Short 1981 Articles
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on April 15, 1981The 17,743-dwt (metric) pure car carrier Glorious Ace (shown above) was delivered to her joint owners, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. and Baba-Daiko Steamship Company, Ltd., both of Japan, recently. Capable of carrying a total of 5,688 cars of various types, the new ship is said to be one of the l
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on April 15, 1981United States Cruises, Inc. (USCI), Seattle, Wash., has made the final $3-million payment for the purchase of the passenger ship United States, and received title to the vessel from the Commerce Department's Maritime Administration (MarAd). USCI presented MarAd with an irrevocable letter of
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on April 15, 1981Coppus Engineering Corporation's new catalog is a comprehensive presentation of its complete line of synchronous, induction, and dc turbine generator sets up to 2,500 kw. Cost-saving applications are covered in detail and illustrated with charts, diagrams, and photographs of typical TG set
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on April 15, 1981Three major energy-related companies have formed Sea Plex Corporation of Tulsa to provide the offshore industry with retrievable, bottom-supported drilling/ production/storage facilities specifically designed to exploit fields that had been considered marginal. These facilities will operate
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on April 15, 1981A recent meeting of the New York Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers held at the Whitehall Club in New York City featured a paper titled "Maneuvering Considerations in the Design Ship Spiral," by John C. Daidola and Garmia Daniel. The paper surveyed
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on April 15, 1981Promet Private Limited, Singapore, recently launched the Sedco 160 (shown above). Under construction for Sedco, Inc. of Dallas, the rig is a BMC-150 Baker Marine designed, self-elevating independent leg type equipped with three independent tubular legs of 260 feet, raised and lowered by mea
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on April 15, 1981Sulzer low-speed, two-stroke engines have been specified for main propulsion and auxiliary duties for two 32,000-grt, 30,500-bhp passenger cruise ships recently ordered by Holland-America Line from the St. Nazaire Shipyard of Chantiers de 1'Atlantique. With fuel costs forming a major factor in
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on April 15, 1981Approximately 70 members and guests, the largest turnout ever, attended a recent meeting of the Delaware Valley Chapter of the American Society of Naval Engineers at the Officer's Club, Philadelphia Naval Base. Howard Taylor of the Philadelphia Maritime Museum made an excellent slide presentat
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on April 15, 1981The Virginia Port Authority (VPA) feels that a public coal facility capable of exporting 25-million tons annually will be adequate to meet the immediate market demand, according to J. Robert Bray, VPA executive director. After discussions with engineers and consultation with potential users of
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on April 15, 1981Choctaw D r i l l i n g Company, Houston, has applied to the Maritime Administration for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction or reconstruction of three drilling vessels. Two of the vessels are expected to be employed initially in the inland waterway of Venezuela and the
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on April 15, 1981NKK (Nippon Kokan) of Japan has developed a 35,000-dwt, standard type bulk carrier designed to meet the increasing demand for ships smaller than Panamax types. Shin-ichi Hirayama, president of NKK America Inc., said the ship will be constructed at the company's Shimizu shipyard. With a dra
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on April 15, 1981As part of its continuing program of modernization aimed toward increasing present lifting capacity to meet the technological needs of the trade, Hellenic Lines has contracted for the conversion of four ships to fully cellularized container vessels. The vessels to be converted are four of t
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on April 15, 1981The Mare Island Naval Shipyard Chapter of the Naval Civilian Administrators Association recently elected new officers. Pictured above from left to right are: Larry Hebert, secretary, who is the director of the Quality Assurance Office; Ted Allen, president, who is the director of the Manage
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on April 15, 1981Marinette Marine Corporation, Marinette, Wis., recently launched the third in a series of 16 YRBM(L) berthing barges (photo above) under construction for the Naval Sea Systems Command. The YRBM(L) vessels have a 146-foot overall length, 46-foot beam, and 688-long-ton displacement. A total o
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on April 15, 1981Hudson Shipbuilders, Inc. (HUDSHIP), Pascagoula, Miss., recently delivered the 70-foot towboat Trotter (shown above) to Missouri River Barge Lines of St. Louis, Mo. The vessel is HUDSHTP's standard 70-foot towboat design and represents the yard's continued diversification in the ever-changi
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on April 15, 1981The Los Angeles Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers gathered for a recent meeting aboard the converted cruise ship Princess Louise berthed in Los Angeles Harbor. The subject of the e v e n i n g ' s technical paper, "Radar — A New Approach to Level G
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on April 15, 1981The Veracruz II (shown above), a 4,500-bhp cutter suction dredger, has been delivered to Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Transportes, Mexico, by the Aichi Works of Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Company, Ltd. (IHI), Japan. The RD-26, a 1,672- bhp tugboat to be attached to the dredger,
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on April 15, 1981An international Marine Fuel Utilization Conference/Exposition will be held September 1-4 this year at the Convention Center in Baltimore. Co-sponsored by the Marine Energy Institute, Inc. (MEI) of Baltimore and The Motor Ship magazine of London, the event is intended to provide a forum and i
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on April 15, 1981Levingston Shipbuilding Company has launched the Dixilyn- Field 87 (shown above) at its shipyard in Orange, Texas. The triangular shaped, Levingston designed Class 111-C jackup drilling rig is 200 feet by 186 feet by 23 feet. When this self-elevating drilling platform is completed, it will
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on April 15, 1981Long Beach Container Terminal, Inc., recently ordered two Transtainer® cranes from Paceco, Inc. of Alameda, Calif. Paceco, worldwide manufacturer of dockside, terminal, and shipboard container handling cranes, is a subsidiary of Fruehauf Corporation, Detroit. The two r u b b e r - t i r ed