1981 Articles
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on May 15, 1981Riverway Shipyard Company, Grafton, 111., recently completed construction of the 1,200-bhp towboat Jeanie-K (shown above) for Riverway Harbor Service, New Orleans. The new vessel will be used as a fleet boat and a shuttle boat in the New Orleans area. The Jeanie-K is 65 feet long, 24 feet w
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on May 15, 1981Design work is beginning at Nickum & Spaulding Associates, Inc., the Seattle-based naval architecture /marine engineering firm, on the Seattle Fire Department's two new 1.6-million-dollar multipurpose harbor service crafts. The recent award culminated a five-month design competition and eva
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on May 15, 1981Designers & Planners, Inc. (D&P) of Arlington, Va., one of three firms awarded a replacement study contract by the State of Alaska, recently delivered its conceptual design study for the replacement of the aging Tustumena. This work represents an expansion of D&P involvement in ferryboat wo
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on May 15, 1981The M/V Karen Ann (shown above), largest towboat in the fleet of the Corpus Christi Marine Services Company, was christened recently by Karen Ann Mc- Carthy, daughter of CCMS board chairman Dennis W. McCarthy. The towboat, which will be one of the largest operating in intracoastal waterways
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on May 15, 1981Vice President George Bush (shown above) and his wife Barbara were the featured guests at the recent launching of the nuclear- powered submarine Houston (SSN-713) at Newport News Shipbuilding. Vice President Bush was the principal speaker, and Mrs. Bush christened the Houston by breaking th
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on May 15, 1981A complete overview of its capabilities in providing the offshore oil industry with needed winch /windlass power is contained in a new brochure now available from Skagit Division of Continental Emsco. The 16-page, full-color booklet describes the Sedro-Woolley, Wash., firm's wide variety of o
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on May 15, 1981Ratsey and Lapthorn Inc., sailmakers since 1790, and Syner-Tech Inc., suppliers of rigging and control mechanisms, have announced the availability of sails and their related controls and rigging for commercial vessels of various sizes and uses. Both David Vietor, president of Ratsey and Laptho
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on May 15, 1981The Kurama (shown above), a 5,200-ton (displacement) helicopter destroyer for Japan's Defense Agency, was delivered recently at the Tokyo Shipyard of Ishikawajima- Harima Heavy Industries Company, Ltd. (IHI). The new ship, built as part of the Fourth Defense Buildup Program, is the largest de
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on May 15, 1981Global Marine Development Inc. of Irvine, Calif., and Nippon Kokan K.K. of Tokyo, Japan, have announced an agreement to jointly develop and market offshore oil and gas production systems. NKK will fabricate the structures in its shipyards on the basis of engineering provided by GMDI. Global
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on May 15, 1981The Penco Division of Hudson Engineering Company, Nissho- Iwai American Corporation and Showa Marine Kogyo Ltd. of Tokyo, Japan, have announced the appointment of Penco as the exclusive marketing, service and distributor of Blender Ace. Showa has been manufacturing the Blender Ace system fo
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on May 15, 1981The 19,403-dwt cargo ship Galleon Emerald (shown above) was delivered recently to her owner, Galleon Shipping Corporation, the Philippines. Constructed at Hitachi Zosen's Hiroshima Works (Innoshima), she is the last of three sister ships delivered to Galleon Shipping by Hitachi. The first i
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on May 15, 1981Rear Adm. Donald G. Iselin, USN (ret.), has been elected group vice president of Kaiser Engineers, Inc., Houston, Texas, a subsidiary of Raymond International Inc., according to Henry F. LeMieux, chairman and chief executive officer of the parent firm. Admiral Iselin joined Kaiser Engineers
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on May 15, 1981The Delaware Valley Chapter of The American Society of Naval Engineers met recently at the Philadelphia Naval Base Officers Club. Following a social hour and dinner, chairman Eugene Weinert called the meeting to order. After a brief business meeting Mr. Weinert introduced the coordinator, H
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on May 15, 1981Grant R. Hagen has joined Designers & Planners, Inc. as principal naval architect. The announcement was made recently by Ferd Serim, president of the company. Designers & Planners, Inc. is a firm of naval architects and marine engineers with offices in New York, Washington, Texas and Philad
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on May 15, 1981NICOR Inc., Naperville, 111., c h a i r m a n and p r e s i d e n t C.J. Gauthier recently announced acquisition w'th NICOR common stock of two marine transportation companies — Arthur Levy Enterprises, Inc. and Offshore Island Boats, Inc. These two companies along with Acadian Marine Servi
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on May 15, 1981Elliott Dubuisson has been appointed assistant manager-Central Offshore Engineering, effective i m m e d i a t e l y , it was announced recently by Robert C. Shields, vice president in charge of Producing-East for Texaco U.S.A. In his new assignment, Mr. Dubuisson will be located in New Orl
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on May 15, 1981TANO Corporation of New Orleans has signed a contract for $1,907,538 to provide sophisticated machinery plant automation systems for two petroleum tankers being built at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. The ships are being built for Falcon I Sea Transport Company of Houston, and when complet
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on May 15, 1981A new technique, which utilizes a multipurpose hydraulic system for constructing the main deck structures of offshore drilling rigs, has been announced by Hydranautics, Inc. The technique has been applied successfully by Chicago Bridge & Iron Company (CBI) at Pascagoula, Miss., and Inglesid
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on May 15, 1981A recent meeting of the Chesapeake Section, The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, was held at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and featured a presentation on electric propulsion systems for naval combatants by Capt. James V. Jolliff of the Naval Sea S
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on May 1981Maine Maritime Academy announced that Amoco Foundation, Inc. of Chicago has contributed $4,000 in support of the ongoing activities at the Academy, as part of its annual giving program. Donald G. Schroeter, executive director of the Amoco Foundation, approved the contribution on the recommenda