1981 Articles
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on March 15, 1981The Hampton Roads Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers kicked off its first meeting of 1981 with a technical presentation at the Fort Monroe Officers Club in Hampton, Va. As expected, a large turnout of 121 members and guests was present to hear the evening's paper
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on March 15, 1981Dravo Wellman Company, a Cleveland-based subsidiary of Dravo Corporation, Pittsburgh, has received a contract in excess of $9 million f r om Seaboard Coastline Railroad Company for expansion of a rail-to-ocean vessel phosphate transfer terminal at Tampa, Fla. Designed to supplement existing
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on March 15, 1981A.C. Brown, senior vice president of the J.J. Henry Co., Inc. and general manager of the Moorestown Production Division, has announced the opening of a branch office in San Diego. The new facility will be fully coordinated with the firm's Production Division headquarters in Moorestown, N.J.
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on March 15, 1981Communications A s s o c i a t e s, Inc., Huntington Station, N.Y., has announced the Digiscan® family of microprocessor-based SSB transceivers for the international and U.S. Government markets. The first transceivers to offer total, simplified keyboard control, Digiscan is available in out
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on March 15, 1981Santa Fe Drilling Company has ordered a second $80-million allweather, semisubmersible drilling unit, bringing to $442 million the value of new drilling equipment on order. E.L. Shannon Jr., chairman of the parent Santa Fe International Corporation, said the new unit brings to 20 the number
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on March 15, 1981Ronald R. Hostelley has been promoted to supervisor of marine transportation at Republic Steel C o r p o r a t i o n ' s general office, James F. Frankenberry, director of raw materials purchases, announced recently. In his new position, Mr. Hostelley will be responsible for all non-ocean ve
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on March 15, 1981DEBEG Marine, Inc., Salem, N.H., has announced FCC approval of its new model 2340 watch receiver. The receiver was designed to conform to SOLAS regulations and the requirement that all vessels over 300 gross tons will be equipped with a watch receiver by March 31, 1981. The unit has been pr
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on March 15, 1981Hitachi Zosen recently received another order from Penrod Drilling Company, a member company of the Hunt Group, to build two cantilever type, jackup offshore drilling rigs. The rigs are Hitachi Zosen-developed, standard-type Drill Hope C-250s. Compact and lightweight, they offer excellent e
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on March 15, 1981J. Erik Hvide has been appointed president and chief operating officer of Hvide Shipping Incorporated and its affiliates. He joined the Fort Lauderdale-based company in 1973 after gaining experience in dry cargo and tanker ship operations, both in the U.S. and Norway. In 1970 Mr. Hvide join
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on March 15, 1981A 3,500-ton-lift-capacity drydock for the repair and maintenance of small ocean craft, inland waterway tugs, and barges of up to about 6,000 dwt was dedicated recently at the New Orleans Division of Todd Shipyards Corporation. The new 306-foot by 65- foot drydock, combined with the addition
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on March 15, 1981A new general service boat, PBR/131 (shown above), has been designed and built by Swiftships, Inc. of Morgan City, La. The USCG-approved, all-aluminum vessel is owned by Mariner Equipment, Inc., and operated by PBR Offshore Marine Corporation, also of Morgan City. According to Swiftships' t
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on March 15, 1981Pei-Yen Wang has joined Lexington Transport (New York), Inc. as senior marine superintendent, it was announced by H. E. Engelbrecht, president. From 1948 to 1966, Mr. Wang served in all engineering officer capacities from 3rd assistant engineer to chief engineer. He holds a USCG and Republi
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on March 15, 1981Vosper Limited, naval craft designers and builders, fast boat, and SES specialists, reports that its two main manufacturing subsidiaries, Vosper Private Limited, Singapore, and Vosper Hovermarine Ltd., Southampton, U.K., have recently received orders worth more than 12.5 million pounds (abo
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on March 15, 1981The Philadelphia Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers met at the Engineers Club recently f o r the presentation and discussion of the technical paper Fundamentals and Applications of the Finite Element in Analyzing Structural and Non-Structural Marine Problems. Th
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on March 15, 1981Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy I n d u s t r i e s Company (IHI) recently c o m p l e t e d the 257,882- dwt tanker Nissho Maru (shown above) for Idemitsu Tanker Company of Tokyo. The new ship is the first vessel delivered by IHI's Kure Shipyard this year, and the first tanker of over 200,000 dwt
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on March 15, 1981The right textile to meet nearly any industrial insulation need can be found in a new brochure from HITCO, high-temperature materials specialists. The b r o c h u re covers a family of textiles for asbestos replacement, energy savings, and personnel and equipment protection to over 2,300 F.
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on March 15, 1981The Indonesian Government has ordered a high-speed Boeing Jetfoil hydrofoil for delivery in 1982. Value of the sale is approximately $13.7 million. The Jetfoil will be operated by the Agency for the Study and Application of Technology, which is headed by the Minister of Research and Technol
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on March 15, 1981W. Ray Wallace, president and chief executive officer of Trinity Industries, Inc., announces the appointment of James M. Blenkhorn as president and chief executive officer of Equitable Shipyards, Inc. Mr. Blenkhorn has responsibility for all operations of the shipyards located in New Orleans
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on March 15, 1981A paper titled "The 'Skaugran' Class 42,400-dwt RO/ROs," was presented by R. Keith Michel of the Herbert Engineering Corporation, San Francisco, at a recent meeting of the Northern California Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers in San Francisco. The Skaugran and
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on March 15, 1981Robert B. McFadden has been promoted to assistant vice president and director of the Mechanical Design Division, and John H. Klose was named an assistant vice president and director of the Hull Design Division at J.J. Henry Co., Inc. Both men will report to Anthony C. Brown, senior vice presi