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on November 1986Sermatech International Inc. of Limerick, Pa., is offering a new free 12-page color brochure that describes corrosion, erosion, wear, sulfidation, and hot corrosion-resistant coatings and repair/restoration technologies. The advanced technology materials and services are used extensively in
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on November 1986William J. Holcombe has been elected chairman and chief executive officer of Transamerica Delaval Inc., the manufacturing subsidiary of Transamerica Corporation. Announcement of Mr. Holcombe's election was made by Transamerica Corporation chairman and chief executive officer James R. Harvey.
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on November 1986Each of the three new twin-screw towboats being built by Quality Shipyards in Houma, La., for the Ashland Petroleum Company will be powered by two Caterpillar 3606 engines delivering a total of 4,200 hp per vessel. "This is the first installation of Caterpillar's 3606 engines utilized in ne
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on November 1986The first meeting of the 86-87 season by The Society of Marine Port Engineers New York heard a paper entitled "Computerizing Fuel Quality for Diesel Engines," prepared by William L. McCarthy, Gregory J. Shumski, and Matthew F. Winkler, all of Seaworthy Systems, Inc. of Essex, Conn. The pape
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on November 1986At the recent International Ship, Machinery and Marine Technology Trade Fair (SMM) in Hamburg, West Germany, the Paul Lindenau shipyard of Kiel introduced a novel design for a catamaran sail-cruiser. Designed over a two-year period by naval architect J. Issleib of Hamburg, the 122-meter-long
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on November 1986Colonna's Shipyard, Inc. in Norfolk, Va., recently acquired a floating drydock 571 feet long and 118 feet wide to enhance its ship-repairing capabilities. Formerly Dock No. 5 of the Amsterdam Drydock Company in the Netherlands, the big dock was transported across the Atlantic aboard the Migh
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on November 1986The U.S. Naval Training Systems Center has awarded Sperry Corporation a $17.5-million contract to design, develop, and assemble a fullmission simulator for the Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC). Under the terms of the contract, the trainer is scheduled to be ready for operation by August 198
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on November 1986—Literature A v a i l a b l e— According to an announcement by co-owners Joseph Cangelosi and Carl McBratney, their newly formed company, Enterprise Marine and Industrial Repairs, Inc. of Port Newark, N.J., has recently completed its first major ship repair contract involving extensive hull
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on November 1986The U.S. Navy's fifth Aegis guided- missile cruiser built by Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Litton was commissioned USS Bunker Hill (CG-52) in Boston, just a short distance from the Revolutionary War battle site for which the ship is named. Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) was the princip
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on November 1986—Free Literature Available— Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc., Power Engineering Marketing Division, is developing new costeffective methods of ship control to concentrate control on the bridge and reduce the size of the crew required. One development from Siemens is the SINEC HI industrial
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on November 1986—Color Brochure A v a i l a b l e— For some 70 years, The Falk Corporation of Milwaukee has been building a reputation for producing durable, reliable, and energy-efficient marine drives. Every day, thousands of such drives provide dependable service in tugs, towboats, offshore service vesse
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on November 1986—Literature Available— Arneson Marine, Inc., Corte Madera, Calif., are the manufacturers of a state-of-the-art marine propulsion system, Arneson Surface Drives, which utilizes surface piercing propellers to provide propulsion for all craft from 16 to 150 feet. Increasingly popular with build
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on November 1986Bird-Johnson Company of Walpole, Mass., a leading manufacturer of commercial and naval controllable- pitch propeller systems, has purchased the assets of The 76 Corporation, comprised of the HDF and Olympic Propeller Companies of Seattle. The firm will reopen on the site of the former HDF Pr
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on November 1986Wartsila's Turku Shipyard in Finland recently delivered the 12,000-dwt oil recovery vessel/ suction dredge Vaydaghubsky to V/O Sudoimport of Moscow. The new vessel is said to be the largest of her kind in the world. In addition to her oil recovery role, she can be operated as a suction dredge
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on November 1986—Literature Available Hempel's Marine Paints, the worldwide supplier of coating systems to the marine industry, has published a free six-page brochure on Combic, a new product recently added to its range of antifouling products. Combic is an intermediate solution positioned between traditional
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on October 1986—Literature Package Offered— The Spinner II line of in-line flow powered oil cleaning centrifuges, a product of T.F. Hudgins & Associates Inc. of Houston, Texas, is now available from Warehouse Supplier of Lawrenceville, N.J. In addition, a free complete literature package with detailed broc
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on October 1986Tideland Signal Corporation of Houston, Texas, has introduced the new SAB-12 Sentinel Articulated Buoy. According to the manufacturer, the buoy has outstanding station- keeping capabilities and may be deployed where water depth makes placement of a fixed structure impractical. The SAB-12 co
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on October 1986Charles W. Mann has been named president of MonArk Boat Company in Monticello, Ark. Prior to his promotion, he had been serving as corporate vice president for sales and marketing. Zach McClendon Jr., chairman of MonArk Industries, the parent company for MonArk Boats and several other Arkan
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on October 1986A new eight-page color brochure, "World Series Contactors And Overload Relays," has been published by the Control Divisions of Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc. The brochure describes Siemen's World Series line of 14 contactors and 7 overload relays designed especially for Original Equipment
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on October 1986The 273,117-dwt VLCC World Champion owned by World-Wide Shipping of Hong Kong recently became the 500th ship to be coated by Jotun's Seaconomy, a low-cost, selfpolishing antifouling said to give a drydocking interval of 30 months. The range of antifoulings available from the worldwide network