1981 Articles
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- Bayou Black Delivers Sundance Sunset page: 14
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on October 15, 1981Bayou Black Shipyard, Inc., Gibson, La., recently delivered the Sundance Sunset (shown above) to Sundance Marine of Houston, Texas. The vessel was the fourth of its kind delivered to the Houston firm this year. The all-aluminum vessel is 42 feet long with a 13-foot beam, and 6.5-foot depth mid
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on October 15, 1981Zapata Offshore Drilling Co., Houston, Texas, recently christened three new jackup drilling rigs in Singapore for its offshore fleet. It was the world's first triple rig christening c e r e m o n y and brings the number of rigs in Zapata's fleet to 23. Built at a cost of about $125 million
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on October 15, 1981George K. Geiger, president of Bay Shipbuilding Corp., Sturgeon Bay, Wis., recently announced that John F. Schermond Jr., former manager at the Chicago yard of American Ship Building Company, has joined Bay Shipbuilding as a manager of contracts. Mr. Schermond succeeds Francis (Doc) Kolbeck
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on October 15, 1981The 100-foot a l l - a l u m i n um crewboat Oil Corsair (shown above) was loaded aboard the Japanese freighter Seki Rokel recently in New Orleans for service in the waters offshore Angola in West Africa, highlighting a "first" for the shipbuilder. Built by Progressive Shipbuilders and Fabr
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on October 1981Burrard Yarrows Corporation, Victoria, B.C., Canada, was recently awarded a $38-million contract for the conversion and modifications to two more B.C. ferries. The work is similar to but more extensive than that done earlier on the Queen of Vancouver and the Queen of Victoria by Burrard Yar
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- Avondale Christens The Oxy Grower page: 28
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on October 1981Christening c e r e m o n i e s were held recently at Avondale Shipyards, Inc., for the Oxy Grower, a 57,000-dwt t u g - b a r g e combination vessel built by Avondale Shipyards for a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corporation. The Oxy Grower is the third and final chemical tanker of the
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- Gastech '81 page: 19
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on October 1981If the production, transportation and use of LNG and LPG are related to your business in any way, you should be in Hamburg, West Germany from October 20 to 23. At that time the 8th International LNG/LPG Conference and Exhibition will be in progress. These conferences are held every two year
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on October 1981Six U.S. Navy contracts totaling $2.9 million for advance planning and procurement to support p o s t s h a k e d o w n a v a i l a b i l i ty (PSA) work on six guided missile frigates (FFGs) have been awarded to Todd Pacific Shipyards Corporation, Lennart M. Thorell, vice president and gene
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on October 1981International Paint Company, Inc. has announced availability of a new, 14-page technical bulletin introducing its "Intersmooth SPC Family of Self Polishing Copolymer Antifoulings," which the company reports "cut fuel costs an average 12 percent yearly." The bulletin documents Intersmooth S
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on October 1981"The outlook for marine construction in the Gulf of Mexico in the 1980s is, in my view, not only good, it is great," Robert E. Howson, president of McDermott Marine Construction, recently told participants in a symposium sponsored by the University of New Orleans on the "Economic Future of
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- Bay Shipbuilding Delivers The 'Energy Freedom'—First Of New Fleet Planned By Universal American page: 16
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on October 1981Bay Shipbuilding Corp., a subsidiary of The Manitowoc Company, Inc., r e c e n t l y d e l i v e r ed ahead of schedule the 550-foot Energy Freedom to Universal American Shipping Corporation of Greenwich, Conn. The Energy Freedom was d e s i g n e d , engineered and built by Bay Shipbuilding
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on October 1981The first American-owned, U.S.- flag, oceangoing freezer ship designed to operate off the U.S. East Coast was christened recently during ceremonies held at the New York Port Authority's Pier 1, Brooklyn. The "Holland" (shown above) will offer a new service to the East Coast fishing industry
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on October 1981The Reagan Administration implemented its coal export development policy when a high-level interagency working group met for the first time recently to tackle obstacles to U.S. coal exporting. Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige, opening the initial session, told officials from more than a
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on October 1981The passing of David H. Green, president of Savannah Shipyard Company, Savannah, Ga., was reported recently by Robert F. Sherman, chairman of the board of the company. Mr. Green joined Savannah Shipyard in April 1974 and was promoted to president on January 1, 1979. He was a chief engineer
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on October 1981Trimble Navigation recently introduced a powerful new navigation computer system, CS-1 that incorporates graphics display and printout capability. The CS-1 can be used for piloting, position monitoring, trip logging, trip planning, and a variety of special computations including true wind,
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on October 1981A factory barge as big as a football field recently completed a 2,500-mile voyage from the St. Lawrence River to a small island in the Canadian Arctic. It arrived nine days ahead of schedule — at Little Cornwallis Island, 600 miles above the Arctic Circle, to help exploit the most northerly
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on October 1981Norshipco, Norfolk, Va., has demonstrated that a 35-year-old cargo vessel, out of service for more than a decade, can be taken from mothballs and reactivated in less than six days. In a recent national defense readiness exercise, Norshipco — Norfolk Shipbuilding & Drydock Corporation — was
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on October 1981The Marine Preventive Maintenance Seminar to be held at the Vista International Hotel in New York City on October 28 this year will feature an impressive slate of speakers and panelists. The one-day seminar will explore the managerial and financial evaluation of preventive maintenance expen
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on October 1981Comprehensive operating and dimensional information on its Series 300 Pedestal Cranes is contained in a new brochure now available from the Skagit Division of Continental Emsco Company, Sedro-Woolley, Wash. The 10-page, four-color literature describes the various systems, controls, componen
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on October 1981Southside Marine, Inc., Tampa Bay, Fia., has announced the establishment of a branch facility at Newport News, Va. .Tim Brennan, president of SMI, stated recently that the new branch will result in savings to SMI clients in the Tidewater area since per diem expense rates will be the same as