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No. 24 Volume 43
ON THE
COVER
Cover photograph by
Perry McMichael,
Pascagoula, Miss.
Hudship's First 185' Supply
Vessel Delivered to
GulfFleet Marine
PAGE 8
Post Conference Report
89th SNAME Annual Meeting
PAGE 36
Award $2.7 Million Repair
Contract To Todd Yard
For Dredge Overhaul
The U.S. Army Corps of Engi-
neers, New Orleans District, has
awarded a $2,781,904 contract to
Todd Shipyards Corp., Galveston,
Texas, for drydocking and repair-
ing the Corps' dredge Langfitt.
The Corps uses the vessel princi-
pally on the Mississippi River
channel, the Mississippi River-
Gulf Outlet, and the Calcasieu
Bar Channel to maintain a deep-
draft navigation channel for
oceangoing vessels.
Veliotis Takes New Post
With General Dynamics
P. Takis Veliotis has been des-
ignated executive vice president-
marine and international opera-
tions of General Dynamics Corp.,
according to a recent announce-
ment by David S. Lewis, chair-
man and chief executive officer.
The post, according to Mr. Lewis,
is a new one that includes re-
sponsibility for the organization's
shipbuilding and major corpora-
tive expansion.
Mr. Veliotis, who joined Gen-
eral Dynamics in 1973 as presi-
dent and general manager of the
company's Quincy Shipbuilding
Division, has most recently been
general manager of the Electric
Boat Division. He will be suc-
ceeded as general manager at
Electric Boat by Fritz G. Tovar,
who has been general manager
of Electric Boat's Quonset Point,
R.I., facility. Mr. Tovar will be
succeeded by William W. Bennet
who has been assistant general
manager at Quonset Point.
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UDSHIP
We've added the 185 foot and the 203 foot
tug/supply vessels to our line of quality boats.
It's what you've demanded from us and what
we can deliver.
At our new seventeen acre shipyard we're
building larger vessels for our old friends and
some new friends too.
THE 185 FOOT
CHARACTERISTICS
Length overall 185'
Beam 40
Depth 14'
Design water line 10'
HUDSON SHIPBUILDERS INC.
456 River Edge Road (West Yard), P.O. Box Q, Pascagoula MS 39567
601-762-4626 TELEX 589-927 HUDSHIP PASC
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