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Eleven New Members Elected To American Bureau Of Shipping Eleven maritime executives from six coun- tries were elected Members of the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) at the semiannual meeting of the international ship classifica- tion society held in New York City. This brings to 385 the number of ABS Members. The new Members are: Robert Stevens Bassett, vice president, Interocean Management Corporation, Phila- delphia, Pa.; Robert D. Goldbach, presi- dent, Navios Corporation, Nassau, Bahamas; Thomas H. Feehan, president, Brown & Root, Inc., Houston, Texas; Clarence L. French, president, National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, Calif.; Rear Adm. John D. Johnson, Commander, Military Sealift Com- mand, Washington, D.C.; Moriyoshi Kadota, president, Idemitsu Tanker Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan; Blakely Smith, Maritime Consultant, Houston, Texas; Vice Adm. Jonas Correia da Costa Sobrinho, president, Companhia do Lloyd Brasileiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; William H. White, senior vice president, Davie S.B. Ltd., Lauzon, Quebec, Canada; Kenneth E. Sheehan, vice president, Ameri- can Bureau of Shipping, New York, N.Y., and Robert C.F. Ho, managing director, Fair- mont Shipping (H.K.) Ltd., Hong Kong. The American Bureau of Shipping is a nongovernmental, worldwide ship classifica- tion society which establishes internationally recognized standards, called Rules, for the design, construction, and periodic survey of merchant vessels and other marine structures. ATLAS 16 in. Radar Display on Bridge of S/S Maryland CCL Shipcare Limited New Marine Service An entirely new marine servicing company which will operate on a worldwide basis is CCL Shipcare Limited of Winchester, Hamp- shire, England. CCL Shipcare, which was re- cently formed out of the established Conti- nental Combustions Limited, is a subsidiary of the Petrocon Group, and offers a very wide range of professional, technical ships support services which have been designed to assist shipowners in keeping their vessels in profitable service. CCL specializes in en- gine room and propulsion machinery, and deck cargo-handling gear and is fully staffed with qualified marine engineers on immediate call to travel anywhere in the world, offer- ing extensive practical knowledge of a great variety of marine equipment, machinery sys- tems and the operational needs of tankers, containerships, cargo vessels, etc. The CCL support services comprise of three divisions, all organized so that as much engineering work as is practically possible is carried out onboard on voyage, thus min- imizing emergency breakdown costs and drydock, repair yard costs, etc. The three divisions are: (1) Systems En- gineering —- A project engineering team of marine engineers offering a full contractual service from onboard technical survey through to design, installation and commis- sioning of complete machinery systems; (2) Technical Services — Experienced, spe- cialist teams of marine engineers immedi- ately available to be flown to vessels at sea, anywhere, anytime, to trouble-shoot, over- haul, etc., and assist ship crews with special technical problems, and (3) Equipment and Supplies — A professional procurement team of marine engineers experienced in providing fast and accurate identification of onboard need, location and replacement of machinery or spares, purchase of spares in most com- petitive market home or abroad, with con- tinuous and skilled expediting from source to delivery—backup installation and commis- sioning services if required. CCL Shipcare Limited is based in Win- chester. Other work bases are in Egypt and Persian Gulf, and the company is repre- sented in Glasgow, Copenhagen, Rotterdam, Goteborg, Oslo, New York, Houston, New Orleans, Singapore, Piraeus, and most re- cently Helsinki. For further information about CCL Ship- care services or for literature, contact A.C. Jones, CCL Shipcare Limited, Easton Lane, Winnall, Winchester, Hants, England, and Christopher Bolger, Alexander Marine As- sociates, Inc., P.O. Box 1048, Port Washing- ton, N.Y. 11050. INTEROCEAN MANAGEMENT EQUIPS TANKER FLEET WITH KRUPP ATLAS RADARS! ATLAS 6500 BCA After extensive tests and evaluations of Krupp ATLAS 16 inch radars on the U.S. flag tankers S/S ALLEGIANCE (34,800 DWT) and S/S MARYLAND (264,000 DWT), Interocean Management Corp., Philadelphia, decided to install ATLAS radars on a fleet wide retrofit program. On several of their U.S. flag vessels which went into service only last year, the radar equipment originally supplied was replaced by ATLAS radars. The ATLAS radars were supplied through Electro-Nav, Inc., New York. Because of their proven reliability, Interocean Management Corporation selected the ATLAS 16 inch radars with Basic Collision Avoidance features, types ATLAS 6500 BCA (3 cm, X-Band) and ATLAS 6500 S BCA (10 cm, S-Band). These radars feature: • Automatic target detection at preset ranges with Dual Guard Zones • Fast measurement of target range and bearing through electronic VRM and Electronic Bearing Marker (EBM) • Easy plotting and fast situation assessment with reflection plotter and digital plot clock • Checking of most threatening target through compass stabilized EBM • Superb picture quality on all ranges from .3 to 72, nm through unique fully solid state transceivers for both X-Band and S-Band For full collision avoidance capability, the ATLAS radars can be interfaced with Iotron, Sperry, or other collision avoidance systems. Full interswitching of the transmitters is available. WB&BTSt lV/ rvfcrS® Interocean Management Corporation Tanker S/S Maryland ^NATIONAL, INC. ELEKTRONIK DIVISION i, TEXAS 77058 (713)488 0784 TITLE- wrQI I WOULD LIKE MORE Y tl Oi INFORMA TION PLEASE! ATLAS 6500 BCA PHONE- STATE ZIP " 1 wecGD, vemoum/h/ ONS HOLD OLMS M AMCrrHER, G/N //V m RSSV Mast with ATLAS S-Band & X-Band Antennas 48 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News
