Medium Maritime Reporter 1982Peter Articles
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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
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on June 15, 1980Another first for MARCO Seattle was revealed recently with the christening of the fishing vessel Storm Petrel. She is a refrigerated seawater, trawler/combination boat, MARCO's first to be designed and engineered principally as a trawler. The new vessel has an overall length of 123 feet, bea
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on June 15, 1980Avondale Shipyards, Inc., a subsidiary of Ogden Corporation, recently christened the USS Merrimack (AO-179), the third in a series of five auxiliary oilers being built for the U.S. Navy. These are the first of their type to be built since 1956; deliveries will begin this year and extend thro
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on June 15, 1980The recent arrival of the 3,500- bhp tugboat Grace McAllister in the Port of Baltimore marked the inauguration of a new McAllister Container Feeder Service connecting the ports of Norfolk and Philadelphia with Baltimore. Early this year the 116-yearold McAllister Brothers Towing and Transpo
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on June 15, 1980The appointment of Bruce A. McAllister as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Maritime Affairs has been announced by Samuel B. Nemirow, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Maritime Affairs and head of the Maritime Administration. Mr. McAllister, formerly president and chief executive officer of
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on June 15, 1980The General Electric Company, Simulation and Control Systems Department, Daytona Beach, Fla., has been awarded an $ll-million contract to furnish central control systems for four new Spanish Navy ships. The equipment provided under the contract will control the shipboard propulsion, electri
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on June 15, 1980The Marina S., a passenger/ supply vessel built for Dinko's Marine Service of Aransas Pass, Texas, has been completed by Mississippi Marine Towboat Corporation of Greenville, Miss. The new vessel will be available for contract work in Gulf waters from Brownsville, Texas, to Key West, Fla.