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on April 1974Imperial Oil Ltd., 70 percent owned by Exxon Corp., has announced the first oil and natural gas find in the Beaufort Sea of the Canadian Arctic. The company said it has a threezone oil and gas discovery from a drilling platform on a temporary artificial island offshore from the Mackenzie De
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on April 1974Blount Marine Corporation of Warren, R.I., has been awarded a contract by National Boat Corporation of Wilmington, -Del., and Houston, Texas, to build six 190-foot by 38-foot Support Ships to be used primarily in the offshore oil industry. Ships of this type are employed for supplying and se
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on April 1974President Nixon has nominated Rear Adm. William F. Rea III to command the Coast Guard's Atlantic Area and Third District, headquartered on Governors Island, N.Y., with the rank of vice admiral. Pending Senate confirmation, Admiral Rea will relieve Vice Adm. B.F. Engel, who will retire in Jun
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on April 1974Santa Fe International Corporation, Orange, Calif., has reported earnings for 1973 of $10,871,691 or $1.28 per share. Comparable earnings in 1972, excluding an extraordinary gain of $458,081, were $7,713,876 or 99 cents per share, fully diluted. President E.L. Shannon Jr. said 1973 revenues
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on April 1974Gen-eral Dynamics has announced the award of an approximate $30- million contract to Morrison-Knudsen Co. Inc. of Boise, Idaho, to construct a pontoon graving dock at its Electric Boat Division's shipyard in Groton, Conn. The new graving dock, 'believed to be the first of its kind ever built
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on April 1974Nils Hellen, managing director of the Association of Finnish Metal, Engineering and Shipbuilding Industries, recently visited the United States by invitation of the Finnish American Chamber of 'Commerce. Mr. Hellen, in his address as guest speaker to American businessmen and editors at the Bi
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on April 1974In view of the ever-growing sizes of ships and the decision of the Antwerp Port Authorities to make the river Scheldt navigable for vessels of 125,000 deadweight tons, the Mercantile Marine Engineering & Graving Docks Co. N.V. Antwerpen, with an eye to the future, is building a sixth private g
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on April 1974After two years of operation, the Kings Point Scholars Program, which offers outstanding seniors at the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, N.Y., the opportunity to research a subject of current interest to the maritime industry, is "progressing well," according to a status
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on April 1974Coppus Engineering Corporation, Worcester, Mass., licensee of Fredriksstad Mek Verksted (FmV), announces the plaoement of an order by Mobil Oil for several FmV Inert Gas Systems to foe retrofitted on Mobil ships now in operation. FmV Inert Gas Systems utilize scrubbed flue gas to maintain ta
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on April 1974By the end of this year, Vancouver Shipyards, North Vancouver, British Columbia, will have completed the largest shipbuilding berth in the province. The full size of the building berth when completed will be 600 feet by 120 feet and will give the yard the capability of building ships up to 5
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on April 1974The hull assembly nears completion as the icebreaker-type bow is installed on a new design gas turbine-powered oil tanker under construction at FMC Corporation's Marine and Rail Equipment Division in Portland, Ore. Setting the section as a whole is typical of PMC's modular construction method,
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on April 1974It has recently !been announced that the state-owned Algerian Steamship Navigation Co., C.N.- A.N., has ordered three LNG tankers with Gaz-Transport invar membrane design. Two of them, each with a capacity of 129,400 cubic meters, are to foe ibuilt at C.'N.I.M. shipyards, La Seyne, France, f
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on April 1974The Ocean Scout, the first semisubmersible oil-well drilling rig to be constructed on the East Coast of the United States was towed from Bethlehem Steel's Fort McHenry shipyard on February 21 to a site below the Chesapeake Bay bridges, where final sections of the drilling derrick were erected.
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on March 1974Astilleros Espanoles, S.A. recently held a special stockholders' meeting in the Assembly Room of the Spanish Industry Institute (I.N.I.), Madrid, to authorize the board-of directors to increase the capital stock of the company by 50 percent during the next few years. The board is also authoriz
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on March 1974The Technical Committee of Lloyd's Register of Shipping has approved new Rules for Inwater Surveys and a number of additions and amendments to the Rules for the Construction and Classification of Steel Ships, subject to confirmation by the General Committee. Rules for Inwater Surveys— These
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on March 1974The Marjorie R., 18th in a series of high-seas tuna superseiners built by Campbell'Industries, was recently launched at the company's San Diego, Calif., yard. The new clipper, valued at approximately $3 million, is a sister ship to the recently delivered Sandra C. The owners, J.W. Uhlein &
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on March 1974The Lady Cynthia, latest addition to the fleet of offshore supply vessels operated by Australian Offshore Services, was recently launched at Carrington Slipways Pty. Ltd.'s 40-acre shipyard on Old Punt Road, Tomago 2322, N.S.W., Australia. The new 192-foot tug/supply vessel was sponsored by th
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on March 1974Milton G. Nottingham, spokesman for the 14,000-member Alumni Association of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, N.Y., has expressed his organization's opposition to the proposed dismemberment of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee. A House Select Committee on Committ
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on March 1974Ocean Transport & Trading Limited, London, England, has announced the formation of a new shipbroking company, Ocean McGregor Limited. The company has been formed from the shipbroking departments of the Ocean subsidiaries, McGregor, Gow and Holland Limited, and Cory Mann 'George (Chartering) Li
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on March 1974The Sunshine State, a new twin-screw tug designed by S.L. Petchull, Inc. of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was recently delivered to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company by the builder, N.E. Insley, Inc. of Crisfie'ld, Md. Built to American Bureau of Shipping standards, the new tug, with dimensions of 46