Maritime Magazines Archive
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on February 15, 1985A six-page brochure that explains the features of the high-capacity "DEB line" of centrifugal pumps is available from FMC Coffin® Turbo Pump Division, FMC Corporation. The brochure includes the two highest capacity Turbo Pumps offered by FMC: the Type DEB 16, with pump capacity to 1,100 gpm,
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on February 15, 1985Gerald J. St. Pe, an executive at Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Litton Industries for the past 20 years, has been elected president of the division, located in Pascagoula, Miss. He succeeds Leonard Erb, a senior vice president of Litton, who will continue in his position as the corporate
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on February 15, 1985Tracor Applied Sciences, Inc., a subsidairy of Tracor, Inc., has received a $16-million contract from Waterway Communications System, Inc., according to an announcement by Tracor group vice president William C. Moyer. The contract covers construction and installation of a new, automated rad
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on February 15, 1985—Literature Available "W.A.I.T.!" (What Alloy Is That!) is the title of a new four-page color brochure on alloy identification kits for non-destructive testing from Fenner & Associates, Inc. of Houston, Texas. The publication explains that the W.A.I.T.! series of non-destructive portable al
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on February 15, 1985The 68,082-dwt bulk carrier Century Progress was delivered recently by the Tamano Works of Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Company, Ltd. to Kohoi Shipping Company of Hong Kong. Built to Lloyd's Register of Shipping classification, the new bulker has an overall length of 730.7 feet, beam of
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on February 15, 1985The Falk Corportion of Milwaukee and Zahnraderfabrik Renk AG of Augsburg, West Germany have announced the signing of a license agreement for reverse-reduction drives. Falk will have exclusive manufacturing, sales, and distribution rights in the U.S. for the Renk Series AWS drives. In additio
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on February 15, 1985Joseph Maurelli, chairman and president of Techmatics, Inc., has appointed Walter S. Szczypinski as vice president of the engineering services company located in Arlington, Va. He joined the firm after 25 years of commissioned service in the U.S. Navy as an engineering specialist. He has fil
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on February 15, 1985John B . Chaplin, formerly vice president of engineering at Bell's New Orleans Operations, has been promoted to vice president for development of Bell Aerospace Textron. He began his career with Bell in Buffalo in 1962, and was named program director for surface elfect ships. In 1969, with t
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on February 15, 1985Lester Rosenblatt, chairman of M. Rosenblatt & Son, Inc., naval architects and marine engineers with headquarters in New York City, has announced the recent promotions of two long-time key employees to vice presidential positions. Carmine Laviola, formerly assistant design manager for the Eas
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on February 15, 1985Construction of a 4,000-cubic-yard hopper dredge is progressing on schedule at Twin City Shipyard (TCS) in St. Paul, Minn. The 8,000- bhp vessel for Gulf Coast Trailing Company of New Orleans is being designed and constructed by TCS using the latest modular and zone construction methods. TCS
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on February 15, 1985Sea-Land Service, Inc., has announced the promotion of Tom Coburn to area manager, and the naming of Jay Dee Martin as port manager in Anchorage, Alaska. Mr. Coburn will oversee sales and marketing in Alaska's Railbelt, and will supervise Sea- Land's Railbelt area operations. For the past two
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on February 15, 1985Thomas E. Moran, chairman and president of Moran Towing and Transportation Company of New York City, has announced the retirement of Lloyd R. Graham as vice president of marketing and sales, and the election of Robert M. Loftus to that position. Mr. Loftus, a 1953 graduate of the State Univers
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on February 15, 1985—Literature Available Whitey Co. of Highland Heights, Ohio, is offering free literature on a new severe service on-off valve that is now available from the company. The valve is rated to 10,000 psi (68,900 kPa) and meets ANSI B- 16.34 Class 4500. Valves supplied with Monel stems meet N.A.C.E
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on February 15, 1985With the recent delivery of the United States Lines containerships American Virginia and American Kentucky, Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy Machinery Ltd. has reached the halfway point in fulfillment of the largest merchant ship contract ever awarded. The Korean shipyard is carrying out a $570
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on February 15, 1985The Department of the Navy has awarded Imi-Tech Corporation of Elk Grove, 111., two research and development contracts valued at more than $300,000. The first contract involves adapting the company's Solimide® foam, a flexible, fireresistant polyimide insulating material, for use in submarin
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on February 15, 1985The tremendous increase in drilling and production platforms around the world has caused the petroleum industry to place new emphasis on protecting lives and equipment from the hazards of fire. This need has caused equipment manufacturers to search for better pumps and fire monitors for opti
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on February 15, 1985General Thermodynamics Corporation of Plymouth, Mass., has published free literature on the model 300-A BMEP Balancer that is used to equalize the cylinder load of any multicylinder internal combustion engine equipped with individual fuel adjustments. The publication, which contains a photo
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on February 15, 1985The journey that recently brought two mammoth container cranes from Japan to the Port of Tacoma, Wash., represent a milestone in construction of Sea-Land's new container facility there. Their successful voyage marked the first time that fully erected cranes of this size were transported acro
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on February 15, 1985The Turku shipyard of Oy Wartsila Ab recently completed the 19,999-dwt crude oil/chemical/ products tanker Tavi (shown above), first of two ordered by Neste Oy, the Finnish national oil company. The vessel was delivered less than 14 months after keel-laying. The Tavi is built to Lloyd's Regi
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on February 15, 1985Peter A. Malcolm, Marine Coordinator of "In the Footsteps of Scott," a British expedition to the Antarctic, has selected the Sweet- Water 400 RO (reverse osmosis) unit as the onboard water supply for this historic, two year voyage. Bob Daniels, president of Marland Environmental Systems, mak