Short 1982Peter Articles
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on June 1980The appointment of Kenneth K. George to operations comptroller, shipbuilding division, in Bethlehem Steel Corporation's accounting department, has been announced by Dirck W. Armitage, assistant comptroller, operations accounting. Mr. George is advancing from shipyard comptroller of the Spar
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on June 1980J. Ray McDermott & Co., Inc., announced that its Shipyard Group has extended its operations into the state of Mississippi. The Group has purchased a steel-fabricating facility on 10 acres of land on the Industrial Seaway in the Bayou Bernard Industrial District of Gulfport, Miss. It plans t
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on June 1980The Marine and Rail Equipment Division of FMC Corporation, Portland, Ore. laid the keel recently for an oceangoing deckhouse barge that is under construction for Puget Sound Freight Lines of Seattle. The 253-foot barge has a 4,400-ton capacity to carry newsprint and other products in the Pu
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on June 1980George T. Flanagan has been appointed general manager of McAllister Brothers, Inc., Norfolk Division. The announcement was made by Anthony J. McAllister Jr., president of the New Yorkbased towing and transportation company. Formerly a s s i s t a n t general manager in the Norfolk office, M
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on June 1980A new synthetic fiber rope designed for applications where manila has long been used has been developed by Samson Ocean Systems, Inc. of Boston. Called Hy- Grip Spun Braid, this new doublebraided rope uses the Samson Parallay™ construction combined with Type 77 polyester fiber and Samson's
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on June 1980The U.S. Coast Guard has established a new Office of Navigation to provide greater management support for its expanding aids-to-navigation program. Adm. John B. Hayes, Coast Guard Commandant, ordered the reorganization at Headquarters to improve navigation services to the public and to make
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on June 1980At a recent meeting of the Philadelphia Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, 74 members and guests heard a paper titled "Control and Instrumentation of Slow- Speed Diesels," presented by John W. Dirriwachter, manager, General Regulator Department of Forney Engine
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on June 1980Robert G. Homan, senior vice president and general manager of Crowley Maritime Corporation's Caribbean Division, Jacksonville, Fla. recently announced three changes in the company's management personnel. Ron Beacham has joined the Division as director of sales. He will assume r e s p o n s
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on June 1980Zesco Inc. of Houston has been named factory representative for Camar Corporation's Inert Gas Systems Division. Zesco president J.D. Vacek, vice president Cy Turner, and head engineer Brown Milstead met with Camar Corporation president and general manager James A. Mercanti recently to discuss
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on June 1980A $lS5.4-miIlion contract for c o n s t r u c t i o n of three FFG-7 class guided-missile frigates was awarded by the U.S. Navy recently to Bath Iron Works Corporation, a Congoleum company. The award raises to 16 the. number of the versatile ships currently under contract to the Bath, Maine
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on June 1980Neil N. Diehi has been elected president of Ohio Barge Line, Inc., Warrior & Gulf Navigation Company, and Mon-Valley Transportation Company with headquarters at Pittsburgh, Pa. He succeeds Thomas Marshall who has been named group vice pres- ident-resource development for United States Steel
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on June 1980The compact Type 88 package seal, designed for ease in assembly and maintenance without modification of existing equipment, is now available from Crane Packing Company, Morton Grove, 111. Seal drive is accomplished through set screw or friction drive for positioning seal on shaft or sleeve.
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on June 1980John L. Roper 3rd, president and chief executive o f f i c e r of Norshipco, Norfolk, Va., has announced the appointments of two new company officers and promotions for five current officers. The new officers are Carlos E. Agnese, assistant vice president of marketing and contract administra
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on June 1980Blount Marine Corporation of Warren, R.I. recently delivered the 156-foot offshore supply vessel Clipper Key West to Hamilton, Inc. of Panama City, Fla. The vessel admeasures under 200 gross tons, and is equipped to carry up to 600 long tons of combined calcium chloride or liquid mud and de
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on June 1980Nickum & Spaulding Associates, Seattle naval architects, recently completed the design for two 22-car ferries for service between Miami Beach and Fisher Island, Fla. William B. Rebozo, president of Island Developers, Ltd., operators of the ferries, said the Seattle naval architecture firm h
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on June 1980Capt. Edward Kaune, USN (ret.), now serving as assistant general manager, has been selected to succeed Harrison G. Rowe as general manager of the San Francisco Division of Todd Shipyards Corporation, upon his retirement on August 1, 1980. Carl R. Meurk, vice president- West Coast Operations
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on June 1980The recent growth of shipping fraud has been almost staggering. Certainly the threat that such frauds pose to individual companies— whether shippers, shipowners, brokers, freight forwarders, insurers, or bankers—is very real and worrying. In May last year the United Kingdom's Institute of C
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on June 1980Capstans, winches, and deck fittings are featured in a brochure now available from the Schoellhorn- Albrecht Division of St. Louis Ship, a company of the Pott Industries Group. Schoellhorn-Albrecht's primary product line is capstans, both powered and manually operated, but the company also
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on May 15, 1980A new catalog describing the r e d e s i g n e d Rockwell Univalve® forged steel globe valves is now available from the Flow Control Division, Pittsburgh. These highpressure, high-temperature stop, stop-check, and check valves are used in the power, process, and general industries. The cata
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on May 15, 1980James H. Leonhard has been appointed to the newly created position of marketing manager for the International Marine Coatings Division of the International Paint Company, Inc., New York City. The appointment was announced jointly by John P. Merrill Jr., executive vice president, and W. Norm