1986 Articles
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on December 1986Recently, the Board of Directors of the Marine Machinery Association met with a select group of U.S. Navy officials to discuss incidents of poor quality in parts and services being supplied to the Navy as a result of awards to less than qualified suppliers. Participating in the discussions
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on December 1986The tenth in a projected fleet of 26 Navy oceanographic surveillance ships (T-AGOS) was recently christened "Invincible" at Tacoma Boatbuilding Company in Tacoma, Wash. The USNS Invincible (T-AGOS- 10) will be operated by the Military Sealift Command for the Space and Warfare Systems Comman
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on December 1986Honeywell's offshore business has sold its first HydroStar Plus subsea tracking and relocation system to the Naval Ocean Systems Center (NOSC) in Hawaii after a successful performance demonstration in customer- funded sea trials. Testing was conducted onboard a 48-foot vessel using a gimball
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on December 1986— A REVIEW— Manufacturers of shipboard electronics equipment continue to improve their products in an effort to make navigation more precise and safer, and to provide easier, faster communications—both on a costeffective basis. The editors of MR/EN asked the manufacturers and suppliers of m
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on December 1986According to service officials, the Navy hopes the benefits of competition will make it feasible to finally link warships with a jam-proof highspeed data system. The Navy is laying plans to open to competition its sophisticated AN/WSC-6 communications system. Plans call for holding the compe
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on December 1986awarded to the Frederick, Md.- based Airflow Company by the Navy Regional Contracting Center. The contract, awarded to Airflow's IMP AC Division, calls for the manufacture and delivery of eleven 75- ton air conditioning units. Airflow Company's air conditioners will provide dockside environm
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on December 1986The first seawater hydraulic multi- function tool system ever developed for Navy divers has been approved for Navy use by the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA). The acceptance marks the culmination of a major 10-year research and development effort by the Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory
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on December 1986Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point shipbuilding yard, which has received two repair contracts under a limited expansion of the Navy's homeport rule, will be eligible for all Navy contracts. Representative Helen Delich Bentley, who played a pivotal role in getting the Reagan Administration to
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on December 1986Members of the Maine and New Hampshire Congressional delegations have announced a $240 million program to modernize Portsmouth Navy Shipyard. Some 600 employees were laid off or retired from the yard earlier this year as competition among Navy-owned shipyards heated up. The project will con
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on December 1986After two decades of proven reliability aboard flight decks of aircraft carriers, a general purpose, heavy duty, non-slip deck coating is now commercially available from American Abrasive Metals Company. The new abrasive coating known as Epoxo has wide application for boat landings and on de
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on December 1986A new hardcover book, "Always Good Ships," takes a retrospective look at Newport News Shipbuilding, listing and describing the colorful histories of more than 500 ships built by the famous Virginia shipyard during its first century of operation. Author William A. Fox, a naval architect and n
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on December 1986James J. Henry, a leading naval architect and the founder and president of the naval architectural and marine engineering firm bearing his name, died at the age of 73 on November 2, 1986 following a heart attack. Born at Ancon, Canal Zone, on 22 June 1913, Mr. Henry was graduated from the W
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- Wilton-Fijenoord Yard Awarded $26.7-Million Contract To Build Two Patrol Vessels For Taiwan page: 74
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on November 1986Wilton-Fijenoord B.V. in Schie- dam, Netherlands, has booked an order valued at Dfl 60 million (about $26.7 million) for the con- struction of two Customs Patrol Vessels for the Republic of China (Taiwan). These ships will have an overall length of 214.56 feet, beam of 31.5 feet, and full-lo
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on November 1986Resistoflex, a recognized leader in the aerospace industry, now offers its high-performance fluid connectors for militiary marine use. From initial design to actual installation installation, Resistoflex integrates high technology with operational requirements to meet high-temperature, high
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on November 1986A christening ceremony was held at National Steel and Shipuilding Company (NASSCO) in San Diego recently for the Exxon Valdez, the first of "two 209,000-dwt tankers being constructed for Exxon Shipping Company of Houston. These Alaska Class tankers are the largest ships ever built on the Wes
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on November 1986In what is Denmark's first major shipbuilding contract in almost two years, A.P. Moller of Copenhagen recently ordered five new ships from the Odense Steel Shipyard. The order, for two 50,000-dwt products carriers and three 3,000- TEU containerships, is thought to be worth about $150 million
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on November 1986A 200+ page report providing the most comprehensive assessment yet made of the marine market will be published in December by International Maritime Associates, Inc. The report assesses the growth to occur in the future U.S. commercial marine and naval market. Its intended users are marketin
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on November 1986The first meeting of the 86-87 season for the New York Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers heard a paper titled "Conversion of San Clemente Class Tankers to Hospital Ships for the U.S. Navy," by Alan R. Reid and David S. Huff of the Military Sealift C
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on November 1986—Literature A v a i l a b l e— SWDiesel's SW 280 engine meets the operating capability required for mobile offshore installations, and is said to have been the first engine to pass a performance test in the output range from 2,000 to 8,000 bhp under conditions where inclinations to the horiz
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on November 1986David Higgins, executive director of the Marimed (maritime medicine) Foundation in Honolulu, has announced the signing of the initial contract for the construction of a 150-foot, three-masted topsail schooner. The vessel will be outfilled with medical equipment and will be used to provide pr