Short 1981 Articles
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on August 1981TOOLTECH INC., Minneapolis, Minn., international manufacturer of rotary drill pipe and tooljoints used in oil, gas, water and mineral drilling, has announced the appointment of William J. Magratten to the new position of vice president-Marketing and Business Development. Mr. Magratten comes
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on August 1981International Paint Company, with U.S. headquarters in Union, N.J., and manufacturing centers in New Orleans and San Francisco, recently entered a joint venture with the Seoul, Koreabased Daihan Ink & Paint Company. The merger is now registered as International Paint (Korea) Ltd. The ventu
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on August 1981Holland America Cruises has appointed Daved F. Lauth vice president of Technical/Nautical Operations. In this new senior management position, Mr. Lauth will be responsible for the strategic planning and analysis of Holland America's technical and nautical needs as well as the coordination
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on August 1981The Assistant Secretary and the Maritime Subsidy Board have authorized the award of construction-differential subsidy (CDS) for the retrofitting of either of two 89,700- deadweight-ton tankers operated by Chestnut Shipping Co. to meet the requirements of the Port and Tanker safety Act of 1978.
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on August 1981Tracor Marine, Inc. of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., recently succeeded in raising the 500- ton, 165-foot restaurant ship Livingstone Landing (shown above) from the bottom of New River in Fort Lauderdale under a timelimited, no cure/no pay contract with the Lexington Insurance Company. The vessel, b
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on August 1981The Detroit Diesel Allison Division of General Motors, Detroit, Mich., has published a full-color brochure describing their complete line of marine diesel engines for propulsion and auxiliary power. The brochure clearly describes the broad line of Detroit Diesel models available from the Seri
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on August 1981The Port of Shuaiba in Kuwait is to be the location for the latest Navire Cargo Gear linkspan. It will be built in Kuwait by Kuwait Shipbuilding and Repairyard Company. This linkspan was designed by Navire Cargo Gear in conjunction with Shuaiba Port officials to meet tidal conditions at Shuai
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on August 1981The appointment of John T. Lehman as naval architect/projects manager for Bultema Marine Transportation Inc., has been announced by Ronald G. Bublick, vice president. A subsidiary of The Canonie Companies, Inc., which was named the largest excavation and foundation specialty contractor in t
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on August 1981Richard A. Simpson has been promoted to the newly created position of vice president, common carrier services of Crowley Maritime Corporation's Caribbean Division, according to a recent announcement by Robert G. Homan, Jacksonville, Fla., Crowley senior vice president and general manager of
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on August 1981Pentagon correspondent Charles W. Corddry recently reported in The Baltimore Sun: "The Navy has proposed a vastly expanded five-year shipbuilding plan calling for 143 ships—including two nuclear- powered aircraft carriers— that could double the construction budget of the service already mos
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on August 1981Joseph S. Coco has been named controller of Consolidated Inland Marine, Inc., Beaumont, Texas, a wholly owned subsidiary of Consolidated Petroleum Industries, Inc. Mr. Coco most recently was on the staff of Exxon Company U.S.A.'s Treasury Department. Prior to that he held various supervisory
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on August 1981Those concerned with steels for offshore platforms and drilling barges, ship hulls, pressure vessels, construction equipment, or line pipe valves and fittings, will want to add this new product data bulletin. It contains full data on Armco CT Steels, a family of high strength, low alloy, fin
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on August 1981Simrad's TP-4553 track plotter extends the operational capability of Loran C units by recording the ship's present position. Fully automatic, it has built-in microcomputers that plot a vessel's track on grid paper by using the Lat/Long grid supplied from the TL-856 navigator or the TC-28A c
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on August 1981John K. Stuart has been appointed fleet engineer at Oglebay Norton Company. He succeeds Sidney L. Spinner who has retired. Mr. Stuart joined the company's Columbia Transportation Division in 1980 as assistant fleet engineer. Prior to that, he was vice president-engineering at the Great Lake
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on August 1981Goldston Shipbuilding Corporation of Corpus Christi, Texas, announced it has signed a contract with Jackson Marine Corporation of Aransas Pass, Texas, for the construction of a supply vessel. This contract represents Goldston's entry into the supply boat market. The vessel will be a 160-foo
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on July 15, 1981William C. Moyer, group vice president of Tracor, Inc., recently announced that the company's subsidiary, Tracor Marine, has been awarded a $2.5-million contract to operate and maintain the U.S. Navy Ocean Construction Equipment Inventory (OCEI), under the direction of the Chesapeake Divisi
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on July 15, 1981Sembawang Shipyard, Singapore, recently completed a multimillion-dollar contract awarded by McDermott Incorporated of New Orleans for repairs and modifications on the Derrick Barge No. 19. A new feature added to the main deck of the barge, which has been renamed DLB 19, is a pipelaying ramp 1
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on July 15, 1981AMCA International Limited (previously Dominion Bridge) and McDermott Incorporated have announced the formal beginning of business of their new joint partnership, DB/McDermott Company, whose first office location has been established in Calgary, Alberta. DB/McDermott Company has been formed
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on July 15, 1981Raytheon Service Company has opened a new marine sales and s e r v i c e f a c i l i t y in Greenville, Miss., to serve the river transportation industry on the Mississippi. The facility will provide sales and 24-hour service of marine electronic, communications, and navigation equipment use
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on July 15, 1981The Lima Electric Company, Inc., a Condec Company, has added another model, the MAC II™, to its product line of 1,200-rpm alternators. A c c o r d i n g to the manufacturer, the new unit combines the simplicity and reliability of the proven MAC® (Motor Application Characteristic) selfregulat