Maritime Magazines Archive
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on January 15, 1983Hoffert Manufacturing Co., Jacksonville, Fla., was an exhibitor at the recent First International Maritime Exposition held in New York and sponsored by The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. On Friday, November 19, Hoffert had a drawing for a four-day cruise for two onboard the
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on January 15, 1983Paceco, Inc. of Gulfport, Miss., a subsidiary of the Fruehauf Corporation, recently delivered a railmounted Transtainer Crane of custom design to the U.S. Army Military Ocean Terminal — Sunny Point, located at Southport, N.C. The cantilevered gantry-type container stacking yard crane spans 11
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on January 15, 1983The Eighth Congress of the Pan-American Institute of Naval Engineering (IPEN) will be held in Washington, D.C., at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Crystal City, Arlington, Va., September 11-17, 1983. In announcing plans for the meeting, Rear Adm. James W. Lisanbv, U.S. president of the Western He
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on January 15, 1983Burton Shipyard, Inc. of Port Arthur, Texas, recently delivered the 224-foot tuna vessel Lady Marion. The steel-hulled tuna purse seiner is the sixth of a seven-vessel contract awarded to Burton by Van Camp Sea Food Co., a division of Ralston Purina Co. The purse seiner will operate primari
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on January 15, 1983A technical publication called "Paper No. 20," featuring two reports on the role of the propeller in economical ship operation, is being: offered by Stone Manganese Marine Ltd. One report, by L. Hawdon, technical director of Stone Manganese, and G. Patience, technical manager, is titled "Pr
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on January 15, 1983The U.S. Coast Guard has announced that new requirements concerning prevention of pollution from ships will become effective on October 2, 1983. For some U.S. shipowners and operators the new rules will mean changes in operating procedures and for others new equipment will be required. Also
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on January 15, 1983The s e l f - e l e v a t i n g offshore drilling unit Sam Noble, built by Levingston Shipbuilding Company of Orange, Texas, was christened recently in ceremonies held in Port Arthur, Texas. The unit was built for the Noble Drilling Corporation, and was christened by Mrs. Mary Jane Noble, w
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on January 15, 1983Energy Transportation Corporation of New York City has taken delivery of a tug and 420- foot notched-stern barge for the transportation of liquefied ammonia in the Gulf Coast area. The tug/barge will be operated by Energy Ammonia Transportation Corporation, a subsidiary, under long-term tim
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on January 15, 1983Trellclean International, Limited, manufacturers and worldwide operators of the Trellclean underwater hull cleaning service, held a two-day in-depth technical briefing and a live demonstration of their three types of barnacleremoving machines recently in Long Beach, Calif. The meeting was a
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on January 15, 1983The Dravo Corporation's Neville Island Shipyard, Pa., recently launched a 195-foot by 35-foot covered hopper barge, W.B.L. 114 — one of two delivered by Dravo to C.G. Willis, Inc., of Paulsboro, N.J. Outfitted for both push and hawser towing, the barges are equipped with corrugated rolling co
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on January 15, 1983The bulk carrier Karnataka, owned by Mogul Line of Bombay, India, recently received major steel renewals involving approximately 370 tons of fabricated steel in four main areas, and modernization at Hongkong United Dockyards (HUD). The structure in the upper wing tanks was almost totally rene
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on January 15, 1983George Geiger, president of Bay Shipbuilding Corp., Sturgeon Bay, Wis. recently announced that Rear Adm. William Thompson (USN-ret.) has joined Bay Shipbuilding as the corporation's representative in Washington, D.C. Admiral Thompson is a public relations consultant in the Washington, D.C., a
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on January 15, 1983Plans are on the drawing board to construct a modern port in Nome, Alaska. The city is asking the state legislature to appropriate $38.5 million for construction of a medium draft port near the mouth of the Snake River. The project is the number one priority for marine construction in northern
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- Navy Subcontract Awarded Peck & Hale page: 91
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on January 9, 1982Peck & Hale, Inc., West Sayville, N.Y., has been awarded a contract to supply cargo shoring systems for the fleet ballistic missile ship USNS Vega. Boland Marine and Manufacturing Company, New Orleans, La., was awarded the prime contract for the vessel and subcontracted the $300,000 cargo s
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on January 9, 1982Hongkong United Dockyards' (HUD) largest ship conversion contract is nearing completion at the company's Tsing Yi Island yard. The $30-million one-year contract, due to be completed in the third quarter of 1982, is for the conversion of an 18,949-dwt bulkcarrier into a sophisticated 9,215-dwt
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on January 9, 1982Thomas M. Lowrey and Ben Albert have been appointed vice presidents by TANO Corporation, the New Orleans, La.-based automation controls company. Mr. Lowrey, named vice president of sales and marketing, was formerly an officer and vice president of administration for The Western Company of Nor
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on January 9, 1982SPAR Associates, Inc. of Annapolis, Md., announced the sale of a triad of shipyard production planning and cost/schedule control systems to Saint John Shipbuilding & Drydock Company in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. The three systems have been implemented on a PRIME minicomputer and inclu
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on January 9, 1982Halter Marine's drydock at Chickasaw, Ala., is now available for ship and rig repair work. The announcement was made by R.J. Shopf, president of Halter Marine, Inc., who said the drydock was built in 1980 to service Halter's CATUG c o n s t r u c t i on program. "That program," he said, "ha
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on January 9, 1982George Spiotta, executive vice president of Concorde Line-Atlantic Division, New York, N.Y., announced recently the promotion of Victor Otero from line manager to vice president. "While he had performed some of these assignments before," said Mr. Spiotta, "he will now be fully responsible f
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on January 9, 1982Seaward International, Inc., Falls Church, Va., has expanded its line of marine fenders with the addition of the Sumitomo brand rubber dock fenders for which Seaward is now the exclusive U.S. representative. Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd., makes a wide variety of rubber fenders, primarily