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on December 1984Moss Point Marine, Inc. recently christened and launched the Argosy Navigator (shown below) fourth of five supply boats being built for Argosy Offshore Ltd. of Lafayette, La. She was christened by Lucille Taylor, wife of William R. Taylor, vice president and division general manager, Central
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on December 1984The City of Memphis has received and placed into service a fireboat made by MonArk Boat Company of Monticello, Ark. The fireboat, MonArk's Model 2609, will be used by the Memphis Fire Department in responding to waterfront fires and emergencies on the Mississippi River. The Memphis fireboat
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on December 1984The Society of Marine Consultants held its first luncheon open to the public recently at the Whitehall Club in New York City. The speaker was Richard P. Hayden, a partner in the well-known law firm of Hill, Rivkins, Carey, Loesburg, O'Brien, and Mulroy. The title of his talk was "The Role of
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on December 1984Eastern Marine, Inc. of Panama City, Fla., recently delivered the towboat Eagle, the ninth vessel of a 10-vessel contract that was signed with Central Gulf Lines, Inc. of New Orleans, La. The vessels are operated by Compass Marine Gulf, Inc., also of New Orleans, and have a scheduled run bet
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on December 1984Sonat Inc. announced recently that its subsidiary, Sonat Offshore Drilling Inc., has entered into an agreement with the Daewoo Corporation and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Heavy Machinery, Ltd. of Korea to build six semisubmersible drilling rigs for approximately $425 million. Following an initial
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on December 1984A gala opening ceremony was held recently to mark the official opening of the new Hyundai Maritime Research Institute (HMRI) in Ulsan, Korea. The event was attended by a large group of government and industry leaders from Korea and elsewhere, including many research scientists from model bas
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on November 15, 1984—Literature Available RFD Ltd. of Surrey, England, has now gained U.K. Department of Transport approval for the davit-launched version of its new Surviva liferaft (shown below). The approval was granted after the raft had performed successfully in a series of strength tests carried out by DoT
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on November 15, 1984Eastern Marine, Inc., Panama City, Fla., recently signed a contract with the Fishers Island Ferry District, Fishers Island, N.Y., for the construction of a 162-foot by 33-foot by 9-foot 10-inch double-screw Caterpillar- powered passenger/auto ferry. The new vessel will be put into service i
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on November 15, 1984Total fire protection is the subject of an eight-page full-color brochure from Walter Kidde, Division of Kidde, Inc., of Wake Forest, N.C. The company designs and manufacturers a complete line of fire protection equipment: portable extinguishers; pre-engineered systems; and large-scale, cust
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on November 15, 1984Renk of Augsburg, West Germany, has available new literature on the Renk-Constant-Frequency (RCF) gear unit. The publication states that all shipowners ask for more cost-effective power generation onboard than was formerly possible, and one answer is the Renk- Constant-Frequency gear "RCF S
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on November 15, 1984At a recent contract signing ceremony in the Washington office of Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth H. Dole, Sea-Land Corporation of Menlo Park, N.J., awarded a $180-million shipbuilding order to Bay Shipbuilding Corporation of Sturgeon Bay, Wise., a subsidiary of The Manitowoc Company.
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on November 15, 1984Sandusky Foundry & Machine Co. of Sandusky, Ohio, is offering a free 20-page general brochure on the company and the centrifugal castings that it produces exclusively. The full-color booklet explains what centrifugal castings are and how they are made, and lists some current applications. Th
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on November 15, 1984America took the lead with containerization, and should retain that lead; this success is dependent upon the U.S. retaining its competitiveness in world markets. These were the thoughts of Malcom P. McLean, the founder of oceangoing containerization, as he received the 1984 Admiral of the O
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on November 15, 1984U.S. Navy battleship Iowa (BB- 61) being assisted by four Turecamo tugboats during recent visit to New York Harbor, which will become her home port in 1989 as nucleus of a Surface Action Group (SAG) that will also include one guided-missle cruiser and three destroyers. The SAG and two additi
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on November 1984E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. (Inc.), Wilmington, Del., is offering a 12-page brochure on the company's new Offshore Maintenance Painting Service (OMPS). The publication, generously illustrated with color photos depicting different phases of the OMPS program, is divided into five sections devo
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on November 1984Michael Kolesar of Marine Engineers, Panama City, Fla., recently announced that the company has been awarded a contract by Rover Marine Transport, Inc. of Norfolk to build the three-masted topsail schooner American Rover. Believed to be the largest sailing ship to be built on the Gulf Coast in
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on November 1984Devoe Marine Coatings Co., Louisville, Ky., one of the largest manufacturers of high quality coatings, recently announced the following management appointments. William Mitchell has been appointed vice president, Eastern region. Mr. Mitchell is responsible for all sales and technical service
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on November 1984— Literature Available Ferrous Corporation, Bellevue, Wash., a manufacturer of combustion catalyst for marine diesel and boilers has developed a complete system for administering catalyst into the fuel oil. The Ferrous Marine System (FMS) provides the user with a proportioning pump, depulsi
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on November 1984Texas Instruments has an- nounced the new TI Marine Busi- ness System designed to give fleet managers a promising new home office tool for improving vessel oper- ating efficiency. Designed to utilize information logged by a TI 8000 Integrated Marine System installed on individual vessels, th
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on November 1984Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Co., Inc. Mobile, Ala., recently christened and launched the cruise vessel Pilgrim Belle for Coastwise Cruise Line of Hyannis, Mass. Coastwise Cruise Line's parent corporation, Hyannis Harbor Tours, Inc. is also known as Hy-Line. Hy- Line operates the largest fle