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Company Announces 6 Per Cent Increase In response to recent inflation ary trends, Exxon Company, U.S.A. announced on May 23 a 6 per cent salary increase to eligible nonrepresented regular employees whose annual salary does not exceed $40,000 and also offered a 6 per cent base pay increase to certain represented employees. As in the past, the Company will continue to monitor competitive developments in light of its policy of maintaining wages at a level among the leaders in industry. Details of the Company's offer have been provided to all Marine Department bargaining units. The increase will be effective for JSTOA, EROA, ESO, and all in land bargaining units on May 1 if accepted within 30 days. For the ESA, the increase will also be effective May 1 and will apply to the proposed new rates in the Agreement now out for ratifica tion, provided the Agreement is ratified. Payment to all repre sented personnel will be made as soon as practicable after accep tance. Subsidy Deadline Extended For Shoes The subsidy deadline for pur chasing safety shoes at a 50 per cent savings has been extended to June 15. If you have not yet bought your FIRST pair of safety shoes, you are urged to do so before this date if you plan to use a subsidy card which means that the Marine Department will pay half the cost. The subsidy deadline has been extended as an economical in centive to encourage you to try wearing safety shoes. Orientation Program Initiated For New Officers Deck and Engine Department officers who attended five-day orientation course in Houston are, front row from left: Joseph B. Crisante (Engine), U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point; and Roger James (Deck)--Kings Point, employed in 1973. Second row: Gary A. Treadwell (Engine), Rex A. Redfern (Deck)--both Texas Maritime Academy graduates, and Michael A. Stalzer (Deck)--Kings Point, employed in 1973; Third row: Darrel C. Crane (Engine), Francis D. Buck (Engine), and Richard D. Smith (Engine)--all Maine Maritime Academy grads. Fourth row: Robert J. Fauvell (Engine), Neal E. King (Engine), and Larry C. Wonson (Deck)-- all Maine Maritime graduates. An orientation program has been initiated by the Marine De partment in which newly hired Deck and Engine officers are in vited to Houston for five days to meet with headquarters manage ment and learn about the com pany and the Marine Department and its operations. The program, designed to help the officers bet ter perform their duties as new employees, is conducted by Ma rine Department personnel. The first such course was held during the week of May 13 when 11 officers, two of them hired in 1973, heard talks on subjects such as: the company, its policies and practices; the energy situa tion; the Marine Department and the operation of the fleet, includ ing a description of how the fleet is manned and job and vessel practices and procedures; safety; performance and stewardship; en vironmental conservation; and other matters relating to the fleet and their jobs. The group was also given a tour of Baytown Re finery. The next orientation course is scheduled for the week of June 3. i EXX-MOR-006539 Exxon Baltimore Crew Practices Firefighting FIRE! That word will send chills up your back, especially if it's ever shouted aboard ship. Let's hope there's never an occasion for it. But if a fire should break out, it is comforting to know that there are shipmates on board who can, by virtue of previous training re ceived in firefighting classes, put it out in a professional manner. To insure that their ability is main tained, and to provide training to those who have not had it, the Marine Department is continuing to send employees to firefighting training classes. Currently, training sessions are underway at Baytown and will start soon at Baton Rouge. Per sonnel calling at either of these locations will attend two-hour classes conducted by some of the best firefighting instructors avail able--highly trained men who make up each refinery's volunteer firefighting force. Arrangements are being made to provide fire fighting training for personnel on vessels which do not normally call at Baton Rouge or Baytown. The classes are scheduled around ship arrivals. Officers and men in the Exxon Bangor earlier this year attended Oceangoing and inland waterways employees listen closely as instructor explains capabilities of CO2 extinguishers and how they can be used to snuff out fires quickly by spraying chemical along base of blaze. Team work is stressed and practiced here as seamen from Exxon Baltimore cooperate in extinguishing fire on each side of a partition. a class at Baytown. On May 15, Fleet News photographed person nel from the Exxon Baltimore as they participated in a typical fire fighting session at Baytown. Be fore the training class was com pleted, each man put out several types of fires, including one simu lating a blaze in a galley or en closed space in a ship; a fire around a leaky pipe; a packing gland fire; and a propane blaze in which seamen practiced "walking the fire out" by shooting chem icals along the base of the flame as they walked beside it. in ad dition, each man practiced using fresh air breathing equipmem. This equipment may not be iden tical to that on board ships, but the use and principles are similar. "One major purpose of the course is to help participants develop confidence in fighting fires," said Jim Boyd, Baytown Refinery fire chief. "When men understand firefighting equipment and know how to use it effectively, Page 2 Exxon Fleet News E n: s ef----- ; EXX-MOR-006540 Como FROM THE CGLLEt 'TIONS IN THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN HISTOIC they will not be as afraid of a fire as they might otherwise be." in addition to the demonstra tions, Mr. Boyd and J. J. Ryan, captain of Fire Brigade No. 10 at the refinery, and others in the bri gade conducted a classroom dis cussion in which they explained the various kinds of fire extin guishers and on what types of fires they should be used. One of the main points stressed during the training was: Even though you think you have a fire extinguished, always back away from it. ``Sometimes fire will flare up again and this could burn you if your back is turned and you are unprepared to shoot the foam to it," the instructors warned. They also stressed the value of teamwork in fighting fires and emphasized the importance of using a back-up man when trying to control a blaze. y'<* ? B ^ .v: Under the watchful eye of an instructor, left, seamen practice putting out flange fire, such as might occur aboard ship. p New Tire Coming If your car will be needing new tires in another few months, you might want to replace them with high-quality steel belted radial tires that carry the Exxon brand name. The five-ply tire, named Exxon Steel Belted Radial 78, is being built to exacting specifica tions and carries a 40,000 mile tread wear guarantee. It will be competitively priced with compar- ln classroom, "students" practice adjusting and using Scott Air-Pak equipment to make sure that it fits perfectly around face so that oxygen won't be wasted. able quality tires. Initial introduc tion of the tire is scheduled for early July in Houston and Los An geles; later in the month and in August for the New York City area, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Char lotte, and Memphis. By October, the new Exxon radial will be avail able nationwide through Exxon service stations. Disabling Injury Box Score Total For April Total Since Jan. 1 Oceangoing 1 Inland Waterways 2 4 5 May 27, 1974 Page 3 EXX-MOR-006541 COPIED FltOM THE CCfDLErnONS IN THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN HIST! Second In Series Guard and the various environ mental and other marine agencies Boston Branch Covers Three States Snuggled deep within Boston Harbor is Exxon's Everett Termi nal, home of the Marine Depart for company tankers and Foreign Flag vessels delivering crude and products to Exxon and customer involved in the operation of com pany owned, foreign affiliated and chartered vessels in Boston Har bor and adjoining areas. ment's Boston Branch Office. It terminals, some located as far is from here that Branch Manager as 250 miles north and 90 miles Jack W. Bennett and his staff, south of Boston. Last year, they Ellis Bessels, senior transporta arranged for docking and undock tion allocator, and Karin McNeely, ing some 230 U.S. and Foreign secretary, perform the duties re Flag vessels. They also assigned quired for coastal deliveries of pollution control officers to board products to Exxon terminals and a number of foreign tankers upon industrial customers in the three- arrival in harbors in the three- state area of Massachusetts, New state area with oil consigned to Hampshire, and Maine (see map). Exxon. Their task: to assist ships' Six licensed' and seven unlicensed officers in complying with national personnel assigned to the Boston and local environmental protec Branch deliver products in the tion laws while in port. company's largest single barge (excluding the Exxon Port Ever glades)--the 61,000-barrel Exxon Barge No. 5 and her tug, the Exxon Bay State. Last year, the crew in the Bay Sfafe delivered more than 9 million barrels of products to terminals in Boston Harbor; Salem, Massachusetts; Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Bucksport, Maine; and other locations in the three states. The branch also arranges for charter deliveries of products which in 1973 accounted for an additional 2.8 million barrels. Most terminals and industrial customers served by the Boston As Boston is baseport for about 120 Exxon seagoing personnel, the staff helps facilitate crew changes and assists employees in various other matters ranging from emergency medical aid to Benefit Plan transactions. The Exxon Baton Rouge and Exxon San Francisco call reg ularly at Everett Terminal deliver ing products from Baytown and Baton Rouge Refineries. The branch office staff places supply orders for these vessels with ship chandlers when necessary, and arranges for minor repairs. The staff also works with the Coast Branch inland vessels. Branch have limited storage ca pacity, so they depend on more frequent deliveries than normally is the case. This adds to the de livery problem for the branch, especially during winter months. When a delay occurs, such as when a barge gets stuck in the ice or has to "heave to" in a storm, it sometimes becomes a real jigsaw puzzle in devising new schedules, reroutings, and even arranging for the use of additional barges which are generally hard to obtain at a moment's notice. "At times like these, our office and home telephones get a real workout," Mr. Bennett said. In addition to performing reg ular inland operations, Mr. Ben nett and his staff provide services Making up the administrative staff at the Boston Branch Office are, from the left: Ellis B. Bessels, senior transportation allocator; Manager Jack W. Bennett, and Karin McNeely, secretary. Page 4 Exxon Fleet News 1 t... EXX- M O R-006542 COPIPD FROM THE COLLECTIONS IN THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN HISTI Houston Included In New York Times Magazine Article Captain Robert H. Stotts and the Exxon Houston were included in a lengthy fea ture article in the April 21 New York Times Mag azine section which traced the journey of one barrel of oil from the Conroe (Texas) oilfield to a Manhattan gasoline tank. The article was later reproduced in the Houston Chronicle. In describing the vessel and her voyage to Bay way, the writer said: "The Exxon Houston has 21 main cargo tanks, each taller than a five-story build ing. Three of the tanks contain the 43,000 barrels of Conroe crude. Total cargo: 439,757 barrels of oil. "That's a sizable quantity, enough to produce more than 9 million gallons of gasoline. The Houston might have done better. But if she had been loaded with an extra 100,000 barrels at the Baytown terminal, she could never have left: Her keel would be drag ging mud in the Houston Ship Channel," the article said, and continued: "In the story of The Barrel, the Houston is prima ballerina of the elephantine dance of 17 Exxon USA tankers, a sequence right out of `Fantasia.' She had left New York on February 10, bound for the Baton Rouge refinery; on the 11th she was diverted to Baytown. Meanwhile, the Exxon Jamestown, originally scheduled to go direct to Baytown, had been diverted to Baton Rouge to pick up gasoline components to help get produc tion going at the fire-struck Bay town refinery (the fire on February 8 closed the refinery temporarily). Thus, the Jamestown arrived late at Baytown, and was late getting loaded and out from Berth No. 2. The word went out to Captain Stotts at 4:15 p.m. on February 14--he was south of New Orleans --and he cut the Houston's speed from 17 to 11 knots, at a saving of about $1,500 a day in fuel costs. "At 10:45 p.m., February 15, the Houston docked at Baytown. Exacty 21 hours and 10 minutes later, she was clear of the dock and en route to Linden, 1,800 miles distant, The Barrel of Con roe crude in her hold." The article described the ship's voyage as a smooth one from Baytown to New York where she moved ponderously up the Nar rows, west along Kill Van Kull and under the Bayonne Bridge, then south down "Gasoline Alley" to Bayway Refinery. "The captain already has his next orders," the article contin ued. "Tomorrow, at about 10 p.m., an Exxon tug will shove the giant Houston away from her Bayway berth. Next stop: Baton Rouge, to Fees Announced For Radar Course Beginning August 1, tuition fees for the Collision Avoidance Radar courses offered at Maritime Ad ministration Regional Training Centers in New York City, New Orleans, and San Francisco will be increased to the following: 8- and 5-day courses. .. .$50. 3-day refresher course. .$30. Recertification exercise. .$10. Payment for the course desired shall be to the registrar at the school attended in the form of a check or money order made out to "Maritime Administration-- Commerce." Returns To Company Service The Exxon Seattle, which has been on charter to the U.S. Navy for the past 10 years, returned to company service on May 20 upon completion of discharge of a Navy cargo at Yokosuka, Japan. The vessel and her crew are now on a ballast voyage to Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia, to load a cargo of naphtha about June 8 for an Exxon affiliate in Europe. pick up some South Louisiana crude. The dance of the tankers continues. "Meanwhile, the crude oil has started flowing from the tanks of the Houston, pushed by a pump on the tanker up through 60-foothigh cranelike steel tubes called Chicksan arms that line the New The New York Times magazine article, "One Barrel of Oil," is be ing reprinted by the company. If you want a copy, drop a line to the editor of Fleet News. Jersey dockside. Another mileand-a-half journey by pipeline and The Barrel from Conroe comes to rest in tank No. 545 in the Tremley storage area--one of six such tank farms at Bayway Refinery." The article then traces The Bar rel through Bayway processing units and takes gasoline manu factured from The Barrel through pipelines to distribution terminals for delivery by tanktruck to the Manhattan service station and a customer's car. Conserving Energy CONSERVING FUEL is what energy conservation is ail about-- and conserving fuel is what AB Walter Siminski is doing. He checks to make sure that the valve in a line carrying steam to a mooring winch is tightly closed after the brake has been set to prevent the waste of steam and condensate. It takes fuel to make steam and any little bit that can be saved helps. May 27, 1974 Page 5 P i l. EXX-MOR-006543 This Fish Is A Real Sticker AB Joseph S. Marino holds 2-foot-long remora or shark sucker caught when Exxon Baltimore was in the Bahamas. "I heard an unusual sound so I looked over the stern of the ship and saw a big turtle flip flopping his flippers in a fast, furious fash ion. He broke water several times, gasping for breath. You better believe that I was startled." So said George A. Mathewson, who was OS on watch in the Exxon Baltimore when she was loading at Ras Tanura on her last voyage there. "A large remora was stuck to the turtle's shell, hitching a free ride," he added, leading to a de scription of the remora or shark sucker shown in the accompany ing photo. Mr. Mathewson became so fas cinated by this type of fish that he studied up on it and passes the benefit of his knowledge along to the fleet--"in case someone catches a remora when his ship is in Ras Tanura or some other tropical area," he said. "Remoras grow three or four feet long and have powerful vac uum mats atop their heads. They attach themselves to some pretty perilous as well as peculiar places, like inside the mouths of large ma Page 6 rine sunfish, swordfish, and sharks, and even to ships. Once a remora locks on it cannot be re moved by pulling its tail, but must be slid off forward or sideways by lifting the vacuum mat to break the suction. "I recall a chief cook once who caught a remora and al though he gutted the fish, it locked on to the bulkhead and supported its own weight. "At one time, remoras were used by fishermen in places like southeast Asia and western Africa to catch fish. A line was made fast to the remora's tail and it swam about until it locked on to a fish or turtle. The fisherman hauled in the remora with its catch securely fastened to its head," Mr. Mathew son said. Mr. Mathewson knows a lot more about this unusual fish, and he will be glad to pass the info along to anyone who might be go ing to a tropical zone where re moras abound. "The information I have makes catching remoras much more interesting," he said. Giallorenzi Honored THIS PLAQUE was presented to Al Giallorenzi, New York Branch Manager, who resigned re cently from the board of man agers, Seamen's House Branch of the YMCA of greater New York. Mr. Giallorenzi served for nine years on the board which is made up of maritime executives. He was presented the plaque at a lun cheon meeting of the Whitehall Club in New York City. SERVICE AWARD Rex B. Williams, center, pumpman, completed 30 years of company ser vice on December 14, 1973. He was honored recently at a luncheon at Baytown v/hen W. A. Scott, left, and Don Delozier, from the Baytown Branch Office, presented him with a service emblem and watch. Obituary Theophilus A. Bodden, 73, died on April 7 at North Miami Beach, Florida. Mr. Bodden retired as pumpman in February, 1964, with 36 years service. He was born in the Grand Cayman Islands and worked as a carpenter, AB in several schooners and as a Mobile, Alabama, pilot before sail ing in the Herbert G. Wyllie in 1925. He was promoted to pump man in 1934 in the Livingston Roe and his service included eight years as pumpman at Bayonne, New Jersey. He was senior pump man in the fleet at retirement. He is survived by his widow and one son. Robert E. Couturier, 64, died of a heart attack on March 8 at his home in Saratoga Springs, New York. He had been retired since 1965. Mr. Couturier joined the company in 1947 and sailed as OS and deck maintenanceman in numerous ships before his retire ment. He is survived by two mar ried daughters. EXXON FLEET NEWS is published every other Monday for active and retired em ployees of the Marine Department, Exxon Company, U.S.A. (a division of Exxon Cor poration); O. R. Menton, Generai Manager. GENE LEGLER..............................................Editor Exxon Fleet News