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on October 15, 1983The Maritime Administration has approved in principle a joint application by Coastal Cruise Line, Inc., Republic Cruise Line, Inc. and Liberty Cruise Line, Inc., all of 120 S. Central Avenue, St. Louis, Mo., for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of three passenger cru
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on October 1983To further strengthen National Supply Company's technical support to customers, Robert L. Ayers has been named product manager and sales administrator for the firm's National Drilling Equipment Division. "In addition to division materials management, Mr. Ayers new responsibilities focus ent
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on October 1983The Environmental Systems Division of Electrolux-Wascator AB, Stockholm, Sweden, has been renamed as Electrolux Envirovac. The name "Envirovac" has long been used in the United States, where the subsidiary company Envirovac Inc. has installed the Vacuum Toilet System in innumerable vessels,
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- Terry To Manufacture And Sell AEG-Kanis Steam Turbines In North America —Literature Available page: 24
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on October 1983Terry Steam Turbine Company, of Windsor, Conn., and AEGKANIS, a German manufacturer of steam turbines, gas turbines, and electrical control systems, have signed an agreement granting Terry the rights to sell, manufacture, and service AEG-KANIS reaction steam turbines within the U.S., Mexico
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on October 1983Tracor, Inc., Austin, Texas, has received a multiyear contract from the U.S. Navy Electronic Systems Engineering Activity, St. Inigoes, Md., to provide engineering support services for test and evaluation programs. William C. Moyer, Ph.D., group vice president of Tracor Applied Sciences, sa
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on October 1983National Marine Service Incorporated, St. Louis, Mo., a recognized leader in shipyard and diesel engine repairs, announces the opening of its new East Coast diesel engine parts and service facility at 4580 Village Avenue, Norfolk, Va. (804) 855-9277. National Marine indicates the Norfolk fa
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on October 1983The Maritime Administration has approved in principle an application from Lamberts Point Barge Co. of One Commercial Place, Norfolk, Va., for a Title XI guarantee to aid in the financing of a 35,000- deadweight-ton self-discharging coal barge to be used in export coal top-off operations in D
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on October 1983The Maritime Administration has approved in principle an application from Puget Sound Tug & Barge Co., One Market Plaza, San Francisco, Calif., a wholly owned subsidiary of Crowley Maritime Corp., for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing or refinancing one ice-strengthened oil/deck cargo
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on October 1983The Blue Star Line has announced the placement of an order for four new Reefer ships to be built at the Harland & Wolff Yard in Belfast. The four ships will be of similar layout and will incorporate the latest technical developments in Reefer vessel design. The 463,000- cubic-foot-capacity
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on October 1983Tacoma Boatbuilding Co., Tacoma, Wash., reported today that all outstanding conditions have been met to finalize the award of a $143-million contract for the design and construction of two 252- foot corvettes for Thailand. The contract had previously been signed subject to obtaining a weapon
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on October 1983Two 120-foot by 45-foot by 7-foat deck barges have been constructed by Nashville Bridge Company (NABRICO), Nashville, Tenn., for Piling & Structures, Inc., Jacksonville, Fla. The barges, the first constructed by NABRICO for the Florida company, will be used in general construction work, carry
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on October 1983Blount Marine Corporation of Warren, R.I., announced the delivery of the 150-foot by 35- foot Star of Chicago to Star Line Corporation of East Lansing, Mich. The Star of Chicago is a Bay Queen style dinner boat with a passenger capacity of 600 and seating for 450 in two dining rooms. She is r
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on October 1983Ships fitted with Navidyne's INMARSAT ship terminal can now obtain free emergency medical advisory services by satellite. An agreement has been reached between Navidyne and Medical Advisory Systems, Inc. (MAS), to offer four months of free medical support to all customers purchasing Navidyne's
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on October 1983Personnel at the Coast Guard Yard in Curtis Bay, Md., recently completed a restoration of the Coast Guard Cutter Gentian, a 180-foot oceangoing buoy tender (WLB). The overhaul of the World War II vintage vessel marked the second renovation of a Class A buoy tender under the U.S. Coast Guard's
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on October 1983Atlantic Drilling Company, a member of the Ben Line Group of the United Kingdom, will receive a semisubmersible drilling rig built by Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy Machinery Ltd., Seoul, Korea. The rig was christened Benreoch at Daewoo's Okpo Shipyard. The $74-million rig is a Friede and Go
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on October 1983CDI Marine Company, the Jacksonville, Fla.-based supplier of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Design to private and naval shipyards has announced changes in its executive management structure. The regional management concept under which the company operated has been phased out and
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- Nichols Brothers Launches M/V Tiny page: 36
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on October 1983The Nichols Brothers Boat Builders, Inc., Freeland, Wash., boatyard recently completed the M/V Tiny, a 70-foot long triplescrew shallow draft tug boat. The construction of this vessel was the result of a joint venture between Crowley Maritime Corporation and the Kuskokwim Transportation Com
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on August 1983A $250-million agreement between the Navy's Military Sealift Command (MSC) and Ocean Carriers Inc., of Houston, Texas, to charter five diesel powered T-5 tankers was signed in New York recently. The five new 30,000-dwt clean product, icestrengthened ships will replace 25-year-old T-5 tankers
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on August 1983The American Waterways Shipyard Conference (AWSC) honored its immediate past chairman, George J. Fegert, president of Gretna Machines & Iron Works, Inc., Harvey, La., at a recent meeting in Washington, D.C. Mr. Fegert, an active supporter of AWSC since its inception in 1976, was presented an
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on August 1983National Steel & Shipbuilding Co., of San Diego, Calif., has been awarded a U.S. Navy contract to convert a San Clemente-class tanker into a 1,000-bed hospital ship, according to the shipyard's parent company, Morrison- Knudsen Co. Inc. of Boise, Idaho. The contract, amounting to $186 million,