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on November 15, 1978Carrington Slipways Pty. Ltd., Old Punt Road, Tomago, New South Wales, Australia 2322, recently launched three vessels in one week. The first was a 500-cubic-meter (about a 17,657-foot) split hopper dumb barge. Mrs. P.C. Kelly broke the bottle to launch the first barge on October 14. The sec
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on November 15, 1978A new low-cost all-channel VHF/FM radiotelephone is now available from Apelco. The 25-watt AF-55 offers 55 transmit, 76 receive and 4 weather channels, to cover the entire VHF worldwide marine band with no need for adding or changing crystals. Push buttons for emergency channel 16, as well
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on November 15, 1978John C. Murdoch, formerly Resident Surveyor in charge of the Portland, Oregon Branch Office of the United States Salvage Association, Inc., has announced commencement of business as an independent marine surveyor. Following graduation from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Mr. Murdoch saile
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on November 15, 1978Marvin DeBerry has joined Gulf-Tampa Drydock Company, Tampa, Fla., as vice president of estimating and contract administration. Gulf-Tampa operates a commercial shipyard in Tampa, engaged in ship repair and drydocking, steel fabrication, industrial machine shop, as well as marine electrical
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on November 15, 1978Mobil Oil Corporation has awarded a contract for a video entertainment system on each of its nine U.S.-flag ships to Marine Video International (MVI), a subsidiary of the Bell and Howell Company. Each ship will receive 120 hours of prerecorded video entertainment per year, which is equival
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on November 15, 1978Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales (YPF), the Argentina stateowned oil company, has awarded IMODCO, a unit of AMCA International Corporation, a contract in excess of $6 million for two offshore marine terminal systems to augment two other IMODCOdesigned and constructed SPMs in operation sinc
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on November 15, 1978The Pilots Association for the Bay & River Delaware have contracted with Gladding- Hearn Shipbuilding Corporation of Somerset, Mass., for the construction of a 50-foot, twin-screw, pilot boat to be designed in conjunction with C. Raymond Hunt, Associates, Inc. of Boston, Mass. The new craft,
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on November 15, 1978As a result of problems in the main propulsion system during the first seven years of operation of the icebreaking car ferry, Ambrose Shea, H.M. Tiedemann & Company, Inc., 295 Greenwich Avenue, Greenwich, Conn. 06830, was engaged by the Canadian Department of Transport and Canadian National R
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on November 15, 1978Clyde Iron, Newark, Del., a unit of AMCA International Corporation, is now offering a second generation revolving crane—the Clyde Hydra-Whirley™—for shipbuilding, port operations, and heavy construction. Gantry or barge-mounted, the Clyde Hydra-Whirley combines the power of hydraulics with th
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on November 15, 1978Halter Marine, Inc., New Orleans, La., has delivered the oceangoing tug, the Mister Randy, to Jackson Marine Corporation, Aransas Pass, Texas. The Mister Randy is part of Jackson Marine's domestic fleet and is currently operating out of Belle Chasse, La., for the Brown & Root Pipeline Division
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on November 15, 1978Trailer Marine Transport Corporation's Second triple-deck barge, the El Conquistador, departed Jacksonville, Fla., October 15, on her maiden voyage to San Juan, Puerto Rico, according to Robert G. Homan, senior vice president of the Caribbean Division of Crowley Maritime Corporation, TMT's par
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on November 15, 1978Michael R. Keough, vice president and general manager of ExecuSearch, the professional recruitment firm, announces the relocation of the company offices to 140 Bay Street, Staten Island, N.Y. 10301. Mr. Keough indicated that the move to the parent company headquarter's building permits expa
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on November 15, 1978Interocean Management Corporation of Philadelphia, Pa., has announced the election of George P. Steele as president. Interocean Management is the tankship operating subsidiary of IOT Corporation. Mr. Steele will be based in their Philadelphia home office. Since early 1976, Mr. Steele has he
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on November 15, 1978John T. Gilbride, chairman and chief executive officer of Todd Shipyards Corporation, will be installed as the 33rd president of the Whitehall Club on November 21, 1978, at the club's Presidential Ball. Mr. Gilbride has been a member of the Whitehall Club since 1958. He joined the board of
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on November 15, 1978Samuel B. Nemirow, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Maritime Affairs, has approved in principle the application by James Griffiths & Sons, Pier 43, Seattle, Wash., for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of one 1,400-horsepower tug and one 30,000-barrel barge
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on November 15, 1978The Maritime Subsidy Board has approved procedures for implementing the series construction clause of the Maritime Appropriations Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1979, which provides for a 5-percent reduction in the construction- differential subsidy (CDS) rate for vessels not constructed
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on November 1978Halter Marine, Inc., New Orleans, La., has delivered three 65-foot all-aluminum crewboats to Billiton Metals, The Hague, Netherlands. Billiton, a subsidiary of the Shell Oil Company, will operate the vessels in Indonesian waters in support of tin mining operations. The new vessels, PB1, PB2 an
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on November 1978Against a background of increasing concern for the seafarer from the disturbing and sometimes harmful effects of noise, the Ship and Marine Technology Requirements Board has given its support to a Shipboard Noise Project proposed by the British Ship Research Association. The project is aimed
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on November 1978Arno Dimmling has rejoined Crowley Maritime Corporation's Caribbean Division in Jacksonville, Fla., as special assistant to the Division senior vice president, Robert G. Homan, according to a recent announcement by Mr. Homan. Mr. Dimmling previously served as director of operations for Euro-A
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on November 1978Coastal Towing, Inc., Houston, has applied for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of nine tank barges and two towboats. The applicant is an affiliate of, and will share premises and office facilities with, Coastal Towing, Inc., Springhill, 7790 Braniff, Houston, Texas.