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on October 15, 1985—Literature Available Terry Steam Turbine has announced a new single-stage turbine for applications up to 50 hp, incorporating a unique "back-pullout" feature which assures minimal maintenance expense, according to William L. Wathen, Terry president. Called GLT-260, the small turbine meets
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on October 15, 1985The Woodward Governor Company is offering a 14-page booklet on their extensive line of mechanicalhydraulic governors, electronic controls, actuators, and metering valves commonly applied to gas turbines. The publication is divided into seven separate sections: Mechanical- Hydraulic Governors
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on October 15, 1985The Maritime Administration has awarded an $18,396,652 contract to Dillingham Ship Repair of Portland, Ore., for the conversion of a National Defense Reserve Fleet containership into the third in a series of U.S. Navy Auxiliary Crane Ships (T-ACS). When converted, the T-ACS 3 (ex-President
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on October 15, 1985All speakers have now been confirmed for the sessions of the Canadian Shipbuilding and Ship Repairing Association's (CSSRA) 38th Annual Technical Conference, CSSRA president Henry Walsh recently announced. The conference will be held Monday, February 10 and Tuesday, February 11,1986 in Montr
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on September 15, 1985The Navy's Military Sealift Command has awarded a fixed-price contract totaling $30,709,896 to Bay Tankers, Inc., One Chase Manhattan Plaza, New York, N.Y., for the operation and maintenance of four T-AKR Fast Sealift Ships. Two of the ships will be based in Violet, La., one in Bayonne, N.J.,
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on September 15, 1985Transtema Kockumation, Sweden, formerly the electronics division of Kockumation, wellknown producers of the Loadmaster and Levelmaster computer systems, recently introduced a new system under the trade name Shipmaster. The system is designed to furnish the shipping industry with a high-perform
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on September 15, 1985After a year of negotiations, Aalborg Vaerft in Denmark recently signed a contract for the construction of seven Standard Flex 300 vessels for the Royal Danish Navy. The contract provides an option for an additional nine vessels of the same type. The first seven ships will be delivered betwe
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on September 15, 1985Tyne Shiprepair Limited (TSL), Britain's biggest shiprepair company, has been awarded a multi-million- pound conversion and refit contract by the Ministry of Defence (Navy). The six-month job is to convert the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) ship Orangeleaf into a Refueling- at-Sea (RAS) vessel,
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on September 15, 1985—Literature Available Wagner Engineering Ltd. of North Vancouver, B.C., Canada, has announced that it has been selected by Saint John Shipbuilding Limited to supply the steering systems as well as integrated steering control systems for six patrol frigates being built for the Canadian Navy.
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on September 15, 1985—Free Brochure Available Since nearly the beginning of shipboard and power station boiler use, little thought or consideration has been given to boiler protection from oily condensate return caused by seal failure from the turbines. The U.S. Navy, to protect their boilers, used double-walled
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on September 15, 1985The National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) is currently studying plans for the revision and expansion of the NMEA 0183 (1.1) Interface Standard for Marine Electronics. This Standard is a uniform data communications protocol providing a common "language" that permits information to be
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on September 15, 1985Furuno USA, Inc. has recently introduced a new loran navigator, LC-90, which is housed in a rugged diecast aluminum case and provides all the features necessary for safe and efficient navigation aboard any size boat, ranging from freshwater bass boats to the largest worldcruising yachts. Rep
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on September 15, 1985An occupancy rate of 84 percent during 1984 helped Arab Shipbuilding & Repair Yard (ASRY) of Bahrain to boost revenues up by nearly 20 percent over 1983. The yard celebrated its tenth anniversary last year. Chairman of ASRY Sheikh Daij Bin Khalifa Al-Khalifa said he was particularly encoura
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on September 15, 1985A naming ceremony was held recently at National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) in San Diego for the USNS Regulus (T-AKR-292), a Fast Sealift Ship (FS) converted for the U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command. Among those participating in the event were: U.S. Senator Pete Wilson, keyn
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on September 15, 1985The N.Y.-N.J.-Sandy Hook Pilots Association recently took delivery of a high-speed, rough-water commuter dispatch boat. It is a 64-foot, allaluminum, twin-screw vessel designed by C. Raymond Hunt Associates of Boston, Mass., and built by Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, The Duclos Corp., Somerse
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on September 15, 1985The Congressional Maritime Caucus has created an Advisory Board made up of industry and Executive Branch leaders to prepare an "action plan" aimed at stimulating legislative and regulatory initiatives to revitalize the American merchant marine. The Caucus, consisting of 72 members of the Ho
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on September 15, 1985The 115-foot Oriole, built by Aluminum Boats, Inc. of Crown Point, La. for A&P Boat Rentals of Cut Off, La., gives new meaning to the term "crew/utility vessel." the allaluminum, triple-screw boat can not only haul 63 people, 30 long tons of cargo, and 12,000 gallons of rig water; it can als
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on September 15, 1985Matson Navigation Company has sent invitations, to selected shipyards on the three U.S. coasts, to bid on conversion of the roll-on/rolloff trailer ship Matsonia to a combination RO/RO and lift-on/lift-off container carrier for the West Coast-Hawaii trade. This followed a preliminary inquiry
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on September 15, 1985Moss Point Marine, Inc. of Escatawpa, Miss., recently delivered the 800-passenger, sternwheel excursion boat Colonel to her owner, the Colonel Museum, Inc. in Galveston, Texas. The 152-foot vessel is now providing historical and dinner cruises of the Galveston Bay harbor. The Colonel can ser
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on September 1985A.C. LiCausi, Inc., a marine and industrial boiler consultant firm serving the maritime and industrial boiler user, has been formed in New Orleans, La., by A.C. LiCausi, president of the firm. A 1951 graduate of Stevens Institute of Technology, Mr. LiCausi was Foster Wheeler Boiler Corporati