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EVERYTHING A NAVIGATOR NEEDS! • MASTER and STEERING COMPASSES (Series KM 100), for small ships, boats and lifeboats • NAVIGATOR'S PROTRACTORS and RULERS •SEXTANTS • MARINE CHRONOMETERS AND DECK CLOCKS • MARINE CLOCKS for various uses For information, contact: V/0 SUDOIMPORT SUDOELEKTRO Firm 5 Kalyaevskaya Ul„ Moscow 103006, U.S.S.R. Telephone: 251 -05-05; 251 -03-85; 251 -60-52 Telex: 411272 SUDO SU; 411387 SUDO SU Write 468 on Reader Service Card STRETCHING THE 'POINT' — Newport Ship Yard, Inc., Newport, R.I., recently completed the lengthening of the passenger vessel Brandt Point (shown above) for the upcoming season. The Brandt Point, owned by the Hyannis Tours Company of Hyannis, Mass., regularly carries passengers to Nantucket Island. The vessel was lengthened from 122 feet to 134.5 feet. The production took place following hauling and side transfer of the vessel from the NSY's 3,000-ton marine railway drydock to a dockside repair and construc- tion area. The conversion project included a new main deck aft to be used for carriage of luggage and/or bicycles, installation of a service bay, extension of upper deck allowing 52 additional seats, and exten- sion of a new bridge deck permitting 32 additional seats. Wardwell Named Chairman And Lesch Elected Vice Chairman Of NOIA Edward A. Wardwell Edward A. Wardwell, chairman, president, and chief executive of- ficer of Oceaneering Internation- al, Houston, has been elected as the new chairman of the board of directors of the National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA). He served as NOIA's vice chair- man last year and as a member of the board of directors for five years. In addition, he served as NOIA's treasurer during 1978 and 1979. James R. Lesch, president and chief executive officer of Hughes Tool Company, also of Houston, was elected vice chairman of the board. He has been chairman of the Association's Audit Subcom- mittee for four years. Mr. Wardwell succeeds John P. Laborde, chairman and CEO of Tidewater, Inc. New Orleans, who remains on the board as NOIA's immediate past chairman. Macawber Gets Another Contract For Equipment On Coal-Fired Ships Macawber Engineering group, Maryville, Tenn., a world leader in the field of pneumatic coal con- veying, has been awarded another project for coal conveying equip- ment onboard the new generation of coal-fired ships. Macawber has now been awarded all the coal conveying business so far placed for the new coal-fired ships, which are seen by the shipping world as a major technological step for- ward. The latest project is worth $1 million. A letter of intent has been signed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of Japan for complete Macawber Denseveyor pneumatic coal conveying systems for two 75,000-dwt cargo carriers cur- rently building for the Australian National Line. When in service the carriers will carry coal from Weiper to Gladstone on a dedi- cated route off the Northeast Coast of Australia. The Macawber Systems will comprise a series of six model 8/10 Denseveyors with individual 5-inch nominal bore pipeline that will transfer coal at the rate of 12 tons per hour from the ships' main bunkers to feed hoppers lo- cated over the boilers. The announcement of the latest project comes only two months after Macawber was awarded the world's first contract for coal con- veying equipment of this type for marine applications. That was also a $l-million plus contract and was for two 75,000-dwt ore carriers currently being built in the Monfacone Yard of Italcan- tieri in Italy. Murray-Benjamin Offers New Catalog Listing U.S. Navy Electrical Cable A new catalog is available from the Murray-Benjamin Electric Company of Brooklyn, N.Y., con- taining a comprehensive listing of U.S. Navy shipboard electrical cable and coaxial cable, listing all the current types and many of the more popular discontinued types. The available selection should be invaluable to ship re- pair yards. Many sections of the new catalog are also devoted to U.S. Navy electrical fittings — symbol items—that are described and illustrated. For a free copy of the new catalog, Write 91 on Reader Service Card 20 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News
