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on August 1981Swiftships, Inc., one of the world's largest shipbuilders, announced plans to construct a 20- acre repair facility in Freeport, Texas. When the facility begins initial operation on August 15, it will become the fourth shipyard owned and operated by the Morgan City, La.-based company. The C
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on August 1981The Sperry Division of Sperry Corporation has received a $51.1- million contract to implement the first phase of the combat system development and integration for three Spanish Navy guided-missile frigates and one aircraft carrier. The contract was awarded to Sperry by the U.S. Naval Sea Sys
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on August 1981Houston Offshore International, Inc., Houston, Texas, has taken delivery on two Sabine-class rigs and has ordered the Sabine V, president Jerry E. Chiles announced recently. The new rig will be built at Bethlehem Steel's Singapore shipyard and is scheduled for delivery in September 1982. It
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on August 1981The J.J. Henry Co., Inc. of New York, has been selected by the Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Co. of Seattle, Wash., to develop detailed engineering and construction drawings for the LSD-41, the first in a new class of Dock Landing Ships for the U.S. Navy. The J.J. Henry Co. had pre
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on August 1981Reel-O-Matic Systems, Inc. of Wrightsville, Pa., has recently been contracted to modify one of its standard line of products for shipboard use—an application that required some very special attention. The customer had a requirement to take-up and measure wire cable onto a metal reel in a wi
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on August 1981Racal-Decca Marine, Inc. recently introduced their new, allweather ARPA (Automatic Radar Plotting Aid) Radar System at the Whitehall Club in New York. Over 100 shipowners and other members of the maritime community attended the introduction which featured operational demonstrations of the D
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on August 1981Hudson Shipbuilders, Inc. (HUDSHIP) of Pascagoula, Miss., recently delivered the utility boat Graytest (shown above) to Gray Mackenzie Marine Service, E.C., located in Bahrain. The Graytest is a modified version of the standard HUDSHIP 120-foot utility vessel. The primary modification was t
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on August 1981Hvide Shipping Incorporated, headquartered in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., handed over the Oxy Trader and the Oxy Producer, two of the three Catug vessels ordered by Occidental Petroleum Corporation. Construction is almost complete on the third Oxy Catug, the Oxy Grower, which will go into service
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on August 1981Burmeister & Wain Shipyard in Copenhagen recently celebrated the naming of Yard No. 883, a Panamax bulk c a r r i e r of the yard's fuel-saving type. Of approximately 64,000 dwt, the ship was ordered by A / S Klaveness C h a r t e r i n g of Oslo, and was named by Mrs. Bibbi Preststulen, wi
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on August 1981The 33rd Annual Spring Meeting of the Gulf Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) was held at the New Orleans Hyatt Regency Hotel. The technical section began with a paper on "Assessment of Weather Constraints on Operational Planning and Scheduling," by G.L.
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on August 1981Nashville Bridge Company (NABRICO) recently delivered two integrated, threebarge double-skin petroleum tows to Coastal Towing Inc., Texas, of Houston. Each of the tows consists of a 297-foot 6-inch by 54-foot by 12-foot lead rake barge, a 290-foot by 54-foot by 12-foot mid-box barge, and a 282
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on August 1981Mid-Coast Marine, Inc. (formerly Nelson Log Bronc) of Coos Bay, Ore., recently delivered its first 65-foot, twin-screw tugboat, the Andy Head (shown right), to Alaska Timber Corporation. The new vessel will perform towing and ship-handling jobs for the ATC plant in Klawock, Alaska. Designed
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on August 1981The liquid gas carrier Dorothea Schulte (shown above) was delivered recently to the Hamburg shipping company Bernhard Schulte by the Jos. L. Meyer shipyard in Papenburg-Ems, Federal Republic of Germany. The new vessel is the eighth gas tanker to join the Schulte fleet, and is a sister ship
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on August 1981McDermott Scotland, a division of McDermott International, Inc., the major overseas marine construction subsidiary of McDermott Incorporated, has recently been awarded three contracts with a total value of more than $150 million. These contracts call for: • Fabrication of the 15,000- metri
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on August 1981The Penn Central Corporation's Marathon Manufacturing Company has signed $326 million in contracts with the Rowan Companies, Inc. for the construction of eight offshore oil and gas mobile drilling rigs. Marathon's marine construction order backlog now totals 43 rigs, valued at approximately
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on August 1981new breed of tough, versatile offshore tugs has been introduced to the maritime industry by Halter Marine, Inc. and Otto Candies, Inc. The first of the new line, and the first of six to be built by Halter for Candies, the Brett Candies (shown above) is a 105- foot, raised forecastle tug that
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on August 1981Tests were conducted in Puget Sound to examine possible ways in which tugboats could assist a supertanker which had lost its power, ability to steer, or both. The 188,500-deadweight-ton tanker B.T. San Diego, chartered from Shell Oil Co., and three tugboats from the Foss Launch and Tug Co.
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on August 1981Twin City Barge, Inc., South St. Paul, Minn., recently announced the signing of an agreement in principle for the acquisition of Transload and Transport, Inc., Morgan City, La. The acquisition will include several companies that are affiliated with Transload and Transport, Inc. John W. Lamb
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on August 1981RivTow Straits Limited recent- delivered the Canadian Fisher- ies patrol vessel James Sinclair (shown above), built at the com- pany's John Manly Shipyard in Vancouver, B.C. Built at a cost of about $7 million, the new vessel is of all-welded aluminum construction, and features such advanced
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on August 1981According to an agreement signed in Moscow recently, Valmet Oy Helsinki Shipyard will deliver two 8,700-dwt barge-carrying vessels of a new type (shown above) to the USSR in 1983. The vessels are of the feeder type, which will operate at the ends of main ocean routes distributing and collectin