Short 1986 Articles
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on December 1986Honeywell's offshore business has sold its first HydroStar Plus subsea tracking and relocation system to the Naval Ocean Systems Center (NOSC) in Hawaii after a successful performance demonstration in customer- funded sea trials. Testing was conducted onboard a 48-foot vessel using a gimball
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on December 1986According to service officials, the Navy hopes the benefits of competition will make it feasible to finally link warships with a jam-proof highspeed data system. The Navy is laying plans to open to competition its sophisticated AN/WSC-6 communications system. Plans call for holding the compe
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on December 1986awarded to the Frederick, Md.- based Airflow Company by the Navy Regional Contracting Center. The contract, awarded to Airflow's IMP AC Division, calls for the manufacture and delivery of eleven 75- ton air conditioning units. Airflow Company's air conditioners will provide dockside environm
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on December 1986The first seawater hydraulic multi- function tool system ever developed for Navy divers has been approved for Navy use by the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA). The acceptance marks the culmination of a major 10-year research and development effort by the Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory
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on December 1986Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point shipbuilding yard, which has received two repair contracts under a limited expansion of the Navy's homeport rule, will be eligible for all Navy contracts. Representative Helen Delich Bentley, who played a pivotal role in getting the Reagan Administration to
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on December 1986Members of the Maine and New Hampshire Congressional delegations have announced a $240 million program to modernize Portsmouth Navy Shipyard. Some 600 employees were laid off or retired from the yard earlier this year as competition among Navy-owned shipyards heated up. The project will con
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on December 1986A new hardcover book, "Always Good Ships," takes a retrospective look at Newport News Shipbuilding, listing and describing the colorful histories of more than 500 ships built by the famous Virginia shipyard during its first century of operation. Author William A. Fox, a naval architect and n
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on November 1986Wilton-Fijenoord B.V. in Schie- dam, Netherlands, has booked an order valued at Dfl 60 million (about $26.7 million) for the con- struction of two Customs Patrol Vessels for the Republic of China (Taiwan). These ships will have an overall length of 214.56 feet, beam of 31.5 feet, and full-lo
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on November 1986Resistoflex, a recognized leader in the aerospace industry, now offers its high-performance fluid connectors for militiary marine use. From initial design to actual installation installation, Resistoflex integrates high technology with operational requirements to meet high-temperature, high
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on November 1986In what is Denmark's first major shipbuilding contract in almost two years, A.P. Moller of Copenhagen recently ordered five new ships from the Odense Steel Shipyard. The order, for two 50,000-dwt products carriers and three 3,000- TEU containerships, is thought to be worth about $150 million
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on November 1986A 200+ page report providing the most comprehensive assessment yet made of the marine market will be published in December by International Maritime Associates, Inc. The report assesses the growth to occur in the future U.S. commercial marine and naval market. Its intended users are marketin
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on November 1986R. R a l p h Helm, president and chief operating officer of The Manitowoc Company, Inc., has appointed R a y m o n d J. W a c h t as vice president and general manager of the company's Manitex Inc. and Manimex S.A. de C.V. subsidiaries. Located in McAllen, Texas, and Reynosa, Mexico, respect
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on November 1986Alan Revington was recently named general manager and a member of the board of directors of Volvo Penta of America. Robert Bridge has taken a position in corporate finance with Volvo North America Corporation and will remain on the board of directors for Volvo Penta of America. Mr. Revingto
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on November 1986Riley-Beaird, Inc., one of the leaders in the field of seawater distillation and a major supplier of heat recovery evaporators with capacities of up to 30,000 gpd, recently introduced the Maxim® HJ and TCF Series heat recovery evaporators. These standard, field-proven designs now offer a wid
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on November 1986The South Korean yard Hyundai was awarded the contract to lengthen four Atlantic Container Line (ACL) roll-on/roll-off containerships employed on the North Atlantic, it was recently confirmed by ACL. The U.K. shipyard Scott Lithgow is expected to have the contract to stretch a fifth ship, t
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on November 1986Penske GM Power, Ronkonkoma, N.Y., recently introduced its new computerized monitor, the Penske Onboard Diagnostic System. The Penske system, available for all Penske Single Turbocharged engines, is a small (6 inches by 3 inches) microprocessor controlled, solid-state computer. Utilizing a
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on November 1986The first meeting of the 86-87 season for the Los Angeles Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers was held at the princess Louise II Restaurant in San Pedro. The author, Thomas R. Junod, marine and offshore manager of Equipment Engineering Inc. of Costa
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on November 1986Parametrics, a unit of ASEA, Orange, Conn., is offering free two new recently published color brochures of ParaJust Gx, a third generation AC motor speed control. Now available from 3 through 30 hp, ParaJust Gx controls are, according to the manufacturer, the most versatile and reliable cont
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on November 1986—Free Literature Available The full line of Swagelok "QT" Series Quick-Connects, in sizes from 1/8" to 3/4", is now available with "keyed" bodies and stems from Crawford Fitting Company, Solon, Ohio. A positive mechanical lockout system allows "keyed" bodies to couple only with matching "ke
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on November 1986—Literature Available M.E.K. Equipment, Inc. of Newport News, Va., has recently announced the availability of their new crane bumpers. The crane bumpers are made of foamed polyurethane, a process that allows much lower deceleration and therefore better protection of the equipment being stop