Maritime Reporter 1980 Articles
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on November 15, 1980The latest delivery made by Delaware Marine & Manufacturing Company is the stern trawler American Eagle, built for Jack and Adele Daab of Howard Beach, N.Y. The new vessel is 78 feet overall, with a 23-foot beam and 9-foot 5-inch draft fully loaded. The hull is plated with A-36 grade steel
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on November 15, 1980The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has published the 1980 edition of Rules for Building Building and Classing Mobile Offshore Drilling Units. The "Rules" will be applicable to units contracted after November 1, 1980. In this third edition, there is a new appendix containing specific mat
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on November 15, 1980The fall meeting of the Great Lakes and Great Rivers Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers was held recently at the Kahler Motel, Hibbing, Minn. Total attendance was 80 members and guests. During the technical session, slides and detailed explanations were provided
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on November 15, 1980Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Company, Ltd. (MESCO) was recently awarded orders for a semisubmersible type and a jackup type offshore oil drilling rig, as well as a semisubmersible offshore accommodation platform. The order for the semisubmersible oil drilling rig was received, with the
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on November 15, 1980The government-owned Mexican shipbuilding company Astilleros Unidos de Veracruz (AUVER) has placed a multimilliondollar order with the Swedish welding group ESAB for the supply of a mechanized panel-production line and associated web-production and treatment lines to the new shipyard at San
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on November 15, 1980It appears that however big you are, and however much oil you have, you still have to worry about how much oil you are burning in your boilers. Some major oil companies, although they deal in larger quantities of this precious resource than most companies, also are making the most stringent
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on November 15, 1980Dravo SteelShip Corporation, Pine Bluff, Ark., has been awarded a contract to design and construct two 85-foot by 30-foot by 10-foot towboats for A&G Transportation Company of Chickasaw, Ala. The towboats are designed with an 8-foot draft and 26-foot eye level. These vessels are to be equip
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on November 15, 1980Coordinated Caribbean Transport, Inc. (CCT), a wholly owned subsidiary of Transway International Corporation, has placed a $22-million order for a roll-on/ roll-off trailership with Jos. L. Meyer shipyard in Papenburg, West Germany. Delivery is scheduled for August 1981, according to John W
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on November 15, 1980The full meeting of the International Maritime Industries Forum (IMIF) held in London recently has elected Dr. Helmut Sohmen as its new chairman. Dr. Sohmen is chairman of Marine Navigation Company, the U.K. affiliate of Sir Yue-Kong Pao's World-Wide Shipping Group, the world's largest inde
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on November 15, 1980Watts Regulator Company now has available full-port, flanged carbon and stainless-steel ball valves in 150 and 300 ANSI class —2, 3, 4, and 6-inch. These competitively priced valves conform to requirements of API 607, and grounded ball and stem, tapped actuator mounting holes, and glass-rei
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on November 15, 1980Robert W. Maceluch has been named controller of the Ryan- Walsh Stevedoring Company, Inc. and its subsidiaries. He will occupy offices in the Ryan-Walsh Center in Mobile, Ala. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Maceluch served as a consultant to Ryan-Walsh with the accounting firm of Pannell, Ke
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on November 15, 1980There is a new awareness of the need for improved steering gear reliability on tankships. This awareness has arisen as a result of recently proposed regulations and standards published by the U. S. Coast Guard and the Inter- Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization (IMCO). Prominent
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on November 15, 1980Recent christening in New Orleans marked the completion of two new dredges for the growing private industry fleet. The cuttersuction drdege Bill James and the split-hull hopper dredge Atchafalaya are being place in service by Louisiana-based T.L. James & Company, Inc., and Gulf Coast Traili
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on November 15, 1980Paul I. Beining, president of CDI Marine Company, Jacksonville, Fla., has announced an important change in executive management of the company. James M. Dunford, who had been executive vice president, has assumed the position of assistant to the president, and Dr. James R. Wilkins Jr. will
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on November 15, 1980Fabrisil is the trade name for a family of fiberglass textile insulation offering exceptional versatility to industry in temperature control applications to 1,000 F. Introduced by HITCO, the woven glass family complements the company's existing line of Refrasil engineered silica textiles fo
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on November 15, 1980The recently delivered Jeanne Marie is the first of three sister vessels to be built for Archway Fleeting and Harbor Services of St. Louis, Mo., by Marine Builders, Clarksville, Ind. Powered by a matched pair of Cummins KT- 2300-M diesels generating a combined 1,400 bhp at 1,800 rpm, the Je
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on November 15, 1980Campbell Industries of San Diego launched the new tuna superseiner Kukulkan recently, adding impetus to the rapidly developing fisheries of Mexico. She is the first of two such seiners ordered by Atunera del Carmen, an association of veteran fishing people in the state of Campeche. Kukulkan
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on November 1980A new line of high-performance marine radars has been introduced by Si-Tex at Clearwater, Fla. Si-Tex Koden Model 3 has 3 kw of power, two pulse lengths, and generates clear sharp targets over x/4- to 24-m:le range. Model 9 has 6 kw of power, three pulse lengths, and seven range scales f r
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on November 1980The Facet Mark V ballast monitor is said to be the only U.S.- made ballast monitor that meets IMCO requirements and is certified by the United States Coast Guard under the c e r t i f i c a t i on number 162.050/5005/0. The sensing module of the ballast monitor continuously monitors the oil
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on November 1980Donald J. Duffy has been appointed the Port of Oakland's manager of the Midwest Region, based in Chicago, it was announced recently by Ted Connolly, president of the Oakland Board of Port Commissioners. In his new position, Mr. Duffy will be r e s p o n s i b l e f o r promoting the port's