1981 Articles
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on August 15, 1981Tacoma Boatbuilding Co., Tacoma, Wash., announced it is offering $20 million of 10% percent convertible subordinated debentures due 2001 through an underwriting group managed by Bear, Stearns & Co. The debentures are convertible into Tacoma Boatbuilding common stock at $20% per share. Proc
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on August 15, 1981A cantilever-type jackup offshore oil drilling rig, named Dan King, was recently completed at the Ariake Works of Hitachi Zosen for J.L. Offshore Drilling A/S, Denmark. Dan King is the first of three identical rigs to be constructed by Hitachi Zosen for the Danish company. A member of the J. L
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on August 15, 1981Brown & Root, Inc., Houston, Texas, a Halliburton Company, has announced the promotion of two new vice presidents, and the addition of another. Frank A. Akin, formerly manager of Business Development- Marine Services, was promoted to vice president-Business Development, Operations Services.
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on August 15, 1981The TORCO Dock, the Port of Toledo's (Ohio) new $33-million iron ore transfer and ground storage facility, was officially dedicated into service recently as the port's e x c l u s i v e transshipment center f o r taconite ore pellets. The new ore handling facility, constructed on the site of
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on August 15, 1981"Hamburg has the facilities — and the drive — to develop into the most important North Sea/Baltic port for handling United States cargoes," according to Helmut F.H. Hansen, executive director of port commerce, Port of Hamburg. That was the message he delivered during a recent three-week visit
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- 500th Raytheon RAYCAS page: 26
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on August 15, 1981R a y t h e o n Marine Company, Manchester, N.H., manufacturers of a wide range of Marine Electronic Navigation Equipment, has recently installed, in conjunction with Redi-Marine Electronics Co., South San Francisco, the 500th Raytheon RAYCAS aboard the S /S President Hoover, a containership
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on August 15, 1981The Sperry Division of Sperry Corporation, Great Neck, N.Y., is offering free literature on its new Adaptive Steering Module (ASM), designed to achieve fuel savings on large commercial ships. The literature is a reprint of a Sperry paper given to the Society of Naval Architects and Marine E
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- Offshore Express In $10-Million Expansion- 'Lightning Express1 Delivered By Progressive Shipbuilders page: 22
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on August 15, 1981A $10-million expansion program has been announced by Offshore Express, Inc., a Houma, La.- based marine transportation firm. Robert C. Schmidt, vice president and general manager of Offshore Express, said the company has taken delivery of the 102-foot crewboat L i g h t n i n g Express (sh
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on August 15, 1981A new $3.4-million, 214-foot petroleum products barge for operating in Arctic waters was l a u n c h e d r e c e n t l y by Tacoma Boatbuilding Co., Tacoma, Wash., for The Standard Oil Company of Ohio (Sohio). Gini Savage, wife of Sohio Alaska Petroleum Company president, Michael Savage, wa
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on August 15, 1981Caprinus R Oil 40, Shell's medium viscosity index (MVI) lubricant for medium-speed diesel engines, is now an API CD quality oil for marine diesel engines. This means Caprinus R Oil 40 meets the performance requirements of Cummins and Caterpillar marine diesels—both frequently used as auxili
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on August 15, 1981New facilities at the Nashville Bridge Company (NABRICO) A. I. Myhr Plant, Ashland City, Tenn., were officially dedicated recently. Bill Sanders, the senior employee at the plant, cut the large ribbon linking two cranes to open the company's new fabrication building. AI Zang, president of N
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on August 15, 1981Dravo SteelShip Corporation, Pine Bluff, Ark., recently delivered two 75-foot by 28-foot by 12.5- foot steel coastal tugboats to Apex Oil Company of St. Louis, Mo. The tugboats, the Sioux, and the Mava (shown above), are powered by twin Detroit Diesel 16V-149TA engines rated at 2,200 hp. Th
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on August 15, 1981The complete line of self-elevating mobile offshore drilling platforms designed and manufactured by Marathon LeTourneau Offshore Co. is illustrated and described in a new 34-page, full-color brochure which is available on request. Specifications for the company's newest jackup design, the S
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on August 15, 1981Throngs of spectators came to the Jeffboat, Incorporated, Jeffersonville, Ind., shipyard recently to witness the dual christening and launching ceremonies of the motor vessel Jeffboat, a 6,000- horsepower vessel named to honor the company's accomplishment as an industry leader over the past
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on August 15, 1981The appointment of Edwin (Eddie) Luquette to the position of sales manager of Offshore Express, Inc., has been announced jointly by Robert C. Schmidt, vice president and general manager of the Houma, La.-based marine t r a n s p o r t a t i o n firm, and Billy Blakeman, vice president, marke
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on August 15, 1981Expansion of marine petroleum monitoring and processing equipment in the U.S. market was announced recently by Alan Finkel, vice president of marine operations operations for ITT Mackay Division, Raleigh, N.C., a unit of International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation. ITT Mackay, a divi
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on August 15, 1981The Naval Sea Systems Command, Department of the Navy, Washington, D.C., has awarded Tracor, Inc. an $8.3-million fouryear contract for technical and engineering support for the FFG- 7 Class Guided Missile Frigate Acquisition Program. William C. Moyer, Ph.D., group vice president for Tracor
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on August 15, 1981Chromalloy American Corporation, St. Louis, has announced the completion of its acquisition of Flowers Marine Group, Inc., a privately held barge company, from its founder, J. Russell Flowers, for approximately $15 million. Approximately 70 percent of the purchase price was paid with 400,00
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on August 15, 1981James A. Cole Jr., vice president in charge of Texaco Inc.'s Marine Department, has announced the following appointments : Robert 0. Sanders, manager- chartering, succeeding Robert G. Gingrow who elected to take early retirement on June 1, 1981, after 37 years of service; James F. Gaffney,
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on August 15, 1981Nine San Clemente-class tankers operated by Apex Marine Corporation will be retrofitted with pretested inert gas generators from Foster Wheeler Boiler Corporation, Livingston, N.J. The generators will be designed to operate on #6 heavy oil instead of #2 diesel oil, the usual fuel for this t