1981 Articles
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on August 15, 1981James H. Sessions has been named president of Newpark Shipbuilding and Repair, Inc., a shipyard with barge cleaning and gas freeing facilities situated on 22 acres on an island in the Houston Ship Channel. Newpark also announced the appointments of Stephen R. Haskew and Kimble R. Lehman as
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on August 15, 1981John G. Smith has been promoted to general manager of Krupp Atlas Elektronik U.S.A. For the past year he has served as regional sales manager for the East and Gulf Coasts. Krupp Atlas Elektronik is a leading marine electronics manufacturer based in Bremen, West Germany. The Krupp Atlas prod
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on August 15, 1981Burmeister & Wain Shipyard, Copenhagen, recently delivered Yard No. 883 the M/S Baumare — the third of a series of 17 fuelsaving Panamax bulkcarriers of approximately 64,000 dwt on the yard's order list. The M / S Baumare was delivered to the shipping company Baumare Inc., Monrovia, Liberia
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on August 15, 1981Dedication ceremonies for the t u g b o a t " B e l c h e r - P o r t Everglades" and her mate, Belcher Barge #102, were held recently at Port Everglades (Fla.) Pier Nineteen. The Belcher-Port Everglades, the largest oceangoing tugboat ever built in this country, was constructed for Belcher
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on August 15, 1981Calling it the largest port development in the state's peacetime history, Maine Governor Joseph Brennan has announced the State of Maine and the City of Portland have signed a memorandum of intent with Bath Iron Works for a $46.7-million expansion at the Port of Portland. Bath Iron Works, w
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on August 15, 1981John D. West, president of The Manitowoc Company, Inc., and chief executive officer of Bay Shipbuilding Corp., has announced that George K. Geiger has succeeded Arthur J. Zuehlke as president of Bay Shipbuilding Corp. Bay Shipbuilding Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Manitowoc Company,
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on August 1981Swiftships, Inc., one of the world's largest shipbuilders, announced plans to construct a 20- acre repair facility in Freeport, Texas. When the facility begins initial operation on August 15, it will become the fourth shipyard owned and operated by the Morgan City, La.-based company. The C
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on August 1981The Sperry Division of Sperry Corporation has received a $51.1- million contract to implement the first phase of the combat system development and integration for three Spanish Navy guided-missile frigates and one aircraft carrier. The contract was awarded to Sperry by the U.S. Naval Sea Sys
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on August 1981Lt. Gen. John W. Morris, USA (ret.), former Chief of Engineers, has been elected president of the National Waterways Foundation, a recently established research and education organization. The announcement was made by the Foundation's chairman, David A. Wright of St. Louis, president of Nat
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on August 1981Houston Offshore International, Inc., Houston, Texas, has taken delivery on two Sabine-class rigs and has ordered the Sabine V, president Jerry E. Chiles announced recently. The new rig will be built at Bethlehem Steel's Singapore shipyard and is scheduled for delivery in September 1982. It
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on August 1981The J.J. Henry Co., Inc. of New York, has been selected by the Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Co. of Seattle, Wash., to develop detailed engineering and construction drawings for the LSD-41, the first in a new class of Dock Landing Ships for the U.S. Navy. The J.J. Henry Co. had pre
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on August 1981Contractor sea trials of submarines built by General Dynamics' Electric Boat Division, Groton, Conn., will be supported by Raytheon Company's research vessel Sub Sig II under terms of a charter signed recently by the two firms. The vessel, owned and operated by Raytheon's Submarine Signal
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on August 1981The introduction of IMCO regulations, last amended in 1978, and the publication of USCG regulations, September 1979, require that all ships calling on U.S. and IMCO nations' ports will be required to comply with these regulations by the specified dates. In the U.S. this date is June 1, 1981
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on August 1981Spurred by the tremendous rise in all marine costs during the past eight years, many suppliers of marine paint have developed sophisticated antifouling coatings to keep a ship's hull smooth and free of marine organisms, thereby reducing fuel consumption. Other developments include improved
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on August 1981The 60,010-dwt bulk carrier Rayna (shown above) was delivered recently to Epos Marine Corporation (Greece). She was constructed at the Hiroshima Works (Innoshima) of Hitachi Zosen to American Bureau of Shipping classification. The Rayna is a Panamax type standard bulk carrier, the largest siz
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on August 1981Bayou Black Shipyard recently delivered the push boat, the 'Bengal Phil', to Hillman Marine, Inc. of Morgan City, La. The boat has a length of 60 feet, a beam of 25 feet, and depth midship of 9 feet. The Bengal Phil's fuel capacity is approximately 16,000 gallons; water capacity is approximate
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on August 1981The Honorable Neil Windsor, Newfoundland's Minister of Development, recently reported that $400 million will be spent in drilling for oil off the coast of his Canadian province this year, and that oil production should begin by 1987. Noting that Mobil's Hibernia find alone contains 1.85 bil
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on August 1981Reel-O-Matic Systems, Inc. of Wrightsville, Pa., has recently been contracted to modify one of its standard line of products for shipboard use—an application that required some very special attention. The customer had a requirement to take-up and measure wire cable onto a metal reel in a wi
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on August 1981Interstate and Ocean Transport Company (IOT) has announced the recent opening of its new Southern Fleet Center at 2040 Guy N. Verger Boulevard, Tampa, Fla. The new center is strategically located in the Port of Tampa to support Interstate's Gulf Coast fleet of superbarges. These mammoth bar
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on August 1981Racal-Decca Marine, Inc. recently introduced their new, allweather ARPA (Automatic Radar Plotting Aid) Radar System at the Whitehall Club in New York. Over 100 shipowners and other members of the maritime community attended the introduction which featured operational demonstrations of the D