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on April 1983The formation of an energy resources group, bringing together its specialist precise positioning and offshore companies within Racal Electronics Pic, Berkshire, U.K., was announced recently. The group will consolidate Racal's worldwide activities in this field and provide the coordinated ef
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on April 1983Lockheed is expanding its Houston office to provide additional services to the U.S. offshore industry. Services include field engineering support, design engineering support, assembly and repair of oil-spill cleanup equipment, and offshore corrosion protection equipment, the company announc
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on April 1983A company specializing in computer- assisted marine design and research and development opened recently at B.C.I.T., Discovery Park, Burnaby, British Columbia. Seatronics Technologies Ltd. has emerged from a long-established company, Seaspan Development Co. Ltd. For many years Seaspan Devel
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on April 1983Orders for the cargo access equipment necessary to convert five existing 29,000-dwt R 0 / L0 vessels for use as prepositioning ships (T-AKX) by the U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command, have been awarded to MacGregor Comarain Inc., the U.S. member of the International MacGregor Organization
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on April 1983The Maritime Administration (MarAd) and the U.S. Coast Guard have approved a merger of global ship reporting systems which is expected to lead to quicker response to distress calls from ships at sea. Adm. James S. Gracey, Commandant of the Coast Guard, and Adm. Harold E. Shear, USN (ret.),
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on April 1983A very informative paper entitled "Current Design and Applications of Marine Evaporators" was presented at a recent meeting of the New York Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers by its author, Charles D. Rose, vice president of Maxim Products, Riley-Be
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on April 1983Mr. Henri Kummerman, founder and president of the International MacGregor Organization, has been awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law by the Senate of the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Announcing the honor at a dinner in Switzerland to mark Mr. Kummerman's 75th birthday o
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on April 1983Robert W. Greene, president of Jeffboat, Incorporated, of Jeffersonville, Ind., was elected the new chairman of the American Waterways Shipyard Conference (AWSC) at the conference's recent quarterly meeting in New Orleans, La. Mr. Greene succeeds George J. Fegert, president of Gretna Machin
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on April 1983The Department of Defense recently released its second edition of Soviet Military Power. The 107-page booklet describes the Soviet Armed Forces and outlines their continuing growth since the first edition of the report in September 1981. Like its predecessor, the new Soviet Military Power w
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on April 1983The Pacific Northwest Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers held its student meeting recently in Seattle, Wash. Two papers and a slide show were presented. David L. Gray of the University of Washington presented a paper, "Estimating the Time of Arrival of Assistanc
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on April 1983Two recent promotions have been announced by Joseph D. Deal Jr., president of Tracor Marine, Inc. of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Edward Clausner, who has held the position of director of Ocean Technology Division at the Port Everglades, Fla., facility since 1978, has been named vice president of t
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on March 15, 1983Halter Marine, Inc. of New Orleans, La., recently delivered the Moku Pahu, a 113-foot 6-inch Catug, to the California and Hawaiian Sugar Co. of San Francisco, Calif. A Catug is the catamaran style propulsion unit in an integrated tug/barge system. When mated to its barge, the HSTC-1 built b
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on March 15, 1983The Maritime Administration has released a technical report which further explores the feasibility of a novel concept for ship propulsion. The report, "Resistance Reduction in Merchant Ships by the New Propulsion System," was prepared for MarAd by the University of Rhode Island. The New Pro
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on March 15, 1983A "Call for Papers" was issued recently by SPC/IREAPS for delivery at the 10th annual technical symposium to be held August 23-25, 1983, at The Western Hotel-Copley Place, Boston, Mass. A topic form supplied by the organization should be submitted by April 15, and a 100-word abstract of the
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on March 15, 1983The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) in cooperation with the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), and the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), is going to make a major effort to help develop more U.S. Shipbuilding Standards. The Technical and Research (
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- n t e r o c e a n S t e a m s h i p Buys Lykes S t e a m s h i p For $ 1 5 0 - M i l l i o n page: 39
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on March 15, 1983W.J. Amoss Jr., president and chief executive officer of Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., New Orleans, La., announced recently that the purchase of Lykes Steamship by Interocean Steamship Corp. from The LTV Corporation has been completed. The sale price was $150 million including $85 millio
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on March 15, 1983LEEVAC Shipyards, a division of Morgan City-based LEEVAC Corporation, has announced it has developed a World Class Tug/Supply Vessel in conjunction with a Norwegian design team. The 70-year-old Jennings, La., shipyard has taken a giant leap ahead by answering the need for a vessel designed
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on March 15, 1983Houston Systems Manufacturing Company, Houston, Texas, has completed the fabrication and rig-up of a workover/drilling platform rig for the Hercules Offshore Drilling Company, two trailerized desert rigs for USS Oilwell Supply and one mobile workover rig for Cooper Manufacturing Company. Each
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on March 15, 1983Bell Aerospace Textron, division of Textron, Inc., has started production of the first hull assembly for the new U.S. Navy amphibious landing craft. The event was marked by a recent ceremony in New Orleans, La. The Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC) is being built at the Bell Halter Inc. shi
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on March 15, 1983Edward J. Campbell, chairman, executive committee of the Shipbuilders Council of America, the national industry association of shipbuilders, ship repairers and ship component manufacturers, has announced selection of M. Lee Rice to succeed Edwin M. Hood as president of the council. Mr. Rice