1981 Articles
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on December 15, 1981An agreement to build in Saudi Arabia the world's largest lubricating oil refinery was signed in Riyadh recently by representatives of the General Petroleum and Minerals Organization (Petromin)— the Saudi Arabian state oil agency — and wholly owned subsidiaries of Standard Oil Company of Ca
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on December 15, 1981The Marine Diesel Division of the Allis-Chalmers Corp., Milwaukee, Wis., recently received an order valued at more than $6 million covering construction of 60 mud pumps for drilling rigs made by the Wilson Manufacturing Co., Wichita Falls, Texas. The division, whose major activity is constr
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on December 15, 1981The joint fall meeting of the New England Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and the Southern New England Section of The American Society of Naval Engineers featured a presentation by Rear Adm. John Beecher, USN, on "USN Battleship Reactivation Program," followi
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on December 15, 1981Wendle Huddleston, president and chief executive officer of the HUDCO Group based in Morgan City, La., announced that Hudson Shipbuilders, Inc. (HUDSHIP) of Pascagoula, Miss., has recently delivered the 112-foot offshore utility vessel M / V Lamnalco Mallard to Lamnalco Limited, Dasmah, Kuw
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on December 15, 1981A meeting of the New York Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, held recently at the Buttonwood Restaurant in New York City, featured a presentation on the Marine Chemist. The topic, "Is This Ship Gas Free? An Overview of the Duties and Training of a
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on December 15, 1981The Maritime Administration has approved in principle an application for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the reconstruction of the 264,000-dwt tankers Massachusetts, New York, and Maryland to comply with the Port and Tanker Safety Act of 1978. Each of the vessels was built with the
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on December 15, 1981One of the many features that characterizes an LNG carrier is the presence of cargo boil-off, the result of heat leakage to the cargo f r om the surroundings. Until now, the boil-off has been utilized as fuel in producing steam f o r the steam-turbine propulsion plant. However, LNG has latel
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on December 15, 1981A $3-million vessel traffic control system covering the 12-mile harbor approach at Gothenburg, Sweden, will be installed by Norcontrol of Norway, one of the A.S. Kongsberg Vapenfabrikk group of companies. It is anticipated the system will be in service by the fall of 1982. Similar systems hav
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on December 15, 1981Todd Pacific Shipyards, Seattle Division, recently sponsored the first international marine diesel engine seminar to be held on the West Coast. Four major diesel manufacturers made half-day presentations at the two-day conference that was attended by more than 150 persons representing more th
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on December 1981The Coast Guard has issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking regarding maneuvering performance standards for new U.S.-flag vessels — oceangoing tankers and product carriers, passenger ships, c a r g o s h i p s, miscellaneous vessels, and Great Lakes bulk carriers. With regard to tan
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on December 1981Joseph T. Lykes Jr. will retire at year-end as chairman and chief executive officer of Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., a subsidiary of The LTV Corporation. He will be succeeded as chief executive officer by W. James Amoss Jr., president of the company. Mr. Lykes has served the New Orleans-
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on December 1981Commissioning ceremonies for the highspeed nuclear-powered attack submarine USS La Jolla (SSN 701) were held recently at the Naval Submarine Base, New London, Conn. The La Jolla — named after the city in California — is the ninth of the Los Angelesclass attack submarines to have been built an
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on December 1981The third ship in a new class of U.S. Navy guided missile destroyers, the most formidable surface ships of their size now joining the Navy, was commissioned recently at Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Litton Industries, Pascagoula, Miss. An additional ship of the class, USS Chandler (DDG 996
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on December 1981Two veteran shipbuilders have combined their knowledge of surface ship, submersible and cryogenic technology to propose transporting liquefied n a t u r a l gas (LNG) from the Arctic by submarine tanker. P. Takis Veliotis, General Dynamics' executive vice presidentmarine and general manager
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on December 1981The world economy depends on the speedy, reliable transport of dry cargo across the oceans. Most of that cargo is carried either in drybulk carriers or containerships, both of which are highly evolved forms of ocean transport. Two technical papers focusing on the development of these ships
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on December 1981A new product brochure on the Allied Water/SweetWater reverse osmosis water maker is now available f r om Allied Water Corporation of Walworth, Wis. According to Bob Daniels, vice president, the R/O brochure thoroughly describes the reverse osmosis process c o m p l e t e with membrane illu
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on December 1981The Sperry division of Sperry Corporation, Great Neck, N.Y., has introduced a unique, all-digital ship control system called the SRP-2000. John V. Walsh, vice president and general manager of the division's M a r i n e S y s t e m s Unit, stated the SRP-2000 is more than an autopilot, ". .
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on December 1981The appointment of A1 Spaete to the position of manager of the newly established engine repair division was announced by Edward Renshaw, president of St. Louis Ship. At the same time, Mr. Renshaw announced the appointment of James V. Bishop as administrative manager of the division. The en
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on December 1981The Canadian Shipbuilding and Ship Repairing Association announces that plans are complete for the 34th annual technical conference to be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on March 2, 1981. The meetings actually begin on Monday, March 1, with closed session meetings
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on December 1981A dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremony took place recently for a new $10-million Bell Halter shipyard that is nearing completion in East New Orleans, La. Bell Halter Inc. was formed in 1980 by Bell Aerospace Textron, Division of Textron Inc., and Halter Marine, Inc. of New Orleans, to pro