Maritime Magazines Archive
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on August 15, 1980Downtime was cut by approximately twothirds when the Western Pacesetter II, a semisubmersible drilling rig, was refitted at Cameron Offshore Service Inc.'s Industrial Marine Division in Cameron, La., for work in the North Sea. With the cost of rig tow time, and a tug on call at $8,000 a day, s
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on August 1980I.C. Kizilkaya has joined Designers & Planners, Inc. as assistant vice president and director, hull and machinery design, and John Slager as director, hydrodynamics design. The announcement was made recently by Ferd Serim, president of the company. Designers & Planners is a firm of naval arch
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on August 1980Remote areas of Alaska gained a new supply link recently when the 80-foot lighter Kaktovik was launched by MARCO Seattle. The all-aluminum craft is the second of her type built by MARCO for C r o w l e y M a r i t i m e Corporation from a design by L.R. Gloston & Associates, Inc. of Seattle.
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on August 1980A 7,500-mile tow from the Gulf of Mexico to West Africa marked the maiden voyage of Zapata Marine Service's new 82-foot steel mooring tug recently delivered by Halter Marine, Inc., New Orleans, La. The tug Mooring Service is now operating in West Africa, after her 53-day tow of the new 65-f
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on August 1980A capabilities brochure covering the six operating divisions of ITT Grinnell Valve Company, Inc. is now available. A subsidiary of ITT Grinnell Corporation, the Valve Company manufactures and distributes a full line of valves from rugged fire hydrants to sophisticated, high technology contr
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on August 1980Zakum Development Company, operating for the National Oil Company of Abu Dhabi, h a s awarded IMODCO of Los Angeles, a pioneer offshore marine terminal builder, a contract in excess of $14 million for the engineering, construction, and installation of two Single Point Mooring systems. To b
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on August 1980The Ship Structure Committee has copies available of three new reports without cost. SSC-291, "A Design Procedure for Minimizing Propeller-Induced Vibration in Hull Structural Elements," develops a flow diagram starting with the definition of the ship vibration specifications, continuing th
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on August 1980Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Beaumont, Texas, yard recently christened a new 200-foot water depth offshore drilling rig for Dixilyn-Field Drilling Company of Houston, a subsidiary of Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company. The rig is the second of two similar rigs built for Dixilyn-Field duri
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on August 1980Equitable Shipyards, Inc., New Orleans, recently delivered the second of three breakbulk/ reefer/container vessels, the M/V Amazonia, to American Atlantic Shipping, Inc. of New York City. American Atlantic, a part of the worldwide ocean transportation group of American Marine Industries, Inc.,
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on August 1980Keppel Shipyard Ltd. of Singapore has announced the appointment of John J. Bajor as president and director of the newly formed Keppel Marine Agencies Inc. This corporation, located at 26 Broadway, New York, will serve as Keppel Shipyard's exclusive agency in the United States and Canada. K
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on August 1980Tracor Instruments is offering free copies of a paper entitled "Integrated Satellite/Omega Navigation Systems." Presented at the 1980 RTCM Assembly in Washington, D.C., the paper highlights the advantages of combining two unique, worldwide navigation systems. Topics covered include the prob
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on August 1980A large contingent of the San Diego and San Pedro tuna fishing industry gathered in Sturgeon Bay, Wis., recently to witness the christening and delivery' of the tuna seiner Captain Frank Medina, built for Capt. and Mrs. Joe Medina Jr. of San Diego; and the launching of the Jane for Venatun,
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on August 1980The M / V Ambassador, a 9,000-dwt roll-on/ roll-off trailership on order to a subsidiary of Transway International Corporation, was launched recently at the Jos. L. Meyer Shipyard, Papenburg, West Germany. The Ambassador was christened by Mrs. John W. Wolcott, wife of Transway's president and
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on August 1980A contract valued at about $79 million for construction of a jackup type drilling rig has been awarded to Hitachi Zosen's Osaka yard by the Dutch shipping group Royal Nedlloyd. Nedlloyd claims that the rig, which will have four legs for extra stability instead of the usual three, will be the b
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on August 1980Portex '81, said to be the world's first comprehensive international trade fair and convention, will take place in Hamburg, West Germany, May 26 through 30, 1981. Hosted by Germany's largest port city, Portex '81 will cover all aspects of the planning and construction of modern port facilit
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on August 1980A new illustrated Bulletin CMP- 134, just published by Garlock Inc. introduces Style #5050 pump packing as an economical, dustfree alternative to asbestos for industries pumping slurries and other abrasive media and for applications where recovery from shaft deflection is important. Said to
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on August 1980Carlos A. Tomassoni has joined Designers & Planners, Inc. as director, ship design and marine economics. The announcement was made recently by Ferd Serim, president of the company. Designers & Planners is a firm of naval architects and marine engineers with offices in New York, Washington,
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on August 1980A Coal-Fired Marine Steam Plant Can Be Offered Today Which Will Provide The Same High Traditional Reliability. The origin of the steam boiler can be directly related to the invention of the steam engine, and its development has been a vital element in the successful generation of power by s
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on August 1980Capt. Thomas A. King has been appointed superintendent of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, N.Y. The announcement was made by Samuel B. Nemirow, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Maritime Affairs. He succeeds Howard F. Casey, who has served as acting superintendent since Oc
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on August 1980Kelmar J. Funk has been appointed vice president of sales for J e f f b o a t , Inc., and Eugene F. (Gene) Carrigan has been named director of sales. The men previously held the positions of director of sales and sales representative, respectively. Jeffboat, a major builder of barges and to