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on August 1984The U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command recently took delivery of three Fast Sealift Ships (FSS), part of an eight-ship package comprising the Navy's Fast Sealift Ship program designed to increase the mobility and responsiveness of the Armed Forces. These vessels are conversions of the high
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on August 1984L.C. Ackerman, Charles H. Eure Jr., and O. Ray Yates Jr. have been elected to the board of directors at Norshipco, Norfolk, Va. Mr. Ackerman became associated with the Walker Manufacturing Company, a manufacturer and marketer of automotive exhaust systems and filters, in 1952. In a span of
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on August 1984The board of directors of The American Waterways Operators, Inc. has elected William A. Creelman to serve as its chairman of the board. Mr. Creelman, who is president of National Marine Service Incorporated of St. Louis, Mo., will be completing the unexpired term of Archie L. Wilson, which
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on August 1984— Literature Available To meet today's business requirements, vessel owners are discovering a need for totally inte- grated shipboard communications. Systems that fulfill the needs of both internal and external voice, data and telex traffic. Nav-Com has developed COMNET, a system that ties
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on August 1984Forty-five barges are being constructed by Nashville Bridge Company (NABRICO), Nashville, Tenn., for the New York City Department of Sanitation. Seven of the barges—which are being fabricated from heavy thickness plate steel produced by Republic Steel Corporation at their Gadsden, Ala. plant—
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on July 15, 1984Raytheon Marine Company is offering free literature describing its newly introduced 150-watt microprocessor- controlled SSB radiotelephone for commercial vessels of all types. Raytheon's RAY-1285 SSB Marine Radiotelephone is preprogrammed for all of the 192 ITU channels, and provides memory
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on July 15, 1984Users of Magnavox MX 1100 Series Satellite Navigators and Satellite/ Omega Navigators may soon retrofit their receivers to accept and process signals from Navstar GPS satellites providing position, velocity, heading and time displays. Upgraded Transit-to-GPS receivers will initially be singl
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on July 15, 1984Comsat World Systems Division announced recently that Roaring Creek Earth Station in central Pennsylvania was officially dedicated on June 1, 1984. Roaring Creek Earth Station is the newest and largest international communications satellite earth station in the Intelsat global communications
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on July 15, 1984Nineteen U.S.-flag merchant ships have been procured for the Ready Reserve Force of the National Defense Reserve Fleet administered by the Maritime Administration. MarAd executed the $30-million contract with Delta Lines and Lykes Bros, shipping companies at the request of the Chief of Nava
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on July 1984Desco Marine announced today the addition of three new multipurpose fiberglass hulls to their existing lines of commercial fishing boats. According to Desco vice president Emerson Shank, Desco purchased the molds from Robert McCoy of Jacksonville and will offer the boats rigged for either com
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on July 1984Naming ceremonies were held recently at National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) for the Sgt. Matej Kocak, a Maritime Prepositioning Ship converted for the Department of the Navy, and the USNS Algol (TAKR- 287), a Fast Sealift Ship converted for the United States Navy. The Sgt. Mate
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on July 1984Standard Oil Company of California (Socal) has announced that Douglas C. Wolcott has been appointed president of Chevron Shipping Company, the corporation's marine transportation subsidiary. Mr. Wolcott, currently a vice president and general manager of Chevron Shipping's operations departme
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on July 1984Marathon LeTourneau Offshore Company recently announced a major internal reorganization designed to position the company's marketing, contract administration, and customer service capabilities in line with current market conditions and future demands. Details of the reorganization were anno
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on July 1984Richard M. Scudder, president of Hyannis Harbor Tours, Inc., has announced that Coastwise Cruise Line, a new service of his corporation, is building a new mini-cruise liner, 150-passenger the Pilgrim Belle, at Bender Shipbuilding and Repair Company, Inc. in Mobile Ala. Bender specializes in
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on May 15, 1984Cityvarvet AB, previously Gotaverken Cityvarvet AB, recently introduced a new United Statesbased service for their subsidiary, Ciserve AB, at a reception in the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. Ciserve is the travel arm of Sweden's Gothenberg-based shipyard that specializes in providing hi
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on May 15, 1984The Glomar Baltic I, first Marathon Le- Tourneau Super 300 Class jackup drilling rig, recently began its first drilling assignment in the Gulf of Mexico. The rig, which is being operated by Global Marine Company, wras built at Marathon's Gulf Marine Division in Brownsville, Texas. A new design
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on May 15, 1984A major commitment to hydraulic deck cranes is among the interesting features of the current program to reinforce the Rapid Deployment Force (RDF) of the U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command. All 21 of the RO/RO-LO/LO vessels in the program will be fitted with hydraulic cranes, a total of 9
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on May 15, 1984— Literature Available The S/S President, one of two old-fashioned riverboats recently brought to Port Allen Marine Service, Inc. (PAMS) for repairs, makes regular sightseeing runs along the Mississippi River. The last sidewheel packet boat to be built in this country, the 60-year-old Pres
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on May 15, 1984The San Diego Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers gathered recently at the Harbor House to hear a paper by D.W. Czimmek and L.W. Sandor titled, "Economic and Technical Feasibility of Copper-Nickel Sheathing of Ship Hulls." Mr. Czimmek is a research project engin
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on May 15, 1984Far East Levingston Shipbuilding Ltd. (FELS) held a double naming ceremony recently for the jackup rig Ekhabi and the crane vessel Ispolin being built for V/O Sudoimport of the U.S.S.R. Mrs. F.I. Potapenko, wife of the U.S.S.R. Ambassador to Singapore, named the Ispolin, and Mrs. Loh Wing S