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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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