Maritime Reporter 1981 Articles
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on April 15, 1981Approximately 70 members and guests, the largest turnout ever, attended a recent meeting of the Delaware Valley Chapter of the American Society of Naval Engineers at the Officer's Club, Philadelphia Naval Base. Howard Taylor of the Philadelphia Maritime Museum made an excellent slide presentat
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on April 15, 1981The Virginia Port Authority (VPA) feels that a public coal facility capable of exporting 25-million tons annually will be adequate to meet the immediate market demand, according to J. Robert Bray, VPA executive director. After discussions with engineers and consultation with potential users of
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on April 15, 1981Choctaw D r i l l i n g Company, Houston, has applied to the Maritime Administration for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction or reconstruction of three drilling vessels. Two of the vessels are expected to be employed initially in the inland waterway of Venezuela and the
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on April 15, 1981NKK (Nippon Kokan) of Japan has developed a 35,000-dwt, standard type bulk carrier designed to meet the increasing demand for ships smaller than Panamax types. Shin-ichi Hirayama, president of NKK America Inc., said the ship will be constructed at the company's Shimizu shipyard. With a dra
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on April 15, 1981As part of its continuing program of modernization aimed toward increasing present lifting capacity to meet the technological needs of the trade, Hellenic Lines has contracted for the conversion of four ships to fully cellularized container vessels. The vessels to be converted are four of t
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on April 15, 1981The Mare Island Naval Shipyard Chapter of the Naval Civilian Administrators Association recently elected new officers. Pictured above from left to right are: Larry Hebert, secretary, who is the director of the Quality Assurance Office; Ted Allen, president, who is the director of the Manage
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on April 15, 1981Marinette Marine Corporation, Marinette, Wis., recently launched the third in a series of 16 YRBM(L) berthing barges (photo above) under construction for the Naval Sea Systems Command. The YRBM(L) vessels have a 146-foot overall length, 46-foot beam, and 688-long-ton displacement. A total o
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on April 15, 1981Hudson Shipbuilders, Inc. (HUDSHIP), Pascagoula, Miss., recently delivered the 70-foot towboat Trotter (shown above) to Missouri River Barge Lines of St. Louis, Mo. The vessel is HUDSHTP's standard 70-foot towboat design and represents the yard's continued diversification in the ever-changi
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on April 15, 1981American President Lines (APL) has announced that it has contracted to build two prototype 45-foot containers in order to evaluate their feasibility for use in international trade. Twentyand 40-foot containers are the standard lengths in general use today by the maritime industry. The proto
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on April 15, 1981The Los Angeles Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers gathered for a recent meeting aboard the converted cruise ship Princess Louise berthed in Los Angeles Harbor. The subject of the e v e n i n g ' s technical paper, "Radar — A New Approach to Level G
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on April 15, 1981The Veracruz II (shown above), a 4,500-bhp cutter suction dredger, has been delivered to Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Transportes, Mexico, by the Aichi Works of Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Company, Ltd. (IHI), Japan. The RD-26, a 1,672- bhp tugboat to be attached to the dredger,
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on April 15, 1981Watercraft America, Inc., located in Edgewater, Fla., is designing and building ad- vanced lifeboats and launch systems for installation on offshore drilling and production platforms and ships. Called the Watercraft Survival System, it includes a series of lifeboats, winches, and davits that e
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on April 15, 1981An international Marine Fuel Utilization Conference/Exposition will be held September 1-4 this year at the Convention Center in Baltimore. Co-sponsored by the Marine Energy Institute, Inc. (MEI) of Baltimore and The Motor Ship magazine of London, the event is intended to provide a forum and i
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on April 15, 1981A $28-million drydock facility that virtually doubles Newport News Shipbuilding's capacity for submarine overhaul and repair was opened recently with the arrival of the USS Lafayette (SSBN-616). The nuclearpowered ballistic missile submarine entered Dry Dock No. 4 to begin an 18-month, $75- m
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on April 15, 1981The Ship Structure Committee, an interagency advisory committee dedicated to improving the structure of ships, has recently published three new technical reports that are available free of charge. SSC-294, "Further Survey of In-Service Performance of Structural Details," is the completion of
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on April 15, 1981Halter Marine, Inc. has delivered the Summer Sun (shown above), a tug/supply boat, to D.F. Levy Marine Limited I, Morgan City, La. She is the second of six vessels to be built at Halter's Moss Point, Miss., division for the Morgan City operator. A sister vessel, the Spring Rain, was delivere
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on April 15, 1981The Hampton Roads Section held its most recent dinner/technical meeting at Fisherman's Wharf in Hampton, Va. The evening's paper titled "A Survey of Shipboard Piping Design and Fabrication" was presented by Lamar E. Williams and Bob S. Oglesby. A large turnout of 139 members and guests was
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on April 15, 1981Levingston Shipbuilding Company has launched the Dixilyn- Field 87 (shown above) at its shipyard in Orange, Texas. The triangular shaped, Levingston designed Class 111-C jackup drilling rig is 200 feet by 186 feet by 23 feet. When this self-elevating drilling platform is completed, it will
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on April 15, 1981A new cruiseship line featuring smaller, yacht-like, luxury vessels (drawing shown above) carrying 120 passengers to exotic world destinations will begin service in spring 1983, it was announced in New York recently. The new line is being formed by Helge Naarstad, a Norwegian who was formerl
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on April 15, 1981Turecamo Coastal & Harbor Towing Corporation of New York recently added the 3,900-bhp Joan Turecamo (shown above and on the cover) to its growing fleet of modern tugboats. The new vessel, classed +A1 "Ocean Towing Service" by the American Bureau of Shipping, was built by Matton Shipyard in