Maritime Reporter 1986 Articles
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on November 1986Union Bay Marine Corporation and Thomas R. Dyer have announced the formation of a new company, Union Bay Shipbuilding Corporation. The new company will be owned jointly by Union Bay Marine and Mr. Dyer. Mr. Dyer has been appointed president, and will operate the shipyard located at 801 N.W.
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on November 1986Sermatech International Inc. of Limerick, Pa., is offering a new free 12-page color brochure that describes corrosion, erosion, wear, sulfidation, and hot corrosion-resistant coatings and repair/restoration technologies. The advanced technology materials and services are used extensively in
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on November 1986McDermott International, Inc. has signed contracts worth a total of approximately $15 million (11 million pounds sterling) with Conoco (U.K.) Limited, to install offshore facilities for the Southern Basin Gas Development in the British sector of the North Sea in 1987 and 1988. The contracts
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on November 1986William J. Holcombe has been elected chairman and chief executive officer of Transamerica Delaval Inc., the manufacturing subsidiary of Transamerica Corporation. Announcement of Mr. Holcombe's election was made by Transamerica Corporation chairman and chief executive officer James R. Harvey.
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on November 1986Each of the three new twin-screw towboats being built by Quality Shipyards in Houma, La., for the Ashland Petroleum Company will be powered by two Caterpillar 3606 engines delivering a total of 4,200 hp per vessel. "This is the first installation of Caterpillar's 3606 engines utilized in ne
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on November 1986WABCO Fluid Power division has been awarded a contract to provide electropneumatic propulsion control systems for the Navy's new T-AO-187 Class Fleet Oilers. These vessels will have the Colt Industries' newly developed diesel engines, the largest engine manufactured in the U.S. Two of these
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on November 1986Dan-Vaerft A/S, which consists of the shipyards Aalborg Vaerft A/S, Frederikshavn Vaerft A/S, and Helsingoer Reparations Vaerft, S/S, has made an agreement with T.A.S.T. Corporation of New York for T.A.S.T. to be their representative in the American and Canadian markets, effective this fall.
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on November 1986The Diesel Engines Division of Fincantieri Cantieri Navali Italiani S.p.A., a member of the IRI Group, and one of Europe's major shipbuilding and diversified organizations, is offering a free full-color brochure on their production facilities at Trieste, Italy. The Trieste factory of the Div
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on November 1986Bob Pope, president of Woodward Governor Company, has announced the appointment of Pete Gomm as general manager of the Engine and Turbine Controls Division in Fort Collins, Colo. Mr. Gomm moved into his new post following the retirement of Norm Alvis, former vice president and general manag
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on November 1986The first meeting of the 86-87 season by The Society of Marine Port Engineers New York heard a paper entitled "Computerizing Fuel Quality for Diesel Engines," prepared by William L. McCarthy, Gregory J. Shumski, and Matthew F. Winkler, all of Seaworthy Systems, Inc. of Essex, Conn. The pape
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on November 1986Wartsila Accommodation Systems, Korea Ltd., a company producing ship accommodations, was recently established by Wartsila in the Republic of Korea. The company, in which Wartsila is major shareholder, is situated in Masan near major shipyards. The first delivery from the factory in Korea wi
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on November 1986The Navy's Military Sealift Command (MSC) has awarded a contract on behalf of the Army for the construction of four Logistic Support Vessels (LSV). They will be primarily used to transport cargo from ship to shore and from beach to beach and through inland waterways in intra-theater lift ope
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on November 1986Rauma-Repola's Rauma shipyard in Finland recently laid the keel of a 7,600-dwt hydrometeorological research vessel scheduled for delivery to V/0 Sudoimport of Moscow in the fall of 1987. This vessel will serve as an icebreaker, research, supply, and passenger ship in the Antarctic region. D
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on November 1986At the recent International Ship, Machinery and Marine Technology Trade Fair (SMM) in Hamburg, West Germany, the Paul Lindenau shipyard of Kiel introduced a novel design for a catamaran sail-cruiser. Designed over a two-year period by naval architect J. Issleib of Hamburg, the 122-meter-long
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on November 1986Korkut Engineers, Inc. of Metairie, La., is releasing its HYDROS and BENDER programs for commercial use. Korkut Engineers started to establish their CAD system with TI- 980A and TI-990 minicomputers in FORTRAN 66 language in 1964. During that time they were used in house only. Recently the
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on November 1986Colonna's Shipyard, Inc. in Norfolk, Va., recently acquired a floating drydock 571 feet long and 118 feet wide to enhance its ship-repairing capabilities. Formerly Dock No. 5 of the Amsterdam Drydock Company in the Netherlands, the big dock was transported across the Atlantic aboard the Migh
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on November 1986AB Hagglund and Soner, among the leaders in the fields of cargohandling, heavy-duty hydraulic systems for industrial, marine and offshore applications, is offering a free, 92-page collection of 12 full-color brochures on the company's marine and industrial services products. The Hagglunds pu
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on November 1986—Literature Available One of the latest enhancements to the NETWORK 90® process control system, the newly developed Multi- Function Controller 03 (MFC03) by Bailey Controls is a sequential and batch process controller designed to handle multiple control loops and support redundancy. The MFC
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on November 1986Dr. Robert Johnson has been appointed president of ship engineering and design for Advanced Marine Enterprises, Inc. (AME) of Crystal City, Va. The announcement was made by Simon Glatz, CEO of AME, who said that Dr. Johnson is assuming the leadership of a division currently executing approx
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on November 1986The Spinner II line of in-line flow powered oil cleaning centrifuges, a product of T.F. Hudgins & Associates Inc. of Houston, Texas, is now available from Warehouse Supplier of Lawrenceville, N.J. In addition, a free complete literature package with detailed brochures and pamphlets is being