Medium Maritime Reporter 1990 Articles
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on December 1990Cummins Engine Company and Onan Corporation, Minneapolis, Minn., recently announced the completion of a joint venture development program. The result is a line of midsize auxiliary generator sets for the commercial marine industry. Rated for prime power duty in worldwide shipboard applicatio
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on December 1990Coastal Tug & Barge, Inc., Miami, Fla., recently announced the completion of its newest tug, the Coastal Florida. The innovative design of this motor vessel incorporates the latest advances in marine engineering into Coastal's towing services. The 90-foot-long, 4,000-horsepower class vessel
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on December 1990CG-68, the 15th of 19 Ticonderoga Class Aegis guided missile cruisers to built by Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Litton, Pascagoula, Miss., was recently christened Anzio. Principal speaker for the event was Congressman C.V. Montgomery of Mississippi's Third Congressional District. Aegis s
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on December 1990Burrard Clean Operations Ltd. of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, has contracted with MARCO Pollution Control, one of the world's largest builders of oil spill recovery vessels and systems, for the construction of a new design 75-foot spill recovery boat. Additionally, in an unrelated proj
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on December 1990Peter P. Lombard, president of American United Marine Corporation, has been honored for his outstanding contribution to trade relations with Norway and the United States and has been awarded a special export diploma by the Export Council of Norway. The award, first given in Copenhagen in 19
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on December 1990Florida-based U.S.-flag carrier Hvide Shipping, Inc., recently took delivery of the newly reconstructed 46,300-dwt U.S.-flag chemical tanker M/V Seabulk America. "The double-bottomed Seabulk America is the newest, most sophisticated chemical carrier in the U.S. coastwise trade. We are very p
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on September 1990The central navigation work station has become more and more the focus of modern bridge design in seagoing ships and, in accordance with this, Anschutz & Co. GmbH of Kiel, West Germany, offers its "Nauto Control" line of products to fulfill the demand of navigators for fast, comprehensive in
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on September 1990SEACO/Elliot manufactures and sells a full product line of inflatable life rafts and personnel rescue platforms and related products for oceangoing vessels, offshore platforms, commercial fishing vessels, corporate and commercial aircraft and various military applications. In its 30 years, E
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on September 1990The House Armed Services Committee recently completed its markup of the Fiscal Year 1991 (FY 91) Defense Authorization Bill, recommending most of the administration's requests for Navy shipbuilding and conversion intact. The committee recommended authorization of $1.45 billion for one SSN-2
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on September 1990ABB Turbo Systems Ltd. recently announced plans to expand the RR..1 turbocharger product family with the introduction in spring 1991 of the RR 131, the smallest framesize BBC Turbocharger. The company already markets the RR 151, RR 181, and RR 221. The RR 131 is designed for engines with ou
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on September 1990For many years the German firm Markisches Werk Halver (MWH) has installed Nimonic valves in medium- speed diesel engines when standard valve spindles were no longer able to meet today's requirements. Both the trend toward higher peak pressures and the increasing use of residual fuels led to
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on September 1990Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, The Duclos Corp., has introduced a fiberglass hull to its line of deep-V steel and aluminum pilot boats. Designed by C. Raymond Hunt Associates of Boston, the 50-foot one-piece molded hull, which has four watertight compartments, is designed to ABS rules with add
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on September 1990Sulzer Brothers Ltd. has agreed to sell a majority of the shares of its subsidiary Sulzer Diesel Ltd. in equal parts to Fincantieri-Cantieri Navali Italiani SpA of Trieste, Italy, and a German consortium of Bremer Vulkan AG of Bremen, and Deutsche Maschinen- und Schiffbau AG of Rostock. The
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on September 1990Moss Point Marine, Inc., Escatawpa, Miss., a member of the Trinity Marine Group, has delivered the Moku Ahi, a 110-foot fire boat, custom- designed for use in the Honolulu Harbor. The vessel is equipped with four water monitors or nozzles with a collective capacity of up to 12,000 gallons p
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on September 1990Sigma Coatings recently published the Sigma Tank Coating File. This is No. 2 in a series of "system" files being dispatched by the company over the next few months. (An article on No. 1 in the series, Sigma Antifoulings File, appeared in the July 1990 issue of MARITIME REPORTER/ Engineering
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on September 1990German engine manufacturer MTU Friedrichshafen recently announced it will present its new Series 595 diesel engine for the first time at the International Shipping and Marine Technology Market, SMM '90, in Hamburg, West Germany. The new Series 595 includes 12- and 16-cylinder models, with po
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on September 1990The newest addition to the U.S. Coast Guard fleet, a 47-foot rescue vessel designed and built by Textron Marine Systems (TMS), successfully righted itself in 5.3 seconds during its first test, conducted recently at the Textron shipyard in New Orleans. This patrol and rescue boat has the capa
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on September 1990Southwest Marine, Inc., San Diego, Calif., the West Coast's largest network of ship repair yards, has been awarded a $75-million contract for the conversion and overhaul of Royal Caribbean Cruise Line's M.S. Viking Serenade. The work will take place at Southwest's San Diego facility, also th
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on September 1990A U.S. company that usually supplies boatowners with protective polyethylene coverings has volunteered its services to build temporary structures for Iranian earthquake victims. FANA (Film Applicators of North America) recently applied for and was granted permission bv the Iranian Governmen
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on September 1990The materials handling system used for years at Bath Iron Works pipe fabrication shop relied on corrugated containers to hold the irregularly shaped subassemblies. Getting the material from the pipe shop to the ship required six fulltime workers to move the finished pipe four times, including