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on November 1980William J. Blume, president, announces that Blume Worldwide Services has been appointed North American sales representative for the Selco Group of Companies, Singapore. The Selco Group includes Selco Salvage, which operates a comprehensive marine salvage service in an area covering the South
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on November 1980William Hunt and Kenneth Watson have joined N a s h v i l le Bridge Company (NABRICO) as plant engineers. Mr. Watson was formerly with Watson & Wynne, contractors, Murfreesboro, Tenn. He will manage all construction c o n c e r n i n g the Nashville and Ashland City, Tenn., plants for NABRI
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on November 1980The Hunt Company of Houston continues its expansion with the addition of three new sales team members — Elmo Bergeron, Terry L. Tucker and Frank Doonan Jr. Mr. Bergeron, with more than 30 years' experience in the oil industry, has been named sales manager for Louisiana. He will headquarter
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on November 1980Far East-Levingston Shipbuilding Ltd. (FELS) has announced the signing of contracts to build two jackup rigs for Reading and Bates Exploration Co. (R&B). Costing approximately $80 million in total, the jackups will be of Friede & Goldman L-780 MOD II design for operating in water depths up
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on November 1980As the title implies, this is a technical book dealing with the shipping industry. It is a reference manual packed with detailed information r e l a t i n g to shipping, navigation, marine insurance, maritime and commercial law, chartering, and ship operations. The bulk of the 510-page, hard
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on November 1980lotron Corporation of Bedford, Mass., in close cooperation with Radio-Holland B.V. of Amsterdam, has just received what it believes to be one of the largest orders ever recorded in the maritime collision-avoidance industry. This order, valued at more than $4 million, calls for the installati
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on November 1980John T. Gilbride Jr., general manager of Todd's Seattle yard, recently announced the promotions of Lawrence H. Hagen to director of industrial and public relations, and Dennis M. Plumb to personnel manager. Mr. Hagen has been employed continuously in the area of personnel management at the Se
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on November 1980The Kings Point Fund, Inc., the financial arm of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Alumni Association, has received a $20,000 grant from the Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. The generous grant will be utilized to acquire books for the Academy's library, and the volumes obtained will b
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on November 1980M. Rosenblatt & Son, Inc., one of the nation's largest naval architecture and marine engineering firms, has expanded its Western Area operations with a recently added facility in Oxnard, Calif. The Oxnard office will be staffed initially with 60 engineers, technical writers, editors, and illus
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on November 1980Two models of a new, four-inch chart recorder have been added to Morrow Electronics' Sea Viper line. The instruments are equipped with such sophisticated features as thermal printing head, noise suppression circuitry, and adjustable white line. The SV-101 shallow-water model has six depth ran
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on November 1980Devoe Marine Coatings Company of Louisville, Ky., a division of Grow Group, Inc., recently announced management changes in its Western and Far Eastern regions. Owing to rapid expansion in Far East markets, George G. Moran, director of Pacific operations, is now headquartered in Singapore. The
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on November 1980D.J. O'Rourke, vice presidentmarketing, has announced the promotion of Joseph G. Wink f r om distributor sales manager to sales manager-control products. Mr. Wink has been affiliated with Abex Corporation, Denison Division, Columbus, Ohio for more than 25 years, serving in many sales capaci
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on November 1980The fall meeting of the Gulf Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers was held recently in Mobile, Ala. The afternoon technical session papers presented were: " A 20,- 000-Ton-Lift F l o a t i n g Drydock f o r a Shallow-Draft Harbor," by James A. Dumas of Bender Weldi
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on November 1980Dr. Charles E. Cheeseman, general manager of General Electric's Simulation and Control Systems D e p a r t m e n t in Daytona Beach, Fla., has announced that Phillip W. Farmer is appointed program general manager, simulation systems, and John E. Breyer is a p p o i n t e d program general m
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on November 1980Capt. Vinton R. Antworth has been named master of the Oceanic Independence, according to David R. Stollmeyer, president of American Hawaii Cruises, the ship's operator. He succeeds Capt. Adrian Spidle, who was selected to command the 30,000-gt vessel during her introduction to Hawaii interi
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on November 1980A new four-page brochure describing the PMH Protection Plan is now available f r om Paul-Munroe Hydraulics, Inc. of Orange, Calif. The brochure explains each of the three steps (analysis, offline filtration, reconditioning) in this complete hydraulic system fluid maintenance program. A detai
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on November 1980Butterworth Systems Inc. has named Allegro Ltd. as its new sales representative in Taiwan, effective August 1, 1980. Allegro Ltd. will be representing the full line of B u t t e r w o r t h S y s t e ms equipment and services in Taiwan. Allegro (Taiwan) Ltd. is located at 153-10, Tun Hua N.
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on November 1980A full-scale, RV-2 diesel engine, cut away f o r training purposes, has been donated to the California Maritime Academy in Vallejo, Calif., by the Transamerica Delaval Engine and Compressor Division. The presentation was made public at acceptance ceremonies attended by Academy president Rear A
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on November 1980Arthur L. Hudson has been elected president of Arthur-Smith Corporation, Houston-based petrochemical carrier. He has been with the corporation since 1978 as marketing manager, and more recently as vice president, marketing sales. W. Matthew Heaton has been promoted to senior vice president
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on November 1980The BMEP balance Model 300A manufactured by General Thermodynamics Corporation is used in the process of equalizing cylinder load in large, multicylinder spark-ignited and diesel engines with individual fuel adjustment. It is designed to fit the standard indicator valve and is easily connect