1977 Articles
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on November 15, 1977R e p r e s e n t a t i v e s of the U.S. Navy, Jacksonville Shipyards, estimators and production personnel of various marine firms attended an Electroplating Seminar held at the Jacksonville, Fla., headquarters of Hoffert Marine, Inc. The Hoffert firm is the authorized U.S. Navy job shop fo
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- Ed Toale Joins Bailey Sales Staff page: 23
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on November 15, 1977Sigurd Nilsen, executive vice president of Bailey Refrigeration Co., Inc., has announced the appointment of Ed Toale to their sales staff. Mr. Toale's sales and service background in the marine refrigeration and air-conditioning field spans a period of more than 20 years. He will handle worl
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on November 15, 1977Samson Ocean Systems, Inc., 99 High Street, Boston, Mass. 02110, rope systems and undersea services company, has sold its Marine Survey Division, it has been announced by Jerry J. Jones, president. The new company, Ocean Surveys, Inc., has been purchased for an undisclosed price by the form
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on November 15, 1977One of the world's largest "shipto- ship" operators, Cayman Energy Ltd., reports that since the beginning of its operations in August in the Cayman Islands, they are now averaging 4 million barrels per month of crude oil transfers and expect this amount to increase substantially in the next
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on November 15, 1977Norfolk Shipbuilding & Drydock C o r p o r a t i o n (Norshipco), Norfolk, Va., has adopted a new corporate logo. The announcement was made by John L. Roper III, president and chief executive officer of Norshipco. The new logo is circular in design, and depicts a ship in drydock, with sunli
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on November 15, 1977Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Chester, Pa., has announced that Joseph J. Kleschick was elected to the Sun Ship board of directors. Mr. Kleschick is Sun Ship's vice president-marketing. Mr. Kleschick is a 1951 graduate of Villanova University with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering de
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on November 15, 1977Boeing Marine Systems (BMS), Renton, Wash., has announced the signing of a $178-million U.S. Navy contract for production of five Patrol Hydrofoil Missileships (PHMs). Work will begin immediately on the scheduled five-year program. Boeing Marine Systems, a division of The Boeing Company, d
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- Ocean Orders Five More Ships page: 14
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on November 15, 1977Following on Ocean's announcement of an order for three 20,000-dwt cargoliners to be built at Scott Lithgow's yard on the Clyde, Ocean Transport & Trading Limited, India Buildings, Liverpool L2 ORB, England, recently announced further details of its retonnaging program for the liner trades. T
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on November 15, 1977It was announced by M. Lee Rice, president, Ogden Transportation Corporation, that effective January 1, 1978 several senior executive changes will become effective at Avondale Shipyards, Inc., a principal subsidiary of Ogden Corporation, New York, N.Y. On the cited date, Edwin Hartzman will
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on November 15, 1977John Y. Williamson has been named regional manager for Samson Ocean Systems, Inc., according to a recent announcement by Jerry Jones, president. Mr. Williamson will be responsible for the sale of Samson rope systems and mooring systems for the heavy marine and industrial and the offshore ma
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on November 15, 1977Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Chester, Pa., has consolidated all its marketing activities into a single Marketing Department under Joseph J. Kleschick, vice president-marketing. This move brings together in one department all the marketing activities formerly associated with the shipyar
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on November 15, 1977General Dynamics Corporation has announced that P. Takis Veliotis has been named general manager of its Electric Boat Division, Groton, Conn., the company's largest operating component. Gorden E. MacDonald, who has been serving as acting general manager at Electric Boat, will return to the
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on November 15, 1977The American Independence, the second supertanker built by- Bethlehem Steel Corporation for Gulf Oil Corporation, was christened October 18, 1977, at the steel company's Sparrows Point Yard. Mrs. James E. Lee, wife of Gulf's president, christened the vessel which was constructed at a base c
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on November 15, 1977The Maritime Administration has awarded a $117,563 study contract to ARINC Research Corporation, Annapolis, Md., for development of an Automated Management Control System for U.S. public marine terminals. The objectives of the 12-month study are to analyze the functional requirements of a p
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on November 15, 1977Bulk Food Carriers, Inc., 425 California Street, San Francisco, Calif., has applied for Title XI guarantees to aid in financing the conversion of the dry bulk carriers S/S Tex and S/S Flor, and the oceangoing barge Burke F to carry oil products. The Tex and Flor were both built in 1948 at B
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on November 1977An unprecedented two-day New York symposium designed to provide a common international forum for diving and insurance industry views will be addressed by Congressman Mario Biaggi (D-N.Y.) on November 15, 1977, at the Statler Hilton Hotel, New York City. The 1977 International Diving and Insur
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on November 1977A new emergency oil spill control organization for the Port of New York has been formed at Perth Amboy, N.J. The company, Clean Venture, Inc., will provide quick-strike coverage of the entire harbor from bases in New York and New Jersey for oil spills of any size. This first-of-a-kind effort
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on November 1977Miles G. O'Harra, recently retired from Bailey Meter Co., will enter the consulting field as a Marine and Industrial Steam Control Systems Consultant at 9355 Milford Lane, Mentor, Ohio 44060. Mr. O'Harra served in the United States Navy for 20 active duty years (1937-57), and in the Fleet R
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on November 1977The largest single cargo ever moved on the Great Lakes was delivered in September to Detroit Edison by the motor vessel Belle River. The record load, 65,760 tons of low-sulfur western coal, was reported by the vessel's owners, American Steamship Company, a subsidiary of GATX Corporation. Chr
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on November 1977The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) classed 127 new vessels worldwide in September. The vessels totaled 1,705,864 deadweight tons, or 940,520 gross tons, and included 13 bulk carriers, four very large crude carriers (VLCCs), one roll-on/roll-off vehicle carrier, and two tugboats designed