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National Steel And Shipbuilding Delivers Second Of Four 90,000-Ton Tankers To OSG y The Overseas Ohio incorporates special pollution abatement and related safety features and is of the maximum size that can transit the Panama Canal. Raytheon Promotes A. Newell Garden A. Newell Garden A. Newell Garden has been promoted to director of public relations of Raytheon Company, Lexington, Mass. His responsi- bilities will include both external publicity and press relations, and internal editorial services. Mr. Garden joined the diversi- fied electronics company in 1953, and has held a series of publica- tions and public relations posts. Most recently, he was public re- lations manager, corporate and commercial. Before joining Raytheon, he served for three years as public information officer for the U.S. Coast Guard in New York City. Earlier, he served as a line offi- cer aboard cutters in the Arctic and North Atlantic. He received a B.S. degree in naval engineering from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in 1946, and has done graduate work in public relations at Boston Uni- versity. He is a graduate of Raytheon's Advanced Manage- ment Program. Mr. Garden is a corporator of the West Newton Savings Bank and a trustee of Newton-Wellesley Hospital. He is a member of the Public Relations Society of Amer- ica, the Publicity Club of Boston, The American Society of Naval Engineers, and the Institute of Navigation. Active in boating safety, he is chairman of the Safe Boating Committee of the New England Marine Trade Associa- tion, and is a founding director of the New England Safe Boat- ing Council. The 90,000-deadweight-ton S/S Overseas Ohio, the second of four San Clemente-Class tankers or- dered for subsidiaries of Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. (OSG), was delivered on October 20 to its owner by National Steel and Ship- building Co., San Diego, Calif. The ships were contracted for in 1973 in anticipation of the com- pletion of the Trans-Alaska Pipe- line, and are being built without Federal construction differential subsidies. The NASSCO-designed San Clemente-Class tankers incorpo- rate special pollution abatement and related safety features, in- cluding double bottoms, inert gas systems, anticollision radar, high- capacity clean ballast systems, and sewage treatment plants. They are 894 feet long, have beams of 105 feet, and depths of 64 feet, and are of the maximum size that can transit the Panama Oceaneering Int'l To Centralize Management In Santa Barbara, Calif. Oceaneering International, Inc. (OCER), 10575 Katy Freeway, Houston, Texas 77024, has an- nounced that as an integral part of its plan to bring together its management functions into one central location, it will establish an executive headquarters at Santa Barbara, Calif. Most of the corporate executives presently lo- cated in Houston, and some who have been on foreign assignments around the world, will be relo- cated to Santa Barbara. A sub- stantial sales and purchasing staff will remain in the Houston office, which will continue to function as a major U.S. representation office of Oceaneering. Management believes that the cost of the move will not have a material adverse effect on Ocean- eering's financial position and, moreover, that the benefits of the centralization will more than outweigh the initial costs and temporary disruption which may result. Canal. The latest in automation has been designed in the ship's operational controls. OSG is the only publicly owned company engaged exclusively in the ocean transportation of bulk commodities in both the world- wide and U.S. shipping markets. OSG is the largest independent owner of unsubsidized U.S.-flag tankers. The name Overseas Ohio is in honor of the Standard Ohio Com- pany (Ohio) which has chartered all four of the new tankers. The first one, Overseas Chicago, is now in service. The other two sisterships, named Overseas New York and Overseas Washington, are scheduled for delivery this month and February 1978. National Steel and Shipbuilding Company is equally owned by Kaiser Industries Corporation and Morrison-Knudsen Company, Inc. Bids Requested To Construct 200-Foot Double-End Ferry The Virginia Department of Highways and Transportation is seeking bids for the construction of one 200-foot by 64-foot by 16-foot all-steel double-end pas- senger/vehicle ferry. The vessel, designed by Coast Engineering Company, 711 West Twenty-First Street, Norfolk, Va. 23517, will operate between Jamestown and Scotland, Va., on the James River. The designed capacity of the ferry is 52 autos and 350 pas- sengers, at a draft of 9 feet 0 inches (±). Propulsion will be by a single diesel engine con- nected through a double reverse/ reduction gear to shafts turning propellers at each end of the vessel. Copies of the plans, specifica- tions and bidding documents may be obtained by interested bidders from Department of Highways and Transportation, 310 Old High- way Building, 1221 East Broad Street, Richmond, Va., Attention: T. Ashby Newby, Purchasing Agent. Chotin makes sure what you ship is what they get. Your company works hard to produce the finest product available and expends thousands of dollars assuring that the quality of your chemicals or petroleum products is main- tained at a high level. All the money spent on quality control is wasted if the liquids you produce are contaminated when they're barged in out- dated, outmoded and poorly maintained equipment. And the real problem is you generally never know . .. until it's too late. At Chotin we maintain the most up to date fleet of towboats and barges in the United States. The fear of contamination from other liquids in the same barge or from water seepage that is common with older, poorly maintained equipment is eliminated when you ship with Chotin. Chotin provides reliable, safe, uncontaminated delivery of your chemical or petroleum cargo anywhere along the inland waterway system, Gulf of Mexico or east coast. Chotin makes sure that what you ship is what they get. Call us for your next shipment (504) 581-4666. We're the experts Chotin Chotin Transportation, Inc. 1414 One Shell Square, New Orleans, La. 70139 (504) 581-4666 28 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News