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Combustion Engineering Awarded $7 Million In Navy Boiler Contracts

Combustion Engineering, Inc. (C-E), Windsor, Conn., has been awarded three separate contracts for boilers and related equipment to be installed on U.S. Navy ships, the company recently announced.

Under the contracts, valued at approximately $7 million, C-E will supply nine waste heat boilers for three guided missile cruisers and two auxiliary boilers for a dock landing ship. Delivery is expected in 1987 and 1988.

Six of the waste heat boilers will be supplied to the Bath Iron Works

Corporation of Bath, Maine. Bath will install three boilers on each of two U.S. guided missile cruisers (CG-63 and CG-64).

The second contract calls for one shipset of auxiliary boilers to be provided by C-E to the shipyard division of Avondale Industries, Inc. of New Orleans, La. Avondale will install the two boilers on a U.S.

Navy dock landing ship (LSD 48).

The third contract has been awarded by Ingalls Shipbuilding of

Pascagoula, Miss., a division of Lit- ton Industries under which C-E will provide three waste heat boilers to be installed on a U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser (CG-65).

Combustion Engineering supplies equipment, systems and services to process, power and basic industries worldwide.

For free copies of C-E literature fully describing the firm's marine equipment, systems and services,

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Donahue Named

VP Of Marketing

At Robert E. Derecktor

Robert E. Derecktor of Rhode

Island, Inc. has named Mark S.

Donahue to the position of vice president, marketing.

As vice president, Mr. Donahue will serve as the shipyard spokes- person and assistant to Robert E.

Derecktor, president. He will oversee all contract bidding proce- dures in both the U.S. and foreign markets, and will also serve as liai- son between government agencies and commercial clients.

Mr. Donahue joined Robert E.

Derecktor, Inc., in Mamaroneck,

N.Y., in 1977 as chief mechanic. He came to the Middletown, R.I., ship- yard in 1981 as assistant contract administrator.

Improved TV Antenna

From Naval Electronics —Literature Available

The MK-20 omni-directional TV antenna offered by Naval Electron- ics Inc. of Tampa, Fla., distributors for Naval Electronics A.B. of Swed- en, features three separate band ele- ments with interference filters and an internal, changeable, low-noise amplifier utilizing state-of-the-art microwave devices.

The MK-20 feeds a special ma- rine cassette amplifier system with "automatic gain control" to com- pensate for the changing reception conditions of a ship underway. The cassette amplifiers then feed a ship's distribution system that pro- vides TV antenna outlets through- out the ship in lounges, cabins, and other areas.

Naval can arrange system engi- neering and installation in all U.S. ports as well as in more than 50 countries around the world through its marine service network.

For further information and free literature on the Naval antenna,

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Marathon LeTourneau

Awarded Contract

For Platform Rig Project

Marathon LeTourneau Compa- ny's Brownsville, Texas unit has been awarded a contract for the fab- rication of a platform drilling rig by

Helmerich & Payne International

Drilling Co., a wholly owned subsid- iary of Helmerich & Payne, Inc. of

Tulsa, Okla.

The contract calls for Marathon to fabricate a new platform drilling rig designated H & P Rig 105, along with an 82-person quarters. H & P

Rig 91, an existing unit, will be mod- ified and repaired by Marathon.

Both rigs will work on the same platform in the Gulf of Mexico for

Standard Oil Production Company,

Inc. Fabrication work is scheduled to be completed in September 1986.

These projects are the first of their kind to be fabricated at Mara- thon LeTourneau's Brownsville,

Texas, facility. They are part of an effort by the company to expand into markets beyond the area of mobile offshore drilling rigs.

Marathon is a Penn Central com- pany. Penn Central manufactures products and supplies services in the areas of electronics, telecommu- nications, defense and energy.

Holland America Views 1986 With Confidence

Holland America Line, the Seat- tie-based cruise ship operator that last year more than doubled its profits, expects another good per- formance in 1986. The company's 1985 annual report also indicates that HAL is looking for new ton- nage. HAL's net profit for 1985 rose to $25 million from $11.6 million the previous year.

Holland America operates three cruise ships—the Nieuw Amster- dam and the Noordam, both of 33,930 grt, and the 37,783-grt Rot- terdam. Each vessel has a 1,200-pas- senger capacity.

Honda Will Use U.S.-Flag

Central Gulf Lines Ship

To Transport Cars To U.S.

Under a three-year contract signed recently by Honda Motor

Company and Central Gulf Lines of

New Orleans, a U.S.-flag merchant ship will be used to carry passenger cars from Japan to the U.S. market.

The agreement calls for Central

Gulf to order a new carrier with a capacity of 4,000 cars. Expected to be in service by the fall of 1987, the new vessel will be chartered by Act

Maritime Company, a car-carrying joint venture of Honda and Mitsui

O.S.K. Lines.

Shortly before this contract was awarded, Central Gulf, a subsidiary of International Shipholding Group, announced another agreement with

Toyota to transport 30,000 cars an- nually. Earlier this year, two other

U.S. companies were awarded con- tracts to carry Japanese cars to the

U.S. Maritime Transport Lines will carry cars for Nissan Ltd., and

Overseas Shipholding Group will transport 30,000 cars per year for

Toyota. $9.7-Million Contract

Awarded Bender For

USS Pensacola Overhaul

Bender Shipbuilding & Repair

Co., Inc., Mobile, Ala., recently an- nounced that it has been awarded the regular overhaul of the USS

Pensacola (LSD-38). The contract, valued at $9,670,000, was awarded by the Supervisor of Shipbuilding,

Conversion and Repair, Ports- mouth, Va. It will be administered by the Pascagoula, Miss., office of

SUPSHIP.

Senator Jeremiah Denton and

Congressman Sonny Callahan of

Alabama were pleased to note that peak employment on the overhaul is expected to exceed 160 jobs, includ- ing three major subcontractors from the Mobile area.

The USS Pensacola, a "landing ship, dock," is 562 feet in length by 84 feet in width. It is used for amphibious landings. The vessel is expected to arrive in Mobile in late

August and will be in port approxi- mately nine months. The total con- tract duration will exceed 10 months.

Pickens Elected VP—

Sales And Marketing

At Washington Aluminum %

Robert L. Pickens

Washington Aluminum Company has announced the election of Rob- ert L. Pickens as vice president- sales and marketing. Mr. Pickens, a 1968 graduate of Davidson Col- lege, comes to the company from

Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical

Corporation, where he spent eight- een years working in various sales marketing and operations positions, most recently serving as the sales/ marketing manager of the Hale- thorpe extrusion facility in Balit- more.

When an off-the-shelf crane won't get it off the ship, trust Appleton

Marine.

Specify the hoist speed.

Give us your swing speed requirements. Or simply present your maximum working radius and the weight of your load. We match your specs. Then we do more. We build it tough. So it stays on the toughest job.

Longer. only the strong survive.

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