Long Maritime Reporter 2014Edward Articles
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on January 15, 1974For the first time since 1965, the Defense Appropriations Act contains a provision allocating a specific percentage of Navy ship repair funds to private shipyards. The provision in the fiscal 1974 Act (H.R. 11575) calls for a 70/30 split of Navy ship repair, alteration and overhaul work betwee
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on January 15, 1974The Ocean Scout, the first semisubmersible oil well drilling rig to be constructed on the East Coast of the U.S., was christened on December 10, 1973, at Bethlehem Steel's Fort McHenry shipyard, '.Baltimore, Md. It was delivered to Ocean Drilling & Exploration Company of New Orleans, La. Spons
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on January 15, 1974The rapid momentum of American shipbuilding-, initiated with the enactment of legislation in 1970 (the Merchant Marine Act of 1970), designed to restore the United States to a position of prominence and substance among world maritime powers, continued to accelerate in 1973. International ec
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on January 15, 1974Todd Shipyards Corporation, Seattle, Wash., has been selected to construct the Navy's amphibious assault landing craft (AALC). The announcement was made by E.D. Ward, vice president and general manager of Aerojet Surface Effect Ships Division of Tacoma, which designed and will supervise con
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on January 15, 1974Litton's Erie Marine Division Delivers The Self-Unloading 1,000-Foot Tug/Barge Combination Transports 50,000 Tons Of Iron-Ore Pellets Per Trip And Unloads At Rates Up To 10,000 Tons Per Hour Th-e world's largest tug-barge—-Litton Industries' 1000-foot-long Presque Isle—-sailed into the