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on February 15, 1974A low-cost rugged equipment for real-time precise positioning of offshore drilling vessels has been developed by Magnavox, Advanced Products Division of Torrance, Calif. This system automatically provides a position fix day or night, anywhere in the world, in all weather. The system receive
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on February 15, 1974The Midwest Chapter of North America of the World Dredging Association announces its first chapter meeting to be held Thursday, February 28, 1974, in St. Louis, Mo., from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the St. Louis Hilton Airport Inn. The chapter will be dedicated to the advancement of dredging techno
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on February 15, 1974The three new SS-2000 Class semisubmersible offshore drilling rigs being built for Zapata Offshore Company by Avondale Shipyards, Inc., were designed by Friede & Goldman, Inc., naval architects and marine engineers, New Orleans, La. Design of the New Zapata rigs is an outgrowth of an in-hou
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on February 15, 1974The president of The American Society' of Naval Engineers (ASNE), Rear Adm. D.H. Jackson, USN, announced that the Society has scheduled its annual national meeting, ASNE Day, for Thursday and Friday, May 2-3, 1974, at the Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C. The Society, founded in 1888, by defini
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on February 15, 1974The New York Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers met on January 15, 1974, at the Seamen's 'Church Institute in New York City. After a social hour and dinner, the technical session was held at which a paper was presented entitled "A New Approach to the S
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on February 15, 1974National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) has announced expansion of its shipbuilding facilities at San Diego, Calif. NASSCO is owned 50 percent each by Kaiser Industries Corporation and by Morrison-Knudsen Company and is under the management direction of Kaiser Industries Corporation.
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on February 15, 1974The Society of Marine Port Engineers New York, N.Y., Inc. met recently at the Downtown Athletic Club in New York City. At the technical session, which was preceded by a dinner, a paper was read entitled "'Care and Maintenance of Turbine and Hydraulic Oil Systems," by Irving L. Cigliano and
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on February 15, 1974John T. Gilbride, president and chief executive officer of Todd Shipyards Corporation, in a speech on January 23 at The Propeller Cluib, Port of New York, provided his audience with an "inside" viewpoint of the recent findings of the Commission on American Shipbuilding. As a member of the Co
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on February 15, 1974Arthur Levy Boat Service, the Petrolane subsidiary based in Morgan City, La., has announced the appointment of Ogden U. Thomas Jr. as vice president, and the appointment of Charles E. LeBlanc as manager of North Sea operations. Mr. Thomas will have administrative responsibility for contracts
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on February 15, 1974McAllister Brothers, Inc., 17 Battery Place, New York, N.Y., has placed an order with Main Iron Works, Inc. of Houma, La., for the construction of three 4,290-hp tugboats at a cost of $4 million. James P. McAllister, president, in announcing the contract award, said: "The addition of these n
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on February 15, 1974The merger of Oceans International Corporation, and Shipping Services, Inc., New Orleans, La., steamship agencies serving vessels, owners and operators in Gulf of Mexico ports was announced by Burnell J. Russell, president of Oceans International Corporation. To be known as Oceans Internatio
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on February 15, 1974Walter Thorsen, Inc., New York, has announced its appointment as exclusive United States representative for drydockings and repairs for Eleusis Shipyards, S.A., Greece. Eleusis Shipyards, S.A., a completely private enterprise established in 1969, is located at Eleusis Bay nine miles from Pir
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on February 15, 1974The S/S iGolden Dolphin, 90,000-dwt San Clemente-class tanker, was launched at National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO), of San Diego, Calif., on January 19, 1974. Ceremonies, open to the general public, commenced with music by Buck Wayne and the Buckaroos, followed by a band concert
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on February 1974The American Bureau of Shipping has placed into operation a comprehensive computerized system for information storage, correlation, and retrieval known as ABSIRS. Implemented through an in-house IBM 370/135, ABSIRS handles data concerning shipowners, shipbuilders, ship characteristics, service
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on February 1974An address by Rear Adm. Nathan Sonenshein, past president of the American Society of Naval Engineers and currently Director of the Defense Energy Task Group, highlighted this season's second regular meeting of the ASNE Tidewater Chapter. His timely discussion of the Department of Defense's
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on February 1974A full-color 20-page illustrated brochure covering the Waukesha line of marine diesel-powered energy systems for both main propulsion and ship's service power is offered by Waukesha Motor Company. This publication is intended as a guide or reference manual in selecting power needs from Wauk
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on February 1974Aluminum 'Company of America has announced receipt of orders for more than 33 million pounds of aluminum plate, extrusions and welding wire to foe used in tanks for landbased storage of liquefied natural gas and for LNG supertankers. The orders, for two unrelated LNG projects, came from Pitts
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on February 1974The People's Republic of China has ordered petroleum drilling controls and blowout preventers valued at approximately $2 million from The Rucker Company, a major producer of petroleum drilling and well production equipment. Company officials said the order is believed to foe the first receive
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on February 1974Paul J. Evanson has been appointed controller of Moore and McCormack Co., Inc. (NYSE; Pacific), it was announced by Paul R. Tregurtha, executive vice president and chief financial officer. Mr. Evanson, who joined Moore and McCormack as assistant vice president in January 1973, will primarily
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on February 1974On December 12, 1973, the first of a series of 43,300-deadweight-ton bulk carriers, the Althea, was launched at Eleusis Shipyards S.A. This is the biggest ship ever built in Greece. Eleusis Shipyards commenced operations in August 1969, and since then the yard has progressed rapidly. The faci