1989 Articles
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on May 1989SPD Technologies, Philadelphia, Pa., has been awarded the contract to produce a special-design electric plant control panel for installation in the first of the U.S. Navy's new Seawolf Class nuclear submarines. The contract was awarded by the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics, prime
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on May 1989Bailey Refrigeration Co., Inc., Avenel, N.J., has appointed Oscar F. Poppe Jr. as its Miami branch manager. Mr. Poppe comes to Bailey from Bermuda Star Line where he was vice president of operations. A marine engineer from Miami, Mr. Poppe has considerable experience in the marine industry
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on May 1989Datrex, Inc., Miami, Fla., has introduced the U.S. Coast Guardapproved/ SOLAS 74/83 Hammar H20 two-year disposable hydrostatic release for commercial marine inflatable life rafts. Datrex reports the new Hammar H20 release is safe, reliable, and through simplicity of design, offers a substan
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on May 1989Sperry Marine Inc., Charlottesville, Va., and Philips GmbH Unternehmensbereich Systeme und Sondertechnik, Kiel, West Germany, recently announced the signing of a cooperation agreement for jointly pursuing the ESM/ADF system requirements of the new Federal Republic of Germany U212 submarine
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on May 1989Albert L. Bossier Jr., chairman and chief executive officer of Avondale Industries, Inc., has been chosen to receive the 1989 Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Award given by the Navy League of the United States, a 70,000-member civilian organization dedicated to America's maintaining a strong
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on May 1989The U.S. Navy has selected the Bailey Controls' Network 90® distributed control system and field equipment for its YTT-9 Torpedo Test Craft. The craft will perform acceptance tests for advanced undersea weapons systems. Network 90 will provide control, monitoring and alarm functions for crit
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on May 1989Ingalls Shipbuilding, Inc., Pasca- goula, Miss., is preparing to deliver the lead vessel of the new amphi- bious assault ship class, the USS Wasp (LHD-1), for delivery to the U.S. Navy. The Navy expects to take delivery of the Wasp shortly, and commission her into the fleet July 29 in Norfol
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on May 1989Avondale Industries Inc., New Orleans, La., was recently awarded a $319-million contract by the U.S. Navy to construct three T-AO-187 Class fleet oilers. Each of the Henry J. Kaiser Class oilers will have a displacement of 40,700 tons, length of 677-1/2 feet, and beam of 97-1/2 feet. Accord
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on May 1989The U.S. Navy continues to be the major driver of business for shipyards and marine equipment suppliers in the United States. A status report for shipbuilding programs and a summary of the FY 1990/91 Navy ship procurement budget is provide below. STATUS OF MAJOR PROGRAMS Exhibit 1 shows na
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- Alden's New Marine Fax Recorder Receives Weather Charts As Well As Navtex And Radioteleprinter Data page: 30
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on May 1989Alden Electronics, Inc., Westborough, Mass., recently announced the introduction of the Marinefax TRIV, a complete weather information center capable of receiving weather and oceanographic charts, as well as Navtex and radioteleprinter data. Navtex as a marine information service for a varie
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- COMSAT'S 'Cruise Calling' Makes Telephone Calls To And From Ship Easy, Clear, Direct And Private page: 30
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on May 1989Communicating to or from a cruise ship used to be a complex and time-consuming task. Traditional high-frequency (HF) radio calls take time to place and once achieved, connections can be impaired by bad weather and calls often fade in and out. Moreover, since anyone with a receiver can tune
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on May 1989The new WD 234 is another outstanding addition to the line of Deutz MWM high performance boat propulsion units. The engine is a result of the cooperation between Deutz MWM and Wizemann Marine. The task of this cooperation is to have Detuz MWM basic engines matched by Wizemann at its marine
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on May 1989Directions In Design (DID), Inc., a St. Louis, Mo.-based ship interiors firm, has recently completed the redesign and interiors installation of two sister ships, the Huck Finn and the Tom Sawyer, both operated by Gateway Riverboat Cruises, Inc. and berthed on the St. Louis riverfront. DID's
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on May 1989One of the first extended service programs for marine transmissions has been introduced by ZF of North America, Inc., Lincolnshire, 111. ZF, a worldwide manufacturer of major power train components, offers a Buyer Assurance Plan that pays 100 percent parts and labor for any original or like
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on May 1989With the recent merger of Lucian Q. Moffitt, Inc., with the BFGoodrich Company, LQMoffitt operations have become part of the Dynamic Polymer Products business unit of the BFGoodrich Aerospace Division. While BFGoodrich assumes the ongoing business relationships of former LQMoffitt, the prev
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on May 1989Liebherr-Werk Nenzing, Austria, recently received a large ships gantry crane order from Japanese shipbuilder Tsuneishi. The order, for three plus one multipurpose container- handling, jib-type gantry cranes of Liebherr's well-known type MPS with lifting capacities of 45 tons, underlines this
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on May 1989—Literature Available Seaco/Elliot manufactures and sells a full product line of superior quality inflatable life rafts and related products for oceangoing vessels, offshore platforms, commercial fishing vessels, corporate and commercial aircraft and various military applications. In its
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on May 1989Mayor Edward I. Koch recently announced that the City of New York will contract with Avondale Industries, Inc. of New Orleans, La., for the construction, delivery and mooring of an 800-bed floating correction facility by June 1990. The cost for the floating jail net of the site is $125,639,2
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on May 1989Mackay Communications and C. Plath recently announced the signing of a sales and service agreement covering the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Through the agreement, Mackay hopes to improve services to commercial shipping and other markets. C. Plath is a major manufacturer of navigation equipment in
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on May 1989Everpure, Inc., of Westmont, 111., is offering free literature on the onboard potable water disinfection systems marketed by the company. Everpure Bromination Systems, which represent the state-of-the-art in onboard potable water disinfection, are in use worldwide on offshore production plat