Long Maritime Reporter 1982Peter Articles
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- Two Vessels Trucked To 'Sea' page: 5
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on September 15, 1981Two recently delivered vessels—a vehicle ferry and a harbor push tug—had to endure difficult overland journeys by truck to reach the sites of their respective intended service. The Arctic Falcon is a 36-foot-long towboat that was specifically designed to be trucked overland. The vessel was del
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on September 15, 1981The Super Hydrodyne, an improved towboat design that resulted from an extensive $500,000 research and development program, was unveiled recently by St. Louis Ship, a division of Pott Industries Inc., St. Louis, Mo. The Super Hydrodyne, claimed to be more energy efficient and maneuverable th
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on September 15, 1981The building capabilities of some shipyards are hampered by the problems involved in moving a launch-ready hull across dry land to the ways. For Vancouver Shipyards Co., Ltd., North Vancouver, British Columbia, the solution has been to use "water bearings" to float the hull across land on a .
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on September 15, 1981The 55th Annual Convention of The Propeller Club of the United States, and the concurrent 1981 American Merchant Marine Conference, will be held in Baltimore, Md., on October 14, 15, and 16. Headquarters hotel for the event, which is being hosted by the Propeller Club Port of Baltimore, is
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- OCEANS 81 page: 12
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on September 15, 1981Oceans '81, the annual conference and exhibition sponsored by the IEEE Council of Oceanic Engineering and the Marine Technology Society, will be held September 16-18 at the Sheraton Hotel, Boston, Mass. A record 300 technical presentations will be made by eminent persons from academe, resea
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on September 15, 1981Halter Marine, Inc., New Orleans, I.a., and Tidewater Marine Service, Inc. signed contracts recently for the construction of eight new tug supply vessels totaling $30.8 million. The announcement was made by Sam S. Allgood, president of Tidewater Marine Service, and Harold P. Halter, preside
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on September 15, 1981The Port of Portland, Ore., is gearing up for the coming turn-of-the-century by which time it is anticipated that the volume of general cargo in the port will triple. The Port Commission recently accepted a master development plan devised by a 30- member Citizens Advisory Task Force. The init
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on September 15, 1981In a quarter-century of building selfelevating offshore mobile drilling rigs on its banks, the Old Man Mississippi has continually challenged Marathon LeTourneau Company's shipyard at Vicksburg to put them into the water without launchways. And for all the 68 rigs launched, the yard has respo
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on September 15, 1981The Petromar Bravo (shown above), third in a series of six 192-foot tug/supply boats being built by Halter Marine, Inc., New Orleans, La., for the Petromar Corporation of Rockport, Texas, was christened recently in Corpus Christi. The vessel was christened by Jan Cady, wife of George Cady
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- CARGO HANDLING EQUIPMENT page: 24
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on September 1981Latest offerings from the world s leading manufacturers Time being money for owners and operators of vessels and o f f - shore rigs, any speed-up in cargo handling produces cost savings, in many cases substantial ones. Recognizing this, manufacturers of all types of equipment used in thes
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on September 1981Some of New York City's harried mass transit users will have something- to look forward to this month. The first of two new ferries, the Andrew J. Barberi, is scheduled to enter service between St. George, Staten Island, and the Battery, on the tip of Manhattan. To the maritime community,
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on September 1981The year 1981 is a watershed, "a point of basic change in the direction and momentum of American maritime policy" that will see the start of the restoration of U.S. superiority," stated Assistant Secretary of the Navy George Sawyer in a recent address to the graduating class at Webb Institu
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- A Report On ASNE Day 1981 page: 67
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on September 1981More than 2,000 persons participated in the 1981 national meeting of the American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE) held in Washington, D.C. Nineteen local ASNE sections from around the country, including four student sections, were represented. The theme of the two-day meeting held at the Sh
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on September 1981John Nichols, president of Mississippi Marine Towboat Corporation, G r e e n v i l l e , Miss., announced the recent delivery of the M/V Miss S h e i l a (shown above) to Red Wing River Towing, Inc., Red Wing, Minn., and the M V Cole (shown below), to White River Fleeting, Inc., Greenville.
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on September 1981The Energy Freedom coal barge was christened by officials of New England Electric System during ceremonies at Bay Shipbuilding Corp. in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. The Energy Freedom is a deepnotch tug barge built by Bay Shipbuilding Corp. to carry domestic coal from ports along the Eastern Seaboard
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on August 15, 1981Southern Drilling Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Marine Drilling Company, and Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Beaumont, Texas, shipyard, recently commissioned a 250-foot water depth mobile offshore drilling unit. The rig was christened J Storm XVI by its sponsor Mrs. Jack K. Larsen, w
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on August 15, 1981Avondale Shipyards, Inc., New Orleans, La., a subsidiary of Ogden Corporation, held christening ceremonies for the M/V Ogden Dynachem, the first of two 42,000- dwt chemical product carriers currently being built for Ogden Marine, Inc. Mrs. Doris Bricker, wife of William H. Bricker, chairman
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on August 15, 1981Burmeister & Wain Shipyard, Copenhagen, recently delivered Yard No. 883 the M/S Baumare — the third of a series of 17 fuelsaving Panamax bulkcarriers of approximately 64,000 dwt on the yard's order list. The M / S Baumare was delivered to the shipping company Baumare Inc., Monrovia, Liberia
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on August 15, 1981Calling it the largest port development in the state's peacetime history, Maine Governor Joseph Brennan has announced the State of Maine and the City of Portland have signed a memorandum of intent with Bath Iron Works for a $46.7-million expansion at the Port of Portland. Bath Iron Works, w
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on August 1981The introduction of IMCO regulations, last amended in 1978, and the publication of USCG regulations, September 1979, require that all ships calling on U.S. and IMCO nations' ports will be required to comply with these regulations by the specified dates. In the U.S. this date is June 1, 1981