British Shipbuilding Order
For Burmeister & Wain
For the first time since the war, Burmeister &
Wain's shipyard has received a shipbuilding order
from a British owner. Cory Maritime Ltd., a sub-
sidiary company of Wm. Cory & Son Ltd., Lon-
don, has ordered two bulk carriers, each of 50,950
deadweight tons, for delivery during the second
half of 1973.
The two ships are of a bulk carrier type which
Burmeister & Wain build in series, of which seven
vessels have already been delivered, and a total of
five are now on order.
Both ships will be equipped with a seven-cyl-
inder B&W diesel engine type K74EF, having a
maximum continuous rating of 13,100 bhp. The
ships will have a speed of about 15.5 knots.
Gulf Oil Co.—Transportation
Names Five Directors To
Pittsburgh Headquarters Posts
Gulf Oil Company-Transportation, the new-
ly organized division of Gulf Oil Corporation,
has appointed five new directors to headquar-
ters positions in Pittsburgh, Pa. The announce-
ments were made by P.B. Binsted, president
of the new company which is charged with
managing Gulf's tanker and pipeline operations
around the world.
The new officials are: D.P. Ash, director,
deve'opment and regional coordination in the
former transportation coordination department
of Gulf Oil Corporation, who has been named
director, coordination for Gulf Oil-Transporta-
tion; J.I. Craik, director, marine and offshore
in the old department, who has been appoint-
ed director, marine for the new company;
E.J.H. Mules, former vice-president, transpor-
tation for Gulf Oil Company, East Asia, who
has been named director, chartering; C.E.
Nowak, former departmental financial rep-
resentative for transportation in the comptrol-
ler department of the corporation, who has
been appointed director, finance and economic
services; and A.O. Smyth, director, pipeline
and inland, who has been named director, pipe-
line.
Mr. Ash is a native of Stamford, Conn., and
received his A.B. degree in 1947 from Dart-
mouth College and the M.B.A. degree from
Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business
Administration in 1949. He joined Gulf's trans-
portation department in Pittsburgh in 1952
and held various managerial positions with
Gulf and its transportation subsidiaries in
New York, Naples and London before being
named vice-president, transportation, for Gulf
Oil Company, Eastern Hemisphere in 1967.
The next year, he was given the additional
responsibility of transportation representative
for Gulf Oil Trading Company, and in 1969,
he returned to the Pittsburgh executive offices
of the corporation as director of development
and regional coordination on the staff of the
worldwide coordinator for transportation.
Mr. Craik was born in Portsmouth, Eng-
land, and was graduated from Southhampton
University School of Navigation in 1944. He
joined Gulf in 1957 and later became manager,
charters and traffic for Gulf Oil Marine Agen-
cy S.A. in Antwerp, Belgium. He moved to
Tokyo in 1962, where he became manager of
transportation for Pacific Gulf Oil Company,
and in 1967, was transferred to Pittsburgh as
director, marine and offshore for the trans-
portation department.
Mr. Mules is a native of Delabole, Cornwall,
England, and attended the Thames Nautical
Training College at Greenhithe, Kent, where
his studies included practical marine training
aboard the H.M.S. Worcester. He was gradu-
ated from the Royal Naval College at Green-
wich in 1942. He joined Gulf Eastern Com-
pany in London as a chartering broker in 1961
and was named chartering and scheduling ad-
visor in 1966. In 1968, he was transferred to
Tokyo as manager, transportation, for Gulf
Oil Company-Asia, and additionally, named
transportation representative for Gulf Oil
Trading Company in the Far East.
Mr. Nowak was born in Booth, Texas, and
received his B.B.A. degree from the University
of Texas in 1949. He joined Gulf's Houston
production department in 1949 and held vari-
ous accounting positions until he was named
director of accounting for Gulf Refining Com-
pany in 1959. In 1962, he was transferred to
the Pittsburgh executive offices of the corpora-
tion as director of profit and loss accounting
for the transportation department, and in the
same year was transferred to the comptroller's
staff as a departmental accountant. In 1968, he
was named accounting coordinator and depart-
mental financial representative for the trans-
portation department.
Mr. Smyth is a native of Pittsburg, Okla.,
and was graduated from Oklahoma State Uni-
versity in 1950, with a B.S. degree in industrial
engineering. He joined Gulf Refining Com-
pany, in Buras, La., in the same year and held
various engineering and supervisory positions
in Gulf pipeline operations until 1957, when he
was transferred to the Pittsburgh executive
offices of the corporation as a staff engineer
in the transportation department. In 1961, he
went to Houston as an estimating, planning
and design engineer and subsequently spent
lyi years on loan to the Colonial Pipeline
Company, of which Gulf is a part owner, as
the hydraulics engineer responsible for design
and selection of pumping equipment. He re-
turned to Pittsburgh in 1967 as director, pipe-
line and inland, for the transportation depart-
ment.
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