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on July 15, 1980Mangone Shipbuilding Company recently delivered the Western Narrows, an ultramodern, geophysical research and survey vessel with SCR (silicon-controlled r e c t i f i e r ) diesel-electric propulsion, to Western Geophysical Company of Houston. Mangone, a subsidiary of Stewart & Stevenson Se
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on July 1980Huthnance Drilling Company of Houston has signed a contract with Ingalls Shipbuilding of Pascagoula, Miss., to build a Friede and Goldman design L-780 (Mod 2) jackup drilling rig. The contract is for about $18 million, exclusive of owner-furnished equip- ment. The offshore rig, scheduled for d
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on July 1980Beach-Greater Los Angeles Section of the American Society of Naval Engineers was held recently at the Los Alamitos Armed Forces Reserve Center Officer's Club. In the absence of chairman J.R. Malone, Capt. J.A. Gildea, USN, vice chairman, called the meeting to order with the customary procedure
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on July 1980David R. Stollmeyer has been elected president of American Hawaii Cruises, San Francisco. He joined the company in 1979 as executive vice president, charged with the r e d e c o r a t i o n of the American-built Independence and returning her to service under the American flag. Rechristened
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on July 1980McDermott International, Inc., a subsidiary of J. Ray McDermott & Co., Inc. of New Orleans, has been awarded a $95-million contract by Petroleo Brasileiro, S.A. (Petrobras) to lay approximately 280 miles of marine pipeline in the Campos Basin off the coast of southern Brazil. This pipeline
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on July 1980B r i t i s h Shipbuilders, London, and the Semi-Submerged Ship C o r p o r a t i o n (SSSCO), Solana Beach, Calif., have signed an agreement under which British Shipbuilders will be licensed to market and build high-speed semisubmersible vessels designed by SSSCO. Signatories were Jolyon S
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on July 1980Jack T. Day was elected the national president of the Naval Civilian Administrators Association at the annual convention, which was held recently in Bremerton, Wash. Mr. Day is the director of management engineering at the C h a r l e s t o n Naval Shipyard in Charleston, S.C. He has been e
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on July 1980Orders for six ships won by British Shipbuilders make it certain that the company's sales target for the current period will be achieved well ahead of schedule. The recent orders are worth a total of $125 million, and include two ships for the People's Republic of China. These are SD 14s, t
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on July 1980In an unusual gesture by a major industrial manufacturer, Marathon LeTourneau Offshore Company of Houston, Texas, commissioned nationally acclaimed artist David Kimble to paint an "insider's view" of one of the famed Marathon LeTourneau o f f s h o re mobile, self-elevating jackup drilling
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on July 1980Rohr Marine, Inc., a subsidiary of Rohr Industries, Inc., Chula Vista, Calif., has announced receipt of a $3.4-million U.S. Navy contract for the system design and specification phase of an advanced technology Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC) Program. The contract is expected to take appro
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on July 1980The M/V Elizabeth D., a new 2,000-bhp towboat, was christened recently by Dravo Corporation in Pittsburgh. The new towboat was built by Dravo Steel- Ship, a Dravo subsidiary located in Pine Bluff, Ark. Named after Mrs. Elizabeth Dickey, the wife of Robert Dickey I I I , Dravo's chairman and
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on July 1980The SSV Safe C o n c o r d i a , Gotaverken Arendal newbuilding 911, was delivered recently to Consafe Offshore, Sweden. The offshore rig has been chartered by Phillips Petroleum and will operate at the Ekofisk Field. This is a large, twin-hulled, column-stabilized unit; it is the second acco
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on July 1980Executives of Italian ship repair yards of the F i n c a n t i e ri Group met recently with some 100 representatives of the maritime and shipowning community at the Whitehall Club in New York City. Following a luncheon, Fincantieri president Rocco Basilico and the Italian Ambassador to the
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on July 1980The 55-foot-long clear deck area and 55-passenger seating capacity are two features of Halter Marine's new hybrid-design 101-foot crewboats recently delivered to Offshore Express, Inc. of Houma, La. The Hurricane Express, Tornado Express, and Cyclone Express made up the three-vessel contrac
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on July 1980New U.S. Coast Guard rules will require most ships — tentatively those over 1,600 gross tons —with power-driven main or auxiliary steering gear to be equipped w i t h advanced steering failure alarm systems. The new rules, which are expected to be put into force within six to eight months,
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on July 1980Zidell of Portland, Ore., recently delivered the Rosemarie, an oceangoing tank barge built in Tacoma, Wash., for Pacific Northern Oil. Her Grade D petroleum capacity of 24,000 barrels makes this 230-foot barge the second largest of its kind in Puget Sound. The barge was christened at Johnny
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on July 1980Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Company of Mobile, Ala., recently delivered the scalloper Westport to Soren Henriksen of Tradewind Fishing Corporation, New Bedford, Mass. She is the first of four identical vessels under construction at the Bender yard. Two will be owned by Tradewind Fishing an
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on July 1980Lift-Loaders are a unique family of fork-lift t r u c k operated semi-trailers. They are engaged by a fork lift in a matter of seconds and become very maneuverable truck-trailer combinations. Each Lift-Loader can be used as a conventional trailer or as a self-loading and unloading trailer.
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on June 15, 1980The 388-cubic-meter Northern Star, an advanced carrier designed to transport liquefied gases, was launched recently at the Moss, Norway, yard of Moss Rosenberg Verft AS. The ship was christened by Mrs. Martha Foght, wife of the managing director of Du Pont (U.K.) Limited, London, the vessel's
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on June 15, 1980Rear Adm. Roderick Y. Edwards, U.S. Coast Guard (ret.), is the recipient of the Halert C. Shepheard Award for achievement in merchant marine safety. The award is given either for a single outstanding contribution to merchant marine safety, or for dedication to and constructive participation