Marathon Manufacturing Co.
Announces Four Promotions
Eldon P. Nuss David C. Crawford
James L. Fox Forrest R. Quails
Wayne D. Harbin, president and chairman
of the board of Marathon Manufacturing Com-
pany, Houston, Texas, recently announced the
elections of Eldon P. Nuss as executive vice
president and David C. Crawford as senior vice
president of the company, and the appoint-
ments of James L. Fox and Forrest R. Quails
to vice presidents.
Prior to his appointment, Mr. Nuss served as
senior vice president of the company. He joined
Marathon Manufacturing in 1969 after 14 years
with Arthur Young & Company, during which
time he advanced through progressive manage-
ment responsibilities to principal in the CPA
firm's Houston office. Mr. Nuss, a native of
Waterloo, Iowa, graduated from the Univer-
sity of Iowa with honors, and also from the
Harvard Graduate School of Business Advanc-
ed Management Program.
Mr. Crawford has been associated with
Marathon since 1971 and will continue to serve
as president of Marathon LeTourneau Offshore
Pte., Ltd., Singapore, a subsidiary of Mara-
thon. Mr. Crawford, a graduate of Norwich
University where he earned his B.S. degree,
and of the University of Illinois where he earn-
ed his M.S. degree, was formerly associated
with Levingston Shipbuilding Company.
Mr. Fox has been employed by the company
since 1946. In 1972, he was elected president
of Marathon Shipbuilding Company .(U.K.)
Limited, a subsidiary of Marathon located in
Clydebank, Scotland. Mr. Fox will remain in
Scotland and continue as president of the
Marathon subsidiary.
Mr. Quails is a 30-year veteran of the rail-
road traffic and manufacturing industry. He is
an alumnus of Southern Methodist University.
Mr. Quails joined Marathon Tank Car Com-
pany in 1962. Marathon maintains plants at
Sheldon, Angleton, and Houston, Texas for the
manufacture and repair of railroad tank and
hopper cars. Mr. Quails will remain as presi-
dent of Marathon Tank Car Company.
Marathon Manufacturing Company is the
world leader in the manufacture of self-elevat-
ing mobile offshore drilling platforms with di-
visions in Vicksburg, Miss., Brownsville, Tex-
as, and Clydebank, Scotland, as well as Singa-
pore. Marathon also manufactures industrial
metal products, electrochemical products, and
household products.
16 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News
World's Biggest Ship
Delivered To Globtik Tankers
The 477,000-dwt Globtik Tokyo, the world's
largest tanker, built by the Kure Shipyard of
IHI (Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries
Co., Ltd.) for Globtik Tankers Ltd., the U.K.,
recently completed her sea trials.
Her first trial run (preliminary sea trials)
was made in the Iyonada Sea off Ehime Pre-
fecture, and the Hyuganada Sea off Miyazaki
Prefecture, for test operations and adjustment
of machinery and equipment on board.
The official sea trials were held from Janu-
ary 25 to January 31 in the sea off the Fukue-
jima, Nagasaki Prefecture for speed test, turn-
ing test, and final adjustment of machinery
and equipment.
The Globtik Tokyo was delivered to her
owner on February 20, and then chartered to
Tokyo Tanker Company for hauling crude oil
from the Persian Gulf to the Nippon Oil
Group's central terminal station (CTS) at Kiire
in Kagoshima Prefecture.
Construction on the Globtik Tokyo was start-
ed in April 1972 at Kure Shipyard, and she was
launched in October of the same year.
The ship is approximately 1,244 feet in over-
all length, and about 105 feet longer than the
372,000-dwt Nisseki Maru, the world's largest
tanker now in service. The height from the
ship's bottom to the top of the funnels is about
230 feet, equivalent to that of a 20-story build-
ing. She is capable of carrying about 580,000
kiloliters of crude oil on a single voyage.
Approximate measurements and principal
particulars of the Globtik Tokyo are: length
overall, 1,244 feet; breadth molded, 204 feet,
and depth molded, 118 feet. Her main engine
is a 45,000-shp IHI turbine, with a service speed
of 15 knots. The maximum complement is 50,
and the cargo holding capacity is about 20,518,-
363 cubic feet.
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