Maritime Reporter 1980 Articles
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on January 1980E. Whitney Olson has been named president of Willamette Tug & Barge Co., a major Portland, Ore.-based ship assist, general towing and barging, and oilbarging firm which operates in the Ports of Portland, and Vancouver, Wash. He also serves as Group vice president-Marine S e r v i c e s for
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on January 1980Benjamin C. Martino has been appointed assistant general manager of Todd Shipyards Corporation's Galveston (Texas) Division, it was announced recently by Robert D. Hesley, general manager of that division. Mr. Martino has over 30 years' experience in shipbuilding and ship repair. Prior to j
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on January 1980The S t a n w i c k C o r p o r a t i o n, Washington, D.C., has announced the forming of a joint company with Vickers Canada Inc. The new company, Vickers-Stanwick Systems Inc., is a Canadian entity being 51 percent owned by Vickers and 49 percent owned by Stanwick. Operating out of its ne
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on January 1980Effective immediately, General Electric's Ground Systems Department will operate with a new name: Simulation and Control Systems Department. Formed originally to provide ground systems support for the Apollo Space Program, the Daytona Beach, Fla., facility has successfully re-directed its p
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on January 1980European and Asian customers have ordered seven cargo ships worth £42 million from U.K. shipbuilders Austin and Pickersgill during December 1979. The latest orders are f r om Greek operators for two 14,000- ton SD14 cargo carriers to be completed by the second half of 1980 at Austin and Pic
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on January 1980Electro-Nav president Robert E. Negron announced recently that his company has been granted exclusive rights to market the Elektrisk Bureau (EB) SATURN satcom in the U.S. SATURN furnishes fast contact, round-the-world range, clear reception, and economical operation. It handles telephone co
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on January 1980National Marine Services Incorporated, St. Louis, Mo., has announced the appointment of four manufacturers agents for its line of oil/water separators which control water pollution and recover reusable oils. Tate Engineering, Inc., with offices in West Conshohocken, Pa., and Baltimore, Md.,
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on January 1980Centrifuges are becoming increasingly important on shipboard due to the need for clean fuel oil and other oils at sea. As a result, centrifuges themselves are becoming more s o p h i s t i c a t e d to meet these needs. De Laval Separator Company, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., r e p o r t s a growing
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on January 1980The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Alumni Association has named George A. Uberti of San Diego, Calif., as its 1979 Marine Man of the Year. Mr. Uberti, a 1948 Academy graduate, c u r r e n t l y serves as chief marine engineer at the National Steel and S h i p b u i l d i ng Company in San Die
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on January 1980The DeoLinda, a 224-foot, 1,200-ton tuna seiner, was launched into the waters of the Sabine Neches Channel at Burton Shipyard, Inc., recently after being christened by its namesake, Mrs. Deolinda Medeiros, wife of the DeoLinda's skipper, Raymond Medeiros, and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Christin
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on January 1980The second boat in a new class of pilot launches has been delivered to the Lakes Pilots of Port Huron, Mich, by Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding Corporation of Somerset, Mass. The Pilot Association's Captains Greene and MacDermid made the 1,000-mile delivery trip from Somerset to Port Huron, tr
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on January 1980James J. Convy, chairman of the board, Gibbs & Cox, Inc., New York, N.Y., one of the nation's leading independent naval architectural firms, recently announced the appointment of Capt. Robert E. Stark as assistant vice president. Captain Stark joined Gibbs & Cox, Inc. in 1972, after completi
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on January 1980The 7th Ocean Energy Conference, sponsored by the Ocean Systems Branch, U.S. Department of Energy, will be held June 2 through 5, 1980, at the Shoreham Americana Hotel in Washington, D.C. The theme will be "Ocean Energy — A Time for Action." The conference will address the many facets of oc
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on January 1980The Marine and Rail Equipment Division of FMC Corporation, Portland, Ore., received a c o n t r a c t r e c e n t l y from Puget Sound Freight Lines, Inc., Seattle, Wash., for construction of an oceangoing deckhouse barge. The 253-foot barge has a 4,400- ton capacity to carry newsprint and
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on January 1980The Stanwick merchant ship maintenance system will be installed on four of the largest ships in the world, according to Robert Apple, president of The Stanwick Company Division of The Stanwick C o r p o r a t i o n , Washington, D.C. Exxon International Company has awarded the contract to d
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on January 1980Valmet Shipbuilding, Helsinki, Finland, has received an order for an 11,500-dwt tanker. The new vessel, scheduled for delivery late in 1981, has been ordered by Oy Shell Ab, the Finnish subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell. This is the second order for Finland placed by the Shell Group. In June,
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on January 1980The 24th ship of the series of 31 Spruanceclass destroyers designed and being built by Litton Industries' Ingalls Shipbuilding Division was commissioned into active U.S. Navy service in Pascagoula, Miss., recently. The 7,800-ton, 563-foot-long Harry W. Hill (DD-986), under command of Comdr. J
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on January 1980S.G. (Gus) Dever has been named vice president of Colmac Coil Manufacturing by Roger Mc- Millan, president of Colmac Industries, Inc. Colmac Coil Manufacturing is a wholly owned subsidiary of Colmac Industries and is a major manufacturer of heating and refrigeration coils. Mr. Dever comes
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on January 1980The 17,723-dwt product carrier Pertamina 1020 was delivered recently to her owner, Scorpa Pranedya Navigation, Inc. of Liberia. The ship was constructed at the Hiroshima Works (Innoshima) of Hitachi Zosen. The Pertamina 1020 (shown above) is the first of two product carriers of the same type
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on January 1980David H. Klinges, vice president in charge of shipbuilding, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Bethlehem, Pa., recently announced a reorganization of the department, effective December 1, 1979. Continuing to head the shipbuilding executive offices are Mr. Klinges and John C. Estes, assistant vice