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on January 1978Peterson Builders, Inc. of Sturgeon Bay, Wis., has been awarded a contract with the City of Detroit to construct and deliver a 77-foot high-speed aluminum fireboat. The hull of the vessel, specially designed for operation in the ice-filled waters of the Detroit River and the surrounding Seaw
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on January 1978A unique shallow-draft, selfcontained and self-elevating cantilevered drilling platform was launched November 22 from Marathon's Brownsville, Texas, shipyard. The new Marathon 150-44-C class platform is being constructed for Chiles Offshore Limited, Houston. It was officially christened Dec
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on January 1978The Long Beach-Greater Los Angeles Section of the American Society of Naval Engineers, Inc. held its November meeting at the Ports O'Call Restaurant, overlooking the Los Angeles Harbor in San Pedro. Following dinner, Philip Finkelstein, chairman of the Section, started the business and technic
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on January 1978Atlantic Dry Dock Corporation, Ft. George Island, Fla., marine repair facility, recently completed a highly specialized conversion of the research vessel Athena. The Athena, a high-speed R & D ship operated by the David W. Taylor Ship Research & Development Center, was specially equipped for a
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on January 1978Approximately 80 members and guests of the Pacific Northwest Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers attended a regular meeting at Pier 91 Officer's Club, Seattle, Wash. After the dinner, a technical paper entitled "Oceanographic Deck Machinery" was presented by John M
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on January 1978The Assistant Secretary has approved in principle an amended application by F&S Offshore, Inc., 3501 N. Causeway, Suite 600, Metairie, La., for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of two oceangoing deck cargo barges. Previously, F&S sought and received Title XI approval
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on January 1978The second meeting of the 1977-78 season of the Canadian Maritime Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers was held at the Wandlyn Motel in Saint John, New Brunswick, on November 15,1977. The guest speaker for the evening, E.P. Crowdy, presented his paper, "Waste Heat
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- The Parcel Tanker Trades page: 38
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on January 1978The term parcel tanker has no precise meaning, but it is frequently applied to highly specialized ships designed to carry highly specialized liquid cargoes (which often have severe hazards as regards toxicity, corrosiveness, inflammability, or a combination of these, or which must be kept free
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on January 1978Six maritime industry leaders, including a top official of the International Longshoremen's Association (AFL-CIO), were honored by the National Safety Council for actions in behalf of worker safety. Five of the group were cited for outstanding presentations to the NSC's Marine Section meeti
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- Second Generation LNG Carriers Subject Of Paper Presented At ASNE Pascagoula Section Meeting page: 49
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on December 1977The Pascagoula Section of the American Society of Naval Engineers met recently at the TIKI Restaurant in Gautier, Miss. A cocktail hour preceded a business meeting, which was chaired by A.C. LiCausi, Section chairman. During the technical session which followed, Alan Nierenberg of the Advance
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- Great Lakes/Great Rivers Section Hears Three Technical Papers During Fall Meeting In Ann Arbor page: 52
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on December 1977The Great Lakes and Great Rivers Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers convened its fall meeting at the Ann Arbor Inn in Ann Arbor, Mich. A record turnout for the Section of 266 participants made the occasion a very lively one. Many of the registrants were students in
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on December 1977IMODCO, pioneer offshore marine terminal systems company, a division of Amtel, Inc., has received a contract of several million dollars from Petrobras, national oil company of Brazil, for the engineering and design of a Single Point Mooring (SPM) terminal. It is for speedy installation in t
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on December 1977Richard F. O'Boyle, vice president- sales of the Western Hemisphere of Magnus Maritec International, Inc., 150 Roosevelt Place, Palisades Park, N.J. 07850, has announced that rapid expansion of sales activities has resulted in three promotions. Arthur W. Sievert has been promoted to sales s
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on December 1977Burmeister & Wain American Corporation, One State Street Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10004, has announced that Belcher Oil Company, headquartered in Miami, Fla., a wholly owned subsidiary of Coastal States Gas Corporation, of Houston, Texas, signed an agreement with Burmeister & Wain of Copenhage
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on December 1977M. Roger Eshelman has been appointed director of engineering for Tenneco's Newport News Industrial Corporation (NNI). Mr. Eshelman will direct corporation engineering, design and quality assurance for NNI. A native of Indiana, Pa., Mr. Eshelman is a 1961 graduate of the University of Pittsb
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on December 1977On October 12 and 13, the American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE), in cooperation with the Naval Sea Systems Command and the Chief of Naval Research, held its first technical symposium dedicated to Combat Systems Design, Acquisition, and Installation. The symposium was held at the Naval
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on December 1977Seatrain Shipbuilding Corporation, Brooklyn, N.Y., a wholly owned subsidiary of Seatrain Lines, Inc., has announced the appointment of Edward P. Hellenbrecht as chief marine engineer. In making the announcement, John Serrie, president of the company, said: "Mr. Hellenbrecht will be responsi
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- Frankel Elected President Of IMODCO page: 30
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on December 1977Bernard Frankel has been elected president of IMODCO, 10960 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, Calif. 90024, rapidly expanding offshore marine terminal systems division of Amtel, Inc., it was announced by Amtel chairman / president Jerome Ottmar, who had previously also held the top IMODCO po
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on December 1977Det norske Veritas has recently issued the publication "Guidelines and Requirements for Towing Declarations." The increasing number of towing operations now taking place necessitates such guidelines, which are the first of their kind. The publication lays down the requirements for the towed
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on December 1977The XlVth Conference of ICHCA (International Cargo Handling Co-ordination Association) will take place in Helsinki, Finland, from May 26 to June 1, 1979, under the theme "From Raw Material to Finished Product." R.P. Holubowicz, the chairman of the council and executive board of the associat