Short 1985 Articles
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on March 1985Thomas J. Johnson has been named director of marketing for Bulkfleet Marine Corporation, an operating unit of the Houston-based Signet Corporation, J. Barry Snyder, president and CEO of Signet, announced recently. Mr. Johnson will supervise marketing activities and will be involved in new b
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on March 1985Rolls-Royce Holdings Canada Limited, which controls the activities of the Rolls-Royce Group in that country, has been renamed Rolls-Royce Industries Canada Inc. According to company chairman W.J. Mandry, "This new name offers a far more specific and descriptive identity for Rolls-Royce's di
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on March 1985Piatt Bros. & Company of Waterbury, Conn., has announced that it will soon assume complete responsibility for marketing, sales, and manufacturing of steel-cored, zinc ribbon anodes identical to those formerly marketed by Federated Metals Corporation under the trade name Diamond Line®, which
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on March 1985CG-49 Vincennes third of 12 Aegis guidedmissile cruisers ordered by the U.S. Navy for construction at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss., has completed her initial at-sea testing in preparation for commissioning on July 6. The new ship is equipped with the Aegis weapons system, the mos
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on March 1985The 27,622-dwt bulk carrier Sanko Daring (shown above) was delivered recently by Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Company's Tomano Works to Panamanian owner Kisogawa Maritime S.A. She is the first of six sister ships ordered from MES by Kisogawa. Built to Nippon Kaiji Kyokai classification,
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on February 15, 1985Morris Guralnick Associates, Inc. (MGA) has been awarded two contracts under which the San Francisco- based firm of naval architects and marine engineers will assist with the engineering and design phase in the conversion and modification of two ships to be operated by the Military Sealift C
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on February 15, 1985Island Research and Development Corporation of Victoria, British Columbia, has ordered a Boeing Marine Systems Jetfoil hydrofoil for use in marine research tasks. The approximate value of the sale is $24 million. Jetfoil is Boeing's trade mark name for its computerized hydrofoil. The Jetfoil
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on February 15, 1985The Maritime Administration has given its approval for United States Lines, Inc. to acquire the ships and other assets of Delta Steamship Lines, Inc. Under the agreement, USL will buy the 11 existing Delta ships and will charter the three being built at the Odense Shipyard in Denmark for Cro
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on February 15, 1985The U.S. Navy has awarded contracts valued at a total of some $82.5 million for the purchase of 11 commercial cargo ships that will be assigned to the Ready Reserve Fleet. Lykes Bros. Steamship Company will sell five breakbulk ships— the Dolly Turman, Frederick Lykes, Howell Lykes, Mason Lyk
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on February 15, 1985Two changes in top management positions have been announced by James A. Kolinski, president of Lister Diesels Inc. of Olathe, Kan. J. Leo Amor has been appointed vice president marketing services. He will be responsible for all internal sales activities including sales administration, parts
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on February 15, 1985A six-page brochure that explains the features of the high-capacity "DEB line" of centrifugal pumps is available from FMC Coffin® Turbo Pump Division, FMC Corporation. The brochure includes the two highest capacity Turbo Pumps offered by FMC: the Type DEB 16, with pump capacity to 1,100 gpm,
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on February 15, 1985Gerald J. St. Pe, an executive at Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Litton Industries for the past 20 years, has been elected president of the division, located in Pascagoula, Miss. He succeeds Leonard Erb, a senior vice president of Litton, who will continue in his position as the corporate
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on February 15, 1985Tracor Applied Sciences, Inc., a subsidairy of Tracor, Inc., has received a $16-million contract from Waterway Communications System, Inc., according to an announcement by Tracor group vice president William C. Moyer. The contract covers construction and installation of a new, automated rad
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on February 15, 1985The 68,082-dwt bulk carrier Century Progress was delivered recently by the Tamano Works of Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Company, Ltd. to Kohoi Shipping Company of Hong Kong. Built to Lloyd's Register of Shipping classification, the new bulker has an overall length of 730.7 feet, beam of
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on February 15, 1985The Falk Corportion of Milwaukee and Zahnraderfabrik Renk AG of Augsburg, West Germany have announced the signing of a license agreement for reverse-reduction drives. Falk will have exclusive manufacturing, sales, and distribution rights in the U.S. for the Renk Series AWS drives. In additio
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on February 15, 1985Joseph Maurelli, chairman and president of Techmatics, Inc., has appointed Walter S. Szczypinski as vice president of the engineering services company located in Arlington, Va. He joined the firm after 25 years of commissioned service in the U.S. Navy as an engineering specialist. He has fil
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on February 15, 1985John B . Chaplin, formerly vice president of engineering at Bell's New Orleans Operations, has been promoted to vice president for development of Bell Aerospace Textron. He began his career with Bell in Buffalo in 1962, and was named program director for surface elfect ships. In 1969, with t
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on February 15, 1985Lester Rosenblatt, chairman of M. Rosenblatt & Son, Inc., naval architects and marine engineers with headquarters in New York City, has announced the recent promotions of two long-time key employees to vice presidential positions. Carmine Laviola, formerly assistant design manager for the Eas
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on February 15, 1985Construction of a 4,000-cubic-yard hopper dredge is progressing on schedule at Twin City Shipyard (TCS) in St. Paul, Minn. The 8,000- bhp vessel for Gulf Coast Trailing Company of New Orleans is being designed and constructed by TCS using the latest modular and zone construction methods. TCS
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on February 15, 1985Sea-Land Service, Inc., has announced the promotion of Tom Coburn to area manager, and the naming of Jay Dee Martin as port manager in Anchorage, Alaska. Mr. Coburn will oversee sales and marketing in Alaska's Railbelt, and will supervise Sea- Land's Railbelt area operations. For the past two