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SKY CLIMBER® IS AN EASY SET-UP FOR A LADY A Sky Climber powered scaffold sets up complete in less than an hour. Changes to new drop positions in only 15 minutes. Converts excessive set up time, as with tubular scaffolding, into productive work time. In addition, Sky Climber speeds up work by taking men and materials to perfect work levels without fatigue, and with tested safety features. This kind of set up, get up and go is what helped the Q.E.2 get ready for her trial run—on time! It's also what led another shipyard to report: "rigging and dismantling time cut 93%; capital expenditures reduced 50% the first year." Find out how shipyards around the world are saving time and iabor with Sky Climber Systems. Write for literature. SKY CLIMBER, INC. 17311 S. Main St., Gardena, Calif. 90247. A Subsidiary of Western Gear Corporation. wesTeRn GEAR CORPORATION eating oils refined at Marcus Hook, Pa. to Sunoco terminals at Newark, N.J. and Providence, R.I. These barges will also transport gasoline and distillates from the Newark Terminal to terminals at Albany, Brooklyn, Oceanside, Newburgh, and Peekskill, N.Y.; Hackensack, N.J.; and at Hartford, Conn. The new tug—Chesapeake Sun—will power the barges. A sixth barge, with a 115,000- barrel capacity, is under construc- tion at Todd's Shipyard in Hous- ton. It will transport gasoline and distillates from Sun's Corpus Chri- sti, Texas refinery to the company's terminals at Tampa, Port Ever- glades and Jacksonville, Fla. This barge will also move gasoline and lubricating oils from the Marcus Hook, Pa. refinery through the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal to Baltimore and to Sunoco termi- nals at Wilmington, N.C., Jackson- ville and Tampa, Fla. Supplying power for this barge will be a sec- ond Main Iron Works built twin- screw tug with a 3,800-hp engine. Sun Oil Awards Contracts To Build Tugs And Barges To meet rising demands for wa- ter transportation of its petroleum products, Sun Oil Company has contracted for the construction of six barges and two tugboats in three southwestern United States shipyards. Five barges are being built at the SBA Shipyard, Jennings, La. A sixth barge is under construction at Todd's Shipyard, Houston, Tex- as. Main Iron Works, Houma, La., is building the two tugboats. Three of the SBA barges will transport petroleum products to customers from the company's 66,- 000 barrel-a-day refinery now being built at Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. They include a 70,000 barrel barge with heating coils to facilitate de- livery of hot asphalt to the Puerto Rico Water Resources Authority, a 60,000 barrel naptha barge for delivering petrochemicals feed stocks to a Union Carbide plant in Puerto Rico, and a 25,000 barrel barge for transporting heavy gas oil. A twin-screw, 3,800-horsepower tugboat being constructed by Main Iron Works will power the three barges in Puerto Rican service and perform harbor tasks at Yabucoa. The other two barges being built at the SBA Shipyard are 25,- 000 barrel units for carrying lubri- Marcona Appoints Robert E. Chisholm To New Marine Post Robert E. Chisholm Robert E. Chisholm has been named to the newly created posi- tion of assistant general manager, Marine Group for Marcona Cor- poration, San Francisco, Calif., ac- cording to an announcement by H. C. Downer, senior vice-president, Marine Group. Mr. Chisholm was formerly man- ager of the Chartering and Traffic Division of Texaco, Inc., New York City. Prior to that time he served 19 years with the Caltex organiza- tion in a variety of managerial posi- tions at locations throughout the world. He is a graduate of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, N.Y. and also completed the advanced man- agement course at Harvard Uni- versity. Mr. Chisholm will establish resi- dence in the San Francisco Bay Area upon completion of the school year in New York. Kerr Steamships Ltd. Announce Appointments Kerr Steamships Limited offices in Montreal, Canada have announ- ced that W.I. Richmond has been appointed a director of both Kerr and Dominion Chartering Co. T.E. Kirkbride was named a vice-presi- dent, and C.B. Neilsen was appoint- ed operations manager of Kerr. 6 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News