1981 Articles
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on August 1981Richard A. Simpson has been promoted to the newly created position of vice president, common carrier services of Crowley Maritime Corporation's Caribbean Division, according to a recent announcement by Robert G. Homan, Jacksonville, Fla., Crowley senior vice president and general manager of
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on August 1981Pentagon correspondent Charles W. Corddry recently reported in The Baltimore Sun: "The Navy has proposed a vastly expanded five-year shipbuilding plan calling for 143 ships—including two nuclear- powered aircraft carriers— that could double the construction budget of the service already mos
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on August 1981Dravo SteelShip Corporation, Pine Bluff, Ark., recently delivered two 60-foot by 22-foot by 9.5-foot crane boats to Weber Marine, Incorporated of Burnside, La. These new boats, the MAR-LO, and the GOOG-E (shown above), are powered by twin GM 12V-71 diesel engines rated at 340 hp each. The
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on August 1981A recent joint meeting of the Pacific Northwest Sections of the American Society of Naval Engineers and The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers saw a movie on salvage, and heard Capt. J. Huntly Boyd of the Puget Sound Navy Shipyard discuss the problems of clearing the Suez Canal
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on August 1981Joseph S. Coco has been named controller of Consolidated Inland Marine, Inc., Beaumont, Texas, a wholly owned subsidiary of Consolidated Petroleum Industries, Inc. Mr. Coco most recently was on the staff of Exxon Company U.S.A.'s Treasury Department. Prior to that he held various supervisory
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on August 1981Those concerned with steels for offshore platforms and drilling barges, ship hulls, pressure vessels, construction equipment, or line pipe valves and fittings, will want to add this new product data bulletin. It contains full data on Armco CT Steels, a family of high strength, low alloy, fin
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on August 1981Simrad's TP-4553 track plotter extends the operational capability of Loran C units by recording the ship's present position. Fully automatic, it has built-in microcomputers that plot a vessel's track on grid paper by using the Lat/Long grid supplied from the TL-856 navigator or the TC-28A c
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on August 1981William C. Moyer, Ph.D., Group vice president of Tracor, Inc., Austin, Texas, recently announced the company's subsidiary, Tracor Marine of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has been awarded a $1.7-million contract for overhaul and modernization of the Research Vessel Robert G. Conrad. The R /V Conrad,
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on August 19811981 is shaping up to be a very busy year at Bailey Corporation. The New Orleans firm is presently building ship's stores boxes for five tankers under construction at nearby Avondale Shipyards. "We're probably the only Gulf Coast company that could tackle a job of that size and still serve
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on August 1981John K. Stuart has been appointed fleet engineer at Oglebay Norton Company. He succeeds Sidney L. Spinner who has retired. Mr. Stuart joined the company's Columbia Transportation Division in 1980 as assistant fleet engineer. Prior to that, he was vice president-engineering at the Great Lake
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on August 1981The M/V C/Wanderer is a new crew/supply vessel designed and built by Swiftships, Inc. of Morgan City, La. The all-aluminum craft is operated by Co-Mar Offshore C o r p o r a t i o n of Morgan City, and is the 29th vessel Co- Mar or affiliated companies have taken delivery from Swiftships, I
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on August 1981Oglebay Norton Company has taken delivery of its first 1,000- foot self-unloading vessel. The new supercarrier was constructed by the Bay Shipbuilding Corp., subsidiary of The Manitowoc Company, Inc., at Sturgeon Bay, Wis. Construction began in the autumn of 1979 and the keel was laid on Ma
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on August 1981The 100th, 40,000-hp controllable pitch p r o p e l l e r manufactured by Bird-Johnson Company for the U.S. Navy will power the 31st Spruance Class destroyer, The Hayler (DD-997), currently under c o n s t r u c t i o n at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Miss. Delivery of this propeller, w
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on August 1981Goldston Shipbuilding Corporation of Corpus Christi, Texas, announced it has signed a contract with Jackson Marine Corporation of Aransas Pass, Texas, for the construction of a supply vessel. This contract represents Goldston's entry into the supply boat market. The vessel will be a 160-foo
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on August 1981Steps toward a new 100-acre container terminal at Berths 121- 126 in the Port of Los Angeles were taken recently as the Board of Harbor Commissioners approved a final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and agreements with consultants to design the facility. Previously, the board had entered
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on August 1981Ten guidelines for evaluating Federal waterway user charge proposals have been issued by the New York Towboat & Harbor Carriers Association. In announcing the guidelines, Daniel B. Curll, the Association's president, said: "Numerous proposals are surfacing in Washington to charge the mariti
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on August 1981Another step in the rapid growth of Mexico's commercial fisheries was achieved with MARCO Seattle's christening of the Pescador I. The 108-foot refrigerated sardine seiner is the first of five such vessels being built under contract with BANPESCA (Banco Nacional Pesquero y Portuario, S.A.),
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on July 15, 1981William C. Moyer, group vice president of Tracor, Inc., recently announced that the company's subsidiary, Tracor Marine, has been awarded a $2.5-million contract to operate and maintain the U.S. Navy Ocean Construction Equipment Inventory (OCEI), under the direction of the Chesapeake Divisi
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on July 15, 1981Sembawang Shipyard, Singapore, recently completed a multimillion-dollar contract awarded by McDermott Incorporated of New Orleans for repairs and modifications on the Derrick Barge No. 19. A new feature added to the main deck of the barge, which has been renamed DLB 19, is a pipelaying ramp 1
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on July 15, 1981National Maritime Day was observed in New York Harbor with a cruise down the Hudson River aboard a Circle Line vessel, on which presentations of maritime awards and an ecumenical service were held. As some 400 members of New York and New Jersey's maritime community looked on, sponsors from