Maritime Reporter 1978 Articles
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- Engine Diagnostic System page: 37
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on July 15, 1978Today's merchant vessels are framed by the following typical parameters: tight schedules, with drastically shortened downtimes in port; high capital investments; a fuel bill which represents an important part of the overall operation costs; specialized ships with many having very powerful pr
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on July 15, 1978Butterworth Systems Inc. has developed a reliable, easily maintained stainless-steel machine designed for cleaning tanks. The l i g h t w e i g h t BUTTERWORTH ® LT tank cleaning machine uses rotating jets, which crisscross and overlap the entire inner surface of the tank. Four cycles, from
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on July 15, 1978Peter McChesney has been named director of port development for Port Everglades Authority. In announcing the appointment, Paul deMariano, port director, stated that Mr. McChesney's l o n g - t e rm executive experience with various steamship companies in the area of trade development will b
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on July 15, 1978Zapata Corporation, Zapata Tower, P.O. Box 4240, Houston, Texas 77001, announced that it has consolidated all of its fishing operations under the management of a new wholly owned subsidiary, Zapata Protein, Inc. The company said that Earl J. Conrad Jr. will be president of the new Houstonbas
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on July 15, 1978Ocean Fleets Limited's Naval Architects and Engineering Departments, Liverpool, England, have won a contract from a Mexican company to supervise the building of three ships in a Japanese shipyard. The ships are being built for Transportation Maritime Mexicana at Hitachi Shipyard, Innoshima, w
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- No. California SNAME Discusses Ships And Terminals For Nodules Mined From Deep Pacific Ocean page: 33
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on July 15, 1978Benjamin Van Cleve Andrews, naval architect, presented a paper entitled "Transport Ships and Marine Terminals for Manganese Nodules Mined from the Deep Pacific Ocean," at a recent dinner meeting of the Northern California Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, held a
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on July 15, 1978A 120,000-deadweight-ton tanker was christened at Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Chester, Pa., on June 3, 1978, by Mrs. Roger Bexon before an audience of several thousand shipyard workers and their families. Mrs. Bexon, the wife of a senior SOHIO official, christened the 869-foot tanker,
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on July 15, 1978Bird-Johnson Company, Walpole, Mass., has been awarded a contract for a 990-hp bow thruster by AmShip Division of The American Ship Building Company. The unit will be installed as a replacement on the S/S Elton Hoyt 2nd. The Hoyt, a Great Lakes bulk freighter capable of carrying 23,200 gross
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on July 15, 1978Over the past four decades, 100 million horsepower has been produced in the form of diesel engines by the Electro-Motive Division (EMD) of General Motors Corporation. The production milestone was announced by Peter K. Hoglund, vice president of General Motors and division general manager, in
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on July 15, 1978Robert L. Witt, engineering manager of the Fluid Control Division of FMC Corporation, 10516 Old Katy Road, Houston, Texas 77024, announced that William A. Gill has been named offshore engineering manager. In this newly created position, Mr. Gill's department will be responsible for the deve
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on July 15, 1978The Naval Ship Engineering Center, Philadelphia Division recently held its Annual Awards Banquet. The Joseph Cacciola Technical Achievement Award for 1977 was presented to Gilbert Carlton of the Heat Power Systems Department for his participation and management in bringing about a large Na
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on July 15, 1978Taywood-Santa Fe Limited has been awarded a contract by Shell U.K. Exploration and Production, acting on behalf of the Shell/ Esso partnership, for the project management and detailed design of the topside facilities for the North Cormorant platform in the North Sea. The detailed design wor
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on July 15, 1978Senator Gary Hart (D-Colo.), and former Senator Robert Taft Jr. (R-Ohio) have joined in drafting the 1978 edition of White Paper on Defense, entitled "A Modern Military S t r a t e g y for the United States," which calls for "new force structure, which combines smaller but more modern groun
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on July 15, 1978Johnny Conrad, president of Johnny's Propeller Shop, has announced the completion of a 5,000- square-foot addition to the company's Houma, La., facility. The company, founded in 1963 and headquartered in Morgan City, La., is one of the largest propeller repair operations in the Central Gulf
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on July 15, 1978Michael W. Marinaro has been named vice president of air power marketing at the Air Power and Construction Division of Worthington Compressors, Inc., Holyoke, Mass. In his new position, he will be responsible f o r marketing and sales activities for air compressors sold through the company'
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on July 15, 1978The annual dinner-dance of the Philadelphia Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers was held on June 3, at the Cherry Hill Inn, Cherry Hill, N.J. The formal affair was attended by 460 members and guests representing approximately 30 various organizations associated w
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on July 15, 1978A new bunkering service for vessels engaged in all types of trade has commenced in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the Natomas- Skaarup Marine Sales company of Greenwich, Conn., announced. The former bunker barge Bunker Antigua, renamed A1 Fadhili, recently arrived in Jeddah and is available to servi
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on July 15, 1978Michael Wager has been elected president and chief operating officer of the Robert H. Wager Co., Inc., Chatham, N.J., manufacturer of marine valves and smoke pollution control equipment. By action of the board of directors, Robert H. Wager Jr., president of the Wager Company since 1958, now
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on July 15, 1978Morris Guralnick Associates, Inc., San Francisco, Calif., has been awarded a contract by Bethlehem Steel Corporation to provide complete design and engineering services for a major overhaul of the USNS Albert J. Meyer. The U.S. naval vessel, a 370- foot-long, twin-screw cable layer built in
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on July 15, 1978The San Diego Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers has announced the following program for the 1978-79 season: September 20, 1978—Regular meeting of the San Diego Section. Paper: "Heavy Lift Ship Design and Costs," by Benjamin V. Andrews, consultant, Menlo Park, Cal