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on November 15, 1980The first oil-drilling rig constructed in Alaska by an Alaskan firm recently was unveiled by its owner and operator, VANguard Industries. The 175-foot-high rig was begun in November 1979 as a joint venture by VECO, Inc. of Anchorage, and three Alaskan native organizations—NANA Development C
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on November 15, 1980O & U Drilling, Inc. of Beaumont, Texas, and Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Beaumont shipyard recently commissioned an offshore jackup drilling rig and announced the ordering of two other rigs. One of the new rigs will be built at the Beaumont yard, and the second at the Singapore shipyard.
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on November 15, 1980Halter Marine, Inc., introduced a new line of fire/utility boats with the delivery of the 150-foot Point 'T' to her owners, Point Venture, Ltd. of Morgan City, La. In addition to her 61,000-gallon liquid mud capacity, the new vessel carries three 6-inch, 2,400-gpm fire monitors capable of pu
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on November 15, 1980Bird-Johnson Company, Walpole, Mass., has begun construction of a $5-million blade-machining facility to convert bronze castings into finished marine propeller blades. The announcement was made by Howard H. Scott, chairman and chief executive officer, at a cornerstone-laying ceremony. Mr. S
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on November 15, 1980Newport News Shipbuilding has delivered the nuclear-powered, guided-missile cruiser Arkansas to the United States Navy. The Arkansas is the fourth Virginia Class cruiser built by the Virginia yard. Her keel was laid on January 17, 1977 and she was launched on October 21, 1978. The vessel wa
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on November 15, 1980The Long Beach-Greater Los Angeles Section of The American Society of Naval Engineers held its first meeting of the 1980-81 year at the Officers Club of the Los Alamitos Armed Forces Reserve Center. Chairman J.R. (Bob) Malone announced the program for the year, pointing out the excellent job
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on November 15, 1980Jotun Marine Coatings and Jotun-Baltimore Copper Paint Company recently hosted a reception and technical seminar at the Whitehall Club for shipowners and operators in the New York City area. Torstein Bryn, public relations/marketing manager for Jotun Marine Coatings, Sandefjord, Norway, des
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on November 15, 1980The latest delivery made by Delaware Marine & Manufacturing Company is the stern trawler American Eagle, built for Jack and Adele Daab of Howard Beach, N.Y. The new vessel is 78 feet overall, with a 23-foot beam and 9-foot 5-inch draft fully loaded. The hull is plated with A-36 grade steel
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on November 15, 1980Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Company, Ltd. (MESCO) was recently awarded orders for a semisubmersible type and a jackup type offshore oil drilling rig, as well as a semisubmersible offshore accommodation platform. The order for the semisubmersible oil drilling rig was received, with the
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on November 15, 1980The government-owned Mexican shipbuilding company Astilleros Unidos de Veracruz (AUVER) has placed a multimilliondollar order with the Swedish welding group ESAB for the supply of a mechanized panel-production line and associated web-production and treatment lines to the new shipyard at San
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on November 15, 1980It appears that however big you are, and however much oil you have, you still have to worry about how much oil you are burning in your boilers. Some major oil companies, although they deal in larger quantities of this precious resource than most companies, also are making the most stringent
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on November 15, 1980Dravo SteelShip Corporation, Pine Bluff, Ark., has been awarded a contract to design and construct two 85-foot by 30-foot by 10-foot towboats for A&G Transportation Company of Chickasaw, Ala. The towboats are designed with an 8-foot draft and 26-foot eye level. These vessels are to be equip
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on November 15, 1980The full meeting of the International Maritime Industries Forum (IMIF) held in London recently has elected Dr. Helmut Sohmen as its new chairman. Dr. Sohmen is chairman of Marine Navigation Company, the U.K. affiliate of Sir Yue-Kong Pao's World-Wide Shipping Group, the world's largest inde
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on November 15, 1980There is a new awareness of the need for improved steering gear reliability on tankships. This awareness has arisen as a result of recently proposed regulations and standards published by the U. S. Coast Guard and the Inter- Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization (IMCO). Prominent
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on November 15, 1980Campbell Industries of San Diego launched the new tuna superseiner Kukulkan recently, adding impetus to the rapidly developing fisheries of Mexico. She is the first of two such seiners ordered by Atunera del Carmen, an association of veteran fishing people in the state of Campeche. Kukulkan
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on November 1980The Northern California Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers held the first meeting of its 1980- 81 season recently at the Engineers Club in San Francisco. During the business program a certificate was presented to Jonathan J. Shields, a member of the Section, des
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on November 1980The only modern gantry crane in the Aleutian Islands is now in service at the new $15-million container shipping terminal just completed at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, by American President Lines (APL). Local, state, and company officials were on hand for recent dedication ceremonies for the new
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on November 1980Some 300 persons attended the recent Shipboard Energy Conservation International Symposium in New York sponsored by The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. At the two-day conference, p r o m i n e n t speakers from government and industry discussed the current thinking and pra
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on November 1980Delivered recently by Stocznia Im. Komuny Paryskiej of Gdynia, Poland, was the Hoegh Banniere, the first of three similar, oceangoing roll-on/roll-off vessels being built f o r Leif Hoegh of Oslo. Intended for the North Europe-West Africa trade, she features an extensive array of cargo access
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on November 1980Burmeister & Wain Shipyard in Copenhagen has signed a contract with the state-owned shipping company China Ocean Shipping Co. Ltd. f o r delivery of four bulk carriers of about 64,000 dwt in 1982/83. The yard already has orders f o r five ships of this type, and has thus in less than one yea