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SNAME San Diego Section Holds Joint Meeting With ASNE Participants at the joint meeting, left to right: (stand- ing) T.S. Hand Jr., vice chairman of the San Diego Sec- tion of SNAME; C.S. Sinclair, Section chairman; Capt. N. Osborn, outgoing chairman, the American Society of Naval Engineers, Inc., and R.E. Patron, chairman, the American Society of Naval Engineers, Inc.; (seated) D.L. Brining and P.H. Benson, speakers, and G.A. Uberti, secretary-treasurer of the San Diego Section. The regular monthly meeting of the San Diego Section of The Society of Naval Ar- chitects and Marine Engineers was held as a joint meeting with the American Society of Naval Engineers at the San Diego Yacht Club on February 17, 1971. Following dinner, a technical paper entitled "Marine Fouling and its Prevention" was pre- sented by P.H. Benson and D.L. Brining of Lockheed Ocean Laboratory in San Diego, Calif. The qualitative and quantitative aspects of marine biological fouling and environmental factors influencing its character were dis- cussed. Effectiveness of presently used sys- tems were compared, and future needs for fouling prevention, projecting present meth- ods and future approaches which warrant fur- ther research, were indicated. An extended question and answer period, conducted by Mr. Benson, proved of great in- terest to attending members of both Societies. A suggestion by C.S. Sinclair, chairman of the San Diego Section, The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, to make this joint meeting an annual event found great response by the attending members. H. Lee Sellers Jr. Named Port Operations Director At Port Of Long Beach Capt. John Rountree, director of port opera- tions for the Long Beach Harbor Department since 1966, has submitted his request for re- tirement to the board of harbor commission- ers. At the same time, the board approved the promotion of Col. H. Lee Sellers Jr. to the va- cated post. Colonel Sellers was previously as- sistant director of port operations. Colonel Sellers was Chief of the Export Control Division, Western Area, Military Traffic Management and Terminal Service, prior to his retirement and subsequent post with the port. He was responsible for the movement of millions of tons of Defense De- partment cargo from the 14 Western states through major Pacific Coast ports. He is credited with pioneering the now widespread use of containers to move Government sup- plies by ship. Captain Rountree, a graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, was Commander of the 11th Coast Guard District at the time of his retirement from the Coast Guard in 1958. Early in 1959, he was named traffic manager for the Port of Long Beach, and was appoint- ed director of port operations 4^ years ago. The Port of Long Beach is currently creat- ing a 300-acre container complex, which will be the largest in the Pacific area by 1973. Bureau Veritas Provides Worldwide Service In Ship Tonnage Admeasurement A tonnage survey office was created at the Paris Administration of Bureau Veritas in 1968 to satisfy requests made by several shipowners for the issuance of tonnage certificates for their vessels. Failing a universal tonnage rule applicable to all ships, irrespective of their flag, it is always necessary to modify the tonnage of a vessel when her nationality changes. It is therefore interest- ing for owners, when purchasing a ship they in- tend to keep or which they seek to bring under Bureau Veritas class, to know that the appropri- ate tonnage certificate can be issued or prepared by that classification society. This is specially the case of ships flying Liberian, Panamanian, or Greek flags. Over 20 nations have recognized Bureau Veritas, or authorized them, either for the issuance of national tonnage certificates or for the calculation of the gross and net tonnages. As to new buildings, they are first measured up on drawings (lines plan, general arrangement, engine room plans, etc.), after which a thorough survey of the ship is carried out at appropriate stages to check the readings made off the plans. For instance, where ships are built in Japan, these steps are carried out in Japan and the final calculations are carried out in Paris. The development of Bureau Veritas Tonnage Survey Office activities since 1968 is shown in the following table: 1968 1969 1970 i^/o/'tg No. of Ships 140 186 264 +41.9 No. of Certificates 190 224 311 +38.8 Gross Register Tons 675,913 785,429 1,008,354 +28.4 An idea of what one-million grt measured up for tonnage by Bureau Veritas represent is given by comparing that figure to the 15,122,185 grt of the whole fleet of ships classed with that society. The figure of 311 tonnage certificates issued in 1970 breaks down as follows: National Ton- nage Certificates, 236; Suez Canal Certificates, 35; Panama Canal Certificates, 40. The work of the Bureau Veritas Tonnage Survey Office has been made much easier by the assistance given by a computer geared to calculate a ship's gross and net tonnages under any tonnage system. Two features of the computer assistance which are of interest both to owners and to ton- nage authorities are the accuracy of results and the speed with which the final figures are ob- tained. '•NO! THAT'*rtor WNY THF^CAU HIM RfAK-APWXA/.. " WANTED Manager For Small Shipyard Capable of estimating on barge and tug construction. Excellent future. Write giving past experience. 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