Medium 1981 Articles
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on November 1981The first meeting of the 1981- 1982 season of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Section of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers was held recently aboard the Princess Louise in the Port of Los Angeles. George Stiehl, incoming chairman of the Section, opened the meeting and introdu
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on November 1981The Sperry Division of Sperry Corporation recently received a $1.6-million contract from the U.S. Naval Air Development Center to integrate the new NAVSTAR Global Positioning System (GPS) capability into the current navigation system aboard a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier. Although the initial
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on November 1981A Marine Terminal Automated Management System (MTAMS), financed in part by the Maritime Administration, was dedicated recently by MarAd's western region director, Thomas J. Patterson, at the Seventh Street Public Container Terminal, Port of Oakland, Calif. The MTAMS is part of a Mar- Ad pr
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on November 1981As the first stage of a major e x p a n s i o n , Philadelphia Resins Corporation, Montgomeryville, Pa., is adding 1,100 square meters (12,000 square feet) to one of its two modern manufacturing and production plants. "This immediate expansion," David H. Kollock, president of the company st
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on November 1981The members of the Flagship Section of the American Society of Naval Engineers gathered at the Naval Surface Weapons Center, Dahlgren, Va., for the first meeting of the 1981-82 season to hear a paper on "Reactivation of the Battleships," given by Rear Adm. John D. Beecher, USN, NAVSEA's Dep
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on November 1981E n e r g y Audit Corporation, Montclair, N.J., an infrared scanning inspection company, has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy to perform infrared electrical and mechanical equipment inspections on all of the aircraft carriers in the United States fleet. Steven L. Miller, director of
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on November 1981Two 23-meter (about 75-foot) long lightships are to be built at Ocean Shipyards, Fremantle, Western Australia, for the Australian Department of Transport at a cost of 2.4-million Australian dollars. On completion, scheduled in 1982, one will be stationed at the Carpentaria Shoal, Torres Str
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on November 1981A second coastal tanker designed for windassisted diesel propulsion will be delivered soon by Imamura Shipbuilding, Kure, Japan, to Aitoku Co., owner of the first such commercial sailing vessel. The second ship, the Aitoku Maru, will take Japanese sail research one stage further and differs i
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on November 1981Burton Shipyard, Inc., Port Arthur, Texas, recently delivered the 224-foot tuna vessel Patrician. The steel-hulled tuna purse seiner is the second of a seven-vessel contract awarded to Burton by Van Camp Sea Food Co., a division of Ralston Purina Co., and is jointly owned by Van Camp and Capt.
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on November 1981Burmeister & Wain Shipyard, Copenhagen, has delivered the M/S Susan B, the fourth of the yard's fuel efficient Panamax bulk carriers of approximately 64,000- dwt. The vessel was built for Eljay Shipping, Inc., Monrovia, Liberia, and named by Mrs. Jane MacMichael, wife of Ethan Mac- Michael,
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on November 1981Patti Industries Inc. of Pensacola, Fla., recently delivered the M/V Rachael Mary and M / V Sylvia Curole. The Rachael Mary, a 1,200-hp tunnel designed 65-foot by 24- foot by 9-foot 6-inch Model bow tug was delivered to Hugh Eymard and Donald Vizier, and will work for Hugh Eymard Towing Co. I
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on November 1981Union Carbide Corporation, New York, N.Y., announced the recent completion and on-time delivery of the world's first waterborne polyethylene plant. The 120,000 metric tons-per-year UNIPOL process plant is undergoing pre-operational testing at Bahia Blanca, Argentina, following a 15,000-mile o
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on October 15, 1981Dravo SteelShip Corporation, Pine Bluff, Ark., recently delivered the Mobilian (shown above), the first of a series of 85-foot by 30-foot by 10.5-foot towboats for Warrior and Gulf Navigation Company of Chickasaw, Ala. The Mobilian is powered by twin Caterpillar diesel model 3512 engines—ra
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on October 15, 1981George Engine Company of Harvey, La., among the world's largest distributors of marine diesel engines, has added another innovation to the offshore diesel power field. The first five-screw crew/utility boat, Joyce McCall II (shown above), was launched recently by Gulf Craft, Inc., Patterson,
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on October 15, 1981A new, high-quality global satellite communication system for ships at sea, run by INMARSAT, will come into operation on February 1, 1982. INMARSAT is the International Maritime Satellite Organization which has 36 member- States. A February starting date has been assured by a decision taken
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on October 15, 1981The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a $35.8-million contract to Williams Brothers Construction Company, Inc. of Houston, Texas, to construct a new lock on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, according to Col. Robert C. Lee. district engineer of the Corps' New Orleans District. A ground
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on October 15, 1981The Maritime Administration has approved the award of contracts totaling nearly $27 million for the retrofitting of pollution abatement and safety equipment aboard four tankers and two ore / bulk/oil (OBO) vessels owned by subsidiaries of the Berger Group, Lake Success, N.Y. The retrofits a
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on October 15, 1981Mrs. June Geneen recently christened a new 4,000-ton floating drydock, H.S. Geneen (shown above), named in honor of her husband Harold S. Geneen, Delta Services board chairman. The dock was designed and built by Delta Shipyard, a division of Delta Services Industries, Houma, La. Ralph Arcenea
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on October 15, 1981Wendle W. Huddleston, president and chief executive officer of Hudson Shipbuilder, Inc. (HUDSHIP), recently announced that he and Larry D. Hornbeck, president of Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc. of Galveston, Texas, have signed a contract for the construction of four large offshore tug/ suppl
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on October 15, 1981George Engine Company, Inc., of Harvey, La., is an organization that started a little over 35 years ago with a $2,500 investment and has grown into one of the world's largest distributors of Detroit Diesel marine engines. The company is named for its late founder, George S. Frierson Jr., wh