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Jered Brown Names

Caskey And Fedorko

To Management Positions

Maurice R. Caskey Michalina E. Fedorko

Maurice R. Caskey has been appointed director of program management and Michali- na (Michey) E. Fedorko has been named manager of customer support at Jered Brown

Brothers, Inc. a Troy, Mich., engineering and manufacturing company.

Mr. Caskey joins Jered Brown Brothers after a 2-1/2-year stint as a management consul- tant in Pascagoula, Miss. He was with Ingalls

Shipbuilding in Pascagoula for 12 years prior to that.

Prior to this appointment, Ms. Fedorko had been sales manager for the company's parts and service group based in Auburn Hills, Mich. She held prior posts at General Magnetic Corpora- tion in Dallas and the Department of Justice (Office of Attorney General) in Washington,

D.C.

As customer support manager, Ms. Fedorko will be responsible for the support of both Jered and other Vickers Marine Engineering Division companies in service. This includes spare parts, provisioning documentation, and field service.

Delegation From China

Visits Sperry Marine

Shown above during the recent visit to Sperry Marine headquarters in Charlottesville, Va., are, left to right: Sper- ry marketing manager Nolasco Da Cunha; Shi Youkui,

Navy Equipment Department (NED); Guo Bingyi, CSSC

System; Tan Zhenfan, HSEI; Ken Bowes, Sperry Marine manager for market development; Hao Yanling, HSEI: Luo

Chao, chief delegate, HSEI: Shi Weizhong, Commission of

Science; Shan Fulin, NED; and Sperry marketing manager

George X. Tsirimokos.

A seven-member delegation from China's

Harbin Shipbuilding Engineering Institute (HSEI) recently traveled to Sperry Marine

Inc.'s main headquarters in Charlottesville, Va., to discuss Sperry's new Integrated Bridge Sys- tem and one of its key components, the

RASCAR touch-screen radar and ARPA.

Hosted by Sperry Marine manager for market development Ken Bowes and marketing man- agers Nolasco Da Cunha and George Tsirimo- kos, the group was shown how Sperry's new

Integrated Bridge can help modernize bridge equipment in China's growing shipbuilding pro- gram.

For full information on Sperry Marine Equip- ment,

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Marine Travelift 35BFM

Mobile Hoist Available

With Four-Wheel Drive

The 35BFM mobile boat hoist from Marine

Travelift, Inc., offers an optional four-wheel drive feature that is available on the 15-, 25-, 35-, and 50-ton capacity hoists.

The 35BFM allows operators to serve custom- ers faster, more efficiently and more economi- cally. It features an open-end beam forward design with all slings power adjustable from the enclosed operator's compartment. The unit has a four-hoist winch design with double the hoist speed of previous comparable models and inde- pendent hoist control of all four corners.

The four-wheel drive option provides hydro- static direct drive on all wheels for improved traction, adding extra gradeability and rough- terrain mobility to the units.

For complete details on the Marine Travelift 35BFM, four-wheel drive system, or their com- plete line of mobile boat hoists with capacities from 15 to 500 tons,

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MarAd Approves $21-Million

Sale Of Three Supertankers

To Belmont VLCC Of Boston

The sale of three supertankers to Belmont

VLCC, Boston, for a total of over $21 million has been approved by the Maritime Administra- tion.

All three vessels weigh over 264,000 dead- weight tons, and all were built with construction subsidy in the mid-1970s.

Belmont will acquire the Massachusetts from

Boston VLCC Inc. for $6 million and will pay

MarAd $7.1 million for the New York and $8.1 million for the Maryland.

The New York and the Maryland were ac- quired by MarAd following foreclosure proceed- ings.

Watercom Offers Extra

Convenience Of Fax Machine

Message Transmission —Literature Available

Subscribers to Watercom are discovering a unique feature of the only direct dial, marine telecommunications system available. They're discovering that Watercom operates with fac- simile (FAX) machines.

Prior to the advent of Watercom, essential vessel information had to be transmitted verbal- ly or through the mail. Errors frequently oc- curred through misunderstanding of verbal in- formation, and delays of up to two weeks were commonplace when sending information via reg- ular mail. Now a vessel captain can transmit exact copies of information in less than a minute and retain the originals for his records.

John G. Smith, vice president of marketing and sales for Watercom, said the company's cus- tomers see FAX capability as an efficient, mon- ey-saving tool. Vessel captains find FAX ma- chines especially convenient, because they can transmit information after regular business hours or on weekends, and they can send up to 99 copies of reports during one transmission.

New, state-of-the-art FAX machines current- ly in use with Watercom are similar to copy machines. The FAX machines at the home office may be placed on "auto record," allowing the captain to transmit when he has time. When he is ready to transmit, he enters the home office

FAX number on the Watercom keypad. After receiving a tone, he pushes a button on the FAX machine and begins his transmission. The infor- mation transmitted will then be available to home office personnel when they arrive the next morning, after a holiday or weekend.

Reports which may be transmitted using FAX include: boat order; deck logs; tow diagrams; vessel status; fuel levels; engineer logs; requisi- tions; personnel records; and for insurance claims, even photographs of boats or tows that have been damaged.

Richard A. Baker, president of Waterway

Communications Systems, Inc., commented, "The time and communications cost savings our customers realize when they purchase FAX in conjunction with Watercom are significant.

There is no chance of misunderstanding, saving the vessel captain time and the company mon- ey."

Watercom commenced commercial service in

March 1987, along 4,000 miles of inland water- ways, including the Mississippi, Ohio and Illi- nois rivers, as well as the Gulf Intracoastal

Waterway.

For further information and free literature,

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Sensitive Regulator From Circle

Seal Assures Accuracy For

Corrosive Or Ultra-Pure Fluids

A highly sensitive pressure reducing regulator from Circle Seal, called the PVR Series, is said by the manufacturer to be ideal for corrosive or ultra pure fluids. Its design, featuring a large diaphragm and small seat, provides perform- ance equal to constant bleed type regulators.

Made with a rigid PVC body, Teflon dia- phragm, Kel-F seat with synthetic sapphire ball, and 316 stainless steel or Monel trim, the PVR regulator provides outstanding corrosion resist- ance.

Five pressure ranges are available to assure sensitive, accurate control of outlet pressures: from 2 inches to 18 inches of water, 0 to 6 psi, 0 to 20 psi, 0 to 40 psi and 0 to 60 psi. Inlet pres- sures are to 3,000 psi. It can also be supplied for back pressure regulation for inlet pressures to 60 psi. Flow capacity is Cv = .001; ESEOD = .025 inch. Withstands temperatures from 0 F. to + 125 F. One-quarter-inch female pipe ports.

Panel mounting is optional.

These sensitive and accurate regulators are ideally suited for use in chromatography, pro- cess stream sampling, bubbling operations, calo- rimetry, instrument calibration and in research laboratories where systems require a high degree of sensitive pressure control.

For more information and free literature from

Circle Seal Controls,

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Shipmate Introduces RS-8100

Handheld Radiotelephone

Robertson-Shipmate, Inc. of Hauppauge,

N.Y., recently introduced a new full-featured, synthesized marine VHF/FM radiotelephone, the RS-1800, with all functions controlled di- rectly from the compact plug-in handset. A sec- ond identical handset is standard, thereby pro- viding the additional benefit of a built-in inter- com. All other electronics are contained in a "hideaway" box that can be installed in any con- venient location.

The RS-1800 is an advanced system, with sim- plex/semiduplex operation, all U.S., Interna- tional and Weather channels, dual watch, scan- ning of all or any 10 preprogrammed channels, display and keyboard backlighting, remote splash-proof speakers, built-in P.A. and hailer capabilities, main station priority, and rugged spray resistant construction that permits hand- set installation in even the most exposed loca- tions.

For complete information and free literature on the new RS-1800,

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