Short 1981 Articles
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on July 15, 1981Dravo Corporation recently received a contract from the Chang Jiang Shipping Administration of the People's Republic of China to provide technical assistance and equipment for towboat communications. Dravo will provide engineering, installation guidance, training coordination and equipment f
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on July 15, 1981Ned A. Smith has been elected vice president-financial planning and administration for American Steamship Company, Buffalo, N.Y. The announcement was made by Thomas W. Burke, president of American Steamship. Mr. Smith joined American Steamship in 1975 as controller. Prior to that time, he h
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on July 1981NKK (Nippon Kokan) has developed a new basic ship design promoting greater energy conservation, which will be applied to three vessels (two ore/coal carriers and a bulk carrier) being built for Showa Shipping Company and Nippon Yusen. Shinichi Hirayama, president of NKK America Inc., said t
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on July 1981Gerald Albert, president of EDO Corporation, College Point, N.Y., has announced a restructuring of its EDO-Aire operations. The communication and navigation product line, being produced at Fairfield, N.J., will be combined with the auto-pilot product line at the EDO-Aire facility in Mineral
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on July 1981Rugged new ship/shore connectors that make connecting and d i s c o n n e c t i n g docked ships to shore-generated power easier and faster are detailed in a new brochure brochure being offered by Joy Manufacturing Company, LaGrange, N.C. The new Joy three-phase connectors are said to offer
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on July 1981Literature is now available describing a new Pressure-Wiper Seal, known as the John Crane Type RH BWC, recently introduced by Crane Packing Company. One-piece construction consists of a special abrasion-resistant elastomer bonded to a metal reinforcing washer, the internal anti-extrusion ri
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on July 1981Texaco Overseas Tankship Ltd., a wholly owned British subsidiary of Texaco Inc., has taken delivery of the 79,997-deadweightton motor tanker Texaco Westminster at the Aioi (Japan) shipyard of Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., it was announced recently. The vessel is the second
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on July 1981C.E. (Matt) Matthews has been appointed national sales manager of Morse Controls, responsible for sales of both marine and industrial products. Announcing the appointment, Terry Carrell, president of Morse, commented: "The changing nature of today's marketplace for our marine and industrial
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on July 1981The recent christening of Offshore Jupiter (shown above) was of great significance to Promet, as this is the largest rig christened to date at its yard in Jurong, Singapore. The ceremony was performed by Mrs. Audrey Richardson, wife of George T. Richardson, president and chief operating office
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on July 1981USS Acadia (AD-42), the second of four Gompers Class destroyer tenders being built by National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO), was received by the U.S. Navy recently in ceremonies at the San Diego shipyard. Capt. W. Todd Hale, USN, supervisor of shipbuilding, conversion and repair, S
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on July 1981National Marine Services, a joint venture company formed by Jackson Marine Corporation and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, will soon take delivery from Promet Private Limited, Singapore of its final order, as the last of its supply vessels, NMS 210 (shown above), was launched recently. All 10
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on July 1981Rodney E. Lay, president of Rudolph F. Matzer & Associates, Inc. of Jacksonville, Fla. has announced that the research vessel Cape Florida (shown above) has been delivered recently to the National Science Foundation. The vessel was built by Atlantic Marine, Inc. of Fort George Island, Fla., an
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on July 1981Installed on a new 80,700-dwt tanker, the first unit of the SSG (Super-economical Shaft Generator) system developed by IHI (Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.), Japan, has demonstrated excellent performance through the ship's official trial runs, meeting all of its design expect
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on July 1981Sulzer Brothers Limited, Winterthur, Switzerland, is establishing a new subsidiary company in Hong Kong, in recognition of its growing importance as a world shipping center. This will further strengthen Sulzer's position in the Far East, considering the successful activities of companies in
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on July 1981Gulf Fleet Marine Corporation, headquartered in New Orleans, recently announced the following appointments: Ralph A. Vaccaro Jr. has been named contracts manager and will be responsible, on a worldwide basis, for the administration, negotiation and finalization of all c o n t r a c t s . Mr
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on July 1981The Spring Meeting of the Great Lakes and Great Rivers Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers was convened r e c e n t l y at the Westlake Holiday Inn near Cleveland. Total registration was 85. Following registration and the business session in which the next year's
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on July 1981The promotion of James Messenger to the position of assistant to manager of ship repair sales in Bethlehem Steel Corporation's shipbuilding department was announced recently by Louis W. Gomlick, manager. Mr. Messenger is advancing from sales engineer in the ship repair sales office, which i
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on July 1981A six-page, fold-out brochure on its Motorgard™ X Program is available from the Drew Ameroid Marine division of Drew Chemical Corporation, Boonton, N.J. It describes an integrated program for motor vessels incorporating products for critical shipboard systems and services to protect equipme
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on July 1981Dravo Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pa., announced it has acquired the Ryan-Walsh group of companies following approval by shareholders of the Mobile-based cargo-handling organization. The acquisition was made on the basis of 18.825 Dravo common shares for each of the 21,911 shares of Ryan-Walsh
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on July 1981Major steps to reconstruct the nearly century-old sailing ship Wavertree (shown above) to her original design were accomplished at Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Hoboken, N.J., shipyard recently. Owned by the South Street Seaport Museum, the Wavertree will have 110 feet of her upper deck, from