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on April 1974Imperial Oil Ltd., 70 percent owned by Exxon Corp., has announced the first oil and natural gas find in the Beaufort Sea of the Canadian Arctic. The company said it has a threezone oil and gas discovery from a drilling platform on a temporary artificial island offshore from the Mackenzie De
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on April 1974Blount Marine Corporation of Warren, R.I., has been awarded a contract by National Boat Corporation of Wilmington, -Del., and Houston, Texas, to build six 190-foot by 38-foot Support Ships to be used primarily in the offshore oil industry. Ships of this type are employed for supplying and se
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on April 1974The Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom and the British Shipping Federation are to unite to form one national organization representing the interests of- British shipowners. The new organization will be called the General Council of British Shipping. Final approval for its creation wa
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on April 1974Joseph G. Barkan, a veteran of more than 25 years in various segments of the maritime industry, has been appointed Director of the Federal Maritime Commission's Atlantic District, it was announced by Commission Chairman Helen Delich Bentley. A native of New York and a licensed public accoun
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on April 1974The fourth meeting of the season for the Los Angeles Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers was held on February 14, 1974, at the Princess Louise Ship Restaurant in the Port of Los Angeles. The meeting was well attended and was preceded by a dinner and s
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on April 1974President Nixon has nominated Rear Adm. William F. Rea III to command the Coast Guard's Atlantic Area and Third District, headquartered on Governors Island, N.Y., with the rank of vice admiral. Pending Senate confirmation, Admiral Rea will relieve Vice Adm. B.F. Engel, who will retire in Jun
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on April 1974Santa Fe International Corporation, Orange, Calif., has reported earnings for 1973 of $10,871,691 or $1.28 per share. Comparable earnings in 1972, excluding an extraordinary gain of $458,081, were $7,713,876 or 99 cents per share, fully diluted. President E.L. Shannon Jr. said 1973 revenues
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on April 1974Ronald L. Gaylord has been named director of the general sales force of the American-Standard Power and Controls Group, headquartered in Dearborn, Mich., according to H.J. McBride, vice president of the Group. He was formerly field sales manager of the organization. The general sales force,
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on April 1974Gen-eral Dynamics has announced the award of an approximate $30- million contract to Morrison-Knudsen Co. Inc. of Boise, Idaho, to construct a pontoon graving dock at its Electric Boat Division's shipyard in Groton, Conn. The new graving dock, 'believed to be the first of its kind ever built
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on April 1974Nils Hellen, managing director of the Association of Finnish Metal, Engineering and Shipbuilding Industries, recently visited the United States by invitation of the Finnish American Chamber of 'Commerce. Mr. Hellen, in his address as guest speaker to American businessmen and editors at the Bi
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on April 1974Continuing the expansion of its European operations, MacGregor announces the appointments of Sir Andrew Crichton and D.E. Turnbull to the 'board of MacGregor Centrex Limited. Based near London Airport, MacGregor Centrex is the parent company of the Group's U.K. operating companies, which are m
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on April 1974In view of the ever-growing sizes of ships and the decision of the Antwerp Port Authorities to make the river Scheldt navigable for vessels of 125,000 deadweight tons, the Mercantile Marine Engineering & Graving Docks Co. N.V. Antwerpen, with an eye to the future, is building a sixth private g
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on April 1974After two years of operation, the Kings Point Scholars Program, which offers outstanding seniors at the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, N.Y., the opportunity to research a subject of current interest to the maritime industry, is "progressing well," according to a status
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on April 1974Another step to control the effects of major open-seas oil spills was taken recently when a Lockheedbuilt experimental oil skimmer and its Coast Guard escorts rode through a storm off the northern California coast. This demonstration of survival capability may have been the final open-sea t
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on April 1974Formation of a new stevedoring operation in the mid-Gulf coastal region has been announced by the two participating companies. T o be known as Ryan-Walsh Stevedoring Company, Inc., it is the joint enterprise of Ryan Stevedoring Co., and Walsh Stevedoring Co., both with main offices in Mobile
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on April 1974Royal Viking Line A/S, Norwegian^ flag world cruise line, has named Erland M. Raastad managing director in the Oslo headquarters.' iBased in Oslo, Royal Viking Line A / S is the parent company of* Royal Viking Line, and handles all operations for the three-vessel fleet —Royal Viking Star, Ro
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on April 1974Coppus Engineering Corporation, Worcester, Mass., licensee of Fredriksstad Mek Verksted (FmV), announces the plaoement of an order by Mobil Oil for several FmV Inert Gas Systems to foe retrofitted on Mobil ships now in operation. FmV Inert Gas Systems utilize scrubbed flue gas to maintain ta
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on April 1974Crutcher Resources Corporation, P.O. Box 3227, Houston, Texas 77001, has announced it has signed an amended license agreement with Brown & Root, Inc. on Brown & Root's rights to use CRC's automatic welding system in marine operations. Don H. Hartmann, president of Crutcher Resources, said t
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on April 1974Ernest S. Ware has been appointed general manager of Sembawang Shipyard Limited, succeeding R.A. Hooker. Mr. Ware is on secondment from Swan Hunter (International) Limited of U.K., which had its management agency agreement with the Yard extended for an additional period of five years from N
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on April 1974By the end of this year, Vancouver Shipyards, North Vancouver, British Columbia, will have completed the largest shipbuilding berth in the province. The full size of the building berth when completed will be 600 feet by 120 feet and will give the yard the capability of building ships up to 5