Short 1984 Articles
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on August 15, 1984Capt. Arthur M. Osborne has joined the Port of San Francisco as director of engineering and maintenance according to an announcement by executive director Eugene L. Gartland. Capt. Osborne served as Commanding Officer, Naval Station Treasure Island, and Chief of Staff for the Commander of t
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on August 1984To meet the increasing demand for Renk products and service in the U.S., Renk AG of Augsburg and Hannover, West Germany, announces the opening of Renk Corporation, an independent American manufacturing facility in Duncan, S.C. For more than 100 years, Renk has manufactured special-purpose
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on August 1984The Canadian Institute Of Marine Engineers Vancouver Branch hosted a technical paper meeting in May at the Sheraton Villa Inn in Burnaby, B.C. Canada. The guest speaker was Bob Lowden, sales manager of Pumps & Power Ltd., Vancouver, B.C. The topic of discussion was the Ship Service Pump— an O
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on August 1984UNIPAR, Inc., a division of National Marine Service, Inc., has made available literature that highlights the 40,000-square-foot facility the company has in St. Louis, Mo., to provide the diesel engine power packs, parts and components that industry requires. The literature points out that r
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on August 1984Aqua-Dyne Corporation of Houston, Texas, has published a 12-page color brochure on their high-pressure jet-blasting equipment used as an industrial surface cleaning tool. Handsomely wrapped in a panoramic view of the Grand Canyon with the caption "Nature took millions of years to cut and wa
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on August 1984A new 20-page color brochure describing the Fram CPS-3 marine separator is available free from Fram Industrial Filtration & Separation. The CPS-3 is a highly efficient coalescing plate separator designed especially for separation of oil and solids from shipboard bilge water. It is ideally su
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on August 1984American Standard Heat Exchanger Repair (ASHER), has made available a brochure on the company's new facility in Elizabeth, N.J., which has complete capability to repair or rebundle, retube or replace parts. Titled "We Get Your Shell & Tube Heat Exchangers Back Into Action," the publication
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on August 1984The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is one of several major U.S. and European survey and port organizations which have ordered Krupp Atlas Elektronik's new Polarfix combined range/azimuth laser based dynamic position fixing system. The Corps has commissioned a system for general inshore survey
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on August 1984— Field Study Available XPLC upper engine cleaner/lubricant from Lubritech International Corporation of Bethesda, Md., is said to reduce maintenance and fuel costs, and extend running time between overhauls for diesel engines. According to Chauncy Willis of Norfolk-based C.G. Willis Towing
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on August 1984Hitachi Zosen recently received an order to build one cantilever type mobil offshore jackup drilling rig. The order came from the Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) of India. This drilling rig is the third of its type built by Hitachi Zosen for ONGC, and is to be used as a replacement fo
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on August 1984Willem Pot B.V. of Rotterdam, Holland, has prepared a detailed stocklist of the extensive marine stocks held at the firm's Maassluis works and stockyards, with the object, the company says, of indicating the way in which they can most be of service to customers. The 44-page stocklist is well
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on August 1984Dubai Drydocks in U.A.E. recently announced some of the highlights that marked the new yard's first full year of operation. These included: • Full commisioning of the extensive facilities of the ship repair yard; • Establishment of a worldwide marketing network that has generated an increa
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on August 1984— Literature Available IMODCO, a unit of AMCA International Corporation, has been awarded contracts for single point mooring (SPM) terminals by Pertamina- PDN and India Oil Company. The Pertamina contract, repre- senting IMODCO's first specially designed commercial, lightweight buoy, is
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on August 1984Orange Shipbuilding Co., Inc., Orange, Texas, recently signed a contract with the Tennessee Valley Authority of Chattanooga, Tenn. for a 52V2 foot by 22 foot by 8 foot push boat. The vessel is to be named Patricia H and will be used to handle 1,500 ton barges on the Green River at the Paradi
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on August 1984Bjorn Fagerstrom has been appointed president of Alfa-Laval, Inc., Ft. Lee, N.J., the U.S. member of the Swedish-based Alfa-Laval Group of worldwide companies. Mr. Fagerstrom succeeds Ragnar Beyer who, under Alfa-Laval's policy of rotating the assignments of its principal managers, is return
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on August 1984An advanced wear-resistant material (Hexoloy™ SA Silicon Carbide Alloy) has been successfully molded into a one piece Venturi configuration to create the Clemlite liner . . . the key component of Clemco's successful high production nozzle. Clemco's Clemlite nozzles are made from high qualit
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on August 1984Seattle's new fireboat, designed by Nickum & Spaulding Associates, is being built by Nicholas Brothers Boat Builders of Freeland, Wash., and will carry an ABS classification when completed in mid-1984. The 96-foot by 23-foot by 7-foot aluminum hull and superstructure is capable of 28 knots
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on August 1984The Flexaust Company, the industry leader in ventilation ducting, announces a major improvement in its product line. Most hoses are now flame retardant and are recognized as having an Underwriter's Laboratories 94 V-0 flammability classification. By using a variety of constructions and mate
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on August 1984Following the successful modification of the jack-up drilling rig Britannia from a slot-type drilling unit to a cantilevered unit, completed recently within the contractual time, the Rotterdam Shipyard has contracted another rig modification job. The Houston-based rigowners Reading and Bate
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on August 1984Mississippi Marine, a Greenville based shipyard and repair facility, demonstrated its lift strength, length capabilities and drydocking expertise recently for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The job was to drydock and repair the 279- foot-long dredge Jadwin. This was no small task as the