Maritime Magazines Archive
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on August 1978Harland and Wolff Ltd. of Belfast, Northern Ireland, and M.A.N. ( M a s c h i n e n f a b r i k Augsburg- Nurnberg Aktiengesellschaft) of Augsburg, in the Federal Republic of Germany, have entered into an agreement covering the production and sale of medium-speed engines of M.A.N, design. A
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on August 1978The M/V Ocean Marauder, recently launched in the waters off Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, is the first North American fishing vessel powered by a Cummins KT-2300-M diesel engine. An 86-foot seiner built by John Manly Shipyards of Vancouver for Ocean Fisheries and Wishing Star Fisheries
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on August 1978E. Theodore Laborde, vice president, has been appointed head of the New Orleans, La., office of Marsh & McLennan, Incorporated, one of the nation's leading insurance brokers, and Donald L. Pesquie, v i c e president, has been named deputy manager. Mr. Laborde succeeds John B. Mead, a senior
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on August 1978The formation of Palmer Industries, Inc. has been announced by Clifford M. Palmer, chairman of the board. The new firm, according to Mr. Palmer, will offer the Port of New York-New Jersey the latest technology in chassis and container repair. Palmer Industries' new facility, located at 8 Li
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on August 1978Newpark Shipbuilding & Repair, Inc. has opened a $2-million barge-cleaning and gas-freeing facility on the Houston Ship Channel, capable of providing a wide range of vessel-cleaning services with extensive environmental safeguards. John W. Sansing, president of Newpark Shipbuilding & Repair
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on August 1978The responsibility to maintain design fuel rates over the service life of a marine steam powerplant rests with the o p e r a t o r . With good plant management, this task is usually accomplished by a combination of frequent periodic adjustment of the equipment controlling powerplant efficien
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on August 1978The research and survey ship Governor Ray has completed its first survey and exploration cruise, and has recovered several thousand pounds of manganese nodules from 18,000 feet on the Pacific Ocean Floor, according to Ocean Minerals Company (OMCO), 465 Bernardo Avenue, Mountain View, Calif. O
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on August 1978Sunderland Shipbuilders, part of British Shipbuilders, is using a new system of heat treatment to straighten the decks of ships. The technique, known as "flame straightening," uses dissolved acetylene gas in a specially developed blowpipe. When a ship's deck is being constructed, stiffeners
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on August 1978Every product in the extensive BF Goodrich line of industrial hoses is described thoroughly with a new 136-page color catalog available from the BFG Engineered Systems Division. Over 100 different products are listed in the catalog's color-coded table of contents. Separate hose and coupling i
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on August 1978The Maritime Subsidy Board has approved the merger of Lykes Corporation, the parent company of Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc. into LTV Corporation. Additionally, the Assistant Secretary has granted written permission for the domestic operation of vessels by an affiliated company of LTV. U
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on August 1978A new technical committee has been formed by the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) for the purpose of enabling ABS to maintain closer contacts with scientific and technical matters relating to shipbuilding and engineering in Southeast Asia. The formation of the 83-member Association of Sout
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on August 1978Bird-Johnson Company, Walpole, Mass., has undertaken the exclusive U.S. distributorship for SKF Steel, Coupling Division, Hofors, Sweden. Under this agreement, BJCo will market the OK coupling to both marine and industrial concerns. The OK-HB coupling will be made available to suit shaft di
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on August 1978Bremer Vulkan Schiffbau Und Maschinenfabrik, located in Bremen, Germany, has announced the appointment of the T.A.S.T. Corporation, International Marine Representatives, of 5 Farmstead Road, North Caldwell, N.J. 07006, as their exclusive U.S. representative for ship construction and repair.
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on August 1978International Mooring & Marine, Inc. recently took delivery of a new 180-foot 3,000-horsepower tug/supply vessel from McDermott Shipyards, New Iberia Division. The M/V Inmar Duke is the second of a four-boat package being constructed for International Mooring & Marine, Inc. and its affiliat
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on August 1978With Mayor George Moscone declaring the Golden Gate Bridge District Ferry System "an important transportation link to San Francisco's new downtown," civic dignitaries and U.S. Department of Transportation officials recently dedicated the new $3-million San Francisco Ferry Terminal at the fo
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on August 1978Fred Barg, vice president, C.J. Hendry Co., San Francisco, Calif., announces two major changes within the firm's branch in southern California. Warren (Scotty) Phalen returns to the company as branch manager, San Pedro, with Wally Lynn designated as assistant manager. Ms. Jean Herring was n
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on August 1978Kenneth J. McGuckin, Taneytown, Md., has been promoted to the position of vice president of the Engineered Pump Division of Worthington Pump Corporation. He will be responsible for the operations of both the Harrison, N.J., and Taneytown manufacturing and marketing operations. Mr. McGuckin
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on August 1978In the light of the increasing emphasis on minimizing fuel oil consumption and the subsequent widening i n t e r e s t among U.S. shipowners for the application of the low-speed diesel engine, Burmeister & Wain American Corporation has recently carried out an organizational change, which is
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on August 1978The Tri-State Regional Planning Commission and the New York Department of Transportation, Bureau of Ferries and General Aviation Operations, is engaged in a United States Department of Transportation, Urban Mass Transportation Administration Demonstration Project to test the feasibility of
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on August 1978Ivan Monk, currently vice chairman of the board of directors of DeLaval Turbine Inc., assumed leadership of the American Society of Naval Engineers on June 30, 1978, as the 85th president of the Society. The presidential term of the Society is one year. Mr. Monk graduated from the Georgia I