1981 Articles
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on September 1981Dr. John J. McMullen, chairman of the board of John J. Mc- Mullen Associates, New Yorkbased naval architectural, marine engineering, and consulting firm, recently announced the establishment of an office of the chief executive in which all corporate management responsibilities formerly exer
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on September 1981Participants in the marine seminars being given as part of the 19th annual Liberty Bell Corrosion Course were announced recently by conference organizers. The course will be held September 28-30 at the Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, Pa. In the marine seminars, featured participants in a segm
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on September 1981The year 1981 is a watershed, "a point of basic change in the direction and momentum of American maritime policy" that will see the start of the restoration of U.S. superiority," stated Assistant Secretary of the Navy George Sawyer in a recent address to the graduating class at Webb Institu
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on September 1981More than 2,000 persons participated in the 1981 national meeting of the American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE) held in Washington, D.C. Nineteen local ASNE sections from around the country, including four student sections, were represented. The theme of the two-day meeting held at the Sh
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on September 1981The next Marine Maintenance Seminar sponsored by Meeting Resources, Inc. will be held on October 28 this year at the Vista International Hotel at the World Trade Center in New York City. Focusing on the need to probe managerial evaluation of maintenance systems and techniques, the program wil
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on September 1981A & P Appledore, Canada Ltd., a member of the A & P Appledore Group, has been awarded a $2-million (Canadian) contract by Dome Petroleum Limited of Calgary, to design a shipyard capable of building large arctic vessels, including Arctic VLCCs up to 200,000 dwt. A & P Appledore's involvement i
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on September 1981Attendees at a recent maritime conference have identified the 10 most effective ways that ship operators can save fuel. Most of the approaches involve modification, conversion or installation of thoroughly tested equipment. But the element having the greatest potential for shipboard energy-co
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on September 1981The nuclear-powered attack submarine Dallas (SSN-700) was commissioned recently during ceremonies held at General Dynamics, Electric Boat Division, Groton, Conn. William P. Clements Jr., Governor of Texas, was principal speaker during the ceremonies. Mrs. Clements was the ship's sponsor. Th
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on September 1981Krupp Atlas Elektronic Division, Jersey City, N.J., has promoted Mike Drogowitz to the position of U.S. operations manager and Ed Blayer to U.S. service manager. Formerly the East Coast operations manager, Mr. Drogowitz will expand his present responsibilities to coordinate the total U.S. ope
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on September 1981Seaward International, Inc., Falls Church, Va., has been awarded an $860,000 contract for the installation, supervision, and training of an oil-spill protection program for the Jeddah Oil Refinery harbor area in Saudi Arabia. The refinery is operated by Petromin, an agency of the Saudi Arabian
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on September 1981Paul N. (Red) Adair, the internationally known expert in oilwell fire control and blowouts, will be featured speaker at the 8th Annual Spillage Control Conference to be held October 29 through 31 at Ft. Lauderdale's Marriott Hotel and Marina. Mr. Adair, one of several outstanding speakers b
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on September 1981More than 500 leaders from business, government, and waterway user companies are expected to attend the 21st annual meeting of the National Waterways Conference scheduled for September 16-18 at Stouffer's Riverfront Towers, St. Louis, Mo. Conference chairman James A. Skinner Jr. of Nashville,
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on September 1981A unit of Raymond International Inc., Houston, Texas, recently purchased a crane ship from an Italian firm for $34.5 million, according to Henry F. LeMieux, chairman and chief executive officer. Mr. LeMieux said that Raymond Offshore Constructors, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary, concluded
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on September 1981HMS Ark Royal, the Royal Navy's latest antisubmarine aircraft carrier (above) is pictured after her launch from the Swan Hunter yard on the River Tyne in northeast England recently. The last Invincible-class t h r o u g h - d e ck cruiser to be built, HMS Ark Royal has an expected completion
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on September 1981The Maritime Administration (MarAd) has awarded three research contracts relating to the use of coal as a marine fuel. The total cost of the research will be $280,000. The largest contract, for $116,000, was awarded to ECON, Inc., Princeton, N.J., and Parsons-Brinckerhoff, New York, N.Y., to
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on September 1981Oy Wartsila Ab, Finland, and Keppel Shipyard, Singapore, in a joint venture have formed Wartsila Power Singapore (Pte) Ltd., for the manufacture of diesel engines in Singapore. The company will produce and market Vasa 22 diesel engines and handle the marketing of other Wartsila engine types i
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on September 1981John Nichols, president of Mississippi Marine Towboat Corporation, G r e e n v i l l e , Miss., announced the recent delivery of the M/V Miss S h e i l a (shown above) to Red Wing River Towing, Inc., Red Wing, Minn., and the M V Cole (shown below), to White River Fleeting, Inc., Greenville.
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on September 1981The Canadian ship repairer Halifax Industries Limited, Nova Scotia, recently completed its first lengthening contract. The contract was to lengthen the 4,700- grt products tanker M/V James Transport, owned by Halco Inc. of Montreal, by inserting a new 40-foot-long midbody section at a cost of
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on September 1981Paul A. Taubler has been elected a vice president of Ocean Technology, Inc. of Milford, Del., the parent firm of Delaware Marine & Manufacturing Co. Mr. Taubler joined the engineering department of Delaware Marine in 1975 as a draftsman and became chief of engineering in 1978. As vice presi
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on September 1981The Energy Freedom coal barge was christened by officials of New England Electric System during ceremonies at Bay Shipbuilding Corp. in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. The Energy Freedom is a deepnotch tug barge built by Bay Shipbuilding Corp. to carry domestic coal from ports along the Eastern Seaboard