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SAN DIEGO ASNE MEETS: The San Diego Section of the American Society of Naval Engineers held their spring meeting on April 19, 1973, at the Officers Club, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, Calif. The subject of the meeting was "Sea Control Ship—-the Ship Systems Concept and the Navy's Method of Procurement." The meeting was well attended, and there were many questions from the floor. Participants shown above at the Officers Club are, left to right: Gordon N. Carpenter, National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO), chairman of the San Diego ASNE Section; James F. Barkely, P.R.C. Technical Applications, vice chairman; Clarence L. French, NASSCO, speaker; Comdr. R.L. Thomas, USN, secretary; James A. Stasek, Executive Committee, Golden Gate Committee, and Capt. G.D. Morin, USN, immediate past chairman. Australian Company Offers To Purchase U.S. Naval Shipyard In a letter received by Boston Mayor Kevin White, an Australian company has expressed an interest in purchasing the Boston Naval Shipyard to construct supertank- ers. A billion dollar investment, with estimated employment of 20,- 000, is projected. Roward PTY, Ltd. of Sydney, Australia, wants to reach a firm agreement by August 15, 1973, and begin full production of tankers and other commercial vessels within one year. The letter to the Mayor was from International Funding Associates of Monaco, which has assets projected to $5 billion. The company's president and senior counsel is Jacob J. Gordon of Wor- cester, Mass. Mayor White was informed by Mr. Gordon that the Australian firm, whose managing director is M.L. Edwards, wants to establish a private shipyard in Boston, if and when the Boston Naval Shipyard is closed down. According to Mr. Gordon, all pa- per work must be completed, and an agreement reached within four months. To expedite negotiations, the Associates are working with intermediaries in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. and San Jose, Calif. International Funding Insurance Associates has two subsidiaries, International Monetary Exchange and International Bank of Com- merce. The project would require an in- vestment of $1 billion, and would include employment of from 15,000 to 20,000 employees. Pacific Inland Navig. Applies For Title XI For Tugs And Barges Pacific Inland Navigation Co., Inc., 400 Norton Building. Seattle, Wash., has applied to the Maritime Admini- stration, Washington, D.C., for Title XI mortage and loan insurance to build three tugs and two barges, and to convert an existing barge, at a total estimated cost of $10 million. No construction contract has been a- warded as yet. Two of the tugs will each be 8,000 horsepower, and the third 4,300 horsepower. S.S. Leviathan Museum Receives Artifacts From Todd Executive Great ships, the really great ones, do not just die. Proof of this may be seen in the collection of more than 5,000 photos, artifacts and bits of memorabilia from that "World's Greatest Ship" Leviathan that have been gathered together by Frank O. Braynard, program di- rector of the South Street Seaport Museum, and author of 10 books. Three choice items in this collec- tion were the recent gift of the late John H. Baker, and his wife, Au- drey, via the good offices of Todd Shipyards Corporation's secretary Edwin K. Linen. Mr. Baker had been vice president of the corpora- tion. One is a large framed German Iron Cross, made of hundreds of brass hobnails on a red plush back- ground. Crew members of the Le- viathan, still known by her original German name of Vaterland, creat- ed the cross as the big ship lay idle at Hoboken, N.J., interned. The cross was found and saved by the late John Baker's father, an Army colonel in World War I. The second artifact is a piece of the ship's teak deck rail, rounded and polished, into which is fitted an oval object, decorated with a gilded rope scroll. The third item was a heavy brass key marked "Dog House." The Le- viathan had on her sun deck a dog kennel built to resemble the wood- en house for the ship's florist on the same deck. Mr. Braynard is working on his second of four oversize volumes giving the Leviathan story in depth. Volume I is out and selling well. It may be obtained at the South Street Seaport Museum's bookstore at 25 Fulton Street, New York, N.Y. 10038, and will be mail- ed, postage paid, upon request. The price is $20. Volume II is due out in late 1974, and the two subsequent volumes should be finished by 1981. the 10-2510 Series BELL LOGGER Automatically records Bridge engine orders and Engineroom reply, throttle setting, actual shaft speed and direction. It also logs Control location and such other information as you may require: propeller pitch, course, speed, use of thruster, etc. It prints data for each shaft, if a multiscrew vessel, records it period- ically with the date and exact time to the nearest second. Somewhat smaller and more compact than the earlier models, with a wider tape for greater data capacity, the Logger is designed for platform mounting in any convenient location. It presents its information contin- uously in a lighted digital display and perma- nently records the identical data on tape for easy reading as a sequence of precisely timed events. New delay circuits, controllable from the panel, eliminate needless repetitive printouts as when shaft speed varies slightly due to heavy weather, to minor throttle adjustments, or while the ship is responding to a change in speed demand. A built-in crystal controlled time stan- dard and an emergency power supply ensure continuing accuracy under virtually any ship- board condition. Solid state circuitry and plug-in modules make this a system of high reliability and easy maintenance. The Henschel Bell Logger is often used as the ship's master clock. Any number of remote digital clock units can be provided in a system to show identical exact time any- where on board. Write for complete information and data sheets. Or telephone 617 388 1103. V 11 enschel CORPORATION A UNIT OF GENERAL SIGNAL 14 Cedar Street, Amesbury, Massachusetts 01913. // 77/e UFTMl/t tv&w a/t&zzi- MOD, WtVt. M/77//P fr/Z THtM J" 48 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News
