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on August 1981Southwest Marine, Inc., San Diego, Calif., has announced that the purchase of Bethlehem Steel's shipyard in San Pedro, Calif., has been finalized. Operations began immediately following the announcement, with a management team and staff of 50. Steadily increasing staff additions are anticipa
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on August 1981Dravo SteelShip Corporation, Pine Bluff, Ark., recently delivered two 60-foot by 22-foot by 9.5-foot crane boats to Weber Marine, Incorporated of Burnside, La. These new boats, the MAR-LO, and the GOOG-E (shown above), are powered by twin GM 12V-71 diesel engines rated at 340 hp each. The
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on August 1981A recent joint meeting of the Pacific Northwest Sections of the American Society of Naval Engineers and The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers saw a movie on salvage, and heard Capt. J. Huntly Boyd of the Puget Sound Navy Shipyard discuss the problems of clearing the Suez Canal
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on August 1981William C. Moyer, Ph.D., Group vice president of Tracor, Inc., Austin, Texas, recently announced the company's subsidiary, Tracor Marine of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has been awarded a $1.7-million contract for overhaul and modernization of the Research Vessel Robert G. Conrad. The R /V Conrad,
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on August 19811981 is shaping up to be a very busy year at Bailey Corporation. The New Orleans firm is presently building ship's stores boxes for five tankers under construction at nearby Avondale Shipyards. "We're probably the only Gulf Coast company that could tackle a job of that size and still serve
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on August 1981The M/V C/Wanderer is a new crew/supply vessel designed and built by Swiftships, Inc. of Morgan City, La. The all-aluminum craft is operated by Co-Mar Offshore C o r p o r a t i o n of Morgan City, and is the 29th vessel Co- Mar or affiliated companies have taken delivery from Swiftships, I
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on August 1981Oglebay Norton Company has taken delivery of its first 1,000- foot self-unloading vessel. The new supercarrier was constructed by the Bay Shipbuilding Corp., subsidiary of The Manitowoc Company, Inc., at Sturgeon Bay, Wis. Construction began in the autumn of 1979 and the keel was laid on Ma
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on August 1981The 100th, 40,000-hp controllable pitch p r o p e l l e r manufactured by Bird-Johnson Company for the U.S. Navy will power the 31st Spruance Class destroyer, The Hayler (DD-997), currently under c o n s t r u c t i o n at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Miss. Delivery of this propeller, w
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on August 1981Steps toward a new 100-acre container terminal at Berths 121- 126 in the Port of Los Angeles were taken recently as the Board of Harbor Commissioners approved a final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and agreements with consultants to design the facility. Previously, the board had entered
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on August 1981Another step in the rapid growth of Mexico's commercial fisheries was achieved with MARCO Seattle's christening of the Pescador I. The 108-foot refrigerated sardine seiner is the first of five such vessels being built under contract with BANPESCA (Banco Nacional Pesquero y Portuario, S.A.),
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on July 15, 1981DredgeMasters International, Inc. (DMI), the Hendersonville, Tenn., subsidiary of Valley Industries, recently christened the newest and largest dredge in its line of heavy duty dredges. The model HPC-27DR DuraMaster dredge was christened in a ceremony at La Place, La., staged by DredgeMaste
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on July 15, 1981Marine Design International has just put together a two-day seminar for offshore drilling contractor rig move personnel. These seminars will include the following: • Review all aspects of the rig move in accordance with the proper interpretation of the builders operating manual. • The impor
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on July 15, 1981Dome Petroleum Limited and Davie Shipbuilding Ltd. recently announced that Dome has acquired all the shares of Davie for a total consideration of $38.6 million, consisting largely of shares of Dome and the balance in cash. Davie net income after tax for 1980 was $7 million. The assets acqui
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on July 15, 1981Griffin & Alexander Drilling Company and Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Beaumont, Texas, shipyard recently commissioned a 200-foot water depth, mobile offshore drilling rig. The rig was christened the Griffin-Alexander II by its sponsor, Mrs. Lea Alexander, wife of J.W. Alexander, president
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on July 15, 1981Wendle W. Huddleston, president and chief executive officer of Hudson Shipbuilders, Inc. (HUDSHIP), recently announced that he and K.W. Waldorf, president of Zapata Marine Service, Inc. of Houston have signed a contract f o r the construction of four large offshore supply/towing vessels. The
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on July 15, 1981Two past chairmen of the American Waterways Shipyard Conference (AWSC) have been honored for their service to the shipyard industry. At a recent AWSC meeting in Houston, John F. McKay and Jack O. Pirozzolo were each presented a mounted brass ship's clock commemorating their service. Mr. McKa
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on July 15, 1981Riverway Shipyard Company of Grafton, 111., r e c e n t l y completed its second in-house drydock (shown above) for the repair division of the shipyard. This drydock is the fourth built by the shipyard in the past two and onehalf years and was built in a record 86 calendar days. It went into
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on July 15, 1981After 3y2 years of site selection and planning, Petro Marine Services, Inc. is starting construction of a $25-million shipyard and petroleum service industry support facility in Valdez, Alaska. The firm recently concluded arrangements with the City of Valdez for a 99-year lease of some 88.7
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on July 15, 1981To upgrade its oil spill response capability, the Mexican Navy has purchased two MARCO Class I-D oil-spill r e c o v e r y v e s s e l s (one shown above). Capt. Jose H. Orazco Peralta took delivery of the skimmers in San Diego from D. William Lerch, vice president of MARCO Pollution Control
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on July 15, 1981Thomas Marshall, group vice president-resource development of U.S. Steel, has announced the formation of subsidiary companies to pursue commercial shipping and vessel management business on the Great Lakes. In making the announcement, Mr. Marshall said: "This move will enable us to fully de