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on November 1991McDermott Marine Construction's Derrick Barge 50 has installed the Production Platform No. 1 deck for Freeport-McMoRan Resource Partners Main Pass Block 299 Sulfur Project in the Gulf of Mexico, completing the western onethird of the 15-platform offshore sulfur mining complex. The complex i
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on November 1991The Westinghouse Marine Division, Sunnyvale, Calif., and New Sulzer Diesel Ltd., the latter a leading designer of diesel engines, have r e a c h e d an agreement for Westinghouse to market and manufacture slow- and medium-speed diesel marine propulsion in the United States. Westinghouse int
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on November 1991The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and a major marine terminal operator in the Port of Hamburg, Germany, have successfully linked their Electronic Data Exchange (EDI) systems to create an international interchange of oceanborne cargo information. The announcement was made by Lilli
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on November 1991Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) of Tokyo, Japan, has received a silver medal, the Stanly Gray Award and the BMEC Donald Maxwell Award in Marine Technology from the United Kingdom's Institute of Marine Engineers (I Mar E) for a paper entitled "The Development of a Contra-Rotating Propeller
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on November 1991Coast Guard aviation recently entered a new era on the West Coast with the acceptance in San Francisco of the Sikorsky HH-60J Jayhawk search-and-rescue (SAR) helicopter. From their base, the aircraft will be able to perform missions several hundred miles off the Pacific Coast between Point
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on November 1991The New York Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers recently opened its 1991/92 season at the Downtown Athletic Club in lower Manhattan. The new section chairman, Richard Gilmore, began his tenure by thanking outgoing chairman Bruce Rosenblatt for his w
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on November 1991Goudy and Stevens shipyard, East Boothbay, Maine, recently launched the oil-spill recovery ship Shearwa- The 123-foot-longby31-foot-beam vessel is being constructed to JBF Scientific Company's design. The oil collection system and related hardware have been designed and built by JBF in South
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on November 1991The Helsinki Police recently commissioned a newly designed and built 8-meter high-speed all-aluminum patrol boat that features Hamilton Jet propulsion equipment. Designed by Juha Snell Oy of Finland and built by Kellokoski, Finland, the Ville is powered by a single Hamilton model 271 waterje
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on November 1991"Working With Technology" will be the focus of a multitude of technical and educational sessions when the Association of Diving Contractors hosts its annual commercial diving and ROV symposium in Houston, Texas, January 13-15, 1992. Underwater 92 is a three-day program of workshops, presenta
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on November 1991The American Waterways Operators (AWO), the national trade association of the inland and coastal tug and barge industry, will hold its annual AWO Marine Safety Seminar December 4-5, 1991, at the Hyatt Regency at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans. The seminar agenda features some of the
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on November 1991The John James Audubon, formerly the Bayou Jean Lafitte, has undergone a complete interior renovation designed by Bauer Interiors, Inc., New Orleans, La. The 125-foot excursion vessel, owned and operated by The New Orleans Steamboat Company, will shuttle passengers from the Aquarium of the
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on November 1991The award of contracts to develop concept designs for strategic sealift medium-speed, roll-on/rolloff ships of two sizes, 950 feet and 700 feet, was recently announced by the U.S. Navy. Nine shipyards received contracts, each of which carries a value of about $250,000. The yards (in alphabe
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on November 1991Marinette Marine Corporation, Marinette, Wis., recently turned over the mine countermeasures ship Patriot (MCM-7) to the U.S. Navy. The event is the last significant milestone for the MCM-7 and marks the culmination of 10 years of Marinette Marine Corporation (MMC) involvement in mine counte
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on November 1991Far East Levingston Shipbuilding Ltd. (FELS) has completed Galaxy 1, which it calls one of the world's most capable jackup rigs, to the satisfaction of its owner, Santa Fe Drilling Operations, Inc. In recognition of a job well done, Santa Fe is paying FELS a special bonus of about $1 million
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on November 1991AT&T has signed a $49.5 million contract with the U.S. Navy for modifications to its Enhanced Modular Signal Processor (EMSP). The modifications include the development of a water-cooled enclosure for subma- rines and a new helicopter enclosure. Other modifications include the development of
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on November 1991For years John Deere has been a leader in the agricultural machinery market. Now, that expertise is going to work on the water as Deere Power Systems Group (DPSG) introduces its first marine diesel engines. The first two in a series of marine engines are available now for purchase in North A
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on November 1991Litton's Guidance & Control Systems division, Woodland Hills, Calif., has been selected by the U.S. Navy to develop and demonstrate the operational advantages of hullmounted submarine fiberoptic sonars. Litton officials said the $5.8 million, two-year program, awarded by the U.S. Navy's Unde
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on November 1991Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Litton In Pascagoula, Miss., has begun construction of its first SA'AR 5 corvette for the Government of Israel. Ingalls president Jerry St. Pe, as well as Adm. Micha Ram, Chief of Naval Operations, Israeli Navy, and other Israeli naval and defense officials p
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on November 1991Tano Corporation, New Orleans, La., recently announced the acquisition of Valcon Sales and Services, Chesapeake, Va., and the opening of a regional field service and repair facility for its Tano-GR Services Division in Chesapeake. Valcon, which will be part of Tano Marine Systems, specialize
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on November 1991Four barge-carrying ships that will be used as supply depots in the Navy's afloat prepositioning force have been chartered by the Military Sealift Command. The new contracts for the lighteraboard- ship, or "lash," vessels essentially renew charters with two companies that have been furnishin