the Ameri- can Society of Naval Engineers will be held Thursday and Friday,

March 13-14, at the Sheraton Crys- tal City Hotel, Arlington, Va.

Vice Adm. Benedict L. Stabile, vice commandant, U.S. Coast

Guard, will deliver the symposium's keynote address on Thursday.

Technical areas to be addressed by government and industry experts from the U.S., U.K., and European continent include fast-attack-craft hull forms, hull-form hydrodynam- ics, special-warfare craft, combat- patrol-boat topside design, hydro- foil combatants, design and con- struction of Coast Guard 110-foot patrol boats, combat system trade- offs, gas turbines and diesel engines for patrol boats, gun mounts, patrol boats for foreign military sales, 95- foot Coast Guard patrol boat, and operational performance of patrol craft.

For more information concerning the technical program, please con- tact Capt. Richard A. Walsh,

USCG at (202) 426-1220; and for general information, Cdr. David E.

Prosser, USCG at (202) 426-1291.

Webber Appointed Vice

Admiral And U.S. Navy's

Chief Engineer

James H. Webber has been promoted to vice admiral and as- signed as chief engineer of the Navy.

In making the announcement, chief of naval operations Adm. James D.

Watkins said the appointment "sets a new tone for the Engineering

Duty Officer Corps, and reaffirms the critical importance of technical excellence in the Navy." He de- scribed technical engineering as fundamental to the development and maintenance of an affordable, revitalized U.S. Navy fleet.

As chief engineer, Adm. Webber will have primary responsibility for maintaining technical engineering excellence throughout the Naval

Sea Systems Command. He will also act as the principal advisor to the

NAVSEA Commander, and point of contact with external activities, on the Command's engineering mat- ters. He will also be responsible for setting engineering policy and stan- dards, and insuring that they are met by the program managers for

NAVSEA's various ship product lines.

Adm. Webber graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1949, and received postgraduate degrees in mechanical engineering and naval architecture from Massachusetts

Institute of Technology in 1955.

TOMORROW'S SHIPBUILDING

TECHNOLOGY TODAY

Shipyards of the future will probably utilize shiplift and land transfer systems, such as this

Syncrolift at Todd's Los Angeles Division, rather than floating dry docks or shipways.

This high technology facility, permits the performance of construction or repair work on five ships simultaneously. Additionally, computer aided design and computer aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM), as well as on-line robotic welding are an integral part of Todd's shipbuilding expertise. Indeed, today Todd is a cost-efficient, high technology company uniquely qualified to meet future naval and maritime needs.

Todd is committed to providing the best service possible to the U. S. Navy, as well as our com- mercial customers, and is unquestionably a "Yes, we can do it!" company.

SHIPYARDS CORPORATION

Todd Shipyards Corporation

One State Street Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10004

Telephone: (212) 668-4700 Cable: "Robin" New York

LOS ANGELES/SAN FRANCISCO/SEATTLE/GALVESTON

Automatic Power, Inc., Houston,

Texas, is offering a free 20-page color brochure, reprinted from their 1984-85 composite catalog, on ob- struction lights, fog signals and alarm systems.

The brochure, with the use of schematic drawings, black-and- white photographs, charts, illustra- tions, and design drawings, de- scribes some of the marine signal products produced by Automatic

Power, which has more than 60 years of marine signal experience.

The brochure contains information on sound signals, NAVAID platform systems, buoys, light systems, ma- rine lanterns, solid state timers, so- lar power panels, batteries, battery chargers, etc.

The inside of the front cover of the brochure contains the require- ments for obstruction lights and sound signals on U.S. offshore struc- tures, as well as a similar chart for the British North Sea (all struc- tures). Also included is a chart for the arrangement of obstruction lights.

The back cover of the publication contains a handy listing of Auto- matic Power, Inc. sales and service offices.

For a free copy of this brochure on obstruction lights, fog signals and alarm systems from Automatic

Power, Inc.,

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