Maritime Magazines Archive
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on April 1983Ed Shearer, corporate vice president of marketing of Bergeron Industries, St. Bernard, La., announced recently that Bergeron has signed a contract with Kosmos Cement Company, Inc., of Louisville, Ky., for a cement barge. The barge will be a 195- foot by 52-foot 6-inch by 12-foot open hopper
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on April 1983Unitek, a locally owned Honolulu, Hawaii, firm and Sause Bros., an Oregon transportation and shipyard company, announced recently that they are constructing a $2-million floating steel drydock for ship repair to be based in Honolulu. The 200-foot by 100-foot drydock is being built at the Sa
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on April 1983The ASTM Committee F-25 on Shipbuilding- will meet at ASTM headquarters May 9-11 in Philadelphia, Pa. This meeting has been re-scheduled and this is the new date. The committee's 11 subcommittees are currently processing more than 100 shipbuilding industry consensus standards and will be c
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on April 1983Stanley L. Clark has been named president of Raytheon Marine Company and Sorensen Company, two Raytheon Company operations based in Manchester, N.H. Raytheon Marine Company manufacturers a broad line of marine electronic equipment for navigation, communication, and safety. Products include
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on April 1983Use of oceangoing self-unloading vessels in the U.S. dry-bulk trade is feasible, under certain conditions, according to a report released by the Maritime Administration. The study, "Use of Self-Unloaders in U.S. Dry-Bulk Commerce," was prepared by COR, Inc., Falls Church, Va., for Mar- Ad.
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on April 1983The Maryland Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Baltimore, Md., recently was awarded a $2-million contract to perform a major overhaul of the Washington Trader. The 40,000-dwt U.S.-flag tanker is owned by the American Trading Transportation Co. of Baltimore, Md. A major portion of the contract
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on April 1983The Westinghouse Marine Division, Sunnyvale, Calif., has received advanced authorization from Newport News Shipbuilding, a Tennaco Company, of Newport News, Va., to manufacture eight turbine generator sets for the CVN-73, the sixth U.S. nuclear aircraft carrier of the Nimitz class. The con
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on April 1983The U.S. Department of State r e c e n t l y named Shipbuilders Council president Edwin M. Hood to a two-year term as U.S. representative on the board of governors of the new World Maritime University (WMU) established by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the agency of the U.N.
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on April 1983An illustrated product brochure about safety watch systems for diesel-powered vessels describes engine room monitoring- control consoles, bridge consoles, remote controls and alarms built by National Control Systems, Inc., St. Louis, Mo. Six major consoles and the various remotes for each a
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on April 1983Hydro Products, Inc., of San Diego, Calif., has reorganized its marketing department to better reflect the company's growing capabilities in total systems engineering and fabrication, Joel Rizzo, the company's newly appointed director of marketing announced recently. Mr. Rizzo, who is respo
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on April 1983W.J. Amoss Jr., president and chief executive officer of Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., has been elected chairman of the Council of American-Flag Ship Operators (CASO). Mr. Amoss succeeds W. Bruce Seaton of American President Lines, Ltd., as chairman. Mr. Amoss, president of Lykes since
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on April 1983Don Linnenbank recently announced that C.D. Linnenbank Inc., mooring consultants, has opened offices at 500 Donald Ross Dr., Pinehurst, N.C. 28374 telephone (919) 295-2095. Mr. Linnenbank has first-hand knowledge of worldwide activities in the offshore drilling and marine industries with pa
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on April 1983Sanders Associates, Inc. of Nashua, N.H. has received an additional $4.5-million contract from the U.S. Navy for continued production of AN/BRD-7 shipboard direction finding systems. The award, from the U.S. Navy's Electronic Systems Command, brings to more than $9- million the total awarde
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on April 1983Dr. Norman C. Witbeck, president of Columbia Research Corporation (CRC), Arlington, Va., recently announced the election of Rear Adm. Robert J. Eustace, (USN-ret.), as president of System Enhancement Services Company, Inc. (SESCO), a CRC subsidiary. As president, Admiral Eustace directs SES
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on April 1983Steve Ralph has joined National Marine Service Incorporated, of St. Louis, Mo., as a shipyard division salesman, William A. Creelman, president of the company announced recently. Mr. Ralph, a retired U.S. Navy captain, has extensive experience with marine diesel engines including Fairbanks-
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on April 1983The Tano Corporation, New Orleans, La., recently received a $2.5-million contract from Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Co. of Seattle, Wash., for a training simulator to be used in the U.S. Navy's LSD-41 program. The simulator will provide both operation and maintenance training on t
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on April 1983The Maritime Administration has released a report on "Large Diameter Propellers of Reduced Weight." The report describes the design, manufacture, performance, and fuel economy of several types of large, slow-turning, lightweight marine propellers. The concepts studied include cast hollow b
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on April 1983The Philadelphia Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers recently heard a presentation on "Outfitting With Double Bulkheads" given by Warren Peterson, international marketing director of E.F. Hauserman Co., of Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Peterson demonstrated the laborsavi
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on April 1983When the mammoth World War II battleship Iowa left drydocking facilities at Avondale Shipyard enroute to its second phase of facelifting at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss, it was towed downriver on the Mississippi by Gulf Fleet Marine's Gulf Ace II, a 5,600 hp class tug, while ano
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on April 1983Comdr. Charles Maclin, USN, Director of Ocean Engineering, and Supervisor of Salvage, U.S. Navy, was the guest speaker at the recent meeting of the Northern New England Section of the American Society of Naval Engineers. Commander Maclin described the Navy's role in the proposed recovery of S