Short 1984 Articles
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on April 15, 1984Houston Offshore International, Inc.'s Sabine V drilling rig prepares to float off of the Dan Lifter in Cameron, La. ship channel after returning to Gulf waters recently from Singapore. The rig was built in Betblehem Steel's shipyards there and remained in the Far East for almost a year before
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on April 15, 1984End face shaft seals used in original equipment are described in a new, colorful brochure prepared by John Crane, one of the world's largest manufacturers of engineered sealing systems. Designated as John Crane Type 1 and Type 2 Series, these seals are used in all types of rotary shaft equi
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on April 15, 1984The Hampton Roads Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers met recently at the Fisherman's Wharf Restaurant in Hampton, Va. The meeting featured a paper by F. Baxter Barham Jr. titled "The SNAME Ship Production Committee— An Overview." Section vice chairman Robert L.
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on April 15, 1984E-Systems recently received a $4.7-million U.S. Navy contract to provide continuing systems engineering and technical support services for the downlink communications tracking set used with the Terrier SM-2 missile. The contract with the Naval Sea Systems Command calls for a variety of engi
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on April 15, 1984Jered Brown Brothers is the American source for spare and repair parts manufactured by the internationally renowned John Hastie of Greenock Ltd., Scotland, including parts for the well-known Hele-Shaw pump, the company announced recently. A separate facility in Auburn Hills, Mich., enables
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on April 15, 1984Halifax Industries Limited in Halifax, Nova Scotia, recently received its first vessel in the newly commissioned, 100,000-dwt-capacity floating drydock. The Panamax size dock has a lifting capacity of 36,000 tons. Its overall length is 843.16 feet, width between fenders 124.67 feet, and draf
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- Fishing Vessel C o n f e r e n ce T o Be H e l d M a y 1 0 - 1 2 In M e l b o u r n e , F l o r i da page: 13
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on April 15, 1984The International Conference on the Design, Construction, and Operation of Commercial Fishing Vessels is scheduled for May 10— 12 at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne. The Conference is sponsored by Florida Sea Grant, the Southeast Section of SNAME, and FIT. Some 200 particip
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on April 15, 1984Recognizing that the formal process for review of specifications provides for only a short review period, the Naval Sea Systems Command is soliciting technical suggestions for improving several specifications which it plans to revise in the next several months. Those specifications are: MIL-P-
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- Successful T r a n s p o r t Of Biggest-Ever D e c k Structure C o m p l e t e d By N e p t u n / NC page: 7
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on April 15, 1984The 40,660-ton deck for the Statfjord 'C' production platform, reported to be the biggest structure ever moved by water, has been successfully transported from its building yard to the mating site by the Neptun/Norwegian Contractors joint venture. The deck was fabricated by Moss Rosenberg Ver
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on April 15, 1984Lester Rosenblatt, chairman of the board of M. Rosenblatt & Son, the prominent naval architectural and marine engineering firm, has announced the appointment of Perry W. Nelson as president. Mr. Nelson's marine career started with employment as a ship draftsman with the W.C. Nickum naval ar
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on April 15, 1984Babcock & Wilcox, an operating unit of McDermott International, inc., announced that its Industrial Power Generation Division has received a $1.4-million contract from Tampa Shipyards, Inc., Tampa, Fla., for the supply of five ship sets of marine, auxiliary, oil-fired, package boilers and di
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on April 15, 1984In 1983 the Jacksonville, Fla., naval architectural firm of DeJong & Lebet, Inc. signed a contract with Transportes Maratimos de Yucatan y del Caribe S.A. to design a 600-passenger ferryboat for fast service between Cozumel and Playa del Carmen, Mexico. A combined effort with St. Augustineba
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on April 15, 1984The Cybernet CTX-2050 is a fully synthesized 50-channel VHFFM radiotelephone designed to the very highest standards of modern high-technology electronics. This new unit covers all U.S. VHF-FM marine channels including five U.S.; and Canadian weather channels. It features a Channel 16 quick-
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on April 15, 1984A recent meeting of the New York Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects heard a paper titled "A New Approach To Computer-Based Preliminary Ship Design." The authors were Dr. Farrokh Mistree and Timothy D. Lyon, both of the University of Houston. The following paragraph is a
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on April 15, 1984The Standards and Specifications Panel of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME Panel SP-6) will hold their next meeting at ASTM Headquarters in Philadelphia, Pa. on May 17-18, 1984 immediately following the May 14-16, 1984 meeting of ASTM Committee F-25 on Shipbuildin
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on April 15, 1984Ralph Larimer has been named chief, engineering planning and control of all MMC engineering operations and supervision of project engineering functions. Mr. Larimer joined MMC in 1975 after completing active duty as a nuclear power qualified officer aboard the USS Grayling (SSN646). Assignm
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on April 15, 1984The Trimble Navigation Model 300 LORAN Computer combines LORAN-C technology, state-of-the-art computer technology, and traditional dead-reckoning navigation in one small, easy to use package. It gives the navigational information rapidly and with accuracy. In its Dead Reckoning Mode it can com
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on April 15, 1984High-efficiency energy absorption is the advantage claimed for the F Series of marine fenders manufactured by Lord Corporation. Intended for sheltered or exposed berthing facilities, these fenders are available in 22 sizes, with absorption capacities ranging from 1.4 to 124 foot-kips. They a
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on April 1984Richard A. Kienitz has been appointed senior vice presidentmarketing, and John A. Flahaut has been promoted to vice president- sales, it was announced by John F. Lynch, president of the Inland Waterways Division of Pott Industries, Inc. He also announced that Thomas F. Maloney, formerly sen
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on April 1984Chugoku Marine Paints, Ltd. of Japan recently introduced a new family of self-polishing, antifouling hull coatings. These new products are based on the formulation technology of the company's AF-SEAFLO Z-100 self-polishing antifouling paint that was developed five years ago and is now in se