Medium 1977 Articles
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on July 15, 1977"Military/Civil Maritime Partnership- Naval Engineering's Pathway to Future Progress" was the theme of this year's annual national meeting of The American Society of Naval Engineers. The meeting, ASNE Day 1977, was held at the Shoreham-Americana Hotel in Washington, D.C. This was the 60th a
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on July 15, 1977Zapata Marine Service, Inc. has announced that it has named three men to new assignments in its marketing group. The Houston, Texas-based subsidiary of Zapata Corporation operates a fleet of 48 vessels worldwide, which provide a range of capabilities for offshore operators. Another four tug
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on July 15, 1977At the Annual Meeting and Election of officers and directors of The Maritime Association of the Port of New York (MAPONY) held recently, Eric Guy de Spirlet, president, Belgian Line Incorporated, was elected president. Charles T. O'Neill, president, Jaton Environ, Inc., was reelected vice p
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on July 15, 1977A new non-slip coating, proven in use by the U.S. Navy, is now available as original safety equipment for new or existing ships and offshore rigs, regardless of age. The safety coating is manufactured and marketed by American Abrasive Metals Co. Called Epoxo, the low-cost coating simply rol
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on July 15, 1977Tidewater Marine Service, Inc., Post Office Box 19264, New Orleans, La. 70179, will charter seven vessels to Tragosa (a Mexican marine company), which equipment is to be used in the extensive offshore drilling program recently announced by Pemex, Mexico's national oil company. The seven-ves
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on July 15, 1977Harstad Staalindustri, a new and extremely modern shipyard, is in operation. It is located in the city of Harstad in northern Norway, on about the same latitude as the north slope of Alaska. The new yard, which is building fishing boats, tugboats and other coastal vessels, is a joint venture
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on July 15, 1977The dictionary defines "encyclopaedia" as "works which give a detailed account of the whole field of human knowledge, or of some particular section of it." Encyclodaedia is therefore a very apt term to use when describing Mac- Gregor's new Ro-Ro brochure. With more than 400 Ro-Ro ships to i
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on July 15, 1977Members and guests of the Pacific Northwest Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers met on June 2 at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Officer's Club in a joint session with the Puget Sound Section of the American Society of Naval Engineers. Election results were announ
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on July 15, 1977Electro-Nav president Robert Negron has announced that his company, one of the nation's top marine electronic distributors, has been appointed sole U.S. representative for the entire BEN Electro-Magnetic Speed Log line. The BEN Speed Log is a combination ship speedometer/odometer that saves
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on July 15, 1977The tug-fireboats M.L. Walker and H. Burgess were christened recently at Thunderbolt Marine Industries, Thunderbolt, Ga. They are the first of a new generation of shiphandling and firefighting tugs specifically designed for work in the Panama Canal. The main feature of these tugboats is the
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on July 15, 1977The Northern California Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers hosted the 1977 Spring Meeting/ STAR (Ship Technology and Research) Symposium at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, May 25-27. This event proved to be one of the most successful Spring Meetings in rece
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on July 15, 1977Harland and Wolff, the Belfast, Northern Ireland shipbuilding company, has recently delivered the S/S Lima, the last of four giant 318,000-ton oil tankers ordered by Airlease International for operation by the Royal Dutch Shell Group. The first vessel in the series, the Lampas, was delivere
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on July 15, 1977Christening and blessing cer- emonies for the new, 2,250- horsepower, harbor-assist tugboat Mamo II were recently conducted at Pier 19, Honolulu, Hawaii, by officials of Dillingham Maritime- Pacific Division, Dillingham Corporation's Hawaii maritime company. The event began with the Reverend
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on July 15, 1977National Supply Company has shipped to British Petroleum Ltd. a unique 15,000-psi subsea wellhead system to be used in the North Sea. The BOP stack and individual components were s u c c e s s f u l ly tested in December at National's Houston Wellhead Plant and shipped on schedule for subse
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on July 15, 1977A specially designed maritime satellite communications system is being marketed by Western Union International, Inc. (WUI), One WUI Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10004. The system, called MARISAT, was described by Roy K. Andres, WUI's vice president for planning, at a recent press conference held
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on July 15, 1977The Federal Republic of Germany has announced selection of the General Electric LM2500 marine gas turbine as the power plant for its new F-122 class of frigate ships. The LM2500 is produced by GE's Marine and Industrial Projects Department in Evendale, Ohio. The initial order is for 12 mari
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on July 15, 1977The Maritime Subsidy Board (MSB) has authorized publication in the Federal Register of a notice that it is proposing a new policy permitting spare parts to be based ashore. The proposal also specifies a predetermined limit on the amount of constructiondifferential subsidy (CDS) for the cost
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on July 1977The Maritime Administration has commissioned Manalytics, Inc., 625 Third Street, San Francisco, Calif. 94107, to undertake a 12-month study "to recommend specific ways United States-flag lines can increase profitable par- ticipation in the movement of perishable commodities to foreign marke
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on July 1977Something new and interesting is happening in the scaffold plank industry. A new laminated lumber product is being mass manufactured with ideal characteristics for planking. The product is called MICRO=LAM and is made exclusively by Trus Joist Corporation. It is a manufactured high-strength
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on July 1977The offshore support and supply ship Independence, built by Halter Marine Services, Inc., New Orleans, La., was delivered recently to Offshore Service Ships, Inc., an offshore vessel operator of New Orleans. The Independence was built by the Moss Point, Miss., division of Halter Marine Service