Maritime Reporter 1981 Articles
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on July 1981The largest tugboat ever built in the United States to run on heavy fuel oil was completed and christened recently at McDermott Shipyards' Morgan City Division in Bayou Boeff, La. The 140-foot, twin-screw Valiant (shown above) was built for Houston-based Bulkfleet Marine Corporation. She was
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on July 1981A new capability and improved fuel economy are now available to users of the model 343 pedestal crane manufactured by Skagit Division of Continental Emsco, Sedro-Woolley, Wash. The capability feature is provided by an optional remote-control console that allows an operator to better positio
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on July 1981Texaco Overseas Tankship Ltd., a wholly owned British subsidiary of Texaco Inc., has taken delivery of the 79,997-deadweightton motor tanker Texaco Westminster at the Aioi (Japan) shipyard of Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., it was announced recently. The vessel is the second
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on July 1981C.E. (Matt) Matthews has been appointed national sales manager of Morse Controls, responsible for sales of both marine and industrial products. Announcing the appointment, Terry Carrell, president of Morse, commented: "The changing nature of today's marketplace for our marine and industrial
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on July 1981The recent christening of Offshore Jupiter (shown above) was of great significance to Promet, as this is the largest rig christened to date at its yard in Jurong, Singapore. The ceremony was performed by Mrs. Audrey Richardson, wife of George T. Richardson, president and chief operating office
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on July 1981With a crack of the champagne bottle, Mrs. William T. (Eileen) Toutant recently christened the new towboat named to honor her husband at the Jeffboat, Incorporated shipyard in Jeffersonville, Ind. The new towboat, W.T. Toutant, is a 6,000-bhp vessel constructed by Jeffboat for its sister compa
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on July 1981Dome Petroleum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, has placed an order for a semisubmersible drilling rig, design GVA 4000 (shown above) with Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, U.K. Cammell Laird Shipbuilders Ltd. is a subsidiary of British Shipbuilders. The rig is of Gotaverken Arendal design GVA 4000; it wi
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on July 1981USS Acadia (AD-42), the second of four Gompers Class destroyer tenders being built by National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO), was received by the U.S. Navy recently in ceremonies at the San Diego shipyard. Capt. W. Todd Hale, USN, supervisor of shipbuilding, conversion and repair, S
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on July 1981National Marine Services, a joint venture company formed by Jackson Marine Corporation and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, will soon take delivery from Promet Private Limited, Singapore of its final order, as the last of its supply vessels, NMS 210 (shown above), was launched recently. All 10
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on July 1981Rodney E. Lay, president of Rudolph F. Matzer & Associates, Inc. of Jacksonville, Fla. has announced that the research vessel Cape Florida (shown above) has been delivered recently to the National Science Foundation. The vessel was built by Atlantic Marine, Inc. of Fort George Island, Fla., an
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on July 1981The first large-scale, floating seawater desalination plant built in Germany (shown above) was launched recently at Thyssen Nordseewerke GmbH, Emden. Mrs. Traute Matthofer, wife of the German Federal Minister of Finance, named the floating plant Meda in the presence of her husband and numerou
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on July 1981Twin City Shipyard, Inc., St. Paul, Minn., recently laid the keel far a seagoing dredge that will join the fleet of Gulf Coast Trailing Company, Kenner, La., late this year. The new dredge—to be launched under the name Mermentau—is a sister dredge of the Atchafalaya, launched last, year for Gu
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on July 1981Installed on a new 80,700-dwt tanker, the first unit of the SSG (Super-economical Shaft Generator) system developed by IHI (Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., Ltd.), Japan, has demonstrated excellent performance through the ship's official trial runs, meeting all of its design expect
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on July 1981Det norske Veritas has issued revised Rules for Classification of Mobile Offshore Units. The new edition supersedes the 1975-edition (with supplement of 1977). The major changes from the previous edition are: More severe requirements to strength of steel structures. Residual strength is req
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on July 1981Sulzer Brothers Limited, Winterthur, Switzerland, is establishing a new subsidiary company in Hong Kong, in recognition of its growing importance as a world shipping center. This will further strengthen Sulzer's position in the Far East, considering the successful activities of companies in
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on July 1981The Long Beach/Greater Los Angeles Section of the American Society of Naval Engineers held a recent regular meeting at the officers club of the Los Alamitos Armed Forces Reserve Center. Capt. J.A. Gildea, USN, Section chairman, welcomed those present and recounted several of the more meanin
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on July 1981The Marine Index Bureau, New York, the commercial depository for data concerning personnel illnesses and i n j u r i e s for the American merchant marine and affiliated industries, released its 34th annual statistical analysis recently. The analysis covers illnesses and injuries reported to
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on July 1981The bulk carrier Pride of Texas (shown above), first of a new class of U.S.-flag merchant ships, was delivered recently by Levingston Shipbuilding Company of Orange, Texas, to her owners, Asco-Falcon Shipping Company of Houston. The new ship, about 612 feet long with a beam of 93 feet and
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on July 1981The Federal Government is in the process of establishing new guidelines in administering the merchant ship financing guarantees (Title XI) program, a Commerce Department official said recently. Bruce A. McAllister, deputy assistant secretary of commerce for maritime affairs, addressed a lun
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on July 1981Gulf Fleet Marine Corporation, headquartered in New Orleans, recently announced the following appointments: Ralph A. Vaccaro Jr. has been named contracts manager and will be responsible, on a worldwide basis, for the administration, negotiation and finalization of all c o n t r a c t s . Mr