1981 Articles
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on August 1981The liquid gas carrier Dorothea Schulte (shown above) was delivered recently to the Hamburg shipping company Bernhard Schulte by the Jos. L. Meyer shipyard in Papenburg-Ems, Federal Republic of Germany. The new vessel is the eighth gas tanker to join the Schulte fleet, and is a sister ship
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on August 1981O w n e r s h i p of EMH (Entreprise d'Equipements Mecaniques et Hydrauliques), Paris, a wellknown builder of offshore structures for the oil and gas industry, has been acquired by a threecompany French group. According to Jean Alleaume, EMH president, Spie-Batignoles, SOFRESID, and ETPM ha
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on August 1981The twin superseiners Sea Chase and Chiriqui II were christened recently at Peterson Builders in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. The Sea Chase, launched last December, departed Sturgeon Bay at the end of July under command of Capt. Gregory Chase, whose wife, Renee, christened the boat. The Chiriqui II,
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on August 1981TOOLTECH INC., Minneapolis, Minn., international manufacturer of rotary drill pipe and tooljoints used in oil, gas, water and mineral drilling, has announced the appointment of William J. Magratten to the new position of vice president-Marketing and Business Development. Mr. Magratten comes
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on August 1981International Paint Company, with U.S. headquarters in Union, N.J., and manufacturing centers in New Orleans and San Francisco, recently entered a joint venture with the Seoul, Koreabased Daihan Ink & Paint Company. The merger is now registered as International Paint (Korea) Ltd. The ventu
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on August 1981McDermott Scotland, a division of McDermott International, Inc., the major overseas marine construction subsidiary of McDermott Incorporated, has recently been awarded three contracts with a total value of more than $150 million. These contracts call for: • Fabrication of the 15,000- metri
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on August 1981Holland America Cruises has appointed Daved F. Lauth vice president of Technical/Nautical Operations. In this new senior management position, Mr. Lauth will be responsible for the strategic planning and analysis of Holland America's technical and nautical needs as well as the coordination
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on August 1981The Penn Central Corporation's Marathon Manufacturing Company has signed $326 million in contracts with the Rowan Companies, Inc. for the construction of eight offshore oil and gas mobile drilling rigs. Marathon's marine construction order backlog now totals 43 rigs, valued at approximately
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on August 1981The final meeting of the 1980- 81 season was held by the Chesapeake Section, The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, at Quality Inn/Colony 7, Laurel, Md. The technical session was devoted to two papers: "Design of a 35-Knot Planing-Tvpe Landing Craft," by Mark Griffin and Tom
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on August 1981new breed of tough, versatile offshore tugs has been introduced to the maritime industry by Halter Marine, Inc. and Otto Candies, Inc. The first of the new line, and the first of six to be built by Halter for Candies, the Brett Candies (shown above) is a 105- foot, raised forecastle tug that
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on August 1981Tests were conducted in Puget Sound to examine possible ways in which tugboats could assist a supertanker which had lost its power, ability to steer, or both. The 188,500-deadweight-ton tanker B.T. San Diego, chartered from Shell Oil Co., and three tugboats from the Foss Launch and Tug Co.
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on August 1981Twin City Barge, Inc., South St. Paul, Minn., recently announced the signing of an agreement in principle for the acquisition of Transload and Transport, Inc., Morgan City, La. The acquisition will include several companies that are affiliated with Transload and Transport, Inc. John W. Lamb
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on August 1981RivTow Straits Limited recent- delivered the Canadian Fisher- ies patrol vessel James Sinclair (shown above), built at the com- pany's John Manly Shipyard in Vancouver, B.C. Built at a cost of about $7 million, the new vessel is of all-welded aluminum construction, and features such advanced
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on August 1981The Assistant Secretary and the Maritime Subsidy Board have authorized the award of construction-differential subsidy (CDS) for the retrofitting of either of two 89,700- deadweight-ton tankers operated by Chestnut Shipping Co. to meet the requirements of the Port and Tanker safety Act of 1978.
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on August 1981According to an agreement signed in Moscow recently, Valmet Oy Helsinki Shipyard will deliver two 8,700-dwt barge-carrying vessels of a new type (shown above) to the USSR in 1983. The vessels are of the feeder type, which will operate at the ends of main ocean routes distributing and collectin
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on August 1981Tracor Marine, Inc. of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., recently succeeded in raising the 500- ton, 165-foot restaurant ship Livingstone Landing (shown above) from the bottom of New River in Fort Lauderdale under a timelimited, no cure/no pay contract with the Lexington Insurance Company. The vessel, b
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on August 1981The Detroit Diesel Allison Division of General Motors, Detroit, Mich., has published a full-color brochure describing their complete line of marine diesel engines for propulsion and auxiliary power. The brochure clearly describes the broad line of Detroit Diesel models available from the Seri
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on August 1981Southwest Marine, Inc., San Diego, Calif., has announced that the purchase of Bethlehem Steel's shipyard in San Pedro, Calif., has been finalized. Operations began immediately following the announcement, with a management team and staff of 50. Steadily increasing staff additions are anticipa
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on August 1981The Port of Shuaiba in Kuwait is to be the location for the latest Navire Cargo Gear linkspan. It will be built in Kuwait by Kuwait Shipbuilding and Repairyard Company. This linkspan was designed by Navire Cargo Gear in conjunction with Shuaiba Port officials to meet tidal conditions at Shuai
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on August 1981The appointment of John T. Lehman as naval architect/projects manager for Bultema Marine Transportation Inc., has been announced by Ronald G. Bublick, vice president. A subsidiary of The Canonie Companies, Inc., which was named the largest excavation and foundation specialty contractor in t