Long 1974 Articles

• • Lockheed Oil Recovery Device Passes Tests Off California Coast page: 41
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on April 1974

  Another step to control the effects of major open-seas oil spills was taken recently when a Lockheedbuilt experimental oil skimmer and its Coast Guard escorts rode through a storm off the northern California coast. This demonstration of survival capability may have been the final open-sea t

• • Marathon Launches 47th Rig From Vicksburg Yard page: 18
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on April 1974

  Marathon LeTourneau Company, Marine Division in Vicksburg, Miss., launched its 47th self-elevating "jackup" drilling platform March 1,1974. During 1973, Marathon's Vicksburg yard completed production and delivered three jackup drilling platforms, along with completing a major modification a

• • AIMS Elects Thomas B. Crowley Board Chairman page: 14
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on April 1974

  A key West Coast maritime executive who is nationally and internationally known in the tug and barge industry has ibeen elected chairman of the board of the American Institute of Merchant Shipping (AIMS). He is Thomas B. Crowley, president and board chairman of Crowley Maritime Corporation,

• • Shipping Executive Predicts Oil Imports Will Triple In 1970s page: 10
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on April 1974

  White there are grave uncertainties in the picture of world oil supply and demand as a result of Middle East and other developments, it is expected that U.S. tankerborne imports of oil will more than triple during the 1970s. The projection was made in Tulsa, Okla., before the "Symposium on

• • ASME Marine Committee To Present Thirteen Papers At Zurich Gas Turbine Conference page: 34
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on March 1974

  The Marine Committee of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers Gas Turbine Division is presenting a program at the Gas Turbine Conference in Zurich between March 30 and April 4, 1974. This program consists of 13 interesting and timely papers as well as a Forum on Marine Gas Turbines. Th

• • Study Indicates U.S. Waterborne Trade To Triple By Year 2000 page: 26
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on March 1974

  The domestic waterborne commerce of the United States is projected to triple by the year 2000, according to a study recently released by the Maritime Administration. The study, which was carried out for the U.S. Department of Commerce agency by the international management consulting firm of

• • First Phase Of New Keppel Subsidiary, Tuas Shipyard, To Cost $70 Million —A Number Of Key Appointments Made page: 17
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on March 1974

  Over the last three years, the volume of ship repair work handled 'by Keppel Shipyard (Private) Ltd., Singapore, has more than doubled, and the point has now been reached when investment in new facilities is essential if the company is to continue to grow. Over the last two years, several c

• • Alaska Pipeline Background Information -Tankers Required To Cost $1.6 Billion page: 14
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on March 1974

  Alyeska Pipeline Service Company— The agent company formed to design, ibuild, operate and maintain the Trans-Alaska Pipeline for the seven owners: Amerada Hess Corporation; ARCO Pipe Line Company; Exxon Pipe Line Company; Mobil Pipe Line Company; Phillips 'Petroleum Company; Sohio Pipe Line

• • Todd Shipyards Los Angeles Division To Build Four 89,700-Dwt Tankers At A Total Cost Of $136 Million page: 11
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on March 1974

  Todd Shipyards Corporation recently announced that it has signed contracts for the construction of four 89,700-dwt tankers at approximately $34 million per vessel. Two of the tankers will be built for subsidiaries of Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc., and the other two are to be constructed f

• • Dravo Corporation Launches Most Powerful Towboat For Use On World's Inland Waterways page: 6
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on March 1974

  Dravo Corporation recently launched the most powerful towboat ever .built for use on the world's inland waterways. Splashing into the Ohio River on January 31 at the company's Neville Island shipyard near Pittsburgh, Pa., the 10,100-horsepower vessel will join the fleet of The Valley Line Comp

• • Thomas B. Crowley Elected President At Western Shipbuilding Ass'n Annual Meeting page: 24
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on February 15, 1974

  An overflow throng of members and friends of the industry were on hand for the annual membership meeting of the Western Shipbuilding- Association, which was held in the Pavilion Room of the Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, Calif., on January 18, 1974. George W. Wintz, outgoing president of the

• • Bethlehem Begins Construction On 265,000-Dwt Tanker —Largest Vessel Built In The United States page: 12
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on February 15, 1974

  Construction of the largest ship ever built in the United States started on January 23 as Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point Shipyard laid the first keel plate for a 265,000-dwt supertanker. The vessel, the first of five under contract at the yard, is scheduled for delivery to Boston- VLCC Tanke

• • Bigger, Bigger . . . Bigger page: 18
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on February 15, 1974

  The world today is filled with contradictions. In the context of this timely Super Ocean Carrier Conference, many of those paradoxes have a particular relevance. Instead of peace and tranquility, there is turmoil and confusion. Instead of confidence in traditional procedures, there is doubt.

• • Selective Calling System Saves Time For Oceangoing Tankers And River Vessels page: 40
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on February 1974

  A new selective calling system is helping AMOCO solve the problem of putting marine radiotelephone calls through promptly to its fleet of vessels scattered around the world. On the inland waterways, barge owners are using the same system to dial calls directly to their fleets of towboats witho

• • Experimental LNG Carrier Will Evaluate Two Tank Systems Under Operating Conditions page: 24
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on February 1974

  An experimental LNG carrier was recently launched at the Taguma Shipyard of Naikai Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Ltd., one of Hitachi Zosen's affiliated companies. This 1,000 cubic meter LNG ship is one of the steps being taken by Hitachi Zosen to solve shipbuilding and design problems pr

• • Esso Norway Test Of Hull Structure Proves Design And Good Workmanship page: 14
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on February 1974

  From June 28 to July 7, 1969, the new 190,- 800-dwt tanker Esso Norway lay at anchor in Eckernfoerde Bay, about 20 miles from Kiel, Germany, where she was built. Figure 1 gives the general arrangement and dimensions of this ship. An extensive static structural test program was carried out on

• • Sixth VLCC Delivered By Kockums To Salen Features Roller Bearing Design For Shaft page: 7
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on February 1974

  Kockums Shipyard, Malmo, Sweden, has just announced delivery of the 256,050-dwt tanker Sea Swift to the iSalen Shipping Companies of Sweden. The turbine-powered VLCC is the last of six tankers ordered by Salen and the 16th in the Kockums present series of twenty 255,000- tonners. Built under

• • More Navy Ship Repair Work For Private Shipyards page: 37
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on January 15, 1974

  For 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

• • First Semisubmersible Drilling Rig Built On U.S. East Coast Christened At Bethlehem Steel's Baltimore, Md. Shipyard page: 31
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on January 15, 1974

  The 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

• • Year-End Report page: 27
  pablished in:
  Maritime Reporter
  on January 15, 1974

  The 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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