Short Maritime Reporter 1982Peter Articles
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on November 1981Atlantic Marine, Inc. of Ft. George Island, Fla., is completing the outfitting of two 75-ton, double- ender ferryboats for Island Developers, Miami. The Pelican was delivered in October, while the Eagle has been launched and will be delivered before the end of the year. The 120-foot by 46-f
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on November 1981Duraline, of Islip, N.Y., a division of J.B. Nottingham Co., Inc., has introduced two new units on the market: model V500A portable ventilation blower and model V20KW portable heater attachment. Duraline's V500A blower has two unique features: all-aluminum c o n s t r u c t i o n and a low
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on November 1981A new epoxy polyamide coating with the corrosion resistance of coal tar epoxy, but without its application or toxicity problems, has been introduced recently by Devoe/Prufcoat, Devoe & Raynolds Co., a division of Grow Group, Inc. Known as CHEM-TAR™ High Build Epoxy Coating, it may be appli
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on November 1981Caterpillar Tractor Co., Engine Division, has announced a new 1,200-rpm 3412 marine engine configuration rated 317 kw (425 hp) at 1,200 rpm continuous and 354 kw (475 hp) at 1,200 rpm medium-duty c o m m e r c i a l . This new configuration was designed to operate within the 450-1,200 rpm r
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on November 1981Paul I. Beining, president of CDI Marine Company, Jacksonville, Fla., recently announced major changes in the organizational structure of the company. Donald W. Jett has been promoted to executive vice president responsible for the operation of the firm's nationwide network of marine design
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on November 1981Bayou Black Shipyard of Gibson, La., recently delivered one of several 42-foot allaluminum crewboats — the Frontier I — to Frontier Marine of Morgan City, La. The vessel has a length of 42 feet, a beam of 13 feet, and a depth midship of 6.5 feet. Fuel capacity is supplied by an independent 30
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on November 1981Electro-Nav president Robert E. Negron a n n o u n c e d recently that his company has introduced the EN-RTAG, a new compact, low cost, a u t o m a t i c t w o - t o ne alarm signal generator which meets all pertinent IMCO and FCC requirements for radiotelephone- equipped vessels. FCC regul
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on November 1981A six-page brochure defining the capabilities of its Loadmaster D50—an advanced digital calculator designed to meet modern cargo handling requirements — has been published by the marine division of Kockumation AB, Malmo, Sweden. The brochure contains text, photographs, and line drawings, p
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on November 1981The New York Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers held its inaugural 1981-82 meeting recently at the Buttonwood Restaurant with past chairmen's night. The event brought back some 19 past section chairmen. Eric Lithen, the immediate past chairman, was
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on November 1981Kenneth Brown, manager of operations engineering at General Dynamics Corporation's Electric Boat Division in Groton, Conn., was the guest speaker at a recent meeting of the American Society of Naval Engineers, Northern New England Section. The dinner meeting was held at Pier II in Portsmouth,
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on November 1981It was a close fit for the 550-foot coal carrier Energy Freedom as the tug Gulf Majesty (shown above) squeezed the barge into Lock 4 of the Welland Canal. (See MARITIME REPORTER October 1 issue cover story.) The barge has a beam of 78 feet and the lock is only 80 feet wide. The Energy Freedom
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on November 1981A 123,500-dwt shuttle tanker is to be delivered to Elnar Rasmussen, Norway, by Sweden's Uddevallavarvet shipyard under the terms of a NKr 400-million ($70,000,000) contract. The vessel, intended for the buoy-loading of oil f r o m the Norwegian Statfjord field in the North Sea, is scheduled
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on October 15, 1981Avondale Shipyards, Inc. of New Orleans recently ordered three cargo control systems from Megasystems, Inc. of Boca Raton, Fla., and Cleveland, Ohio, f or installation in three 43,000-dwt product carriers ordered earlier this year by Exxon Company U.S.A. of Houston, Texas. With a total pric
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on October 15, 1981Mrs. Geri M. Joseph, former U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands, has been elected to the board of directors of Twin City Barge, Inc., St. Paul, Minn., it was announced recently by John W. Lambert, chairman of the board. A life-long resident of the Twin Cities, before becoming Ambassador in
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on October 15, 1981Crowley Maritime Corporation (CMC), San Francisco, Calif., recently established a department identified as the energy transportation and development group, according to a recent announcement by Leo L. Collar, executive vice president of CMC operations. Based in San Francisco, the new depart
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on October 15, 1981Phillips Petroleum Company of Bartlesville, Okla., as agents for Philtankers Inc. of Panama, recently ordered six model MS-2500 combustion analysis systems from Megasystems, Inc. of Boca Raton, Fla. and Cleveland, Ohio. These "top of the line" units feature free-standing console, magnetic c
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on October 15, 1981Levingston Shipbuilding Company, Orange, Texas, recently delivered the self-elevating mobile offshore drilling rig Dixilyn-Field 87 to its owners, the Dixilyn-Field Drilling Company of Houston. The Dixilyn-Field 87 is a Levingston Class 111-C jackup, capable of operating in water depths up to
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on October 15, 1981The Patrol Hydrofoil Missileship Aquila (PHM-4), the third of six all-weather combatant hydrofoils being built by Boeing Marine Systems, Seattle, Wash., for the U.S. Navy, shown during her recent launching, will join Pegasus (PHM-1) and Taurus (PHM-3), already commissioned, and three other PH
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on October 15, 1981Tracor, Inc., Austin, Texas, has received a $3-million contract from the U.S. Navy for systems engineering and technical services to the Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, Calif., William C. Moyer, group vice president for Tracor Applied Sciences, announced recently. Work will be in sup
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on October 15, 1981A license for Texas Offshore Port Inc. to construct and operate a deepwater port for oil supertankers in the Gulf of Mexico has been approved by the federal Department of Transportation. The port, to be located 12 miles south of Freeport, Texas, will be able to handle 500,000 barrels of oil