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on December 1980A line of multi-stage, donuttype pumps, called Multi-Line, from the Worthington Pump Division of the McGraw-Edison Company, is designed to provide high pressure at high efficiency on continuous service. They allow flexibility in service capabilities simply by changing the number of stages,
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on December 1980The Maritime Administration has consolidated its marketing, domestic shipping, and port and i n t e r m o d a l programs, and restructured the management of its research and development activities This reorganization transfers responsibility for the Offices of Market Development and Port an
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on December 1980John J. McMullen Associates, Inc., naval architects, marine engineers, and consultants of New York, has announced that Richard W. Thorpe Jr. has joined the company as vice president-corporate planning and development. He will report directly to George A. Sawyer, president of the company. Mr
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on December 1980New marine air-conditioning fan coil units, in either chilled water or direct expansion cooling modes, are now available from Adrick Cooling Corporation. Models can be supplied in 200-, 300-, 400-, and 600-cfm capacities. The new units feature threespeed motors and boxed controls, with a th
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on December 1980Hoffert Manufacturing Company of Jacksonville, Fla., recently reported it has successfully produced, without the aid of Federal energy grants, a perfected fuel oil/water emulsion system called Fire-Brite. A Fire-Brite installation aboard a ship, according to the Hoffert announcement, has ef
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on December 1980Coal-fired steamships will be returning to the high seas, powered by Combustion Engineering marine boilers. C - E ' s l i c e n s e e in Italy, Franco Tosi S.p.A., has been awarded the world's first contract in 20 years for two coal-fired boilers by Italcantieri S.p.A., a shipyard in Monfalc
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on December 1980The latest monthly meeting of the Long Beach-Greater Los Angeles Section of the American Society of Naval Engineers was held at the Officers Club of the Armed Forces Reserve Center at Los Alamitos. In the absence of Section chairman J.R. (Bob) Malone, Capt. J.A. Gildea, USN, vice chairman, pr
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on December 1980Rauma-Repola's Rauma Shipyard in Finland has entered into a contract with Finland Steamship Company and Merivienti OY of Helsinki for construction of two 12,000-dwt, R O / R O cargo vessels. The ships will enter regular service between Finland and the United Kingdom in 1982. This service is
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on December 1980A wet/dry state detector system that gives positive indication of tank empty or tank full condition has just been introduced by Metritape, Inc., Concord, Mass. The new Metripoint liquid level detector was designed as an adjunct to the resistive Metritape Level/Temp sensor which, when suspended
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on December 1980The Navy announced recently that Kings Bay, Ga., has been selected as the location for the construction of the Trident Atlantic Coast Strategic Submarine Base. The announcement culminates detailed studies and analyses of many different base locations and configurations. The analyses conside
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on December 1980Cheverton Workboats of Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, have been licensed by Rigships Limited to produce the well-known North series of versatile glass reinforced polyester hulls designed by naval architects Murray, Cormack Associates. Cheverton will be the exclusive molders of the North Cap
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on December 1980A virtually new book, the new edition of Ship Design and Construction, has just been published by The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. This book has been developed over nearly a five-year period by 27 authors, an expert control committee, and edited by Robert Taggart, the w
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on December 1980Hudson Shipbuilders, Inc. (HUDSHIP) of Pascagoula, Miss., recently delivered its second vessel, the Graysearch, to Gray Mac- Kenzie Company, Ltd. of Bahrain. The new vessel will join the already sizable fleet now operated by Gray MacKenzie in the Arabian Gulf. The design is HUDSHIP's stand
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on December 1980The first of four Friendship class river pushboats ordered by the Chang Jiang Shipping Administration of the People's Republic of China from Dravo Corporation was launched into the Ohio River recently at Dravo's Neville Island shipyard near Pittsburgh. The twin-screw 6,000-bhp vessel, measuri
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on December 1980More than 300 senior Texaco marine engineering officers will receive advanced training on a unique 36,000-shp engine room simulator, James A. Cole, vice president in charge of Texaco's Marine Department, announced recently. "Under a four-year contract recently signed with MarineSafety Internat
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on November 15, 1980The Hampton Roads Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers held its first meeting of the 1980-81 year at Fisherman's Wharf in Hampton, Va. Chairman Donald E. Kane Jr. of Newport News Shipbuilding opened the meeting by welcoming the 110 members and guests present and p
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on November 15, 1980Wendle Huddleston of Morgan City, La., announced that his Pascagoula, Miss., company, Hudson Shipbuilders, Inc. (HUDSHIP), has marked its reentry into the towboat market with the recent delivery of the 70-foot towboat Belgian to Spanier Marine of New Orleans. Belgian was christened at the G
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on November 15, 1980As the first step in a fleet modernization program, an order has been placed for construction of the world's newest luxury cruise ship, it was announced recently by Holland America Cruises. The keel of the new 32,000-gt motor vessel, yet to be named, will be laid in January 1981 at Chantier
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on November 15, 1980The burgeoning Chinese shipbuilding industry has become the newest member of the worldwide MacGregor organization. It was welcomed into the ranks of those countries already benefitting from the world's leading cargo-handling equipment designs, at a recent signing ceremony in Paris. Under th
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on November 15, 1980A manual ullage tape installation, which makes it possible to gauge tanks visually under closed loading conditions, has been accepted for tanker and barge use by both the U.S. Coast Guard and American Bureau of Shipping. Developed by VU-GAGE Systems, the installation is said to eliminate th