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on May 1990Furmanite, an international maintenance service company with corporate headquarters and technical technical center in Virginia Beach, Va., is offering a free brochure describing machines and services available from the company. The publication asserts that Furmanite's series of machine tool
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on May 1990Installation of a Protective Sealing System aboard the jumboized oiler USNS Mispillion was recently completed in San Francisco, Calif., by L&C Associates, Inc. of North Hampton, N.H. The Mispillion, assigned National Defense Reserve status, must conform to a rigorous reactivation schedule w
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on May 1990Wilson & Hayes Inc., a manufacturer of shipboard furniture, has passed 55 years of business. The company manufactures furniture to any specification—Navy, Coast Guard, Maritime Administration, NOAA—as well as for commercial marine projects, offshore oil drilling, the fishing industry, and fe
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on May 1990The U.S. Army has awarded Moss Point Marine, Inc., Escatawpa, Miss., a $10-million contract to build the fifth of a new class of 274- foot Logistics Support Vessels (LSV). The new ship will actually be built by a sister company in the Trinity Marine Group, Halter Marine at Moss Point, Miss.
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on May 1990Propulsion Controls Engineering (PCE), San Diego, Calif., has received a contract for the installation of new pneumatic systems on 18 of the U.S. Navy's LST Class ships. PCE president John P. Reilly said the new contract calls for removal of the original equipment and installation of new sys
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on May 1990Wartsila Marine Inc. of Vancouver, Canada, together with Wartsila Diesel Inc. recently completed a design and construction supervision contract for a 40-MW floating power plant. In order to meet the very short design and procurement time, the program was broken into two phases: Phase I—Barge C
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on May 1990The Webb Institute of Naval Architecture, located in Glen Cove, N.Y., has received an endowment for the establishment of a professorship to be named the "Mandell and Lester Rosenblatt Professor of Marine Engineering." Lester Rosenblatt, chairman and chief executive officer of M. Rosenblatt and
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on May 1990Robert A. Guthans, president and chief executive officer of Mobile, Alabama-based Midstream Fuel Services, Inc., and its two subsidiary companies, Tenn-Tom Towing Company, and Petroleum Energy Products Company, was elected chairman of the board of the American Waterways Operators (AWO)—the nat
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on May 1990U.S. oil producer Conoco Inc., Houston, Texas, recently ordered two double-hulled 95,000-ton tankers from South Korean Samsung Shipbuilding & Engineering for operation in the Gulf of Mexico. The double-hull tanker contract represents a break by Conoco from other U.S. oil firms, which have r
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on May 1990MagneTek, Inc., a leading manufacturer of electrical equipment, recently announced that MagneTek ALS received an order from Peterson Builders Inc. (PBI) for equipment exceeding $2.8 million. MagneTek ALS will provide the shipbuilding company with nine SCR motor drives and six solid state pu
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on December 1989Rear Adm. Oscar Hughes, project leader with overall responsibility for the Royal Australian Navy's new submarine project, recently visited Sweden's Hedemora Diesel AB to test-start a prototype engine that is one of a series of engines intended for six submarines. The order, which includes a to
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on December 1989Autronica has received the order for GL-90 radar-based level gaging systems for the 56,000 m^ LPG/ NH3/VCM carriers ordered at the Kvaerner Govan yard in Glasgow. The system will measure the level in eight cargo tanks and is connected to an Autronica alarm and control system covering the car
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on December 1989The U.S. Coast Guard has awarded Caterpillar a $5.7-million contract to repower 43 cutters with Cat 3412 marine engines and Twin Disc 518-M marine gears. Each 83- foot patrol boat uses two of the Cat engines, each rated at 750 hp. The contract also calls for one additional engine with gear t
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on December 1989Avondale Industries, Inc. has been awarded a $23-million contract to enlarge an auxiliary oiler of the AO-177 Class. The award is the result of the Navy exercising an option in the contract Avondale received on July 15, 1988 which provided for jumboizing two oilers with options for two addi
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on December 1989The Maritime Administration's proposed rule making it clear that certain vessel repairs performed in foreign shipyards may qualify for subsidy is opposed by U.S. shipbuilders. John J. Stocker, president of the Shipbuilders Council of America, said in a recent letter that the proposed rule is
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on December 1989Clifton Special Devices division of Litton has developed and is producing an emergency rescue beacon that can help rescuers locate vessels at sea to within one mile. Litton's Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon can automatically transmit an emergency radio signal to polar-orbiting sat
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on December 1989Christening ceremonies were recently held at the Shipyards Division of Avondale Industries, Inc., for the seventh in a series of seven fleet oilers under construction by the Louisiana builder. The USNS Pecos (T-AO-197) is 667 feet long, 97 feet wide and has a maximum draft of 36 feet. Her mi
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on December 1989The U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command (MSC) recently christened the ocean survey ship USNS Tanner (T-AGS-40) at ceremonies at Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Sparrows Point, Md., shipyard. Rear Adm. Richard F. Pittenger, Oceanographer of the Navy, was the principal speaker. The Honorable M
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on December 1989William W. Fox has been promoted to executive vice president and general manager of Manitowoc Engineering Co., a division of The Manitowoc Company, Inc. Mr. Fox succeeds Ralph E. Feiertag, who recently retired as president of Manitowoc Engineering. In his new position, Mr. Fox will oversee
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on October 1989General Instrument Corporation's Defense Systems Group recently announced that their Government Systems Division received a $3.4-million award from a foreign nation for spares and support equipment for their ALR-606(V)2 ESM System. The fully automatic ALR- 606(V)2 ESM System performs over-