N.Y. Marine Society
Annual Set For April 14
—M. Lee Rice To Speak
The 210th Annual Dinner of The Marine
Society of the City of New York will be
held on Monday, April 14, 1980, at the
Plaza Hotel in New York City. M. Lee Rice,
president and chief executive officer of Ogden
Transportation Corporation, Inc., will be the
honored guest and speaker. Reservations for
the dinner, which will be held in the Grand
Ballroom of the Plaza, following a reception
from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., may be made by
calling the secretary at The Marine Society,
(212) 425-0448. Capt. Thomas Pineault, 1st
vice president of The Marine Society, is
chairman of the Dinner Committee.
Sayville Ferry Service
Adds New Vessel To Fleet
Sayville Ferry Service Inc. recently an-
nounced the addition of the Fire Island
Clipper to its fleet.
The Clipper (shown above), built by Rob-
ert E. Derecktor at Mamaroneck, N.Y., was
placed into service on the company's Say-
ville, N.Y., to Fire Island run immediately
upon delivery.
Designed by John K. Roper Associates,
Inc. of Hancock, N.H., the Clipper is par-
ticularly well-suited to her environment. She
is powered by three Detroit Diesel 12V71
naturally aspirated engines and will carry
up to 344 passengers at speeds in excess of
20 mph in less than 4 feet of water. To do
this, she has an efficient aluminum hull
structure designed to take full advantage of
the bottom effect.
Performance predictions, based on model
tests conducted by Daniel Savitsky and
Pierre De Saix at Stevens Institute of Tech-
nology, have been fully confirmed in op-
eration.
Owner Ken Stein, president of Sayville
Ferry Service, reports that the Clipper has
met or exceeded all of his expectations in
service on Great South Bay, and predicts
that craft of this type will be used exten-
sively in the passenger service industry.
Fire Island Clipper
Main Engine 3 Detroit Diesel (Allison Div.)
RC 7122-7000
Engine Controls Panish Controls
Shaft Size/Material 2Vz" Aquamet 17
Propeller Columbian type 316 stainless
4-Blade 32" Dia.
Pumps, Bilge Jabsco 18-320-0001
Radar Raytheon 3900
Radiotelephone SSB Modar MO 3002
Searchlight Jabsco Rayline 40833-0240
Running & Navigation Lights Pauluhn Electric Mfg.
Fink And Calvert Named
At Wichita Clutch Co.
Robert P. Fink David Calvert
The appointments of Robert P. Fink as
sales manager and David Calvert as parts
sales supervisor of Wichita Clutch Company,
division of Dana Corporation, P.O. Box 1550,
Wichita Falls, Texas 76307, have been an-
nounced by Thomas F. Long, general man-
ager of the division.
Mr. Fink joined the Formsprag Company,
which is now a unit of Dana Corporation,
in 1976. He was a sales engineer in the Cin-
cinnati, Ohio, area until assuming this cur-
rent assignment. Mr. Fink received his
Bachelor of Science degree in engineering
from the University of Michigan in 1972,
and his master's degree in business admin-
istration from Wayne State University in
1975.
Mr. Calvert joined Wichita Clutch in 1976.
Before assuming his new position in parts
sales, he was a production control super-
visor. Mr. Calvert was graduated from Texas
A & M University with a B.S. degree in in-
dustrial technology in 1972. Prior to that,
he was an officer in the U.S. Army.
Wichita Clutch Company produces a broad
line of quality air-operated clutches and
brakes for the marine and a wide range of
other industries.
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