1984 Articles
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on August 15, 1984The Swedish company Boghammar Marine AB of Lidingo, near Stockholm, recently delivered the new 40-foot light-alloy pilot boat Turnstone to the Mersey Dock & Harbour Company of Liverpool, England. The new Volvo-Penta-powered vessel has a beam of about 13 feet, draft of 29.5 feet, and an all-up
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on August 15, 1984A 160-foot motor-assisted commercial windship using the principle of the airfoil has been designed by Jeffrey Dunan for a northern California corporation that plans to use the craft for marine research. The $7-million vessel is scheduled to be completed next year in Japan by Florida-based Ster
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- ASMAR Delivers Dona Eugenia page: 7
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on August 15, 1984— First Of New Seiner Design ASMAR, Chile's leading shipbuilder and repairer, recently delivered a 60-foot fishing vessel that is the first of a new design built of fiberglass-reinforced plastic (GRP) to her owner, Sociedad Pesquera Palacios Ltd. of Chile. The vessel, designed as a purse seine
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on August 15, 1984The National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) has announced two key appointments. Gerald A. Gutman has been elected president of the organization and Charles S. Carney has been named executive director. Mr. Gutman is president and co-founder of Nav-Com Incorporated, Deer Park, N.Y. Prior
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on August 15, 1984Capt. Arthur M. Osborne has joined the Port of San Francisco as director of engineering and maintenance according to an announcement by executive director Eugene L. Gartland. Capt. Osborne served as Commanding Officer, Naval Station Treasure Island, and Chief of Staff for the Commander of t
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on August 15, 1984The liquefied gas carrier Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II was delivered recently by Jos. L. Meyer GmbH & Company in Papenburg, West Germany, to P.T. Pupuk Sriwidjaja (Pusri) of Indonesia. Pusri is a state-owned fertilizer manufacturer and distributor, with responsibility for distribution of all
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on August 15, 1984— Literature Available T h e U.S. N a v y has j u s t c o m p l e t e d a t e st p r o g r a m u s i n g a C o f l e x i p flexible pipe riser f o r i t s A m p h i b i o u s T a n k e r F a c i l i t y ( A T T F ). T h e first p r i o r i t y o f t h e A T T F , d e v e l o p e d b y t h e Nav
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on August 1984To meet the increasing demand for Renk products and service in the U.S., Renk AG of Augsburg and Hannover, West Germany, announces the opening of Renk Corporation, an independent American manufacturing facility in Duncan, S.C. For more than 100 years, Renk has manufactured special-purpose
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on August 1984Lack of lubrication, both at start-up and shut-down, is the major cause of turbocharger failure. Oil starvation to the turbocharger bearings at start-up is due to the lag time associated with the oil pump reaching rated pressure and output and the turbocharger's immediate need for lubrication.
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on August 1984The Fast Sealift Ship (FSS) USNS Antares (T-AKR-294) was dedicated in ceremonies held recently at Avondale Shipyards, Inc. near New Orleans, and delivered to the Military Sealift Command about two weeks later. This is the first of three SL-7 containerships that Avondale is converting for the M
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on August 1984The Canadian Institute Of Marine Engineers Vancouver Branch hosted a technical paper meeting in May at the Sheraton Villa Inn in Burnaby, B.C. Canada. The guest speaker was Bob Lowden, sales manager of Pumps & Power Ltd., Vancouver, B.C. The topic of discussion was the Ship Service Pump— an O
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on August 1984The M/V Delmar L., recently constructed at St. Augustine Shipbuilding Corporation, is the latest of many vessels designed by the Jacksonville naval architectural firm of De- Jong & Lebet, Inc., for operation in the Caribbean. The Delmar L. operates between the island of Andros, Nassau and the
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on August 1984Dillingham Maritime Services, Seattle, Wash., recently delivered all the materials, except for pouredin- place concrete, for seven separate highway bridges at four different construction sites in Anchorage, Alaska. The 6,000 ton cargo was carried from Seattle via water on a tandem tow of two
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on August 1984The U.S. Navy has budgeted over $6 billion for ship repair and alteration in 1985. Between 30—40 percent of this budget will flow through commercial shipyards. This is an obviously interesting market. It offers many business opportunities to shipyards and equipment manufacturers. It is also
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on August 1984UNIPAR, Inc., a division of National Marine Service, Inc., has made available literature that highlights the 40,000-square-foot facility the company has in St. Louis, Mo., to provide the diesel engine power packs, parts and components that industry requires. The literature points out that r
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on August 1984Philip J. Burguieres has been elected chairman of the board of the National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) for 1984-85. He is president and chief operating officer of Cameron Iron Works, Inc. of Houston. With 425 member companies, NOIA is the only national trade association representing
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- Ferrous Announces FMS, System For Administering Catalyst Into Fuel Oil — Literature Available page: 49
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on August 1984Ferrous Corporation, Bellevue, Wash., a manufacturer of combustion catalyst for marine diesel and boilers has developed a complete system for administering catalyst into the fuel oil. The Ferrous Marine System (FMS) provides the user with a proportioning pump, depulsing unit and 24-gallon da
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on August 1984Aqua-Dyne Corporation of Houston, Texas, has published a 12-page color brochure on their high-pressure jet-blasting equipment used as an industrial surface cleaning tool. Handsomely wrapped in a panoramic view of the Grand Canyon with the caption "Nature took millions of years to cut and wa
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on August 1984A new 20-page color brochure describing the Fram CPS-3 marine separator is available free from Fram Industrial Filtration & Separation. The CPS-3 is a highly efficient coalescing plate separator designed especially for separation of oil and solids from shipboard bilge water. It is ideally su
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on August 1984American Standard Heat Exchanger Repair (ASHER), has made available a brochure on the company's new facility in Elizabeth, N.J., which has complete capability to repair or rebundle, retube or replace parts. Titled "We Get Your Shell & Tube Heat Exchangers Back Into Action," the publication