Short 1981 Articles
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on March 15, 1981Santa Fe Drilling Company has ordered a second $80-million allweather, semisubmersible drilling unit, bringing to $442 million the value of new drilling equipment on order. E.L. Shannon Jr., chairman of the parent Santa Fe International Corporation, said the new unit brings to 20 the number
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on March 15, 1981Ronald R. Hostelley has been promoted to supervisor of marine transportation at Republic Steel C o r p o r a t i o n ' s general office, James F. Frankenberry, director of raw materials purchases, announced recently. In his new position, Mr. Hostelley will be responsible for all non-ocean ve
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on March 15, 1981DEBEG Marine, Inc., Salem, N.H., has announced FCC approval of its new model 2340 watch receiver. The receiver was designed to conform to SOLAS regulations and the requirement that all vessels over 300 gross tons will be equipped with a watch receiver by March 31, 1981. The unit has been pr
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on March 15, 1981Hitachi Zosen recently received another order from Penrod Drilling Company, a member company of the Hunt Group, to build two cantilever type, jackup offshore drilling rigs. The rigs are Hitachi Zosen-developed, standard-type Drill Hope C-250s. Compact and lightweight, they offer excellent e
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on March 15, 1981J. Erik Hvide has been appointed president and chief operating officer of Hvide Shipping Incorporated and its affiliates. He joined the Fort Lauderdale-based company in 1973 after gaining experience in dry cargo and tanker ship operations, both in the U.S. and Norway. In 1970 Mr. Hvide join
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on March 15, 1981Pei-Yen Wang has joined Lexington Transport (New York), Inc. as senior marine superintendent, it was announced by H. E. Engelbrecht, president. From 1948 to 1966, Mr. Wang served in all engineering officer capacities from 3rd assistant engineer to chief engineer. He holds a USCG and Republi
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on March 15, 1981The right textile to meet nearly any industrial insulation need can be found in a new brochure from HITCO, high-temperature materials specialists. The b r o c h u re covers a family of textiles for asbestos replacement, energy savings, and personnel and equipment protection to over 2,300 F.
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on March 15, 1981The Indonesian Government has ordered a high-speed Boeing Jetfoil hydrofoil for delivery in 1982. Value of the sale is approximately $13.7 million. The Jetfoil will be operated by the Agency for the Study and Application of Technology, which is headed by the Minister of Research and Technol
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on March 15, 1981W. Ray Wallace, president and chief executive officer of Trinity Industries, Inc., announces the appointment of James M. Blenkhorn as president and chief executive officer of Equitable Shipyards, Inc. Mr. Blenkhorn has responsibility for all operations of the shipyards located in New Orleans
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on March 15, 1981A paper titled "The 'Skaugran' Class 42,400-dwt RO/ROs," was presented by R. Keith Michel of the Herbert Engineering Corporation, San Francisco, at a recent meeting of the Northern California Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers in San Francisco. The Skaugran and
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on March 15, 1981Robert B. McFadden has been promoted to assistant vice president and director of the Mechanical Design Division, and John H. Klose was named an assistant vice president and director of the Hull Design Division at J.J. Henry Co., Inc. Both men will report to Anthony C. Brown, senior vice presi
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on March 15, 1981John F. Sullivan Jr., chairman and chief executive officer of Bath Iron Works Corporation (BIW), and vice president of Congoleum Corporation, has announced a major reorganization of his senior management staff at BIW. William E. Haggett has been promoted to president and chief operating offic
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on March 15, 1981David Chen Tou Sin has been appointed General manager of Sembawang Shipyard, Singapore, to succeed E.S. Ware, who returned to the United Kingdom recently on completion of his contract with the shipyard. Mr. Chen, who is a graduate in both marine engineering and shipbuilding, brings to the pos
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on March 15, 1981Foss Shipyard, Seattle, has been named a marine dealer for Cummins Northwest Industrial (CNI) and will provide service and spare parts throughout the Northwest. The agreement between Foss Launch & Tug Company and Cummins Northwest Industrial was recently announced by Ross Bishop, Commercial M
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on March 15, 1981A newly published heat recovery handbook gives comprehensive information on using heat exchangers to recover waste heat for re-use. The handbook, published by American Standard Heat Transfer Division, gives details of a series of case histories with schematics of actual installations where
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on March 15, 1981A new organization was announced recently for the marketing and servicing of all Racal- Decca Marine p r o d u c t s in the United States. A joint Racal Electronics- ITT statement said that Racal, the international electronics group that acquired the Decca companies last year, is in the fina
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on March 15, 1981Nationwide Boiler Rentals, Inc., Mountain View, Calif., has been awarded a $1.9-million contract by the U.S. Navy to design and construct seven mobile boiler rooms. The systems, each consisting of two 5,000-pound-perhour, 200-psi boilers, contain complete water-softening equipment, chemical
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on March 15, 1981Work is under way at Raytheon Company on a U.S. Navy system that will measure magnetic fields of ships before and after their hulls have been treated for defense against magnetically influenced mines. The automated system, which includes underwater magnetic sensors and data processing and d
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on March 15, 1981Robert B. Bittner has been named vice president and chief engineer for Riedel International, Inc., according to Robert E. Westermann, executive vice presidentconstruction /dredging group. In his new post, Mr. Bittner will supervise all engineering for the parent company and all construction-
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on March 15, 1981Congressman J. Joseph Moaklev (D-Boston) has announced a federal grant of $2 million from the U.S. Department of Commerce's E c o n o m i c Development Administration to Massport to complete renovation of Boston's historic Fish Pier. At a reception at the Capitol, Congressman Moakley, who h