Medium 1985 Articles
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on August 1985Three managers have been named to new positions with Zapata Gulf Marine Corporation's domestic operations, Kenneth W. Waldorf, Zapata Gulf chairman and chief executive officer, has announced. Larry T. Rigdon has been named vice president-domestic operations with responsibility for the Gulf
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on August 1985Three managers have been named to new positions with Zapata Gulf Marine Corporation's domestic operations, Larry T. Rigdon, vice president-North American operations, has announced. Based in the Harvey, La., office, B.B. Breland has been named manager-tugs and barges. Reporting to him are Jo
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on August 1985—Literature Available NICOR Marine Inc. and Sonat Subsea Services Inc. recently announced that they have entered into a cooperative agreement to offer underwater services in the Gulf of Mexico. A NICOR Marine vessel has been modified to accommodate Sonat Subsea saturation diving and remotel
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on August 1985The cruise yacht Ponce de Leon, the first ocean-class passenger vessel built in the United States in more than 30 years, is now under construction in the Marine Fabricators Inc. shipyard, approximately 30 miles south of Jacksonville, Fla., on the Saint John's River. The vessel is being built
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on August 1985Jered Brown Brothers, formerly Jered Industries, has patterns, tooling, and over 300,000 original marine equipment and machinery drawings maintained at their Auburn Hills, Mich., facilities. This invaluable inventory of both equipment and exact technical data places Jered Brown Brothers in a
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on August 1985With shipboard refrigeration systems particularly vulnerable to malfunction and costly breakdowns, Unitor, an Actinor company, announced two new services for marine refrigeration: Preventative Technical Inspection (PTI) and Service And Repair (SAR). To combat malfunctions and costly breakdo
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on August 1985The 1985 Admiral of the Ocean Sea Award (AOTOS), which is to be presented during the AOTOS dinner at the New York Hilton in New York City on September 27, 1985, will be presented to Robert J. Pfeiffer, chairman and chief executive officer of Matson Navigation Company, Inc., and to the U.S.
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on July 16, 1985The recently completed Fairbanks Morse Diesel Training Center headquartered in Beloit, Wise., is designed to give all Fairbanks Morse customer operating and service personnel the finest in handson training in service and repair of Fairbanks Morse Opposed Piston and Colt/Pielstick engines. (I
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on July 16, 1985Nichols Bros. Boat Builders of Whidbey Island (Freeland), Wash., recently completed the 85-foot catamaran Catamarin (shown above) for Harbor Carriers of San Francisco, a subsidiary of Crowley Maritime. The 30-knot, 400-passenger vessel will operate in commuter and charter service between San
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on July 16, 1985Harry S. Burker Jr. has been elected president and chief executive officer, and member of the board of directors of Siemens-Allis Inc., it was recently announced. He succeeds C.W. Diercks Jr., who will serve as president and chief executive officer of Utility Power Corp., a sister company.
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on July 16, 1985Tidewater Marine Service, Inc., Tidewater Inc.'s marine subsidiary, has outfitted one of its supply vessels for special service off the coast of West Africa for Nigerian AGIP Oil Co., Ltd., a venture of the national oil companies of Nigeria and Italy. According to Richard M. Currence, presi
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on July 16, 1985Advanced Marine Enterprises, Inc. (AME), headquartered in Arlington, Va., was recently awarded Navy contracts with a total value of approximately $26.5 million. The Military Sealift Command awarded a one-year contract, with two one-year options, for a total projected value of some $7.5 milli
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on July 16, 1985A year after its introduction by the Power Division of the Skinner Engine Company, Erie, Pa., the first hydraulically actuated governor valve control for controlling steam turbine speed has performed even better than initial expectations. Data gathered from dozens of installations around the c
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on July 16, 1985DiFlo International recently announced that the company is introducing a monthly lease program for its Series 1000 Fuel Management Systems as an alternative to an outright purchase, according to Thomas E. Prosser, DiFlo president. Available to financially qualified operators of vessels and f
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on July 16, 1985The 67-foot patrol boat Santa Cruz de la Sierra (shown above) was christened at a recent ceremony held at the Hope/Progressive shipyard in Houma, La. The new vessel, ordered by the Naval Forces of the Republic of Bolivia, was built under contract with Napco International Inc. of Minneapolis.
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on July 16, 1985The great advantages of efficiently and reliably cleaning diesel fuel and lube oils are well recognized, and Centrico, Inc. of Northvale, N.J., offers a wide range of Westfalia Oil Purifiers for this purpose. Westfalia Oil Purifying Centrifuges are being specified by diesel engine manufactur
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on July 16, 1985Mailing Kontrol A/S, the independent Danish-owned firm in the field of electrical alarm, supervision and control equipment, is offering a new full color brochure on the products produced by the company. Titled "Mailing Kontrol—75 Years," the publication gives a brief history of the firm from
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on July 16, 1985Since inception of the industry over 30 years ago, Tidewater Inc.'s marine subsidiary, Tidewater Ma- rine Service, Inc., has consistently been a leader in the development of oil and gas support vessel design and operating improvements—hull design, superior machinery and in- novative equipmen
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on June 1985The WABCO Fluid Power Division of American- Standard, Lexington, Ky., has published an eight-page brochure on Logicmaster™ pneumatic control systems for marine engines equipped with hydraulic clutch reverse gears. WABCO Logicmaster controls incorporate the interlocks and protective circuits re
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on June 1985Ingersoll-Rand Company, Charlotte, N.C., recently announced the formation of a new division, the single stage products division, whose initial product offering will be XFLO, a mixed-flow single-stage turbo compressor. The new single stage products division, based in Charlotte, will be headed