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on April 1974After two years of operation, the Kings Point Scholars Program, which offers outstanding seniors at the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, N.Y., the opportunity to research a subject of current interest to the maritime industry, is "progressing well," according to a status
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on April 1974Coppus Engineering Corporation, Worcester, Mass., licensee of Fredriksstad Mek Verksted (FmV), announces the plaoement of an order by Mobil Oil for several FmV Inert Gas Systems to foe retrofitted on Mobil ships now in operation. FmV Inert Gas Systems utilize scrubbed flue gas to maintain ta
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on April 1974By the end of this year, Vancouver Shipyards, North Vancouver, British Columbia, will have completed the largest shipbuilding berth in the province. The full size of the building berth when completed will be 600 feet by 120 feet and will give the yard the capability of building ships up to 5
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on April 1974The hull assembly nears completion as the icebreaker-type bow is installed on a new design gas turbine-powered oil tanker under construction at FMC Corporation's Marine and Rail Equipment Division in Portland, Ore. Setting the section as a whole is typical of PMC's modular construction method,
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on April 1974It has recently !been announced that the state-owned Algerian Steamship Navigation Co., C.N.- A.N., has ordered three LNG tankers with Gaz-Transport invar membrane design. Two of them, each with a capacity of 129,400 cubic meters, are to foe ibuilt at C.'N.I.M. shipyards, La Seyne, France, f
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on April 1974The Ocean Scout, the first semisubmersible oil-well drilling rig to be constructed on the East Coast of the United States was towed from Bethlehem Steel's Fort McHenry shipyard on February 21 to a site below the Chesapeake Bay bridges, where final sections of the drilling derrick were erected.
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on March 1974Astilleros Espanoles, S.A. recently held a special stockholders' meeting in the Assembly Room of the Spanish Industry Institute (I.N.I.), Madrid, to authorize the board-of directors to increase the capital stock of the company by 50 percent during the next few years. The board is also authoriz
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on March 1974The Technical Committee of Lloyd's Register of Shipping has approved new Rules for Inwater Surveys and a number of additions and amendments to the Rules for the Construction and Classification of Steel Ships, subject to confirmation by the General Committee. Rules for Inwater Surveys— These
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on March 1974The Marjorie R., 18th in a series of high-seas tuna superseiners built by Campbell'Industries, was recently launched at the company's San Diego, Calif., yard. The new clipper, valued at approximately $3 million, is a sister ship to the recently delivered Sandra C. The owners, J.W. Uhlein &
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on March 1974The Lady Cynthia, latest addition to the fleet of offshore supply vessels operated by Australian Offshore Services, was recently launched at Carrington Slipways Pty. Ltd.'s 40-acre shipyard on Old Punt Road, Tomago 2322, N.S.W., Australia. The new 192-foot tug/supply vessel was sponsored by th
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on March 1974Milton G. Nottingham, spokesman for the 14,000-member Alumni Association of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, N.Y., has expressed his organization's opposition to the proposed dismemberment of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee. A House Select Committee on Committ
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on March 1974Ocean Transport & Trading Limited, London, England, has announced the formation of a new shipbroking company, Ocean McGregor Limited. The company has been formed from the shipbroking departments of the Ocean subsidiaries, McGregor, Gow and Holland Limited, and Cory Mann 'George (Chartering) Li
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on March 1974The Sunshine State, a new twin-screw tug designed by S.L. Petchull, Inc. of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., was recently delivered to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company by the builder, N.E. Insley, Inc. of Crisfie'ld, Md. Built to American Bureau of Shipping standards, the new tug, with dimensions of 46
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on March 1974Colt Industries' Fairbanks Morse -Engine Division of Beloit, Wis., has received an order for four diesel engines that will supply all of the electrical power for a huge offshore drilling rig;—the Ocean Ranger. The engines will be built for Ocean Drilling and Exploration Co. of New Orleans, La.
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on March 1974Peter Burbank, president of A.L. Burbank & Company, Ltd., New York, N.Y., has announced the election of Franklin W.L. Tsao as a director to its hoard and the formation of an affiliated company, Shipcentral, Limited, New York, of which Mr. Tsao is the president. The board of directors of Ship
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on March 1974Amtorg Trading Corporation, which represents Soviet foreign trade organizations in the United States, will open a new office at the World Trade Center, New York, N.Y., this summer, it was announced by Viktor I. Bessmertniy, president and chairman of Amtorg, and Commissioner Andrew C. Axtell
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on March 1974Waterside sites attracted 87 plant facilities in the fourth quarter of 1973, James R. Smith, president of The American Waterways Operators, Inc. has reported. Chemical facilities led the field. The AWQ survey shows that production industries constructed, expanded, or announced plans to cons
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on March 1974Fred Barg, vice president of C.J. Hendry Co., San Francisco, Calif.- based ship chandlery firm since 1865, has announced the appointment of John Iamarino as manager of their San Pedro branch. He replaces Dan Baldwin, who has retired after serving C.J. Hendry for 38 years in the southern Cali
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on March 1974National Steel & Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) of San Diego, Calif., has ordered six two-drum Babcock & Wilcox marine boilers valued at approximately $1.4 million. According to a NASSCO spokesman, the boilers will be installed aboard three 38,000-ton oil/gasoline/ kerosene tankers being buil
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on March 1974Stockholders overwhelmingly approved changing the name of Moore and McCormack Co., Inc. (listed NYSE, Pacific Coast) to Moore McCormack Resources, Inc. at a special meeting held at the company's new headquarters, One Landmark Square, Stamford, Conn. 06901. James R. Barker, chairman and chi