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on January 15, 1985Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia turned over its 12th Los Angeles Class (SSN-688) attack submarine to the U.S. Navy recently when it delivered the USS Olympia (shown above on sea trials). The new ship is the 36th submarine the Newport News yard has built for the Navy. Olympia (SSN-717)
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on January 15, 1985Hyundai Heavy Industries Company, Ltd. of South Korea and Ocean Drilling & Exploration Company (ODECO) of New Orleans recently announced the signing of a letter of intent for the construction of four Ocean Odyssey Class selfpropelled, semisubmersible drilling rigs at a price of approximately
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on January 15, 1985The Delaware Pilots Association of Philadelphia recently took delivery of a new 51-foot, steel-hull pilot boat named the Philadelphia (shown above). Built by Gladding- Hearn Shipbuilding Corporation of Somerset, Mass., and designed by C. Raymond Hunt Associates of Boston, the twin-screw, 18-
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on January 15, 1985Hyde Products, Inc., designers and manufacturers of ship's deck machinery, steering systems, oil spill recovery equipment and other marine and industrial equipment, recently announced the appointment of two new vice presidents at its Cleveland headquarters. Parker L. Hay has been named vice
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on January 15, 1985Secretary of the Navy John Lehman recently announced that the Navy has awarded shipbuilding contracts to six U.S. shipyards totaling $1,958,000,000. The awards encompass 10 ships, including four nuclear attack submarines of the Los Angeles (SSN-688) Class, three Ticonderoga (CG-47) Class gui
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on January 15, 1985John C. Couch has been appointed president and chief operating officer of Matson Navigation Company, and also has been named executive vice president of Alexander & Baldwin, Inc., Matson's parent company. He had been Matson's executive vice president for the past year. At the same time, Mic
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on January 15, 1985The New England Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers has issued a call for papers for "Marine Computers '86—A Symposium on Computer Applications in the Marine Industry," to be held April 16-17, 1986, in Boston, Mass. The goal of the symposium is to provide a forum
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on January 1985Crawford Fitting Company of Solon, Ohio, has recently introduced SWAGELOK "QT" series quickconnects which are designed for corrosive and other severe service applications. The new design incorporates a single-end or double-end shut off system which allows higher flow capacity than other avai
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on January 1985Rockwell International is offering a free brochure on the products and capabilities of the Autonetics Marine Systems Division headquartered in Anaheim, Calif. Long recognized for its leadership in submarine navigation, the division in more recent years has also developed extensive and unique
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on January 1985A new double-deck pier has been designed to meet the changing needs of U.S. Navy ships, and Navy engineers believe it could become the prototype for worldwide Navy facilities. Known as Pier Zulu, the facility will be built at the U.S. Naval Station in Charleston, S.C., and will be outfitted wi
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on January 1985—Literature Available Puroflow Marine Corporation, Newport News, Va., has announced the development of a centralized power-line protection system for shipboard electronics. It is the industry's first comprehensive, integrated package for protection of a ship's total electronics suite against
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on January 1985Robert E. Carroll has been promoted to hull group vice president, and Stephen L. Tomlin named engine group vice president for the Shipyard Division of National Marine Service Incorporated. The announcement was made by W.A. Creelman, president. Mr. Carroll joined National Marine in 1968 after
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on January 1985Dr. John Garland, executive vice president of Oerlikon Welding Industries, has announced the finalization of an agreement with Armco Steel to market the seven grades of submerged arc welding wire produced by their Union Wire Rope Division. In a meeting with Dr. Garland, Union Wire Rope's gener
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on January 1985During the past year, Marystown Shipyard Limited in Newfoundland, Canada, has been developing an all-purpose anchor-handling/ tug/supply vessel design designated the M68 (LOA is 68.48 meters), capable of being fitted out with a number of options to suit almost any requirements for the variou
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on January 1985Klockner-Humboldt-Deutz AG (KHD) of Cologne, West Germany, has recently introduced two centralized service systems for the owners of Deutz marine diesel engines. Called Ship Information Service (SES) and Ships' Information Processing System (SIPS), they are designed as a new method for lower
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on January 1985A portfolio of the most important offshore and shallow draft vessels featured during 1984 . . . selected because of unusual and superior characteristics of design, purpose or performance. ASIE DUA Halter Marine The second of Halter Marine's new high-speed Sea Shuttle class crewboats wa
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on January 1985Bath Iron Works Corporation (BIW) in Maine is the apparent successful bidder for two of the three Aegis guided-missile cruisers of the Ticonderoga (CG-47) Class that the U.S. Navy ordered recently under the FY 85 shipbuilding program. The other ship was awarded to Ingalls Shipbuilding, which
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on January 1985—Literature Available The Cajon Co., of Macedonia, Ohio, now has available tube butt weld and socket weld fittings for use in systems fabricated with automatic orbital head welding equipment or done manually. The fitting series, designated ATW and ASW, are extremely compact. Both series are
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on January 1985An order received recently by Schottel of America, Inc. of Miami, Fla., for its new SPJ-32 Pump Jet thruster units to be installed in two 92-foot line-handling tugs, marks the introduction of the 360-degree steerable, centrifugal-pump water thruster to the American market, and represents the
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on January 1985"How Armco Now Provides You Bigger And Better Aquamet Boat Shafting" is the title of a new brochure published by Armco's Specialty Steels Division headquartered in Butler, Pa. The four-page color folder says that to make Armco Aquamet shafting even more appealing to boatbuilders and naval a