Maritime Reporter, July, 1978

<BODY> <div> NAVSECPHILADIV Annual Awards Presented To Carlton And Bruner The Naval Ship Engineering Center, Philadelphia Division re- cently held its Annual Awards Banquet. The Joseph Cacciola Technical Achievement Award for 1977 was presented to Gilbert Carlton of the Heat Power Systems Depart- ment for his participation and management in bringing about a large Navy-wide improvement in the development of shipboard waste heat recovery systems. His efforts have resulted in a contin- ued reduction of maintenance re- quirements and an increase in reliability in these systems. FMC Corporation Names Gill To Newly Created Post Robert L. Witt, engineering manager of the Fluid Control Division of FMC Corporation, 10516 Old Katy Road, Houston, Texas 77024, announced that Wil- liam A. Gill has been named off- shore engineering manager. In this newly created position, Mr. Gill's department will be respon- sible for the development of off- shore loading systems, including a boom-to-tanker loading concept currently underway. Before coming to Brea, Calif., in 1974, Mr. Gill, who has been with the company for 10 years, was chief engineer at FMC Eu- rope. A native of upper New York state, Mr. Gill holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Buffalo, and is cur- rently working toward his MBA degree at the University of South- ern California. FMC Corporation, headquar- tered in Chicago, 111., is a major international producer of machin- ery and chemicals for industry and agriculture, with 1977 sales of $2.29 billion. Worldwide, the company has more than 43,000 employees located at 127 manu- facturing facilities in 32 states and 13 foreign countries. Shown at the Annual Awards presenta- tion are, left to right: Gilbert Carlton and Ronald Bruner. The Publications Award for 1977 was presented to Ronald F. Bruner of the Measurements and Materials Department for author- ing the paper entitled "Theoreti- cal and Experimental Assessment of Uncertainties in Non-Intrusive, Ultrasonic Flow Measurement." The paper treats in detail a theo- retical and experimental analysis of the uncertainties associated with the use of an externally mounted, ultrasonic flow measur- ing system. SMATCO To Supply Winches For Drydock —Executives Named The Maritime Division of SMATCO, Inc., a TBW Industries company, P.O. Box 4036, Houma, La., has been awarded the con- tract to provide four triple drum winches for the new 932-foot-long floating drydock being built for the Port of Portland, Ore. SMATCO, Inc. also announced the appointment of John Borg, sales manager of the Maritime Division, with Wayne Johnson as chief engineer of the group. Mr. Borg was operations coordinator for Sub Sea International prior to joining SMATCO. Mr. Johnson comes to SMATCO after 20 years of electrical and mechanical de- sign responsibilities with Lake Shore, Inc. In another announcement from SMATCO, Inc., John Hudson has been named sales manager for off- shore deck equipment. Mr. Hud- son was formerly operations man- ager in Aberdeen, Scotland, for Drexel International. The ocean going, rig towing, ship and anchor nandlingTug from Halter is the very best multi-purpose ocean tug you can buy... anywhere. * • . ... s^JBsfc t.... 1ESS July 15, 1978 31 </div> <span id="lblContents"></span> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.digitalwavepublishing.com/" title="Digital Magazine">Digital Wave Publishing</a> </BODY>