1982Peter Articles
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on March 1978The Portland, Ore.-based Northwest Marine Iron Works has started a 10-month overhaul of the USS Meyerkord under a $8.8-million contract. The pact is the third long-term contract awarded to Northwest Marine Iron Works by the Navy in the past two years. The firm, which operates in the Port of P
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on March 1978Ninety members and guests of the Pacific Northwest Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers recently attended a regular meeting held in Pier 91 Officers' Club, Seattle, Wash. After dinner, a technical paper titled "Application of Seakeeping Analysis" was presented by
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on March 1978The appointment of John E. Lescroart as vice president, C.F. Bean Corp.'s Washington, D.C., office has been announced by Charles F. Bean, board chairman of the New Orleans, La.-based international dredging and marine contractor. Mr. Lescroart's activities will be concentrated in the areas o
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on March 1978Litton Automated Marine Systems of Woodland Hills, Calif., a division of Litton Systems (Canada) Limited, Toronto, Ontario, recently held a private exhibition of their Load Monitoring System in New York City. The exhibition, held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, was attended by key representati
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on March 1978Joseph Nolet, marine sales manager of Gamlen Chemical Company, a division of Sybron Corporation, Elmwood Park, N.J., has announced the appointment of Kevin Smith, president of Supplier's Marine and Industrial, Inc., to the position of Great Lakes Area sales representative. In his new positi
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on March 1978Sun Shipbuilding, Chester, Pa., has named Albert M. Martinson Jr. program manager for the Matson containership (Sun Hull No. 678) construction program. In his new post, he will report to Robert Galloway, executive vice president, and will have ultimate responsibility for the overall success
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on March 1978Tideland Signal Corporation of Houston, Texas, reports outstanding r e s u l t s with systems of marine signal lanterns, fog signals and solar power s t a t i o ns "matched" as to power supply and demand. These matched systems are designed for specific geographical locations, taking into ac
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on March 1978Communication Associates, Inc., Huntington Station, N.Y., has announced the appointment of Gerald S. Harrison as vice president and director of engineering. He will be responsible for the engineering design and development of the company's expanding line of marine communication products and
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on March 1978The Babcock & Wilcox Company and Brown Boveri have announced that a memorandum of understanding has been signed to restructure their relationship in the nuclear equipment business in Germany. Babcock-Brown Boveri Reaktor GmbH (BBR), a German supplier of nuclear steam supply systems, now own
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on March 1978A technical s y m p o s i um on ships' propellers will be held on May 24 and 25, 1978, at the Cavalier Hotel, Virginia Beach, Va. Entitled "Propellers '78," the symposium is to be jointly sponsored by Technical and Research Panel M-16 (Modernization of Propulsion Shaft Systems) and the Hamp
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on January 1978Capt. Henry E. Engelbrecht, formerly vice president in charge of operations for the United Tanker Group, has acquired Lexington Transport Corporation. Sinnan Pu and Capt. Nick Ni, also formerly of United Tanker, have joined Lexington in the capacities of vice president-engineering and assis
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on January 1978The appointment of James B. Rose as port manager for United States Lines at Norfolk, Va., was announced by William J. Klauberg, vice president, Eastern Division. Mr. Rose succeeds Frank Wilson Babb, who reached retirement age after being with the line since 1946. Mr. Rose was previously own
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on January 1978The marine industry's first extensive reappraisal of traditional ocean towing methods is now available from Samson Ocean Systems, Inc. Entitled "Samson Towing Systems," AR-12/5-77, the 12-page report provides in-depth MS 19 1500 W fully synthesized Main Radio Transmitter/Radiotelephone. Mod
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on January 1978A worldwide computer network has been launched by five firms in a joint venture which provides clients with maritime industry information. Lloyd's Register of Shipping, Lloyd's of London Press Limited, Phs. Van Ommeren International B.V., Fairfield International Corp. and Marine Management
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on January 1978Arthur J. Yeend has been named assistant to the president of Campbell Industries, San Diego, Calif. 92112, with primary responsibilities in the area of development and improvements in the company's fishing vessel construction programs. Although he has been absent for a few years, Mr. Yeend
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on January 1978Billy M. Ennis has been promoted to vice president of Santa Fe Engineering & Construction Co., and assigned to company headquarters in Orange, Calif., as operations manager-marine construction. For the past five years, Mr. Ennis was assigned to the company's offshore construction and pipel
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on January 1978Equitable Shipyards, Inc., New Orleans, La., has delivered a third new steel oceangoing, deck cargo barge to McDonough Marine Service, New Orleans, for operation in offshore oil and gas fields. All three barges in the new fleet for McDonough have overall dimensions of 240 feet by 72 feet by 16
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on January 1978Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, a major U.S. aerospace company, and Rendel, Palmer and Tritton, a 140-year-old British consulting and design engineering partnership, have entered into an arrangement whereby their combined expertise in ocean engineering can add a capability not formerly ava
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on January 1978A new marketing organization has been organized at Kockums Shipyard, Malmo, Sweden, under director Gunnar Nilsson. The new marketing section includes departments for research and development, projection, calculation and customer contact. The new organization will improve i n t e g r a t i o
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on January 1978The Jover Corporation, P.O. Box 386, Park Ridge, N.J. 07656, has been appointed manufacturers' representative for the Marine Division of Velcon Filters Inc. of San Jose, Calif., in the states of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, North and South Carolina, a