Short 1984 Articles
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on December 15, 1984Huthnance Corporation, Houston, Texas, the newly formed parent company of Huthnance Drilling Company, announced it has completed the acquisition of all limited partner interests in three of its limited partnerships and the stock of an affiliated company. With this consolidation of rig owners
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on December 15, 1984William Reid, formerly manufacturing director of Brown Brothers and Company Limited, Edinburgh, has been appointed sales and marketing director of Brown Brothers, responsible for marketing offshore and marine equipment worldwide. Brown Brothers and Company Limited is part of the Marine Engin
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on December 15, 1984Webb Institute of Naval Architecture in Glen Cove, N.Y., the oldest four-year naval architecture undergraduate institution in the U.S. developed solely to the education of future naval architects and marine engineers, has announced the election of the following officers of the Institute's go
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on December 1984COMSAT General Corporation recently announced that it has been selected by the Naval Underwater Systems Center (NUSC) to construct three modular full-motion color videoteleconferencing systems. The systems will link the Naval Sea Systems Command headquarters, located in Arlington, Va., with re
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on December 1984Southwest Marine, San Pedro Division, has been awarded a $1.24-million contract by the Military Sealift Command, Pacific, for the drydocking and lay-up of the USNS Comet. The 449-foot-long Comet, a T-AKR with a gross tonnage of 13,793 tons, will be in dry dock for approximately 15 days for wor
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on December 1984Dillingham Maritime recently delivered 124 building modules and support materials on three separate sailings from Seattle to the Port of Valdez, Alaska. The cargo was en route to Alaska's North Slope for the Conoco, Inc., Group Milne Point oil development project. The delivery demonstrated the
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on December 1984A seminar discussing the energy-saving potential of A-C variable speed electric drives for shipboard pumps, fans, hoists and winches was recently held in New York City by Reliance Electric Company. The one-day seminar provided information about A-C variable speed drive and energy efficient mo
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on December 1984A recent meeting of the New York Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers was held at the American Bureau of Shipping Building, a new location for the Section's meetings. A paper titled "Criteria for Capacity Certification of Drydocks and Significance of C
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on December 1984Tracor Hydronautics recently delivered a Part Task Training Aid Marine Simulator to the Panama Canal Commission. The simulator is now located in Balboa, Republic of Panama. It will be used as part of an overall program in the training of pilots for the Panama Canal in ship handling. The sim
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on December 1984To obtain approval of the Norwegian Maritime Directorate for use of its buoys in the North Sea, Seaward International, Inc. recently held collision trials of one of its Sea Float buoys in Stavanger, Norway. The buoy tested was an anchor pendant buoy of 20,000 pounds or 9 tons net buoyancy—ha
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on December 1984A new 16-page four-color brochure on Denny Brown folding fin stabilizers is being offered free by Jered Brown Brothers Inc. of Troy, Mich. Filled with photos, illustrations, charts, features and benefits of the Brown Brothers complete system of folding fin stabilization, the publication sta
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on December 1984The Surface Effect Ship M/V Margaret Jill, built by Bell Halter Inc., was recently christened by her namesake, Mrs. Margaret Jill Hart, wife of an Offshore GAC Services, Ltd. executive. The ceremony was conducted aboard the vessel, which was docked at the Louisiana World Exposition following
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on December 1984Until now, ice, bad weather and poor visibility made navigation dangerous, and at times, impossible. A remarkable new breakthrough called the VIEWNAV™System makes navigation easier, safer and more efficient everyday, even in the worst weather with zero visibility, even when ice causes the re
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on December 1984Tom Collins, president of Desco Marine, Inc. of St. Augustine, Fla., recently announced that the yard has been chosen by Malvin Kvilhaug to build a 107-foot steel fish boat for his Michigan Fishing Corporation. The contract is for a combination scallop dredge and stern dragger to be named Co
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on December 1984Tacoma Boatbuilding Co. announced recently that an initial down payment has been received on a contract with All American Fisheries, Inc., a San Francisco-based fishing company, for the construction of a 5,000-gross-ton 367-footlong Surimi fishing processing trawler. The vessel, which has a
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on December 1984Responding to demands for high reliability mixing seals in aggressive high pressure environments, the Engineered Products Division of EG & G Sealol has developed a seal system with demonstrated service times of 12 to 18 months mean time between maintenance (MTBM). The system is capable of ha
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on December 1984Keel-laying for MCM-3 Sentry, took place recently at Peterson Builders, Inc., Sturgeon Bay, Wise. This ceremony marked the second keel-laying of the three mine countermeasure ships under contract with the Naval Sea Systems Command at PBI. In addition to the MCM construction contracts, Peter
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on December 1984—Literature Available To date some 600 units of the Krupp MaK successful M551/M552 series diesel engines have been manufactured at the factory in Kiel, and another 35 engines have been produced by the licensee UBE Industries in Japan, with a total output of 3 million bhp. These engines have
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on November 15, 1984The rig transporter vessel Ferncarrier (shown above), operated by Dyvi Heavy Lift of Oslo, recently completed her fourth transport of a semisubmersible drilling unit, the Penrod 73, from California to the Gulf of Mexico via the Strait of Magellan. This latest voyage took just over 42 days, dis
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on November 15, 1984—Free Brochure Available The new rasterscan 8600 ARPA manufactured by Krupp Atlas Elektronik has been given type approval by the U.K. Department of Transport following evaluation by the Admiralty Surface Weapons Establishment. One of the most advanced ARPAs now available, the 8600 is one of f