1977 Articles
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on October 1977A new Marine Construction & Design Co. (Marco) crab boat, christened recently at Seattle's Fishermen's Terminal, had just enough time to be provisioned before it headed north for the September 15 opening of the King Crab fishery in the Bering Sea. The 108-foot steel vessel is named the West P
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on October 1977Northern Liquid Fuels International, Ltd. (NLFI), Houston, Texas, has named William L. Bull Jr. director of marine transportation. Mr. Bull, formerly manager of supply and t r a n s p o r t a t i o n for Tropigas International Corporation in Miami, Fla., will be responsible for the operation
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on October 1977Winthrop A. Wyman and J. Terrence Hammer have been appointed president and executive vice president-general manager, respectively, for American Heavy Lift Shipping Company (AHL), a jointly owned venture of Gulf Oil Corporation and Hansa Lines of Bremen, West Germany. In addition to his AHL
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on October 1977The Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Manila, Philippines offices of the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) have been designated Technical Offices, and now provide hull plan approval services in addition to field surveying. The addition of the two offices brings to 11 the number of countries in w
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on October 1977The closure of the Suez Canal in 1967, together with the steady increase in world crude oil movements, precipitated the development of the VLCC fleet (tankers over 175,000 dwt), and later the ULCC fleet (tankers over 300,000 dwt). Initially, world port facilities to handle these supertankers
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on October 1977Blue Water Marine Supply, Inc. has announced the formation of its new Offshore Safety/Survival Division. Blue Water president Walter E. Turner, in making the announcement, said George D. Gray has joined the firm as vice president and manager of the division. The division will, according to
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on October 1977Keel-laying ceremonies for the first 2,000- dwt breakbulk vessel in a series of three vessels for American Atlantic Shipping, Inc., was held recently by Equitable Shipyards, Inc. at its Madisonville La., shipyard. The principals attending the keel-laying ceremonies were Paul Hancock, vice pres
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on October 1977Britain's giant shipping group P and 0 has unveiled designs for a versatile new type of naval vessel which can be built or refitted in any commercial shipyard capable of handling a deepsea trawler. The designs are intended to help governments with limited defense and manpower budgets and with
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on October 1977The Alice Briley, a 185-foot supply ship built by Mangone Shipbuilding of Houston, Texas, was delivered to Briley Marine Services, Inc. of Morgan City, La., in late August. The ship will work the Gulf of Mexico out of Galveston for Briley Marine. Mangone is a subsidiary of Stewart and Stevenso
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on October 1977Jered Industries, 1300 South Coolidge Road, Birmingham, Mich. 48008, recently announced that the board of directors has approved the following changes in the management of the company. E.R. Davies, who founded the company in 1946 as a design consulting company and as president has guided Je
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on October 1977N.A. Philips Communications Systems has announced an advance micropressor-controlled error correcting system that links shipboard teleprinters to the worldwide Telex network. The new unit, called STB-750, installs between the vessel's high frequency radio and the teleprinter. Using ARQ, "FEC"
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on October 1977Of highest interest in the marine field today is the design and construction of many specialized ships that carry cargoes of liquefied natural gas (LNG). Major shipyards in the U.S. and other countries are engaged in building these giant carriers. For some time there has been a need for a g
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on October 1977Maxon Marine Industries, Inc., Tell City, Ind., recently delivered the M/V Joe Al Jim II to J.L. Shiely Company, St. Paul, Minn. The towboat is 72 feet 6 inches by 19 feet by 7 feet 6 inches, and has an operating draft of 5 feet. It is equipped with two Caterpillar Model D353 T.A. main propu
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on October 1977Robert J. Patrick has been elected president of The Propeller Club of the United States, Port of St. Louis, Mo. Mr. Patrick is president of Apex Marine Service. The St. Louis Club was chartered in 1937, and its membership of more than 370 people is made up of persons engaged in the maritime
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on October 1977A timely exhibition and conference covering the full range of unclassified naval requirements and including the latest in warship design, ship systems and equipment, naval armament and electronics is to take place in Europe, June 6-8, 1978. The first of its kind to be organized on such a br
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on October 1977Campbell Industries, P.O. Box 1870, San Diego, Calif. 92112, recently delivered the Biehl Traveler, second of two offshore tug/ supply ships built for Biehl Offshore, Inc. of Houston, Texas. Her maiden voyage will take her to the Gulf of Alaska, where her sistership the Biehl Trader is now in
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on October 1977The American Waterways Operators, Inc., Washington, D.C., has announced that 101 plant facilities were located along the waterways of the United States in the first quarter of 1977, creating over 6,000 permanent jobs. Of the 101 plant facilities, 74 reported capital investments totaling $1,
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on October 1977Camar Corporation of Worcester, Mass., has developed a series of blowers designed specifically for shipboard inlet gas systems. The design and manufacture of these blowers is of American origin. Because of the highly corrosive atmosphere produced by flue gas, scrubbed with seawater, and the
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on October 1977LeBeouf Bros. Towing Co., one of the better-known marine transportation companies operating on the Mississippi River and the Gulf Coast, has evolved into one of the fastest growing, diversified organizations in the marine industry. As a result of this growth, a new corporation, Gonsoulin In
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on October 1977The chairman of one of the nation's largest barge companies challenged transportation leaders of all modes to form a "willing partnership with each other, and with government" in order to provide the nation with a transportation system that is efficient, competitive, energy conservative, an