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on September 1977The hopper dredge Manhattan Island, first split hull, self-propelled hopper vessel built in the U.S., completed its sea trials recently, and was awarded certification by the American Bureau of Shipping and the U.S. Coast Guard. Initial trials were held in Lake Pontchartrain, La. Because of
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on September 1977For a considerable length of time, Derek Paget-Clarke has been acting as general manager of ITT Decca Marine, pending the appointment of a new president for the company. Mr. Paget-Clarke carried out extensive reorganization of the company, was responsible for the recent move to Palm Coast,
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on September 1977Total amount of vessel tonnage in American Bureau of Shipping classification passed 100-million gross tons in July for the first time in the ship classification society's 115-year history. As of July 31, there were 14,993 vessels of 100,111,236 gross tons, or 178,192,423 deadweight tons, in
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on September 1977A new heavyweight anchoring windlass offering major advances in braking capability and load control has been developed by National Supply Company for semisubmersible d r i l l i n g r i g s and drillships. The company says the D-520-E has been engineered to assure stability and safety under
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on September 1977Halter Marine Services, Inc., New Orleans, La., has delivered a new 166-foot offshore supply vessel, Fay Hebert, to its owner, the George Engine Co. of Harvey, La. The ship's overall dimensions are 166 feet in length, with a 38-foot breadth, 13-foot depth, and a normal operating draft of 11 f
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on September 1977Major conversion work on a 13,000-dwt general cargo vessel carried out a t the Gotaverken shipyard in Goteborg, West Sweden, has resulted in the ship's transformation into a sheep carrier able to carry some 32,000 live sheep. The converted vessel, the Dorrit Clausen, has recently been redel
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on September 1977Two New York City office appointments in the water transportation subsidiary companies of Bethlehem Steel Corporation were announced by Steven M. Moodie, vice p r e s i d e n t , water transportation services. George W. Collins was named assistant vice president of Interocean Shipping Compa
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on September 1977Stolt-Nielsen, BP Tanker Company, and bankers, together with their lawyers and financial advisers, met in Paris on August 2-4, for the signing of the various documents enabling BP to make its i n v e s t m e n t in the Greenwich, Conn.-based specialist chemical shipping and tanker organizati
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on September 1977The Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce, Maritime A d m i n i s t r a t i o n , has approved in principle the applications of SHIPCO 2297 Inc. and SHIPCO 2298 Inc. for Title XI guarantees to aid in the construction of one 165,000-dwt tanker each. The two corporations are wholly
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on September 1977Significant events occurred with keel-laying for the HMAS Adelaide at Todd Shipyards Corporation, Seattle Division, on July 29. This will be the first of two guided missile frigates (FFG-7 Class) which are being built especially for the Royal Australian Navy. On hand for the ceremony were g
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on September 1977Seventeen representatives from ASRY's 14 ship repair agencies are shown above meeting for the first time in Bahrain. It was a truly international meeting with the 14 different agency nationalities being entertained by Arab Shipbuilding & Repair Yard management, which is Arab, Portuguese, an
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on September 1977The first of two 188,500-deadweight- ton San Diego-Class tankers for long-term use by Shell Oil Company was floated out of the graving dock of National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO), San Diego, Calif., on July 21, 1977. The two new ships, the largest ever built on the West Coast,
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on September 1977MacMillan Bloedel, Vancouver, British Columbia, has ordered the world's second self-propelled log carrier to be built in Victoria by Yarrows Ltd., at a cost of almost $14 million. The keel will be laid October 1 in Victoria, British Columbia by Yarrows, a member of the Burrard- Yarrows Grou
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on September 1977Lockheed and its team of subcontractors have won a contract to evaluate six platform candidates that would carry massive power equipment to generate electricity from ocean water temperature differences. The research program is called Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC). Work on the 11-mo
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on August 15, 1977The printed proceedings of the first Port of New York Navigational Aids and Communications Conference are now available, it has been announced by the Maritime Association of the Port of New York, the organization that sponsored the three-day event held in New York City recently. The printed
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on August 15, 1977On June 30, at the Banker's Club in Cincinnati, Ohio, the captain and 12 crew members of The Ohio River Company towboat M/V Queen City were awarded the nation's highest safety award for their heroism in rescuing four capsized fishermen from the swirling currents of the Ohio River. The award
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on August 15, 1977Butterworth Systems Inc., a world leader in providing marine and food processing industries with specialized equipment for tank cleaning, underwater hull cleaning and oil/water separation, has relocated its corporate and sales offices to a modern threestory office building at 224 Park Avenu
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on August 15, 1977More than 350 industry visitors, shipowners, shipyard managers, port captains and other top marine people came to take a look at the equipment on display at Electro- Nav's Fifth Annual Navigation and Communications Exhibit held recently at the Whitehall Club in New York City. Mario Yespa of H
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on August 15, 1977The first two-day Diving and Insurance Symposium to be held in New York City, sponsored by three internationally recognized organizations in the marine industry, will be held at the Statler Hilton Hotel, November 14-15, 1977. The purpose of the Symposium is to provide a common forum for th
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on August 15, 1977President Jimmy Carter, several members of the Cabinet and Congress recently took a close look at the search for oil being conducted by the drilling rig Zapata Yorktown offshore Louisiana. The President and his party toured the semisubmersible rig as the unit continued drilling its first ex