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Where there's a marine need... NABRICITS CLOSER THAN VOU THINK! RCA Service Keeps Your Marine Equipment Going When your electronic radiomarine equipment works well, it speaks best for RCA service and the man who handles it. This technician is trained in this special skill and you'll find him in any major U.S. port of call. Look him up in your port directory... and then entrust to him the mainte- nance care—remedial or preventive— for all your electronic equipment. For fleet or individual craft, the RCA technician is at your service day and night, the year 'round, in any kind of weather. More information? Contact: RCA Service Company, A Division of RCA, Marine Communications and Navigation Equipment Service, Bldg. 204-2, Camden, N.J. 08101. Or Phone (609) 963-8000, ext. PY-4129 42 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News Service teemed in a graduate of Webb Institute of Naval Architecture. A brief talk was presented during the pro- gram by Rear Adm. William A. Brockett, USN (ret.), president of Webb Institute. Ocean-Oil Intl. Engineering Announces Model Test Services Hector V. Pazos, president of Ocean-Oil International Engineering Corporation of New Orleans, La., has announced that a towing tank facility with a wave maker and modern recording equipment is now available on the Gulf Coast. The towing tank has a useful length of ap- proximately 110 feet, is 13 feet four inches wide, and can be filled with fresh water to a depth of 48 inches. The tank is fitted with ob- servation windows, a wave generator, and a towing carriage. The carriage includes a six- component strain gage balance capable of mea- suring and recording on an eight-channel strip chart recorder. In addition to this towing tank, Mr. Pazos stated that his firm will have available a wave tank equipped with current and wind simula- tion by early 1971. A complete model shop is being set up, and a wind tunnel equipped with smoke generators for flow visualization is in the planning stage. LeTourneau Awarded Contract For Mobile Drilling Platform A contract to build a mobile offshore platform for Penrod Drilling Co., Dallas, Texas, has been awarded LeTourneau Offshore, Inc., Houston, Texas, 77019. The unit will be assembled and launched at LeTourneau's Vicksburg, Miss., facil- ity and will be capable of operating in depths to 300 feet. John A. Livingston Receives W. Selkirk Owen Award At Webb Annual Banquet Officers and principals at the annual alumni banquet shown above with the award recipient, left to right: (seated) Donald L. Caldera, first vice-president, Webb Alumni Association; Victor W. Bethge, second vice- president; Owen H. Oakley, member executive commit- tee; Winston B. Sutter, secretary-treasurer; (standing) Rear Adm. W.A. Brockett, USN (ret.), president of Webb Institute of Naval Architecture; Thomas M. Curran, past president of Webb Alumni Association and former dean (ret.) of Webb; John A. Livingston, recipient of the W. Selkirk Owen Award, and Robert G. Mende, president of Webb Alumni Association. The Webb Institute of Naval Architecture Alumni Association held its annual banquet recently at the Hotel Warwick, New York, N.Y. A reception and dinner preceded an es- pecially interesting program which featured the presentation of the W. Selkirk Owen Award to John A. Livingston. The W. Selkirk Owen Award is given in recognition of outstanding achievement and service to the marine engineering and naval architectural profession and to the alma mater. The recipient represents those qualities es- Singapore may be half-way around the world from Mt. Clemens, Michigan, but shipowners in both locations share the busi- ness philosophy that you can't go too far for a good thing. So, naturally they buy deck hardware from NABRIC0 in Nashville, Tennessee. In fact, people in the water transport industry all over the world consider dis- tance inconsequential in buying deck fittings when they're assured the quality construction NASHVILLE BRIDGE COMPANY P. 0. BOX 239, NASHVILLE, TENN. 37202 A Division of The American Ship Building Co. and experienced en- gineering of NABRICO ... whether it's a DM30 flush-mounted, water-tight hatch . . . winch . . . hose crane . . . locking pin and sock- ets . . . bitts . . . chocks . . . kevels ... or bow steering unit. So, whatever you need in deck hardware ... and no matter how far away you are in distance... you'll find we're right over the horizon when your needs are marine. We'd like a chance to show you how close we can be.
