Maritime Magazines Archive
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on November 1980D.J. O'Rourke, vice presidentmarketing, has announced the promotion of Joseph G. Wink f r om distributor sales manager to sales manager-control products. Mr. Wink has been affiliated with Abex Corporation, Denison Division, Columbus, Ohio for more than 25 years, serving in many sales capaci
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on November 1980Santa Fe International Corporation recently announced that it has awarded shipyard contracts f o r the construction of a jackup drilling unit and the conversion of two construction barges into drilling vessels. The new jackup, Santa Fe Rig 134, will be built by China Shipbuilding Corporatio
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on November 1980The first meeting of the 1980- 81 season of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers was held aboard the S.S. Princess Louise, berthed in the Port of Los Angeles. Nearly 50 members and guests were in attendance to welcome the new Section o
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on November 1980The fall meeting of the Gulf Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers was held recently in Mobile, Ala. The afternoon technical session papers presented were: " A 20,- 000-Ton-Lift F l o a t i n g Drydock f o r a Shallow-Draft Harbor," by James A. Dumas of Bender Weldi
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on November 1980Dr. Charles E. Cheeseman, general manager of General Electric's Simulation and Control Systems D e p a r t m e n t in Daytona Beach, Fla., has announced that Phillip W. Farmer is appointed program general manager, simulation systems, and John E. Breyer is a p p o i n t e d program general m
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on November 1980Capt. Vinton R. Antworth has been named master of the Oceanic Independence, according to David R. Stollmeyer, president of American Hawaii Cruises, the ship's operator. He succeeds Capt. Adrian Spidle, who was selected to command the 30,000-gt vessel during her introduction to Hawaii interi
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on November 1980A new four-page brochure describing the PMH Protection Plan is now available f r om Paul-Munroe Hydraulics, Inc. of Orange, Calif. The brochure explains each of the three steps (analysis, offline filtration, reconditioning) in this complete hydraulic system fluid maintenance program. A detai
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on November 1980Butterworth Systems Inc. has named Allegro Ltd. as its new sales representative in Taiwan, effective August 1, 1980. Allegro Ltd. will be representing the full line of B u t t e r w o r t h S y s t e ms equipment and services in Taiwan. Allegro (Taiwan) Ltd. is located at 153-10, Tun Hua N.
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on November 1980Throughout the world, shipping companies are converting to less powerful but more efficient propulsion, switching to diesels, or striving to get a better handle on fuel consumption in both diesel engines and steam turbines. A New O r l e a n s - b a s e d technology company, U l t r a P r o
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on November 1980Krautkramer-Branson has announced an LCD version of its widely used DM2 ultrasonic digital thickness gage. The new DM2 LCD features a large, high-contrast liquid crystal display and offers exceptional readability, even in direct sunlight. Offering improved clarity under a variety of ambient l
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on November 1980A full-scale, RV-2 diesel engine, cut away f o r training purposes, has been donated to the California Maritime Academy in Vallejo, Calif., by the Transamerica Delaval Engine and Compressor Division. The presentation was made public at acceptance ceremonies attended by Academy president Rear A
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on November 1980Arthur L. Hudson has been elected president of Arthur-Smith Corporation, Houston-based petrochemical carrier. He has been with the corporation since 1978 as marketing manager, and more recently as vice president, marketing sales. W. Matthew Heaton has been promoted to senior vice president
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on November 1980The BMEP balance Model 300A manufactured by General Thermodynamics Corporation is used in the process of equalizing cylinder load in large, multicylinder spark-ignited and diesel engines with individual fuel adjustment. It is designed to fit the standard indicator valve and is easily connect
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on November 1980Ron Zeller has been appointed president and chief executive officer of N o r w e g i a n Caribbean Lines (NCL), succeeding Norwegian Helge Naarstad, who is relocating to another position with the company in Norway. Mr. Zeller has been legal counsel f o r NCL f o r the past 10 years, and is
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on November 1980The Annual Banquet of the Alumni Association of Webb Institute of Naval Architecture will be held on Thursday, November 13, 1980 in the ballroom of the Loews Warwick Hotel, 54th Street on the Avenue of the Americas, New York City. A reception at 5:30 p.m. will be followed by dinner at 7 p.m
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on November 1980The recent initial monthly meeting of The Society of Marine Port Engineers New York, N.Y., Inc., heard a presentation on the National Shipbuilding Research Program sponsored by the Maritime Administration in c o o p e r a t i on with Bath Iron Works Corporation. The speaker was John C. Maso
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on November 1980Key units of a new antisubmarine warfare tactical data system for the U.S. Navy's Knox Class frigates will be developed by Rockwell International Corporation under an approximately $4- million subcontract from Computer Sciences Corporation's Defense Systems Division. Under the agreement, Ro
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on November 1980Joseph R. Stadelman has been named to head the Morgan Engineering unit of AMCA International Corporation. As general manager of that operating unit, Mr. Stadelman is also a vice president of the Equipment Systems Division within which Morgan Engineering operates. For the past 24 years Mr.
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on November 1980D e e p s e a V e n t u r e s , Inc. of Gloucester Point, Va., recently announced the appointment of James N. Wood as acting president. He replaces Frank A. Lawrence, who has been president of the deep ocean mining firm since July 1977. Mr. Wood is currently a vice president of Ocean Mining
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on November 1980The MCM refrigeration compressor, designed for heavy-duty, industrial or commercial applications, is described in an eightpage brochure recently published by the Frick Company. The MCM is designed to meet heavy-duty standards r e q u i r ed for use in the industrial pressure and temperature