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on December 15, 1981The Maritime Administration has approved in principle an application for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the reconstruction of the 264,000-dwt tankers Massachusetts, New York, and Maryland to comply with the Port and Tanker Safety Act of 1978. Each of the vessels was built with the
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on December 1981Joseph T. Lykes Jr. will retire at year-end as chairman and chief executive officer of Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., a subsidiary of The LTV Corporation. He will be succeeded as chief executive officer by W. James Amoss Jr., president of the company. Mr. Lykes has served the New Orleans-
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on December 1981Commissioning ceremonies for the highspeed nuclear-powered attack submarine USS La Jolla (SSN 701) were held recently at the Naval Submarine Base, New London, Conn. The La Jolla — named after the city in California — is the ninth of the Los Angelesclass attack submarines to have been built an
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on December 1981The third ship in a new class of U.S. Navy guided missile destroyers, the most formidable surface ships of their size now joining the Navy, was commissioned recently at Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries, Pascagoula, Miss. An additional ship of the class, USS Chandler (DDG 996
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on December 1981A new product brochure on the Allied Water/SweetWater reverse osmosis water maker is now available f r om Allied Water Corporation of Walworth, Wis. According to Bob Daniels, vice president, the R/O brochure thoroughly describes the reverse osmosis process c o m p l e t e with membrane illu
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on December 1981The appointment of A1 Spaete to the position of manager of the newly established engine repair division was announced by Edward Renshaw, president of St. Louis Ship. At the same time, Mr. Renshaw announced the appointment of James V. Bishop as administrative manager of the division. The en
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on December 1981The Canadian Shipbuilding and Ship Repairing Association announces that plans are complete for the 34th annual technical conference to be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on March 2, 1981. The meetings actually begin on Monday, March 1, with closed session meetings
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on December 1981The centennial observance of the founding of the naval architecture and marine engineering programs at the University of Michigan was linked with the recently held fall meeting of the Great Lakes and Great Rivers section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. Five technica
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on December 1981The U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command awarded a contract valued at $12.6 million to Uniflite, Inc., Bellingham, Wash., fiberglass boat manufacturer, for the construction of 38 trailerable 36-foot Seafox special warfare craft, according to James J. Doud Jr., Uniflite president. The smallest com
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on December 1981Paducah Marine Ways has announced its intention to construct a new fabrication shop and also an adjoining propeller repair shop in order to modernize and improve the efficiency of its efforts on the Ohio River for the marine industry. The total of 14,000- square-foot facilities will be const
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on December 1981Brown & Root Norge A / S was recently awarded a contract by Dansk Boreselskab A / S (Danbor) of Denmark for the installation of in-field pipelines in the Danish sector of the North Sea f o r the Danish Undergrounds Consortium's gas development project. Commencing in May 1982 the contract co
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on December 1981The Philadelphia Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers held its October meeting at the Engineers' Club in center city, Philadelphia. About 70 members and guests turned out f o r the presentation of a paper on an interesting aspect of the use of the handheld compute
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on December 1981Japan's six largest shipping companies plan to invest more than $3.4 billion in construction of 83 new cargo vessels during the next three years, according to the Japan development Bank (JDB). The construction will consist mainly of carriers of non-oil energy resources, presumably coal car
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on December 1981The Maritime Subsidy Board has approved a Farrell Lines Incorporated request to charter the Austral Lightning and Austral Rainbow to the Military Sealift Command (MSC) for two years with three ore-year optional extensions. The 820-foct, 29,800-dwt barge and container carriers were built wit
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on December 1981The 38-foot aluminum crewboat Matmar Drill III was delivered recently by Kings Craft, Inc., Florence, Ala., to Matagorda Marine Drilling Company of Corpus Christi, Texas. She is the third of four aluminum vessels built at the yard for the same owner. All four boats are 38 feet long by 13-f
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on December 1981Bergeron Marine, Inc., Port Bienville, Miss., recently delivered the Tide Mar 34, a 10,500- barrel-capacity tank barge, to Tidewater Marine Service, Inc. of New Orleans, La. Tidewater Marine is the marine subsidiary of Tidewater Inc. The barge measures 160 feet long, 42 feet wide, 12 feet d
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on December 1981T h e M i l i t a r y Sealift Command's emergency cargo lift force was strengthened when the Navy recently accepted from Sea-Land Industries the third of six of the fastest and largest containerships in the U.S.-flag merchant fleet. The three 33-knot SL-7 containerships are part of a six-shi
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on December 1981Peter J. West has joined Transway International Corporation, New York, N.Y., as vice president- operations, a newly created position, it was announced recently. Mr. West has corporate staff responsibility for marine transportation, truck trailer manufacturing, and liquefied petroleum gas op
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on November 15, 1981The Hawaii Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers held its first meeting of the 1981-82 season recently at the Cannon Club, on the Lanai, Fort Ruger, under the chairmanship of Dr. Manley St. Denis. A paper entitled "High-Speed Catamaran Hydrofoils" was delivered by
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on November 15, 1981Capt. James S.C. Chao, president and managing director of Foremost Maritime Corporation, New York, N.Y., a company he helped to found in 1964, recently received the Medal of Honor f r om St. John's University, Queens, N.Y. The medal was presented by the Very Rev. Joseph T. Cahill, C.M., at