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on November 1986The new Performax™ full-flow diesel lube oil filters from the Mobile Aftermarket Division, Pall Industrial Hydraulics Corporation, provide the users of Detroit Diesel, Caterpillar, and Cummins engines the extended engine life and improved performance of 10-micron absolute filtration. By remo
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on November 1986The third of a new class of mine countermeasure ships, the MCM-3 Sentry, was launched and christened recently at Peterson Builders, Inc., Sturgeon Bay, Wise. The Sentry is the second MCM of the Avenger class to be launched at Peterson. Peterson has five of the wooden MCM mine countermeasure
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on November 1986Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Litton in Pascagoula, Miss., recently won a major competition to build three additional multipurpose amphibious assault ships of the Wasp (LHD-1) Class. The lead ship of the class is currently under construction at the Ingalls yard under a contract awarded in
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on November 1986—Brochure Available— Expanding and improving its line of marine generator sets (gensets), Onan Corporation has introduced two new diesel models—the 12.5 MDL3 and the 30 MDL6. Both models are powered by Onan L Series diesel engines. The 12.5 MDL3 fills a market void between 8-kw and 15-kw ma
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on November 1986—Literature Available The U.K. Ministry of Defence has selected the MFV (Moss Fredrikstad Verft) marine incinerator, marketed in the United Kingdom by Marine Ventures Ltd., as the most suitable commercially available incinerator for onboard installation on the Royal Navy's recently ordered
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on November 1986Sermatech International Inc. of Limerick, Pa., is offering a new free 12-page color brochure that describes corrosion, erosion, wear, sulfidation, and hot corrosion-resistant coatings and repair/restoration technologies. The advanced technology materials and services are used extensively in
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on November 1986William J. Holcombe has been elected chairman and chief executive officer of Transamerica Delaval Inc., the manufacturing subsidiary of Transamerica Corporation. Announcement of Mr. Holcombe's election was made by Transamerica Corporation chairman and chief executive officer James R. Harvey.
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on November 1986Each of the three new twin-screw towboats being built by Quality Shipyards in Houma, La., for the Ashland Petroleum Company will be powered by two Caterpillar 3606 engines delivering a total of 4,200 hp per vessel. "This is the first installation of Caterpillar's 3606 engines utilized in ne
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on November 1986The first meeting of the 86-87 season by The Society of Marine Port Engineers New York heard a paper entitled "Computerizing Fuel Quality for Diesel Engines," prepared by William L. McCarthy, Gregory J. Shumski, and Matthew F. Winkler, all of Seaworthy Systems, Inc. of Essex, Conn. The pape
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on November 1986At the recent International Ship, Machinery and Marine Technology Trade Fair (SMM) in Hamburg, West Germany, the Paul Lindenau shipyard of Kiel introduced a novel design for a catamaran sail-cruiser. Designed over a two-year period by naval architect J. Issleib of Hamburg, the 122-meter-long
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on November 1986Colonna's Shipyard, Inc. in Norfolk, Va., recently acquired a floating drydock 571 feet long and 118 feet wide to enhance its ship-repairing capabilities. Formerly Dock No. 5 of the Amsterdam Drydock Company in the Netherlands, the big dock was transported across the Atlantic aboard the Migh
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on November 1986The U.S. Naval Training Systems Center has awarded Sperry Corporation a $17.5-million contract to design, develop, and assemble a fullmission simulator for the Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC). Under the terms of the contract, the trainer is scheduled to be ready for operation by August 198
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on November 1986—Literature A v a i l a b l e— According to an announcement by co-owners Joseph Cangelosi and Carl McBratney, their newly formed company, Enterprise Marine and Industrial Repairs, Inc. of Port Newark, N.J., has recently completed its first major ship repair contract involving extensive hull
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on November 1986The U.S. Navy's fifth Aegis guided- missile cruiser built by Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Litton was commissioned USS Bunker Hill (CG-52) in Boston, just a short distance from the Revolutionary War battle site for which the ship is named. Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) was the princip
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on November 1986—Free Literature Available— Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc., Power Engineering Marketing Division, is developing new costeffective methods of ship control to concentrate control on the bridge and reduce the size of the crew required. One development from Siemens is the SINEC HI industrial
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on November 1986—Color Brochure A v a i l a b l e— For some 70 years, The Falk Corporation of Milwaukee has been building a reputation for producing durable, reliable, and energy-efficient marine drives. Every day, thousands of such drives provide dependable service in tugs, towboats, offshore service vesse
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on November 1986—Literature Available— Arneson Marine, Inc., Corte Madera, Calif., are the manufacturers of a state-of-the-art marine propulsion system, Arneson Surface Drives, which utilizes surface piercing propellers to provide propulsion for all craft from 16 to 150 feet. Increasingly popular with build
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on November 1986Bird-Johnson Company of Walpole, Mass., a leading manufacturer of commercial and naval controllable- pitch propeller systems, has purchased the assets of The 76 Corporation, comprised of the HDF and Olympic Propeller Companies of Seattle. The firm will reopen on the site of the former HDF Pr
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on November 1986Wartsila's Turku Shipyard in Finland recently delivered the 12,000-dwt oil recovery vessel/ suction dredge Vaydaghubsky to V/O Sudoimport of Moscow. The new vessel is said to be the largest of her kind in the world. In addition to her oil recovery role, she can be operated as a suction dredge
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on November 1986—Literature Available Hempel's Marine Paints, the worldwide supplier of coating systems to the marine industry, has published a free six-page brochure on Combic, a new product recently added to its range of antifouling products. Combic is an intermediate solution positioned between traditional