Short 1978 Articles
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on December 1978The U.S. Coast Guard Department of Ocean Engineering has awarded Offshore Devices, Inc., Peabody, Mass., a contract to build lightweight double-acting diaphragm pumps specifically for use with oil containment barriers to pick up spilled oil on the high seas. The pumps are compact, self-prim
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on December 1978Vaporphase by Engineering Controls Division of Pott Industries Inc., St. Louis, Mo., has received an order for the complete Waste Heat Recovery Systems for four 270-foot Medium Endurance Coast Guard Cutters being constructed by Tacoma Boatbuilding Co., Inc., Tacoma, Wash. A pioneer in the d
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on November 15, 1978Goodway Tools Corporation has developed a new Heavy-Duty Ream-A-Matic, Model RAM-2, for cleaning tubes in heat exchangers, condensers, and absorption units. This new model is sturdier for a longer life, and designed to accommodate a new, improved heavy-duty flexible shaft. An optional water
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on November 15, 1978C.E. Lee has been appointed president of Waukesha Engine Division, Dresser Industries, Inc., Waukesha, Wis. 53187, it has been announced by J.V. James, president of the Dallas, Texas-based parent company. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Lee had served as executive vice president of the divisi
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on November 15, 1978"What U.S. Ports Mean to the Economy" is a 58-page publication being released by the Maritime Administration. It examines in detail the role of America's ports in our society, especially how they affect and are affected by the rest of the economy. It provides a thorough but nontechnical pre
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on November 15, 1978Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Chester, Pa., recently laid the keel for the 720-foot containership S/S Kauai (Sun Hull No. 678) it is building for Matson Navigation Company. The full-width inner bottom section weighing 225 tons was lowered onto the shipyard's shipbuilding slab in a brie
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on November 15, 1978David Chen Tou Sin has been promoted to yard manager for Sembawang Shipyard, Singapore. Mr. Chen has been with Sembawang Shipyard for over 6V2 years, joining in October 1971 as a graduate management trainee. The first six months of his training was with Smiths Dock, North- Shields, U.K., af
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on November 15, 1978The fall meeting of the Great Lakes and Great Rivers Section, The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, was held at the Continental Regency Hotel in Peoria, 111., on October 12, 1978. Ninety-five r e g i s t e r e d members and guests attended the meeting. The Technical Session f
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on November 15, 1978Philip D. Moran has been elected president of Moran Shipping Agencies, Inc., according to F. Robert Black, chairman of the board and chief executive officer. Headquartered in Providence, R.I., Moran Shipping Agencies, Inc., serves over 50 ports from Maine to Texas through eight offices in s
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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