Medium 1988 Articles
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- Halter Marine Christens Fourth Of Six Ocean Surveillance Ships In $85-Million Navy Contract page: 60
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on December 1988The U.S. Navy ship Capable was recently christened and launched at Halter Marine, Inc., Moss Point, Miss. She is the fourth of six identical ocean surveillance ships under construction at Halter for the Navy, with a total contract value of approximately $85 million. The ship was christened by
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on December 1988International Paint (USA) recently launched its new TBT-free antifouling BRA 500 series, a coating that has been developed specifically to meet the requirements of the U.S. market. This was quickly followed by the introduction of International TBT-free copolymer antifouling BQA200 series throu
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on December 1988Sperry Marine Inc., one of the world's leading manufacturers and distributors of marine electronics, has agreed to distribute the "Northstar 800" Series of Computerized Loran-C Navigators manufactured by Digital Marine Electronics Corp. of Acton, Mass. The announcement was made recently by J
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on December 1988The cruise/dining vessel Star of Louisville, built by Marine Builders Inc. of Utica, Ind., was recently put into service on the Ohio River and is now offering lunch, dinner and moonlight cruises along Louisville's shore. Owned by Star of Louisville, Inc., and operated by Starline Corporation,
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- Halter Marine Delivers First Of Six U.S. Navy Ocean Surveillance Ships In $85-Million Contract page: 38
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on December 1988Halter Marine Inc. recently delivered the U.S. Naval Ship Adventurous, the first of six identical TAGOS ocean surveillance ships under construction at Halter for the Navy with a total contract value of approximately $85 million. The Adventurous is the 11th of 18 planned monohull T-AGOS-class
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on December 1988Precision composite parts manufactured by the Sims Pumps Valve Co., Hoboken, N.J., have been successfully employed on seagoing vessels for nearly 30 years. In 1955, Sims Pump Valve introduced a casing ring made of a composite material called Simsite. The highly innovative use of this composi
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- MAN B&W Holeby's CODAG GenSet Is Said To Save Up To 50 Percent In Electricity Production Costs page: 11
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on December 1988MAN B&W Holeby reports savings of 50 percent or more in shipboard electricity production costs are possible from the CODAG (combined diesel and gas) GenSet system developed by company. The concept represents one of the most significant advances ever made in improving the economy and operatio
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on December 1988Crown Point, La., Yard Will Join Marine Group Trinity Industries, Inc., Dallas, Texas, has acquired the assets of Aluminum Boats, Inc., a Crown Point, La., shipyard specializing in the construction, conversion, and repair of commercial aluminum boats. The terms of the sale were not disclos
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on December 1988McDermott Shipyard officially marked the beginning of construction of torpedo test craft for the U.S. Navy with a keel-laying ceremony for" the YTT 9, the first of three such craft being built by McDermott at their Morgan City, La., yard. The craft will be operated by the Naval Undersea Warf
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- 'Space-Age' Simulator Program At MarineSafety Prepares Officers To Handle Super Containerships page: 106
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on November 1988The first phase of a "space-age" program to prepare officers to handle a brand new class of super ships was recently completed in Newport, R.I. In a program not unlike NASA's recent Space Shuttle crew training, MarineSafety International (MSI), a professional training organization, conducted i
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on November 1988Having the right safety equipment aboard is the most effective way of reducing the life-threatening aspects of abandoning ship at sea. Add a thorough knowledge of survival techniques and the possibilities of living to tell about such an adventure increase dramatically. A new, highly authorit
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on November 1988—Literature Available— The Autodata Division of Acurex Corporation recently introduced its latest software system—AutoNet. Designed to work with PCs and Acurex's AutoFamily line of products, AutoNet provides a cost-effective means of gathering, organizing and displaying data from a variety
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on November 1988Because changing conditions at sea may require higher radar transmitter power, Furuno U.S.A., Inc. of San Francisco, Calif., has introduced the 25-kw version of its popular FR-1500D series radar, the FR- 1525D. This radar offers 8-level quantized data on a bright, non-fading 15-inch diagona
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on November 1988—Literature Available Krupp MaK Maschinenbau GmbH of Kiel, West Germany, recently signed a 40-million Deutsche mark (about $21.6 million) contract with the Canadian shipyard Halifax Dartmouth Industries Limited for the complete retrofit of the propulsion system of Canada's largest icebreaker
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on November 1988In one of the largest union-led buyouts in recent years, over 400 union and non-union shipyard workers became the owners of Seattle- based tug and barge builder WFI Industries, helping the company to emerge from bankruptcy. The firm will now be known as Unimar International. Donald Liddle, f
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on November 1988The Port of Iberia in Louisiana recently completed the purchase of 70 acres of prospective new industrial plant sites from Sterling Sugars, Inc. of Franklin, La. Transfer of the acreage, which lies immediately east of the present port property, was completed by Rex Champagne, president of th
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on November 1988—Literature Available In recent weeks the largest engine in the MAN B&W's four-stroke engine program, the L 58/64, has achieved remarkable sales success, even in Japan. The shipping company Nippon Yusen Kaisha has placed an order with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) shipyard in Nagasaki
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on November 1988In June 1988, the U.S. Senate passed the "Organotin Antifouling Paint Control Act of 1988" that controls the application of TBT antifoulings in the USA, as follows: (1) Bans the application of TBT antifoulings on vessels less that 25 meters (about 82 feet) in length. Aluminum-hulled vessels
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on November 1988New simplified and accurate chemical test procedures are now available from Nalfleet, Bull and Roberts, Springfield, N.J., with the Orbeco-Hellige photometric analyzer. This new portable unit covers 90 different tests (many using ASTM and EPA methods), for quick and accurate testing even by
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on November 1988—Literature Available. Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Co., Inc., Mobile, Ala., recently delivered two fishing trawlers to two affiliates of Arctic Alaska Fisheries Corporation, the largest fishing and at-sea processing company in the U.S., and received two contracts from the Seattle, Washing