Short 1977 Articles
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on November 15, 1977Bulk Food Carriers, Inc., 425 California Street, San Francisco, Calif., has applied for Title XI guarantees to aid in financing the conversion of the dry bulk carriers S/S Tex and S/S Flor, and the oceangoing barge Burke F to carry oil products. The Tex and Flor were both built in 1948 at B
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on November 1977Miles G. O'Harra, recently retired from Bailey Meter Co., will enter the consulting field as a Marine and Industrial Steam Control Systems Consultant at 9355 Milford Lane, Mentor, Ohio 44060. Mr. O'Harra served in the United States Navy for 20 active duty years (1937-57), and in the Fleet R
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on November 1977The largest single cargo ever moved on the Great Lakes was delivered in September to Detroit Edison by the motor vessel Belle River. The record load, 65,760 tons of low-sulfur western coal, was reported by the vessel's owners, American Steamship Company, a subsidiary of GATX Corporation. Chr
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on November 1977John S. Hollett has just recently become marketing director of Saudi Arabia Transport Organisation Ltd. (SATOL). SATOL is a partnership between Global Transport Organisation (GTO) of San Francisco, Calif., and the Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo Organisation of Saudi Arabia. GTO is made up of Crowley
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on November 1977A 17-page, four-color brochure reports on the testing program of an ALCO 16-cylinder POWER BOSS engine running on 400 SRI blended residual fuel. In this newly announced publication (HF 977-3M) there is discussion of ALCO's experience with residual fuels in both current and older model engin
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on November 1977Henschel Corporation has announced the introduction of two new Engine Order Telegraphs. This rugged, reliable equipment is used to transmit engine orders and replies between the wheelhouse and engine room. These lever-operated transmitter/indicators are designed for console mounting, and whee
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on November 1977Raymond M. Burke, group vice president, Drew Chemical Corporation, Parsippany, N.J., has announced the promotion of Walter A. Smith to director, consulting and technical services, Marine Division. In his new position, Mr. Smith will be responsible for establishing technical support groups i
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on November 1977The Society of Marine Port Engineers New York, N.Y., Inc. met on September 21 at the Downtown Athletic Club in New York City. At the technical session, which was preceded by a social hour and dinner, a paper was presented on "Surface Preparation of Steel for Painting and Other Coating Applic
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on November 1977Twenty-four women have reported to the United States Coast Guard cutters Gallatin and Morgenthau to begin historic sea duty. The first women ever assigned to serve aboard armed U.S. military vessels, they will be taking part in fisheries patrols in Atlantic and Pacific waters this fall. Tw
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on November 1977The appointment of William Hamilton as assistant general manager at Bethlehem Steel Corporation's San Francisco, Calif., Shipyard was announced by Gayne Y. Marriner, general manager of the shipyard. Prior to this promotion, Mr. Hamilton had been general superintendent at the yard. A native
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on November 1977Donald C. Hankin, marine superintendent for McAllister Brothers in the ports of New York, Philadelphia, Norfolk, San Juan and overseas operations, has been appointed to the additional position of vice president-engineering. He will continue in his present position, as well as supervise the
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on November 1977Douglas L. Oehrlein has been appointed marketing director for the Pine Bluff, Ark., shipyard of Dravo SteelShip Corporation. The appointment was announced by Edward D. Fry, vice president/ general manager of Dravo Steel- Ship. Mr. Oehrlein is a graduate of the University of Hawaii, where h
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on November 1977The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has published a new brochure containing detailed descriptions of all containership terminals in America's Container Capital. Virtually all of these f a c i l i t i e s f o r intermodal freight handling have been built during the last 15 years to
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on October 15, 1977A new 24-page brochure is available describing the engineering, construction, installation and design capabilities of the DeLong Corporation. Based on DeLong's line of pneumatic and hydraulic jack systems with standard lifting capacities of 450 to over 1,800 metric tons, the brochure descri
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on October 15, 1977Edwin G.B. Terry has joined the sales staff of Tidewater Marine Service, Inc., a unit of Tidewater Inc., according to Sam S. Allgood, vice president of the worldwide offshore marine support company. Mr. Terry, who was previously vice president and director of marketing for TRW Mission Manuf
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on October 15, 1977Eleven maritime executives from six countries were elected Members of the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) at the semiannual meeting of the international ship classification society held in New York City. This brings to 385 the number of ABS Members. The new Members are: Robert Stevens Basse
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on October 15, 1977Two U.S. Navy officers have been assigned duties at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, N.Y. Capt. Robert Marshall, a resident of Kings Point, has been selected to head the Department of Naval Science. Comdr. James Perdew of Garden City, N.Y., has been assigned as Protestant chap
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on October 15, 1977Stow Manufacturing Co. has just put on the market a new s t a n d a r d 3/8-inch-size remote valve control flexible shaft, which is ideal for manually remotely controlling all types of small valves in sizes up to those with 2-inch-diameter handwheels. This new flexible shaft will transmit a
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on October 15, 1977John F. Sullivan, president of Bath Iron Works Corporation, Bath, Maine, has announced the appointment of Igo Jekkals as manager of manufacturing engineering for the shipyard. In his new position, Mr. Jekkals will have responsibility for plant maintenance and engineering, industrial enginee
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on October 15, 1977L.C. (Bert) Johnson has joined Varo, Inc. as marine searchlight field representative for the inland waterways, Gulf Coast and Great Lakes areas. In this capacity, Mr. Johnson will be responsible for coordinating the company's sales and service activities to the marine industry. Mr. Johnson