Short 1982Peter Articles
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on January 15, 1981RYSCO Shipyard, Inc. recently delivered the tug/supply vessel Tom Martin Pugh to Billy Pugh Offshore. This is the fifth vessel built for Billy Pugh by RYSCO's Blountstown, Fla., yard. The latest vessel has an overall length of 175 feet, beam of 38 feet, and depth of 14 feet, and is capable of
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on January 15, 1981Kockums AB of Malmo, Sweden, has reached a preliminary agreement with a West German consortium for the sale of one of the two LNG carriers now undergoing final outfitting at the yard. Kockums has also granted an option on the second LNG carrier. Negotiations regarding the sales contract hav
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on January 15, 1981Some 45 members and guests of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers gathered aboard the Princess Louise for a recent meeting. The evening's paper, titled "Shipboard Noise," was presented by Dr. Robert Saucedo, president of the Casde Cor
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on January 15, 1981The IMO® Pump Division of Transamerica Delaval Inc., Monroe, N.C., has just published an illustrated six-page bulletin on a new fuel oil blending unit recently introduced by the division. Designed primarily for maritime applications, the new unit is nevertheless exciting widespread interest
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on January 15, 1981Riverway Shipyard Company, Grafton, 111., recently completed construction of the KM-1, a new double-skin side, single-skin bottom raked barge (pictured above) for Kiesel Marine Service of St. Louis. The tank barge will be used as a midstreaming fuel barge for service in St. Louis. KM-1 measur
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on January 15, 1981Halter Marine, Inc. has signed contracts for the construction of 14 supply vessels for the Marsea Marine Companies. The contracts between the New Orleans-based corporations total $53.2 million, and are believed to constitute the largest supply boat order in U.S. history. The new 180-foot vess
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on January 15, 1981FMC Corporation launched an oceangoing tank barge recently at the Marine and Rail Equipment Division in Portland, Ore. The vessel, named Barge 4506 (shown above), was christened by Mrs. Roy D. Jurgensen, wife of Crowley Maritime Corporation's senior vice president and general manager of the N
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on January 15, 1981General Ship Corporation of East Boston, Mass., has been purchased by a group of private investors who will continue the ship repair and shipbuilding activities of the yard. Principals are James Harvie, president and chief executive officer, and Keith A. Brown, executive vice president and tre
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on January 15, 1981A significant event occurred recently at Bergeron Marine when the barge CMS-563 (shown above) slid down the launchways at the company's Port Bienville facility. The 120-foot by 30-foot by 7-foot steel deck barge built for Central Marine Service, Inc., New Orleans, was the 100th vessel construc
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on January 15, 1981Bay Shipbuilding Corp. has announced the signing of a contract to build an oceangoing bulk cargo barge for Universal American Barge Corporation of Greenwich, Conn. This will be the first vessel built for Universal American Barge by Bay Ship. The 550 by 78-foot tug notch barge will be used as
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on January 15, 1981Rados International Corporation, naval architects, marine engineers, consultants, marine surveyors, and ship's brokers of San Pedro, Calif., recently announced the signing of a design and engineering contract for the construction of six tuna purse seiners for the Government of Mexico. The offi
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on January 15, 1981George A. Gabriles, president of Maencor, Inc., a Freeport, Texas, maintenance and engineering contracting firm for the marine, offshore, and chemical industries, has announced the addition of three management employees. Harry F. Koester Jr. joins the firm as c o n t r o l l e r , George H.
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on January 1981Frank W. McBee Jr., chairman and president of Tracor, Inc., has announced the election of Walter A. Clements as group vice president of Tracor Components. Mr. Clements, also president of Littelfuse, Inc., a Tracor subsidiary in Des Plaines, 111., succeeds Jack D. Hughes, who retired from the
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on January 1981The Stanwick Corporation's Operations Engineering Division has been awarded a contract by Bulkfleet Marine Corporation to provide an automated maintenance management system for Bulkfleet's two dedicated, deep-notch tug/barge units (DDNTBU) in the 28,000-dwt class, powered by four economically
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on January 1981Ed Paden, president of Levingston Shipbuilding Company of Orange, Texas, has announced plans to build a second Levingston Class 111-C jackup drilling rig f o r Noble Drilling Corporation of Ardmore, Okla. Noble Drilling, a leading domestic drilling contracting firm formed in 1921, is a wholly
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on January 1981Bergeron Industries, Inc. recently delivered four tank barges from their Braithwaite, La., marine facility, marking the company's entrance into a new product line. Long a major designer and builder of deck barges, Bergeron is using this experience in tank barge construction. Bear 232 (picture
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on January 1981McDermott Incorporated has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, McDermott International, Inc., has purchased the semisubmersible pipelaying barge Viking Piper from Viking Jersey Equipment Limited, a 75-percent-owned affiliate of Santa Fe International Corporation, for the sum of $85 mi
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on January 1981Diesel Shipbuilding Company of Jacksonville, Fla., recently delivered a 46-foot tugboat to the Port Authority of La Libertad, Ecuador. The main engines for the twin-screw La Libertad were supplied by Coastal Power Products of Jacksonville. They are a pair of General Motors Detroit Diesel en
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on January 1981James H. Cottrell has been named vice president of Ogden Corporation, it was announced by Ralph E. Ablon, chairman and chief executive officer. Mr. Cottrell joins Ogden from the Lummus Company. He will direct Ogden's expansion into equipment for process and energy-related plants. Emphasis
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on January 1981The Galveston Office of Designers & Planners, Inc. has been redesignated as the Gulf Coast Office, and has been relocated in Dickinson, Texas, midway between Galveston and Houston. Monroe Levy, vice president and manager of the Galveston Office, retired from D&P on December 31, 1980. Howeve