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Michael J.L. Stracey Named VP-Finance For Sea Containers Michael J.L. Stracey Michael J.L. Stracey has been appointed vice president-finance of Sea Containers Inc., international company in the leasing field for containers, containerships and con- tainer cranes, it was announced by James B. Sherwood, president. Mr. Stracey, who is British and a chartered accountant, comes to Sea Containers from the British-based international Foseco Minsep Group, where he was managing director of its steelworks services contracts di- vision. Mr. Stracey was with Foseco Minsep for four years, and before that spent seven with the General Electric Company Limited — the largest British electrical group—in financial and commercial positions. Sea Containers owns a fleet of 21 purpose-built containerships and a total of 46,000 specialized and general containers, operating world- wide, as well as eight container gan'try cranes working in European ports. Goulds Pumps, Inc. Elevates Three In Engineering Dept. William C. Osborne, vice presi- dent-engineering of Goulds Pumps, Inc., ,Seneca Falls, N.Y., has an- nounced new assignments for three in the firm's industrial pump engi- neering department. Paul T. Lahr has been named manager, application and contract administration. He has been super- visor of the application department. This change reflects more accurate- ly the scope and nature of total departmental responsibility, which includes not only pump application but also contract administration functions. Joining the firm as an application engineer in 1954, he has managed the former application engineering group since 1965. He has written several papers and articles for trade journals and holds a chemical en- gineering degree. Assisting Mr. Lahr are Walter A. Connolly and John T. Strapach. Both have the title assistant mana- ger, application, but with different responsibilities. Mr. Connolly is responsible for the management of application and contract administration work asso- ciated with general industrial pumps. An engineer with the firm since >1959, he became a senior ap- November 1, 1973 21 Did you know Marathon has over 5,700 employees in five shipyards with competence in CRANE BARGES up to 1,600 tons, even spe • cial jackup crane barges that work in rough water TOW BOATS up to 8,000 HP OCEAN TUGS spggig up to 20,000 HP SUPPLY BOATS : up to 16,000 HP I OCEANGOING BARGES SSjgH up to 80,000 DWT ~ 11 LNG and LPG TANKERS I up to 125,000 CM3 JACKUP DRILLING PLATFORMS SS ' < " SEMI- SUBMERSIBLE DRILLING PLATFORMS DRILL. SHIPS MARINE CRANES up to 300'booms and 250 tons lift. f Si, When you need help in the water, call the guys who've been there, Marathon LeTourneau Offshore (713) 224-8265. Chances are, we can either build it or repair it plication engineer in 1969. He is a registered professional engineer in New York State. Mr. Strapach's area of responsi- bility is the management and con- tract administration work associ- ated with nuclear and municipal pumps. Joining the firm in 1965 as an order editor, he later received his mechanical engineering degree and became an application engineer in 1971. Water Transportation Accounting Group Elects Officers Benjamin Abrambowitz, execu- tive vice president of Colonial Tankers, Inc., has been elected president of the Association of Wa- ter Transportation Accounting Of- ficers, the association has an- nounced. Also elected are John F. Moyni- han, group controller, Sea-Land Service, Inc., executive vice presi- dent ; William J. McCutchan, as- sistant treasurer, Japan Lines, re- gional vice president East Coast; Lyle F. Hughes, control, Matson Navigation Co., regional vice presi- dent West Coast; J.H. Rosher, con- troller, Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., regional vice president Gulf Coast, and John P. Mooney, auditor, Far- rell Lines, secretary-treasurer. Yards in Vicksburg, Mississippi, U.S.A., Brownsville, Texas, U S A Clydebank, Scotland. U.K.. Singa- pore, Republic of Singapore
