1978 Articles
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on November 15, 1978C.E. Lee has been appointed president of Waukesha Engine Division, Dresser Industries, Inc., Waukesha, Wis. 53187, it has been announced by J.V. James, president of the Dallas, Texas-based parent company. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Lee had served as executive vice president of the divisi
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on November 15, 1978The Engineer's Council for Professional Development (ECPD) has accredited the electrical engineering, marine engineering, and naval architecture curricula of SUNY Maritime College. The ECPD is recognized by the Council on Postsecondary Accreditation (COPA) as the accrediting body for engine
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on November 15, 1978The highly automated containership S / S Argonaut was launched at Bath Iron Works Corporation, Bath, Maine, on schedule October 14, for Farreil Lines Incorporated, New York City. Mrs. Marcia Farreil Murray Cavanagh, Southampton, Long Island, N.Y., christened the containership before guests
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on November 15, 1978"What U.S. Ports Mean to the Economy" is a 58-page publication being released by the Maritime Administration. It examines in detail the role of America's ports in our society, especially how they affect and are affected by the rest of the economy. It provides a thorough but nontechnical pre
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on November 15, 1978Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd., recently completed the conversion of a 30,000-ton-class semipassenger ship into a full-passenger ship at its Kobe Works, and delivered it to Festivale Maritime Inc. of the U.S. The unusual order, the first of its kind to have been received by a Japanese ship
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on November 15, 1978The 30th Annual Fall Meeting of the Gulf Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) was held at the Broadwater Beach Hotel, Biloxi, Miss., on September 22, 1978. A capacity crowd attended the technical session which opened at 11 a.m. with John J. Kelly, vice pr
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on November 15, 1978Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Chester, Pa., recently laid the keel for the 720-foot containership S/S Kauai (Sun Hull No. 678) it is building for Matson Navigation Company. The full-width inner bottom section weighing 225 tons was lowered onto the shipyard's shipbuilding slab in a brie
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on November 15, 1978The first regular meeting of the new season for the Los Angeles Metropolitan Section, The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, was chaired and opened by William A. Hood. He promptly introduced the new officers for the year, Capt. J.E. Kaune, USN, vice chairman, and Charles E. H
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on November 15, 1978David Chen Tou Sin has been promoted to yard manager for Sembawang Shipyard, Singapore. Mr. Chen has been with Sembawang Shipyard for over 6V2 years, joining in October 1971 as a graduate management trainee. The first six months of his training was with Smiths Dock, North- Shields, U.K., af
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on November 15, 1978Santa Fe International Corporation's new pipelaying reel ship Apache has been awarded its first contract by BP Petroleum Development Ltd. to lay pipelines and control lines in the Buchan Field. BP is the operator for the development of the Buchan Field on behalf of a group comprising BP, Na
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on November 15, 1978On October 10, Levingston Shipbuilding Company, Orange, Texas—subsidiary of Ashland Oil, Inc.—received a milestone $200- million contract for construction of five 35,000-dwt self-sustaining dry-bulk cargo vessels. (See MARITIME REPORTER/Engineering News issue of November 1, 1978.) Only thre
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on November 15, 1978Morris G u r a l n i c k Associates, Inc., largest firm of naval architects and marine engineers on the West Coast, has moved its San Francisco, Calif., headquarters to an architecturally historic building at 620 Folsom Street. The move, on October 15, 1978, was necessitated by recent expans
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on November 15, 1978Hewitt-Robins International Inc. has released a new four-color, tri-language brochure on Cargoveyor Systems — automated, continuous ship unloading/loading of bags, cartons and boxes. The new brochure offers practical solutions to the problems involved in the unloading and loading of bags, c
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on November 15, 1978The fall meeting of the Great Lakes and Great Rivers Section, The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, was held at the Continental Regency Hotel in Peoria, 111., on October 12, 1978. Ninety-five r e g i s t e r e d members and guests attended the meeting. The Technical Session f
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on November 15, 1978Philip D. Moran has been elected president of Moran Shipping Agencies, Inc., according to F. Robert Black, chairman of the board and chief executive officer. Headquartered in Providence, R.I., Moran Shipping Agencies, Inc., serves over 50 ports from Maine to Texas through eight offices in s
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on November 15, 1978Carrington Slipways Pty. Ltd., Old Punt Road, Tomago, New South Wales, Australia 2322, recently launched three vessels in one week. The first was a 500-cubic-meter (about a 17,657-foot) split hopper dumb barge. Mrs. P.C. Kelly broke the bottle to launch the first barge on October 14. The sec
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on November 15, 1978As part of Sembawang Shipyard's $20- million expansion and modernization program, a new $9-million finger pier has recently been completed to supplement the host of other sophisticated facilities at the Singapore yard. The new pier, allowing easier access for supplies and services to three fl
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on November 15, 1978A new low-cost all-channel VHF/FM radiotelephone is now available from Apelco. The 25-watt AF-55 offers 55 transmit, 76 receive and 4 weather channels, to cover the entire VHF worldwide marine band with no need for adding or changing crystals. Push buttons for emergency channel 16, as well
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on November 15, 1978John C. Murdoch, formerly Resident Surveyor in charge of the Portland, Oregon Branch Office of the United States Salvage Association, Inc., has announced commencement of business as an independent marine surveyor. Following graduation from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Mr. Murdoch saile
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on November 15, 1978Marvin DeBerry has joined Gulf-Tampa Drydock Company, Tampa, Fla., as vice president of estimating and contract administration. Gulf-Tampa operates a commercial shipyard in Tampa, engaged in ship repair and drydocking, steel fabrication, industrial machine shop, as well as marine electrical