1981 Articles
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on September 15, 1981James J. Bartell has been appointed general manager in charge of the International Marine Sales Department of Texaco Inc., effective September 1, it was announced recently by John K. McKinley, chairman and chief executive officer. In his new assignment, Mr. Bartell will continue to be locat
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on September 15, 1981The Burrard Yarrows Corporation, Vancouver, Canada, was recently awarded a major contract— worth nearly five million U.S. dollars—to lengthen the geophysical exploration vessel Hollis Hedberg by 60 feet. The purpose of the lengthening to 262 feet is to permit the installation of new sophist
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on September 15, 1981Six of the largest and fastest containerships in the U.S.-flag merchant fleet have been purchased by the Navy for use by the Military Sealift Command to enhance the strategic mobility capability of the armed forces. The Naval Sea Systems Command recently awarded a $207.5- million contract f
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on September 15, 1981A major restructuring of executives at Racal-Decca Marine Inc., New Orleans, La., was announced at the recent opening of a new regional sales and technical support office in New Orleans, at 5612 Jefferson Highway. Mark Lipp, formerly comptroller comptroller and treasurer, was promoted to e
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on September 15, 1981Cummins Investments has become the first company to purchase the time-saving "Big Blue" barge-moving winch recently introduced by Nashville Bridge Company (NABRICO), Nashville, Tenn. The winch, the largest currently produced by NABRICO, will be installed at the company's Frontier Terminal
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on September 15, 1981The announcement of the appointment of Marine Technologies & Brokerage, Inc. (MTB), New York, as U.S. agent for Arsenale Triestino San Marco Shipyard, Trieste, Italy, was made recently by William H. Bevan, president of MTB. Arsenale Triestino, a member of the Fincantieri Group, has been op
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on September 15, 1981Taurus, the first of five Patrol Hydrofoil Missileships (PHMs) being built by Boeing Marine Systems, Seattle, Wash., for the U.S. Navy, takes a flying tour of Seattle's Elliott Bay during pre-delivery tests in Puget Sound. Taurus, to be delivered in October, and the other four hydrofoil comba
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on September 15, 1981RivTow Straits Ltd., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, announced the recent delivery of three identical drum seiners to B.C. Packers Ltd. in time for the 1981 herring and salmon fishing season. The Van Isle, Mary Isle and Pender Isle (shown above) are the first three vessels of a six-boat
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on September 15, 1981Four management appointments at U.S. Steel's Great Lakes fleet and associated subsidiaries, Duluth, Minn., were announced recently by William B. Buhrmann, president. Dale W. App has been named general manager of USS Great Lakes Fleet, Inc., and Calvin W. Main has been named director, marine l
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on September 15, 1981A 36,000-ton lifting capacity floating dock (shown above) has arrived at the Burrard Yarrows Shipyard, Vancouver, Canada, following a 5,000-mile tow from Hiroshima Bay, Japan. The all-steel dock arrived at Vancouver after a 40-day tow carried out by Tokyo Marine Services using the 12,000-ihp
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on September 15, 1981Ed Paden, president of Levingston Industries, Inc., Orange, Texas, announced recently the formation of a new member of the Levingston Group of Companies, to be called Levingston Service Company, Inc. Levingston Service Company will have two principal activities, Mr. Paden stated. First, the
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on September 15, 1981Epsco Marine, the marine electronics manufacturer in Westwood, Mass., has announced the addition of a new 32-nauticalmile radar, model S02R, to its line that now consists of 10 models ranging from 7-inch, 3-kw, 16 nautical miles up to 12-inch, 25-kw, 100 nautical miles. The Epsco S02R was d
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on September 15, 1981A 16-page, five-color brochure describing and illustrating its complete line of Polaris marine electronics is now available from Regency Electronics, Inc. of Indianapolis. The Polaris NC 7200 is said to be the only 55/75 channel VHF radio combined with a computercontrolled direction finder.
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on September 15, 1981Halter Marine, Inc., New Orleans, I.a., and Tidewater Marine Service, Inc. signed contracts recently for the construction of eight new tug supply vessels totaling $30.8 million. The announcement was made by Sam S. Allgood, president of Tidewater Marine Service, and Harold P. Halter, preside
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on September 15, 1981Cyrus E. Webb, president of Ingram Tankships Inc., New Orleans, La., announced recently that the company had placed an order for five 37,500-dwt U.S.- flag product carriers to be built by National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO), San Diego, Calif. The first vessel is scheduled for d
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on September 15, 1981Christening ceremonies were held recently at Krupp Atlas-Elektronik, Bremen, Germany, for the navigation bridge simulator "Susan." The bridge, whose facilities include a motion simulation system, is the most important component of the ship handling simulator Krupp is currently building for th
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on September 15, 1981Hubert E. Russell has been elected president and chief executive officer of Morris Guralnick Associates, Inc. (MGA), it was announced recently by the San Francisco, Calif., firm of naval architects and marine engineers. Mr. Russell will continue to handle the responsibilities of chief engineer
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on September 15, 1981The Port of Portland, Ore., is gearing up for the coming turn-of-the-century by which time it is anticipated that the volume of general cargo in the port will triple. The Port Commission recently accepted a master development plan devised by a 30- member Citizens Advisory Task Force. The init
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on September 15, 1981In a quarter-century of building selfelevating offshore mobile drilling rigs on its banks, the Old Man Mississippi has continually challenged Marathon LeTourneau Company's shipyard at Vicksburg to put them into the water without launchways. And for all the 68 rigs launched, the yard has respo
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on September 15, 1981David A. Wright, president of National Marine Service, Inc., St. Louis, Mo., recently announced the promotion of three persons and the appointment of two others to the staff of the shipbuilding, engine repair, and liquid bulk transportation company. Robert W. Meyer has been named coordinato