Medium 1981 Articles
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on July 15, 1981Grumman Aerospace Corporation recently launched a 100-ton hydrofoil patrol boat under construction for Israel. The launching took place at Lantana Boatyard, Inc. in Lantana, Fla. where the vessel was built. After testing in the Atlantic Ocean near Lantana, the hydrofoil will be delivered to
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on July 15, 1981Fredriksstad mek Verksted, Norway, is to build another 42,000-dwt RO/RO ship for the carriage of forest products and cars on Seaboard's cross-Pacific trade. Like the first two vessels in the series, Skaugran and Skaubord delivered from the same yard two years ago, more than two-thirds of it
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on July 15, 1981Bell Aerospace Textron, headquartered near Niagara Falls, N.Y., has won a $40-million U.S. Navy contract for the detailed design and long lead materials for a new type of amphibious landing craft. Announcement was made by Norton C. Willcox, Bell president. The contract contains two options
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on July 15, 1981The small Crandali marine railway drydock at the National Sea Products, Inc. shipyard in Rockland, Maine, (shown above), has just been enlarged and rebuilt for 700-ton capacity. This improved facility, along with the larger one recently rebuilt for 1,200 tons, assures the yard and ship operato
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on July 15, 1981recent keel-laying ceremony at the National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) yard in San Diego initiated construction of the cable repair ship T-ARC-7 (to be named USNS Zeus) for the U.S. Navy. Capt. Martin G. Hill, USN, supervisor of shipbuilding, conversion and repair, struck the i
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on July 15, 1981The first of a new class of U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers, the most formidable surface ships of their size now joining the Navy, was commissioned recently at Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries, Pascagoula, Miss. The USS Kidd (DDG-993) (shown above) officially joined th
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on July 15, 1981Sea Containers, Inc. announced recently that its wholly owned subsidiary, Seaco Energy Corporation, and Coastal Carriers Corporation have formed a partnership to build and operate American- flag floating terminals. These terminals, located in New Orleans at the mouth of the Mississippi, wil
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on July 15, 1981The regular monthly meeting of the Long Beach/Greater Los Angeles Section of the American Society of Naval Engineers was held recently at the Officer's Club of the Los Alamitos Armed Forces Reserve Center. The meeting was convened by Section chairman Capt. J.A. Gildea, USN, who gave a compr
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on July 15, 1981The Wartsila Turku Shipyards in Finland recently delivered the car/passenger ferry Silvia Regina (shown above) to Stockholms Rederi A /B Svea. Under the management of Silja Line of Abo, Finland, the new vessel will operate on the Helsinki-Stockholm route. At 25,680 grt and with 1,601 beds,
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on July 15, 19816Construction is under way on a seagoing barge that includes in its equipment the first loop-belt type self-unloading conveyor system specifically designed to handle blended wet phosphate rock. The 610- by 78-foot barge is being built by the Bay Shipbuilding Corporation, Sturgeon Bay, Wis.,
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on July 15, 1981The launching ceremony for a new ship, Yard No. 1143, was performed recently at the M.A.N. Division GHH Sterkrade dock construction yard, Nordenham/Blexen, by Mrs. Franziska Ewen, the wife of the West German Member of Parliament Carl Ewen (Aurich/Emden). Another ship of the same design, the Y
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on July 15, 1981J.E. Cunningham, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of McDermott Incorporated, has announced the election of four additional vice presidents. Anton Salem has been elected vice president and administrative assistant to the chief executive officer. He joined Bailey Controls Com
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on July 15, 1981American President Lines (APL) of Oakland, Calif., has called for bids for construction of an initial order of 733 forty-five-foot containers (prototype shown above), the world's first, according to Richard L. Hill, vice president for land operations and project manager. The new containers wil
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on July 1981Central Boat Rentals of Morgan City, La., recently put to work a unique inland, 60-foot pushboat built by Brice Shipbuilding Inc. of Chauvin, La. The Vail Trail (shown above) is an unusual ship in that it has six rudders for improved maneuverability and control. The four flanking rudders an
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on July 1981Christening and launching ceremonies were held at National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) recently for the Sierra Madre (shown above), one of three 37,500-dwt Carlsbad Class product carriers being built for Union Oil Company of California. A gathering of more than 400 invited guest
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on July 1981At the spring meeting in Vic- toria, British Columbia, Canada, the Pacific Northwest Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers heard two papers. "Experience with Real Time Motion Monitoring on the Barge Foss 245," presented by Robert E. Nichol of Diehl & Lundgaard, Inc
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on July 1981Marathon's new Super 300 selfelevating offshore drilling platform, introduced during the 1981 Offshore Technology Conference, is designed to meet an offshore industry need for a jackup compatible with harsh environments too severe for standard 300-foot water depth rigs, but not hostile enou
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on July 1981The largest tugboat ever built in the United States to run on heavy fuel oil was completed and christened recently at McDermott Shipyards' Morgan City Division in Bayou Boeff, La. The 140-foot, twin-screw Valiant (shown above) was built for Houston-based Bulkfleet Marine Corporation. She was
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on July 1981A new capability and improved fuel economy are now available to users of the model 343 pedestal crane manufactured by Skagit Division of Continental Emsco, Sedro-Woolley, Wash. The capability feature is provided by an optional remote-control console that allows an operator to better positio
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on July 1981With a crack of the champagne bottle, Mrs. William T. (Eileen) Toutant recently christened the new towboat named to honor her husband at the Jeffboat, Incorporated shipyard in Jeffersonville, Ind. The new towboat, W.T. Toutant, is a 6,000-bhp vessel constructed by Jeffboat for its sister compa