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on April 1983The Maryland Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Baltimore, Md., recently was awarded a $2-million contract to perform a major overhaul of the Washington Trader. The 40,000-dwt U.S.-flag tanker is owned by the American Trading Transportation Co. of Baltimore, Md. A major portion of the contract
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on April 1983The Westinghouse Marine Division, Sunnyvale, Calif., has received advanced authorization from Newport News Shipbuilding, a Tennaco Company, of Newport News, Va., to manufacture eight turbine generator sets for the CVN-73, the sixth U.S. nuclear aircraft carrier of the Nimitz class. The con
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on April 1983The U.S. Department of State r e c e n t l y named Shipbuilders Council president Edwin M. Hood to a two-year term as U.S. representative on the board of governors of the new World Maritime University (WMU) established by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the agency of the U.N.
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on April 1983An illustrated product brochure about safety watch systems for diesel-powered vessels describes engine room monitoring- control consoles, bridge consoles, remote controls and alarms built by National Control Systems, Inc., St. Louis, Mo. Six major consoles and the various remotes for each a
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on April 1983Hydro Products, Inc., of San Diego, Calif., has reorganized its marketing department to better reflect the company's growing capabilities in total systems engineering and fabrication, Joel Rizzo, the company's newly appointed director of marketing announced recently. Mr. Rizzo, who is respo
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on April 1983W.J. Amoss Jr., president and chief executive officer of Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., has been elected chairman of the Council of American-Flag Ship Operators (CASO). Mr. Amoss succeeds W. Bruce Seaton of American President Lines, Ltd., as chairman. Mr. Amoss, president of Lykes since
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on April 1983Don Linnenbank recently announced that C.D. Linnenbank Inc., mooring consultants, has opened offices at 500 Donald Ross Dr., Pinehurst, N.C. 28374 telephone (919) 295-2095. Mr. Linnenbank has first-hand knowledge of worldwide activities in the offshore drilling and marine industries with pa
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on April 1983Sanders Associates, Inc. of Nashua, N.H. has received an additional $4.5-million contract from the U.S. Navy for continued production of AN/BRD-7 shipboard direction finding systems. The award, from the U.S. Navy's Electronic Systems Command, brings to more than $9- million the total awarde
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on April 1983Dr. Norman C. Witbeck, president of Columbia Research Corporation (CRC), Arlington, Va., recently announced the election of Rear Adm. Robert J. Eustace, (USN-ret.), as president of System Enhancement Services Company, Inc. (SESCO), a CRC subsidiary. As president, Admiral Eustace directs SES
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on April 1983Steve Ralph has joined National Marine Service Incorporated, of St. Louis, Mo., as a shipyard division salesman, William A. Creelman, president of the company announced recently. Mr. Ralph, a retired U.S. Navy captain, has extensive experience with marine diesel engines including Fairbanks-
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on April 1983The Tano Corporation, New Orleans, La., recently received a $2.5-million contract from Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Co. of Seattle, Wash., for a training simulator to be used in the U.S. Navy's LSD-41 program. The simulator will provide both operation and maintenance training on t
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on April 1983The Maritime Administration has released a report on "Large Diameter Propellers of Reduced Weight." The report describes the design, manufacture, performance, and fuel economy of several types of large, slow-turning, lightweight marine propellers. The concepts studied include cast hollow b
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on April 1983When the mammoth World War II battleship Iowa left drydocking facilities at Avondale Shipyard enroute to its second phase of facelifting at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss, it was towed downriver on the Mississippi by Gulf Fleet Marine's Gulf Ace II, a 5,600 hp class tug, while ano
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on April 1983Comdr. Charles Maclin, USN, Director of Ocean Engineering, and Supervisor of Salvage, U.S. Navy, was the guest speaker at the recent meeting of the Northern New England Section of the American Society of Naval Engineers. Commander Maclin described the Navy's role in the proposed recovery of S
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on April 1983W.T. Hailey, vice president of marketing for Colt Industries, Fairbanks Morse Engine Division in Beloit, Wise., recently announced the appointment of R.L. Mattox to the position of Midwestern regional manager in Kansas City, Kan. Mr. Mattox succeeds D.P. Caldwell who has retired. Mr. Matto
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on April 1983A new 2-inch stainless-steel submersible pump has been introduced by Multiquip Inc., Carson, Calif. The model ST-2005S is constructed of 304 stainless steel, and is ideally suited for the petrochem, agrichem, chemical, and marine applications where hostile liquids traditionally exist. In ty
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on April 1983A plan to build a pipeline from the Kuparuk River Oilfield, west of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to join the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System was announced recently. The joint venture project would require building 36 miles of common carrier pipeline, it was announced by Kuparuk Pipeline Co., an Atlant
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on April 1983The Southeast Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers inducted the newly formed Student Section from the Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Fla., into SNAME at a recent section meeting. This is the second official student section to be established in the South
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on April 1983The Actinia, a semisubmersible offshore oil drilling rig, was recently completed at Hitachi Zosen's Ariake yard and delivered to the Actinia Shipping Corporation of Panama. Actinia is 82.3 meters long (270 feet), 60.96 meters wide (200-feet), and 35.36 meters high (116-feet). The rig is Hitac
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on April 1983TeleSystems, a Comsat company of Fairfax, Va., recently announced the appointment of Nita Dover as manager, maritime marketing. Ms. Dover will play an integral part in TeleSystems' marketing effort for its MCS-9000 shipboard satellite communications terminal. She will coordinate maritime ma