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on February 1974John A. Livingston, chairman of the board of trustees of Webb Institute of Naval Architecture, has announced that Rear Adm. Charles N. Payne, USN (ret.), will succeed Rear Adm. William A. Brockett as president of Webb when the latter retires next July. Admiral Payne graduated from the U.S. Nav
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on February 1974Cordon International Corporation, 12011 San Vicente Boulevard, West Los Angeles, Calif. 90049, has announced that it has received a contract valued at approximately $2 million from Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation, Oakland, Calif., to produce specialized equipment for use aboard three
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on February 1974The Commerce Department/ Maritime Administration is •evaluating proposals, submitted on January 8, 1974, from independent contractors interested in furnishing "necessary qualified personnel, services, materials and facilities," and providing support services for a two-day "shipyard marketing
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on January 15, 1974The election of Capt. Robert E. Hart as president of the Marine Index Bureau, Inc., effective January 1, 1974, has been announced by the bureau's board of directors. Bruno J. Augenti, who founded the bureau in 1937 and has served as its president for the past 35 years, will become chairman o
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on January 15, 1974The establishment of offices in London, England, has been announced in Houston, Texas, by C.L. Ward, vice president and general manager of Stewart & Stevenson Services, Inc. Logan Knapp, formerly manager of generator sales for the company in Houston, will manage the London offices. Mr. Knap
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on January 15, 1974Marine Industries Limited shipyards at Sorel, Quebec, was recently the scene of the christening and delivery of the 15,600-ton cargo vessel Creuse, second of five multipurpose containerships to be built for the Societe Navale Chargeurs Delmas-Vieljeux, one of the largest shipping companies i
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on January 15, 1974The board of directors of South African Marine Corporation (N.Y.) has announced the election of Charles B. Parkhill as president and chief executive officer of the shipping corporation. He succeeds F.A. Demarco who has retired from the presidency. Mr. Parkhill, together with H.J. Thieck and
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on January 15, 1974William H. Barton Jr., president of the Nashville Bridge Company, has announced the election of Kent E. Hoffmeister to vice president of engineering. Nabrico is a division of The American Ship Building Company. Mr. Hoffmeister received his bachelor of science degree from Southeast Missouri
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on January 15, 1974The board of directors of Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., and Lykes Lines Agency, Inc., have elected four new vice presidents, effective January 1, it was announced by Joseph T. Lykes Jr., chairman of the board of each of the companies. Newly elected were: Barton W.B. Jahncke, vice preside
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on January 15, 1974Seatrain Lines, Inc. has announced the sale of its 225,000-dwt supertanker Brooklyn to 'General Electric Credit Corporation. The first vessel 'built by the company's Seatrain Shipbuilding subsidiary at the former Brooklyn Navy Yard, and the largest commercial ship ever ibuilt in the United
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on January 15, 1974A subsidiary of Pacific Lighting Corp., Los Angeles, Calif., contracted on December 28, 1973, with Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Chester, Pa., for the construction of two liquefied natural gas (LNG) ships, it was announced by Paul A. Miller, chairman of the board of Pacific Lighting. Sig
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on January 15, 1974A panel of four members of the offshore drilling industry was present on the evening of December 11, 1973, at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy to discuss and answer questions concerning the career opportunities in this rapidly expanding field. The evening was arranged as a general informati
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on January 15, 1974On December 7, 1973, one hundred and five members and guests of the New England Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and the Boston Section of the American Welding Society heard Dr. Koichi Masubuchi, professor of ocean engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of
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on January 15, 1974Gerald W. Bush, Boston's commerce and manpower director, has announced that a newly formed corporation headed by a former General Dynamics executive is seeking to acquire the facilities of the Boston Naval Shipyard and the South Boston Naval Annex for conversion into a commercial shipbuildin
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on January 15, 1974The Houston,Texas-based ETA Offshore Seminars, Inc. (ETAOS) has scheduled a seminar session for February 4-8, 1974, in Houston. ETAOS has presented six previous training- seminars for the offshore industry on an international scale. The seminars, aimed at updating experienced personnel or tr