Maritime Magazines Archive
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on December 1980The Prowler and the Sablefish — both wide-waisted, house-aft boats termed "schooners" by West Coast fishermen—recently headed north out of Seattle for the king crab season, their introduction to the working fish fleet. The twin boats joined a growing group designed by Seattle naval architect
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on December 1980Hudson Shipbuilders, Inc. (HUDSHIP) of Pascagoula, Miss., recently delivered its second vessel, the Graysearch, to Gray Mac- Kenzie Company, Ltd. of Bahrain. The new vessel will join the already sizable fleet now operated by Gray MacKenzie in the Arabian Gulf. The design is HUDSHIP's stand
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on December 1980Port of Portland (Oregon) Commission president Joseph M. Edgar recently announced the appointment of a citizens task force to aid Port staff in the preparation of a master plan to guide the development of Port marine terminals through the year 2000. He named Robert F. Wallace, chairman of t
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on December 1980The 132,597-dwt bulk carrier Horyu Maru, which was constructed at the Ariake Works of Hitachi Zosen, was delivered to her owner, Nippon Kisen Co., Ltd., recently. The ship will be placed in service between Japanese ports and overseas ports in Australia, Africa, and the North American West C
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on December 1980The first of four Friendship class river pushboats ordered by the Chang Jiang Shipping Administration of the People's Republic of China from Dravo Corporation was launched into the Ohio River recently at Dravo's Neville Island shipyard near Pittsburgh. The twin-screw 6,000-bhp vessel, measuri
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on December 1980New England Electric System of Westboro, Mass., has announced plans for the construction of a 655-foot coal-carrying ship at General Dynamics' Quincy Shipbuilding Division. The $60-million vessel is the first of its type to be built in the United States in more than 25 years. The coal carrier
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on December 1980More than 300 senior Texaco marine engineering officers will receive advanced training on a unique 36,000-shp engine room simulator, James A. Cole, vice president in charge of Texaco's Marine Department, announced recently. "Under a four-year contract recently signed with MarineSafety Internat
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on December 1980Seaspan International Ltd. of North Vancouver, B.C., Canada, recently took delivery of the Seaspan Rigger, a new log barge (pictured above) that was commissioned by Mrs. William Sloan, wife of the the president of Pacific Logging Company Ltd. Designed by Robert Allen Ltd. to load and carry bu
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on December 1980Ogden Marine Indonesia, Inc., a subsidiary of Ogden Marine, Inc., New York, has applied to the Maritime Administration for conconstruction- differential subsidy (CDS), and amended its 1975 application for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of three liquefied natural ga
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on November 15, 1980MacGregor Land & Sea, Inc. has appointed Maxwell S. Graham to the post of operations manager of its New York area service station. Being the nation's largest port, this assignment is a key position in MacGregor's rapidly expanding marine service network. Not only will Mr. Graham direct a te
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on November 15, 1980Bernard Ambroseno is the newly elected president of the Wild Goose Association, an international organization for individuals with a common interest in Loran. He comes to the office well equipped with a background rich in Loran work. He is currently the Loran product manager for navigation
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on November 15, 1980The Hampton Roads Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers held its first meeting of the 1980-81 year at Fisherman's Wharf in Hampton, Va. Chairman Donald E. Kane Jr. of Newport News Shipbuilding opened the meeting by welcoming the 110 members and guests present and p
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on November 15, 1980Brown Marine Service, Inc., Pensacola, Fla., has applied to the Maritime Administration for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of one single-skin tank barge and one double-skin tank barge. The single- skin barge will have a 20,000- barrel capacity; the double-skin bar
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on November 15, 1980The bid opening date for the Maritime Prepositioning Ship has been extended from November 18, 1980 to January 19, 1981, to permit additional time for the preparation of bids. The Maritime Administration originally extended the invitation for sealed bids on the first two vessels in this new
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on November 15, 1980The Maritime Administration has approved in principle an application by Parker Towing Co., Inc., Tuscaloosa, Ala., for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing 33 hopper barges, two doubleskinned petroleum tank barges, one towboat, and the reconditioning of two towboats and four used hopper
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on November 15, 1980Wendle Huddleston of Morgan City, La., announced that his Pascagoula, Miss., company, Hudson Shipbuilders, Inc. (HUDSHIP), has marked its reentry into the towboat market with the recent delivery of the 70-foot towboat Belgian to Spanier Marine of New Orleans. Belgian was christened at the G
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on November 15, 1980As the first step in a fleet modernization program, an order has been placed for construction of the world's newest luxury cruise ship, it was announced recently by Holland America Cruises. The keel of the new 32,000-gt motor vessel, yet to be named, will be laid in January 1981 at Chantier
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on November 15, 1980Coastal Towing, Inc., Texas, a subsidiary of Coastal Towing, Inc., Houston, has applied to the Maritime Administration for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of six tank barges and two towboats. All of the vessels are to be used in the inland waters of the United State
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on November 15, 1980The burgeoning Chinese shipbuilding industry has become the newest member of the worldwide MacGregor organization. It was welcomed into the ranks of those countries already benefitting from the world's leading cargo-handling equipment designs, at a recent signing ceremony in Paris. Under th
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on November 15, 1980A paper titled "T-AO 'Commercial' Fleet Oiler" by Clayton W. Davis, John F. Ince, and I. David Gessow, all of the Maritime Administration Office of Ship Construction, was presented to a meeting of the Chesapeake Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers recently. The T