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on August 1978How can 18 tank cleaning machines for crude oil washing be permanently retrofitted onboard a 101,500-dwt ore/bulk/oil carrier when its decks have too many hatches to use sheerlegs and the sea is too rough to use a floating crane? The superintendent of a six-year-old Great Eastern Shipping Ltd
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on August 1978The program has been announced for the Gastech 78 LNG and LPG meeting which will be held in the new Monte-Carlo Convention Centre from November 7- 10 this year. It will be the sixth in the series. Leading the program will be a paper of great significance from OPEC—the Organization of the P
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on August 1978The newest 1,000-foot vessel on the Great Lakes, Bethlehem Steel Corporation's M/V Lewis Wilson Foy was recently placed in service. Designed and constructed by Bay Shipbuilding Corp., Sturgeon Bay, Wis. 54235, a subsidiary of The Manitowoc Company, Inc., the Foy is the second 1,000-foot bul
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- Engine Diagnostic System page: 37
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on July 15, 1978Today's merchant vessels are framed by the following typical parameters: tight schedules, with drastically shortened downtimes in port; high capital investments; a fuel bill which represents an important part of the overall operation costs; specialized ships with many having very powerful pr
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on July 15, 1978Zapata Corporation, Zapata Tower, P.O. Box 4240, Houston, Texas 77001, announced that it has consolidated all of its fishing operations under the management of a new wholly owned subsidiary, Zapata Protein, Inc. The company said that Earl J. Conrad Jr. will be president of the new Houstonbas
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on July 15, 1978Over the past four decades, 100 million horsepower has been produced in the form of diesel engines by the Electro-Motive Division (EMD) of General Motors Corporation. The production milestone was announced by Peter K. Hoglund, vice president of General Motors and division general manager, in
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on July 1978The Suez Canal Authority is presently engaged on a two-phase development p r o j e c t which, if completed, will involve the expenditure of at least $1,200 million over the next six to seven years. Roughly half of this amount is to be financed from Egypt's reserves of foreign currency, and t
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on July 1978A musical salute to "Merchant Marine Heroes From the Past," and brief, dignified tributes to the merchant marine industry of the present were the highlights of the Port of New York-New Jersey National Maritime Day ceremonies held Monday, May 22, on the plaza of the World Trade Center, New Y
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- Chesapeake Section Members Visit Naval Academy —Paper On Floating Nuclear Power Plants Presented page: 42
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on July 1978The April meeting of the Chesapeake Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers included a tour of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., and a technical session at which the "External Effects Considerations in the Design of Floating Nuclear Power Plants" wer
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on July 1978Hugh F. Munroe has been elected president and chief executive officer of Morris Guralnick Associates, Inc., according to an announcement made by the firm. Morris Guralnick, founder of the 31-year-old San Francisco, Calif.- based firm of naval architects and marine engineers, was elevated to
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on July 1978The New York Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers recently held an all-day meeting at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, N.Y., concerning various topics related to "Ship Maneuvering and Control." During the morning, a lowspeed ship maneuve
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on July 1978The Austral Pioneer, the first of two containerships being constructed for Farrell Lines Incorporated, was christened on June 9, at Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Sparrows Point Yard, Baltimore, Md. Mrs. Margaret McFarlane, wife of Duncan McFarlane, director of Thomas Borthwick & Sons, Ltd.
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on July 1978Two professional appointments to the staff of the vice president, Industrial and Community Relations, were announced by John F. Sullivan, president of Bath Iron Works Corporation, Bath, Maine: Frank Kerr as manager of public and community relations, and Fred J. Kahrl as employee services admin
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on July 1978"As we approach and enter the next century, it is my conviction that it will be an era of vitality for the marine industry as mankind turns increasingly to the sea for energy, minerals, food, and entertainment, as well as for transportation and petroleum," says Robert T. Young, president of
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on July 1978An international Ship Vibration Symposium will be held at the Sheraton National Hotel in Arlington, Va., near Washington, D.C., on Monday and Tuesday, October 16-17, 1978. The symposium will be jointly sponsored by the interagency Ship Structure Committee and The Society of Naval Architects a
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on March 1978The 23,000-ton submarine tender Frank Cable, second of three of the 644-foot auxiliary ships Lockheed Shipbuilding is constructing for the U.S. Navy, was launched on January 14 at the Seattle, Wash., shipyard. Mrs. Rose S. Michaelis, wife of Adm. Frederick H. Michaelis, Chief of Naval Material
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on March 1978Formation of a new corporation, M.A. Stream Associates, Inc., to engage in marine surveying assignments throughout the world, was announced in Seattle, Wash., by its principals, Capt. M.A. Stream and L.R. Glosten. Captain Stream has been engaged worldwide in marine surveying and maritime activ
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on March 1978The annual joint meeting of the three major marine societies in the Los Angeles, Calif., area turned out, as usual, to be a success. The Marine Technology Society acted as host. Their guests were The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and the American Society of Naval Engineers
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- 'The Seaborne Transportation Of Liquefied Natural Gas 1977-1985 —Trades, Costs And Revenues' page: 32
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on March 1978The expected boom in LNG shipping, which has been forecast consistently during the past decade or more, remains as far from being realized now as it has ever been. This generalization holds despite 1977 having emerged as a peak year for interest in LNG shipping, with both the press and the
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- SNAME Chesapeake Section Discusses Steering, Maneuvering And Controllability Of Surface Ships page: 27
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on March 1978The Chesapeake Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers met at the Officers' Club at the Washington Navy Yard on January 18, 1978, to hear C.C. Glansdorp and Dr. Gerald van Oortmerssen discuss "Research on Steering, Maneuvering, and Controllability of Surface Ships."