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on December 15, 1984—Literature Available Regency Electronics, Inc., Indianapolis, Ind., has announced a new addition to its Polaris line of marine electronics, the CR5000 electronic chart recorder. The CR5000 employs a specially designed transducer (included) that can be mounted either transom or through-the-
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on December 15, 1984Ralph B. Murray has been appointed executive director of the Saint John Port Development Commission in New Brunswick, Canada, succeeding Murray McCavour, who has retired. The appointment was announced by Commission chairman Hugh McLellan. Mr. Murray has spent 34 years in the marine industry
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on December 15, 1984Joseph J. Cuneo, president of Energy Transportation Corporation (ETC) of New York City, has announced the appointment of Nicola F. Pergola as manager-marine personnel. His responsibilities will include the manning of licensed and unlicensed crews for the company's fleet, and negotiation of l
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on December 15, 1984The RO/RO-containership Merzario Britannia (shown above) was launched recently at the Genova- Sestri Shipyard of Fincantieri-Cantieri Navali'ltaliani S.p.A. The 1,300 TEU, single-screw vessel is the second of two sister ships ordered by Merzario S.p.A.-Milan. The ship has an overall length o
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on December 15, 1984Sir William Duncan, chairman and chief executive of Rolls-Royce Limited, has announced changes in the top management of the company. Ralph Robins, formerly director- civil engines, has been appointed managing director-business operations. He will be responsible for the company's marine and i
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on December 15, 1984The M/V Governor James Baxter Hunt Jr. was delivered recently to the North Carolina Department of Transportation. The 129-foot 6-inch ferry was built by Offshore Shipbuilding, Inc. of Palatka, Fla. The vessel was designed for river and sound service by the North Carolina Ferry Division. Deta
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on December 15, 1984John F. Borum, vice president of the American Bureau of Shipping, has received the Outstanding Professional Achievement Award from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, N.Y. He is a 1944 graduate of the Academy. This prestigious award is presented to graduates who have distinguish
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on December 15, 1984Nearly 200 persons have successfully completed training on an offshore rig ballast control simulator, similar in function to those used to train airplane pilots. Details of the program were reported by Gregory D. Szczurek, vice president, Houston Marine Consultants, Inc., New Orleans, at th
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on December 15, 1984The complete line of Cutless® brand rubber bearings is the subject of a new two-color, four-page brochure from BFGoodrich of Akron, Ohio. Featuring an exclusive water wedge design and broad application flexibility, Cutless rubber bearings are a product of years of research and development by
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on December 15, 1984Thomas C. Magliocca, marine manager of Atlantic Cement Company of Ravenna, N.Y., has been elected to a one-year term as general chairman of the Marine Section of the National Safety Council. A veteran of more than 30 years in the maritime industry, he succeeds Richard L. Fox as head of the S
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on December 15, 1984Preparing for a Coast Guard license is now quicker, easier and less expensive because of a newly introduced computer aided teaching system according to T. Brantley Houston Jr., president of Houston Marine Training Services Mr. Houston said the new COMPU- PREP system combines the best of tra
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on December 15, 1984—Literature Available After two years of technological and marketing research, Hose- McCann Telephone Company of Englewood, N.J., has developed a completely new automatic dial telephone system. The modular, solidstate system has been developed exclusively for the maritime industries. The co
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on December 15, 1984The Canadian Shipbuilding and Ship Repairing Association has announced that plans are complete for the 37th Annual Technical Conference to be held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal on Monday and Tuesday, February 18-19, 1985. The meetings will begin Monday with all-day closed session
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on December 15, 1984Huthnance Corporation, Houston, Texas, the newly formed parent company of Huthnance Drilling Company, announced it has completed the acquisition of all limited partner interests in three of its limited partnerships and the stock of an affiliated company. With this consolidation of rig owners
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on December 15, 1984William Reid, formerly manufacturing director of Brown Brothers and Company Limited, Edinburgh, has been appointed sales and marketing director of Brown Brothers, responsible for marketing offshore and marine equipment worldwide. Brown Brothers and Company Limited is part of the Marine Engin
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on December 15, 1984Webb Institute of Naval Architecture in Glen Cove, N.Y., the oldest four-year naval architecture undergraduate institution in the U.S. developed solely to the education of future naval architects and marine engineers, has announced the election of the following officers of the Institute's go
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on December 1984COMSAT General Corporation recently announced that it has been selected by the Naval Underwater Systems Center (NUSC) to construct three modular full-motion color videoteleconferencing systems. The systems will link the Naval Sea Systems Command headquarters, located in Arlington, Va., with re
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on December 1984Southwest Marine, San Pedro Division, has been awarded a $1.24-million contract by the Military Sealift Command, Pacific, for the drydocking and lay-up of the USNS Comet. The 449-foot-long Comet, a T-AKR with a gross tonnage of 13,793 tons, will be in dry dock for approximately 15 days for wor
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on December 1984Dillingham Maritime recently delivered 124 building modules and support materials on three separate sailings from Seattle to the Port of Valdez, Alaska. The cargo was en route to Alaska's North Slope for the Conoco, Inc., Group Milne Point oil development project. The delivery demonstrated the
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on December 1984A seminar discussing the energy-saving potential of A-C variable speed electric drives for shipboard pumps, fans, hoists and winches was recently held in New York City by Reliance Electric Company. The one-day seminar provided information about A-C variable speed drive and energy efficient mo