1986 Articles
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on October 1986San Diego Shipbuilding & Repair, Inc. of Chula Vista, Calif., recently completed the dinner cruise/excursion vessel William D. Evans for the Bahia Resort Hotel on Mission Bay, San Diego. Built to look like a 19th century riverboat, the 600-passenger vessel, with an overall length of 127 feet
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on October 1986Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Sparrows Point, Md., shipyard recently received two Navy contracts totaling $5.1 million for the drydocking and routine repair of a destroyer tender and a landing ship dock. David Watson, yard general manager, confirmed Bethlehem's receipt of a $3.4-million con
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on October 1986SPT Ltd., with full sales and services facilities in Houston, Texas, is offering a free full-color, 14-page brochure on their line of sound powered telephones and accessories for offshore, marine and land-based use. The color publication provides a complete technical description of SPT soun
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on October 1986Bath Iron Works Corporation (BIW) of Bath, Maine, one of the country's leading shipbuilders, has been purchased by private investors led by Gibbons, Green, van Amerongen, Ltd., a diversified investment banking firm based in New York. BIW was formerly owned by Congoleum Corporation, headquart
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on October 1986Thor Bakke has been appointed president of Hempel Coatings (USA), Inc., as part of Hempel's ongoing program to consolidate and strengthen their U.S. and Canadian operations. Mr. Bakke is a native of Norway, receiving his degree in mechanical engineering from Gothenburg Technical Institute a
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on October 1986—Literature Available Ship electronic systems covering all aspects of management afloat were presented by Racal to the international shipping community at the Europort Exhibition in Amsterdam. Known as ISES—Integrated Ship Electronics Systems—the range of equipment is being supplied by Racal
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on October 1986November 20-22, 1986 Seattle Center Exhibition Hall Pacific Marine Expo, the commercial marine trade show scheduled for November 20-22 at the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall, represents the largest forum for sharing marine technology and ideas that will take place on the West Coast this ye
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on October 1986The Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded a $96.6-million contract to Peterson Builders, Inc. of Sturgeon Bay, Wise., for construction of two more mine countermeasures ships, the MCM-6 and MCM-8. The Wisconsin yard already had three MCMs on its orderbook under contracts totaling $180.2 mill
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on October 1986Swiftships, Inc. of Morgan City, La., has been awarded a $12,178,268 fixed price FMS contract for the supply of patrol boats and associated support hardware and services to the government of Cameroon. Work, which will be performed in Morgan City, will consist of the construction of thirty, 3
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on October 1986With drydocking costs sometimes topping $10,000 per day, shipowners take a serious interest in delivery schedules for replacement parts, even when their resources are as vast as those of the U.S. Navy. The problem becomes increasingly acute when replacements can be ordered only after the ori
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on October 1986The Claremont Company, Inc., Meriden, Conn., is offering a free catalog on their line of thermal and acoustical insulation materials for industrial use. The eight-page color publication contains over 40 photographs of Claremont products, from high temperature insulation pad components to ac
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on October 1986—Literature Offered— Serodino, Inc.'s Hales Bar, Tenn., shipyard recently launched the Cummins-powered excursion vessel River Queen for the Knoxville Riverboat Company. The 550-passenger vessel will be operated on the Tennessee River near Knoxville. The River Queen, including the landing st
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on October 1986The first U.S. installation of Perkins Engines' Rolls-Royce designed marine diesels is in an 80-foot-long and 30-foot-wide luxury catamaran built for Bottom Time Adventures of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Bottom Time conducts diving expeditions throughout the Bahamas as well as island cruises and, t
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on October 1986"Integrated Marine Control Systems" is the title of a new full-color, 12-page brochure from Bailey Controls of Wickliffe, Ohio, which presents control and instrumentation products, systems and support capabilities available to the maritime and offshore industries. The publication features the
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on October 1986Squire-Cogswell Co., air and vacuum specialists since 1916, has announced exclusive distributorship in the U.S. and Canada of liquid ring vacuum pumps manufactured by Robuschi of Parma, Italy. Designed for industrial applications, the Robuschi line includes conventional base-mounted units as w
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on October 1986Kamatics Corporation, home officed in Bloomfield, Conn., is offering a free, full-color, 22-page catalog on their line of KAron® Bearings, including spherical, rod end and journal configurations. The KAron bearing system is generated by swaging a metallic sleeve around a spherical ball creat
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on October 1986London-based Drewry Shipping Consultants Ltd. foresees a 40-percent increase in the refined oil products trade, from 250 million metric tons in 1985 to 350 million metric tons by 1990. This would raise demand for products tankers by 7 million dwt, the report states. The principal growth in t
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on October 1986—Literature Available Raytheon Marine Company's marketing manager, Carsten Peters, has announced that Raytheon has signed a comprehensive distribution agreement with Yokogawa Hokushin Electric Corporation (YEW) of Japan. YEW is one of the world's leading manufacturers of gyrocompasses, ele
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on October 1986Marinette Marine Corporation of Marinette, Wise., has been awarded a $51.8-million contract by the Naval Sea Systems Command for construction of one additional mine countermeasures ship, the MCM-7. Marinette previously was awarded Navy contracts totaling $88 million for construction of two o
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on October 1986Ulstein in Norway recently unveiled a new high-lift rudder that combines the best features of various known rudder types and provides higher lift at large rudder angles compared with conventional flap type rudders. The new rudder is said to provide an exceptionally good effect for vessels th