Long Articles

• • Dravo Corporation Launches Most Powerful Towboat For Use On World's Inland Waterways page: 6
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on March 1974

  Dravo Corporation recently launched the most powerful towboat ever .built for use on the world's inland waterways. Splashing into the Ohio River on January 31 at the company's Neville Island shipyard near Pittsburgh, Pa., the 10,100-horsepower vessel will join the fleet of The Valley Line Comp

• • Thomas B. Crowley Elected President At Western Shipbuilding Ass'n Annual Meeting page: 24
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on February 15, 1974

  An overflow throng of members and friends of the industry were on hand for the annual membership meeting of the Western Shipbuilding- Association, which was held in the Pavilion Room of the Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, Calif., on January 18, 1974. George W. Wintz, outgoing president of the

• • Bethlehem Begins Construction On 265,000-Dwt Tanker —Largest Vessel Built In The United States page: 12
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on February 15, 1974

  Construction of the largest ship ever built in the United States started on January 23 as Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point Shipyard laid the first keel plate for a 265,000-dwt supertanker. The vessel, the first of five under contract at the yard, is scheduled for delivery to Boston- VLCC Tanke

• • Bigger, Bigger . . . Bigger page: 18
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on February 15, 1974

  The world today is filled with contradictions. In the context of this timely Super Ocean Carrier Conference, many of those paradoxes have a particular relevance. Instead of peace and tranquility, there is turmoil and confusion. Instead of confidence in traditional procedures, there is doubt.

• • Selective Calling System Saves Time For Oceangoing Tankers And River Vessels page: 40
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on February 1974

  A new selective calling system is helping AMOCO solve the problem of putting marine radiotelephone calls through promptly to its fleet of vessels scattered around the world. On the inland waterways, barge owners are using the same system to dial calls directly to their fleets of towboats witho

• • Experimental LNG Carrier Will Evaluate Two Tank Systems Under Operating Conditions page: 24
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on February 1974

  An experimental LNG carrier was recently launched at the Taguma Shipyard of Naikai Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Ltd., one of Hitachi Zosen's affiliated companies. This 1,000 cubic meter LNG ship is one of the steps being taken by Hitachi Zosen to solve shipbuilding and design problems pr

• • Esso Norway Test Of Hull Structure Proves Design And Good Workmanship page: 14
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on February 1974

  From June 28 to July 7, 1969, the new 190,- 800-dwt tanker Esso Norway lay at anchor in Eckernfoerde Bay, about 20 miles from Kiel, Germany, where she was built. Figure 1 gives the general arrangement and dimensions of this ship. An extensive static structural test program was carried out on

• • Sixth VLCC Delivered By Kockums To Salen Features Roller Bearing Design For Shaft page: 7
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on February 1974

  Kockums Shipyard, Malmo, Sweden, has just announced delivery of the 256,050-dwt tanker Sea Swift to the iSalen Shipping Companies of Sweden. The turbine-powered VLCC is the last of six tankers ordered by Salen and the 16th in the Kockums present series of twenty 255,000- tonners. Built under

• • More Navy Ship Repair Work For Private Shipyards page: 37
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on January 15, 1974

  For the first time since 1965, the Defense Appropriations Act contains a provision allocating a specific percentage of Navy ship repair funds to private shipyards. The provision in the fiscal 1974 Act (H.R. 11575) calls for a 70/30 split of Navy ship repair, alteration and overhaul work betwee

• • First Semisubmersible Drilling Rig Built On U.S. East Coast Christened At Bethlehem Steel's Baltimore, Md. Shipyard page: 31
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on January 15, 1974

  The Ocean Scout, the first semisubmersible oil well drilling rig to be constructed on the East Coast of the U.S., was christened on December 10, 1973, at Bethlehem Steel's Fort McHenry shipyard, '.Baltimore, Md. It was delivered to Ocean Drilling & Exploration Company of New Orleans, La. Spons

• • Year-End Report page: 27
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on January 15, 1974

  The rapid momentum of American shipbuilding-, initiated with the enactment of legislation in 1970 (the Merchant Marine Act of 1970), designed to restore the United States to a position of prominence and substance among world maritime powers, continued to accelerate in 1973. International ec

• • Navy Amphibious Assault Landing Craft To Be Built By Todd Seattle Shipyard page: 14
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on January 15, 1974

  Todd Shipyards Corporation, Seattle, Wash., has been selected to construct the Navy's amphibious assault landing craft (AALC). The announcement was made by E.D. Ward, vice president and general manager of Aerojet Surface Effect Ships Division of Tacoma, which designed and will supervise con

• • The Presque Isle page: 7
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on January 15, 1974

  Litton's Erie Marine Division Delivers The Self-Unloading 1,000-Foot Tug/Barge Combination Transports 50,000 Tons Of Iron-Ore Pellets Per Trip And Unloads At Rates Up To 10,000 Tons Per Hour Th-e world's largest tug-barge—-Litton Industries' 1000-foot-long Presque Isle—-sailed into the

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