1981 Articles
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on December 1981The centennial observance of the founding of the naval architecture and marine engineering programs at the University of Michigan was linked with the recently held fall meeting of the Great Lakes and Great Rivers section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. Five technica
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on December 1981The U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command awarded a contract valued at $12.6 million to Uniflite, Inc., Bellingham, Wash., fiberglass boat manufacturer, for the construction of 38 trailerable 36-foot Seafox special warfare craft, according to James J. Doud Jr., Uniflite president. The smallest com
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on December 1981Edward F. Mclntyre, general chairman of the Marine Section of the National Safety Council, announced recently that 12 specialists in accident prevention were cited by the organization f o r outstanding p r e s e n t a t i o ns that advanced efforts in safety f o r workers in the U.S. maritim
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on December 1981Paducah Marine Ways has announced its intention to construct a new fabrication shop and also an adjoining propeller repair shop in order to modernize and improve the efficiency of its efforts on the Ohio River for the marine industry. The total of 14,000- square-foot facilities will be const
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on December 1981Another milestone in a growth story was announced by Frank Nemec, p r e s i d e n t of Marsea Agencies, Houma, La., who revealed recently that Marsea had taken delivery of their 13th supply boat, making the new Marsea group one of the prominent growth companies on the Louisiana Gulf Coast.
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on December 1981Edward E. Paden, president of Levingston Industries, Inc., has announced three senior management assignments resulting from the formation of two new companies within the Levingston Group. Joe Barrios, currently president of Levingston Shipbuilding Company, has been appointed president of th
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on December 1981Brown & Root Norge A / S was recently awarded a contract by Dansk Boreselskab A / S (Danbor) of Denmark for the installation of in-field pipelines in the Danish sector of the North Sea f o r the Danish Undergrounds Consortium's gas development project. Commencing in May 1982 the contract co
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on December 1981[...] Review — Blue Ridge cargo tanks. Each tank is fitted with a deep well cargo pump. The 658-foot-long ship is also fitted with a cylindrical appendage- type bulbous bow to improve speed, and is powered by a GE steam turbine engine. The Blue Ridge and her sister ships incor- porate st
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on December 1981RCA Missile and Surface Radar, Moorestown, N.J., has received $339 million in contracts for Aegis weapon systems for three additional U.S. Navy ships in the Aegis class of guided missile cruisers. The awards cover production and integration effort for the third and fourth cruisers in the s
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on December 1981The new flagship of the German merchant fleet, the luxury liner M / V Europa, recently completed almost three days of sea trials in the North Sea. The 35,000-grt liner is scheduled to undertake her maiden voyage on January 8, 1982. The vessel was built by Bremer Vulkan shipyard, Bremen, Wes
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on December 1981The Philadelphia Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers held its October meeting at the Engineers' Club in center city, Philadelphia. About 70 members and guests turned out f o r the presentation of a paper on an interesting aspect of the use of the handheld compute
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on December 1981The Hampton Roads Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers recently held its first meeting of the 1981- 82 season at Fisherman's Wharf in Hampton, Va. This dinner/technical meeting, attended by 88 members and guests, featured a technical p£.- per, "Reducing Fuel Consu
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on December 1981EMH, Paris, France, will build two CALM — Catenary Anchor Leg Mooring — buoys for Petroterminal de Panama, S A . (PtP). The turnkey contract was awarded t h r o u g h Morrison-Knudsen, acting as agent for the pipeline company. The two SPMs will be built by EMH at the Tamese yard in Spain a
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on December 1981Japan's six largest shipping companies plan to invest more than $3.4 billion in construction of 83 new cargo vessels during the next three years, according to the Japan development Bank (JDB). The construction will consist mainly of carriers of non-oil energy resources, presumably coal car
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on December 1981The Maritime Subsidy Board has approved a Farrell Lines Incorporated request to charter the Austral Lightning and Austral Rainbow to the Military Sealift Command (MSC) for two years with three ore-year optional extensions. The 820-foct, 29,800-dwt barge and container carriers were built wit
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on December 1981The 38-foot aluminum crewboat Matmar Drill III was delivered recently by Kings Craft, Inc., Florence, Ala., to Matagorda Marine Drilling Company of Corpus Christi, Texas. She is the third of four aluminum vessels built at the yard for the same owner. All four boats are 38 feet long by 13-f
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on December 1981Bergeron Marine, Inc., Port Bienville, Miss., recently delivered the Tide Mar 34, a 10,500- barrel-capacity tank barge, to Tidewater Marine Service, Inc. of New Orleans, La. Tidewater Marine is the marine subsidiary of Tidewater Inc. The barge measures 160 feet long, 42 feet wide, 12 feet d
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on December 1981T h e M i l i t a r y Sealift Command's emergency cargo lift force was strengthened when the Navy recently accepted from Sea-Land Industries the third of six of the fastest and largest containerships in the U.S.-flag merchant fleet. The three 33-knot SL-7 containerships are part of a six-shi
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on December 1981The New England section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers held its annual student papers meeting recently which was attended by over 60 members and student members. The first paper, entitled "Influence of Design and Fabrication on Underwater Ship Maintenance and Repai
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on December 1981The emergency support vessel (ESV) lolair, built by Scott Lithgow Ltd. at Greenock on the Clyde for British Petroleum Ltd. and the British National Oil Corporation, is undergoing extensive sea trials before final fitting out and service in the North Sea. Of a semisubmersible construction, t