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on November 1991C h a n t i e r Naval Matane of Mantane, Quebec, Canada, recently delivered a 78-passenger day tourist vessel, the Felix-LeClerc, to the Agences Touristiques de Gaspe Group, Gaspe, Quebec. Designed by Paul-Andre White Ing., Lac Beauport, Quebec, the vessel has a length of 58 feet, breadth o
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on November 1991Miami-based Commodore Cruise Lines recently awarded a contract to Bailey Refrigeration Co., Inc. of Avenel, N.J., to design, build and deliver a 375-ton air conditioning chiller pack for their S/S Enchanted Seas. Replacing an obsolete centrifugal system, the new system consists of an innova
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on November 1991Bird-Johnson Company, Walpole, Mass., has named Peter Lapp general manager for its Gulf Coast Operations. He will be responsible for Bird-Johnson's propeller foundry facility located in Pascagoula, Miss., and propeller repair facilities located in Mobile, Ala. James B. Travis Jr. has been n
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on November 1991Proposals to time-charter a passenger cruise ship to leave Miami on a secret mission are being solicited by the U.S. Military Sealift Command (MSC). Reportedly, the mission centers around anti-terrorist hijack training for 150 military and civilian personnel. The MSC, which would reveal few
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on November 1991Newpart Resources, Inc. recently announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Newpark Environmental Services, Inc., has added 16 additional U.S. Coast Guard certified barges to its fleet, increasing to 31 the number of vessels used exclusively for the movement of nonhazardous oil field waste.
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on November 1991Trinity Industries, Inc., has strengthened its ship repair and conversion capabilities in Beaumont, Texas, with the acquisition of a 579- foot, 15,000-ton lifting capacity floating drydock. "With this large, heavy lift drydock, we can accommodate about 90 percent of the ships and boats work
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on November 1991National Steel & Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO), San Diego, Calif., recently launched the second of three Fast Combat Support Ships (AOE s) being built by the yard of the U.S. Navy. The 754-foot supply ship was christened the USS Rainier by Suzanne Callison Dicks, the wife of Congressman Nor
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on November 1991A $1 million down payment on 1,200 acres of land is about to be put down by the state of Alaska for land on an island just offshore from Anchorage International Airport, with plans to develop a major seaport there. A letter of intent was signed recently by Alaska Governor Walter J. Hickel f
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on November 1991The USS Nitro (AE-23) recently entered the facility of New York Shipyard Corporation, Brooklyn, N.Y., for an overhaul. The ammunition ship had served in the Persian Gulf Desert Storm Operation and delivered ammunition to the battleship USS Wisconsin three days before the start of military ac
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on November 1991SPD Technologies has been awarded a $4.7 million contract from the U.S. Navy to design and manufacture new-generation molded-case solid state circuit breakers with electronic sensing and state monitoring. The new development will include the application of advanced electronic controls, high-
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on November 1991A seafood catcher/processing vessel— designed to meet the evolving needs of the fishing industry in the 1990s—was recently delivered by Tippet Marine Services, Seattle, Wash., to its owner, Ocean Peace, Inc. Previously used as a squid trawler on the U.S. East Coast and H & G trawler in Alas
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on November 1991Yacht Carriers Ltd. recently began a new scheduled service dedicated to transporting yachts between south Florida, the Mediterranean and the Caribbean. Ocean Marine Consultants and Surveyors, Inc. (OMCS), with offices in Port Everglades, Fla., and Mandelieu, France, are the exclusive worldw
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on November 1991In a recent ceremony at Ishikawajima do Brasil Estaleiros S.A. (ISHIBRAS) shipyard in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the third in a series of four 150,000-dwt tankers was christened and delivered to Chevron Corporation. Chevron's newest tanker was christened the Bruce Smart in honor of the directo
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on November 1991Keppel Philippines Shipyard, Inc. (KPSI) has enhanced its capability by adding a new 20,000-deadweight ton floating drydock to its facilities. The firm now has three docks, two others with capacities of 6,000 dwt each. Named Keppel Floating Dock No. 3, the new dock has an overall length of
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on November 1991McDermott Marine Construction's Derrick Barge 50 has installed the Production Platform No. 1 deck for Freeport-McMoRan Resource Partners Main Pass Block 299 Sulfur Project in the Gulf of Mexico, completing the western onethird of the 15-platform offshore sulfur mining complex. The complex i
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on November 1991The Westinghouse Marine Division, Sunnyvale, Calif., and New Sulzer Diesel Ltd., the latter a leading designer of diesel engines, have r e a c h e d an agreement for Westinghouse to market and manufacture slow- and medium-speed diesel marine propulsion in the United States. Westinghouse int
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on November 1991The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and a major marine terminal operator in the Port of Hamburg, Germany, have successfully linked their Electronic Data Exchange (EDI) systems to create an international interchange of oceanborne cargo information. The announcement was made by Lilli
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on November 1991Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) of Tokyo, Japan, has received a silver medal, the Stanly Gray Award and the BMEC Donald Maxwell Award in Marine Technology from the United Kingdom's Institute of Marine Engineers (I Mar E) for a paper entitled "The Development of a Contra-Rotating Propeller
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on November 1991Coast Guard aviation recently entered a new era on the West Coast with the acceptance in San Francisco of the Sikorsky HH-60J Jayhawk search-and-rescue (SAR) helicopter. From their base, the aircraft will be able to perform missions several hundred miles off the Pacific Coast between Point
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on November 1991The New York Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers recently opened its 1991/92 season at the Downtown Athletic Club in lower Manhattan. The new section chairman, Richard Gilmore, began his tenure by thanking outgoing chairman Bruce Rosenblatt for his w