Medium 1986 Articles
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on October 1986—Literature Package Offered— The Spinner II line of in-line flow powered oil cleaning centrifuges, a product of T.F. Hudgins & Associates Inc. of Houston, Texas, is now available from Warehouse Supplier of Lawrenceville, N.J. In addition, a free complete literature package with detailed broc
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on October 1986Tideland Signal Corporation of Houston, Texas, has introduced the new SAB-12 Sentinel Articulated Buoy. According to the manufacturer, the buoy has outstanding station- keeping capabilities and may be deployed where water depth makes placement of a fixed structure impractical. The SAB-12 co
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on October 1986Charles W. Mann has been named president of MonArk Boat Company in Monticello, Ark. Prior to his promotion, he had been serving as corporate vice president for sales and marketing. Zach McClendon Jr., chairman of MonArk Industries, the parent company for MonArk Boats and several other Arkan
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on October 1986A new eight-page color brochure, "World Series Contactors And Overload Relays," has been published by the Control Divisions of Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc. The brochure describes Siemen's World Series line of 14 contactors and 7 overload relays designed especially for Original Equipment
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on October 1986The 273,117-dwt VLCC World Champion owned by World-Wide Shipping of Hong Kong recently became the 500th ship to be coated by Jotun's Seaconomy, a low-cost, selfpolishing antifouling said to give a drydocking interval of 30 months. The range of antifoulings available from the worldwide network
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on October 1986—Literature Available Halmalic Ltd., a leading United Kingdom GRP boatbuilding company, recently was chosen by Offshore Marine Engineering Ltd. to mould a range of self-propelled hyperbaric lifeboats (SPHL) for completion in OME's specialist facilities at Walsall, West Midlands, U.K. Called t
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on October 1986Drew Ameroid Marine recently announced that it has completed a series of tests jointly sponsored with MAN B&W Diesel using Amergize® deposit modifier/combustion improver. The extensive tests, conducted on diesel engines both on a turbocharger test bed and on-board a ship, demonstrated the po
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on October 1986—Color Literature Offered— Over the last decade, Gladding- Hearn lobster boats of the Kristen & Michael class have established a well-earned reputation among New England fishermen. First built in the early 1970s, these 65-foot to 76- foot steel-hulled vessels are wellknown for their quality,
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on October 1986Recent increases in the oil trade have prompted more tanker owners to bring their laid-up tonnage into service, while studying possibilities of replacing obsolete vessels with competitive new ones. This trend could lead to increased demand for large- and medium-sized tankers, though a more m
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on October 1986— 12-Page Coatings Brochure Available— Hempel, the worldwide supplier of specialist coatings to the marine, offshore, container and general industries, has launched a major campaign to emphasize its reputation for quality and service. Using the slogan "Hempel's Service: That's the Spirit," t
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- Keel-Laying Ceremony Held At Bethlehem-Sparrows Point Yard For First of Two Navy Survey Vessels page: 9
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on October 1986The first of two Navy oceanographic survey vessels, the USNS Maury (T-AGS-39), was recently dedicated by Rear Adm. John R. Seesholtz, USN, Oceanographer of the Navy, at keel-laying ceremonies at Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point, Md., yard. According to David Watson, Sparrows Point general m
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on October 1986San Diego Shipbuilding & Repair, Inc. of Chula Vista, Calif., recently completed the dinner cruise/excursion vessel William D. Evans for the Bahia Resort Hotel on Mission Bay, San Diego. Built to look like a 19th century riverboat, the 600-passenger vessel, with an overall length of 127 feet
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on October 1986Bath Iron Works Corporation (BIW) of Bath, Maine, one of the country's leading shipbuilders, has been purchased by private investors led by Gibbons, Green, van Amerongen, Ltd., a diversified investment banking firm based in New York. BIW was formerly owned by Congoleum Corporation, headquart
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on October 1986With drydocking costs sometimes topping $10,000 per day, shipowners take a serious interest in delivery schedules for replacement parts, even when their resources are as vast as those of the U.S. Navy. The problem becomes increasingly acute when replacements can be ordered only after the ori
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on October 1986—Literature Offered— Serodino, Inc.'s Hales Bar, Tenn., shipyard recently launched the Cummins-powered excursion vessel River Queen for the Knoxville Riverboat Company. The 550-passenger vessel will be operated on the Tennessee River near Knoxville. The River Queen, including the landing st
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on October 1986The first U.S. installation of Perkins Engines' Rolls-Royce designed marine diesels is in an 80-foot-long and 30-foot-wide luxury catamaran built for Bottom Time Adventures of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Bottom Time conducts diving expeditions throughout the Bahamas as well as island cruises and, t
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on October 1986Marinette Marine Corporation of Marinette, Wise., has been awarded a $51.8-million contract by the Naval Sea Systems Command for construction of one additional mine countermeasures ship, the MCM-7. Marinette previously was awarded Navy contracts totaling $88 million for construction of two o
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on October 1986The recent keel laying for the George Washington (CVN-73), which will be the Navy's sixth Nimitz Class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, marked two firsts in Newport News Shipbuilding's 100-year history. The placement of the Washington's 730-ton keel section in Shipway #12 represents the fi
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on September 1986Sperry has joined with Marine Management Systems, Inc. (MMS) of Stamford, Conn., to offer the marine industry a total ship management capability. Sperry recently introduced a ruggedized version of its Personal Computer to augment its -line of shipboard electronics and communications equipme
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on September 1986Established in 1982 to provide shipping agency and other marine services to vessels calling at the Port of Singapore, Richfield Marine Agencies (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. has grown rapidly, and today is agent for more than 20 shipowners and operators all over the world, and the number of vessels