Maritime Magazines Archive
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on December 1980Tenn-Tom Towing, Inc., Fairhope, Ala., has applied to the Maritime Administration for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of two steel oil barges and one twinscrew towboat. The 264-foot-long barges will be built by Nashville Bridge Company, Nashville, Tenn. Rayco Shipb
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on December 1980Paul I. Beining, president of CDI Marine Company of Jacksonville, Fla., has announced the appointment of Donald W. Jett as vice president-contracts and administration. He joined the company in 1977 as chief engineer, and has been involved significantly in the overall operation of the firm.
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on December 1980The Maritime Administration has entered into an $860,000 costshared research contract with the Engine and Compressor Division of Transamerica Delaval Inc., Oakland, Calif., to measure the performance levels of emulsified fuel oil-water mixtures used to power diesel engines. MarAd's share wi
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on December 1980Hoffert Manufacturing Company of Jacksonville, Fla., recently reported it has successfully produced, without the aid of Federal energy grants, a perfected fuel oil/water emulsion system called Fire-Brite. A Fire-Brite installation aboard a ship, according to the Hoffert announcement, has ef
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on December 1980James W. Church has joined Designers & Planners, Inc. as director of project engineering. The announcement was made recently by Ferd Serim, president of the company. Designers & Planners is a firm of naval architects and marine engineering with offices in New York, Washington, and Galveston.
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on December 1980Coal-fired steamships will be returning to the high seas, powered by Combustion Engineering marine boilers. C - E ' s l i c e n s e e in Italy, Franco Tosi S.p.A., has been awarded the world's first contract in 20 years for two coal-fired boilers by Italcantieri S.p.A., a shipyard in Monfalc
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on December 1980The latest monthly meeting of the Long Beach-Greater Los Angeles Section of the American Society of Naval Engineers was held at the Officers Club of the Armed Forces Reserve Center at Los Alamitos. In the absence of Section chairman J.R. (Bob) Malone, Capt. J.A. Gildea, USN, vice chairman, pr
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on December 1980Rauma-Repola's Rauma Shipyard in Finland has entered into a contract with Finland Steamship Company and Merivienti OY of Helsinki for construction of two 12,000-dwt, R O / R O cargo vessels. The ships will enter regular service between Finland and the United Kingdom in 1982. This service is
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on December 1980A wet/dry state detector system that gives positive indication of tank empty or tank full condition has just been introduced by Metritape, Inc., Concord, Mass. The new Metripoint liquid level detector was designed as an adjunct to the resistive Metritape Level/Temp sensor which, when suspended
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on December 1980Several organizational changes were recently announced by Ellsworth Peterson, president of Peterson Builders, Inc., located in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. Ed Propsom has been promoted to vice president of operations. He joined PBI in 1942, and with the execption of a few years in the Marine Corps du
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on December 1980A contract to enlarge Bayou Chene and the Avoca Island Cutoff channel has been awarded to T.L. James & Company, Inc. of Ruston, La., by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Col. Thomas A. Sands, New Orleans District Engineer, noted in making the award that the work will enable shipyards at Mor
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on December 1980Dome Petroleum Limited, Nissho- Iwai Corporation, Chubu Electric, Kyushu Electric, Osaka Gas, and Toho Gas recently announced, after a series of discussions in Japan and Canada, that they have concluded a letter of intent for the sale of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Canada to Japan. Und
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on December 1980A contract for approximately $9 million to overhaul the frigate USS Edward McDonnell (FF- 1043) was awarded by the U.S. Navy recently to Bath Iron Works, a Congoleum company. The ship, commissioned in 1965 are now homeported in Mayport, Fla., is scheduled to arrive at the Bath, Maine, shipy
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on December 1980The Navy announced recently that Kings Bay, Ga., has been selected as the location for the construction of the Trident Atlantic Coast Strategic Submarine Base. The announcement culminates detailed studies and analyses of many different base locations and configurations. The analyses conside
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on December 1980AMBASSADOR In November this year the Jos. L. Meyer shipyard in Papenburg, West Germany, delivered the rollon/ roll-off ship Ambassador to Coordinated Caribbean Transport, Inc. (CCT) of Coral Gables, Fla., a subsidiary of Transway International Corporation. The $19.5- million RO/RO is the fi
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on December 1980Cheverton Workboats of Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, have been licensed by Rigships Limited to produce the well-known North series of versatile glass reinforced polyester hulls designed by naval architects Murray, Cormack Associates. Cheverton will be the exclusive molders of the North Cap
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on December 1980The multipurpose, deck cargo landing craft Sea Hawk (pictured above) is the eighth design of its kind of various sizes from the Miami, Fla.-based James S. Krogen and Company, Inc., naval architects, for use on the rugged Alaskan coastline. Built by the Nichols Boat Works of Hood River, Ore.
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on December 1980A virtually new book, the new edition of Ship Design and Construction, has just been published by The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. This book has been developed over nearly a five-year period by 27 authors, an expert control committee, and edited by Robert Taggart, the w
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on December 1980Far East-Levingston Shipbuilding Ltd. in Singapore recently completed and delivered another jackup rig to Pool Company of Houston. Named Pool Rig 144, the 160-foot-water-depth jackup was towed to its location in the Arabian Gulf to operate for ARAMCO. The platform consists of a triangular-
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on December 1980Vincent D. Tibbetts, president of Boston Fuel Transportation, Inc., has announced the signing of a contract with Jeffboat, Inc. of JefFersonville, Ind. for the construction of two 40,000-barrel coastwise petreloum barges for Grade A and below products. The contract calls for the construction