Maritime Reporter 1981 Articles
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on August 15, 1981Twin Disc, Incorporated, Racine, Wis., has announced the promotion of Curtis W. Nordquist to manager-product marketing, responsible for strategic development of the company's current and future domestic product line. In addition, he will supervise the company's domestic product managers and
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on August 15, 1981H a l i f a x I n d u s t r i e s Limited, Nova Scotia, has signed its largest ever ship repair contract. The contract, worth over Canadian $1.5 million, is with Imperial Oil Ltd. for the modernization and repair of the 6,566- deadweight-ton tanker Imperial Quebec. The vessel, with a length
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on August 15, 1981Bender Shipbuilding and Repair Co., Mobile, Ala., has begun construction of a large floating drydock which will expand the yard's ship repair capabilities. The drydock will be able to handle ships up to 700 feet long and 20,000 deadweight tons. The drydock has been designed in self-sufficie
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on August 15, 1981A $70.8-million contract for the conversion of four Moore McCormack Lines, Inc., general cargo ships into self-sustaining cargo/ container vessels has been approved by the U.S. Maritime Administration. The reconstruction work, to be financed in part under the Mar Ad construction-differential
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on August 15, 1981Phoenix Management Corporation of Houston has awarded B e t h l e h em Steel Corporation's shipyard at Sparrows Point, Md., a contract for construction of a mobile offshore oil drilling rig. Announcement of the contract was made by William R. Hargrove, president of Phoenix Management, and G
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on August 15, 1981Racal-Decca Marine, Inc., a subsidiary of Racal Electronics Ltd., has announced the expansion of two facilities in the U.S. The company has relocated its Port of New York Service Center to a new and larger facility located at 70 Jackson Drive (2nd floor), Cranford, N.J. 07016. An enlarged t
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on August 15, 1981Two identical 101-foot aluminum crewboats, the Shawn (shown above) and Craig built by Halter Marine, Inc. for J.P.M. Ltd. of Ventura, Calif., are now serving Union 76 rigs in the Pacific off southern California. The boats were purchased recently from Halter's in stock building program and w
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on August 15, 1981The collier now building at General Dynamics, Quincy, Shipyard for Keystone Shipping and New England Electric is a self-unloader and the first coal burning and carrying vessel to be built in the United States in 25 years. Two 4 - f o o t - w i d e continuous conveyor belts run the full lengt
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on August 15, 1981Southern Drilling Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Marine Drilling Company, and Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Beaumont, Texas, shipyard, recently commissioned a 250-foot water depth mobile offshore drilling unit. The rig was christened J Storm XVI by its sponsor Mrs. Jack K. Larsen, w
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on August 15, 1981The Naval Civilian Administration Association's (NCAA) 35th National Conference was recently conducted in Charleston, S.C. The NCAA is a national organization of senior- level managers employed in Navy Civil Service. It has chapters at 13 Naval establishments, including seven shipyards, three
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on August 15, 1981Nashville (Tenn.) Bridge Company (NABRICO) has delivered an integrated two-barge single-skin petroleum tow to Alabama River Barge Co., Mobile, Ala. Each barge, one a lead barge and the other a trail barge, is 297 feet by 54 feet by 12 feet. Total Capacity of the two-barge tow is approximately
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on August 15, 1981Edward E. Paden, president of Levingston Industries, Inc., announced the election recently of Jesse M. Calhoon, Jim I. Graves, Ned J. Marandino, and Rear Adm. Charles N. Payne, USN (ret.) to the board of directors of Levingston Industries, Inc., a Texas-based corporation. Major operating unit
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on August 15, 1981A ring-bound, hard-cover catalog containing 130 removable pages and data sheets is being offered by the Skagit Corporation. Skagit Division of Continental Emsco Company, Sedro-Woolley, Wash., specializes in the design, development, and manufacture of a wide variety of heavy-duty equipment t
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on August 15, 1981Foss Launch & Tug Co., Seattle, Wash., announced it has received approval from the Dillingham Corporation, its parent company, to purchase three new, revolutionary Tractor Tugs, with an option for a fourth, as additions to its West Coast fleet. The new tugs will incorporate the Voith Schnei
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on August 15, 1981Avondale Shipyards, Inc., New Orleans, La., a subsidiary of Ogden Corporation, held christening ceremonies for the M/V Ogden Dynachem, the first of two 42,000- dwt chemical product carriers currently being built for Ogden Marine, Inc. Mrs. Doris Bricker, wife of William H. Bricker, chairman
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on August 15, 1981A program to test the practicality of operating diesel engines on fuel derived from coal reached a landmark recently with the operation of a Transamerica Delaval test engine on pure coal liquid at full load. Announcement of the test was made by Clinton S. Mathews, general manager of the Eng
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on August 15, 1981Kenneth Wood has been appointed president and chief executive officer of Halifax Industries Limited of Nova Scotia. He succeeds William J. Riley, who is leaving Halifax to become "more involved in offshore and other developmental activities." Mr. Wood, who has been a director of Halifax Ind
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on August 15, 1981The promotion of Larry A. Augsburger to vice president-administration was announced recently by Tenneco Oil Exploration and Production, a major operating unit of Tenneco Inc. John W. Sylvester Jr. was named to succeed Mr. Augsburger as director of employee relations. Mr. Augsburger joined T
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on August 15, 1981Acquisition of the operatingassets of Nilo Barge Line from the Olin Corp. by Dravo Corp., Pittsburgh, was announced recently by Robert Dickey III, Dravo's chairman and president. Included in the purchase are 180 dry cargo barges, four towboats, a trans-Gulf service, and related supporting a
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on August 15, 1981In the last 12 months Deutz Corporation has introduced production of air-cooled diesel engines at its Richmond, Ind., plant. Richmond now assembles the F3L 912, F4L 912, F5L 912 (automotive and marine/industrial), and F6L 912 engines. The precombustion chambered F4L 912W and F6L 912W engine