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on April 15, 1984Halifax Industries Limited in Halifax, Nova Scotia, recently received its first vessel in the newly commissioned, 100,000-dwt-capacity floating drydock. The Panamax size dock has a lifting capacity of 36,000 tons. Its overall length is 843.16 feet, width between fenders 124.67 feet, and draf
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- Fishing Vessel C o n f e r e n ce T o Be H e l d M a y 1 0 - 1 2 In M e l b o u r n e , F l o r i da page: 13
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on April 15, 1984The International Conference on the Design, Construction, and Operation of Commercial Fishing Vessels is scheduled for May 10— 12 at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne. The Conference is sponsored by Florida Sea Grant, the Southeast Section of SNAME, and FIT. Some 200 particip
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on April 15, 1984A recent meeting of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers was held, as usual, aboard the early 20th-century passenger ship Princess Louise I. The technical session featured Dr. Maxwell C. Cheung, president of MCA Engineers, Inc. of Newp
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on April 15, 1984The first steel boats built by Desco Marine were unveiled recently at a christening and launching ceremony at the shipyard in St. Augustine, Fla. According to Desco Marine president Tom Collins, the shrimp boats La Marseillaise and LAmericaine were built for Ljubisa Nalovic and were schedul
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on April 15, 1984Recognizing that the formal process for review of specifications provides for only a short review period, the Naval Sea Systems Command is soliciting technical suggestions for improving several specifications which it plans to revise in the next several months. Those specifications are: MIL-P-
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on April 15, 1984Marine Transport Lines, Inc. recently announced the following appointments: Thomas M. Brogan to vice president-marketing and planning, where he will be responsible for MTL's marketing and planning activities. Mr. Brogan holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell Universit
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on April 15, 1984Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc. New Orleans, has signed a letter of intent with shipbuilders in Japan and the United Kingdom for construction of six large, automated containerships. One letter of intent is with a joint venture of Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. and Mitsubishi Hea
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- Successful T r a n s p o r t Of Biggest-Ever D e c k Structure C o m p l e t e d By N e p t u n / NC page: 7
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on April 15, 1984The 40,660-ton deck for the Statfjord 'C' production platform, reported to be the biggest structure ever moved by water, has been successfully transported from its building yard to the mating site by the Neptun/Norwegian Contractors joint venture. The deck was fabricated by Moss Rosenberg Ver
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on April 15, 1984The Elinca marine growth and corrosion control system, marketed in North America by Blume Worldwide Services, Scarsdale, N.Y., has been selected by Chevron Shipping Company, San Francisco, for protection of the main seawater service systems and condensers on five VLCCs operated by the firm.
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on April 15, 1984Lester Rosenblatt, chairman of the board of M. Rosenblatt & Son, the prominent naval architectural and marine engineering firm, has announced the appointment of Perry W. Nelson as president. Mr. Nelson's marine career started with employment as a ship draftsman with the W.C. Nickum naval ar
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on April 15, 1984Babcock & Wilcox, an operating unit of McDermott International, inc., announced that its Industrial Power Generation Division has received a $1.4-million contract from Tampa Shipyards, Inc., Tampa, Fla., for the supply of five ship sets of marine, auxiliary, oil-fired, package boilers and di
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on April 15, 1984In ceremonies conducted recently at the Poydras Street Wharf in New Orleans, Ryan-Walsh Stevedoring Company, Inc., and P & C "Bituminous Coal" Inc. christened the Coal Monitor One, an innovative floating coal transfer vessel designed to bring industrystandard sampling and blending to midstr
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- Joint S N A M E / C I M E M e e t i n g Discusses Heavy Lifts And Drydock O p e r a t i o ns page: 11
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on April 15, 1984The Pacific Northwest Section of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, and the Canadian Institute of Marine Engineers held their joint meeting recently at the Airport Inn Resort in Richmond, British Colombia. Some 90 attendees heard Adrian Evans, vice president of Lackie Off
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on April 15, 1984Nippon Kokan (NKK), Tokyo, has developed a super semi-submersible drilling rig specially designed for oil and natural gas drilling operations in deep water and rough seas. The rig features a computer-controlled dynamic system to maintain position in deepwater operation in depths to 1,600 me
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on April 15, 1984In 1983 the Jacksonville, Fla., naval architectural firm of DeJong & Lebet, Inc. signed a contract with Transportes Maratimos de Yucatan y del Caribe S.A. to design a 600-passenger ferryboat for fast service between Cozumel and Playa del Carmen, Mexico. A combined effort with St. Augustineba
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on April 15, 1984The Cybernet CTX-2050 is a fully synthesized 50-channel VHFFM radiotelephone designed to the very highest standards of modern high-technology electronics. This new unit covers all U.S. VHF-FM marine channels including five U.S.; and Canadian weather channels. It features a Channel 16 quick-
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on April 15, 1984General Electric, Erie, Pa., has formed a new marketing organization, the International and Transportation Equipment Division (ITED). William J. Cimonetti has been named to head the division as vice president and general manager. The appointment was announced by Carl J. Schlemmer, vice pre
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on April 15, 1984The U.S. Navy has awarded Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Litton Industries an $822,042,026 increase to a previously awarded $140.9-million contract that will allow the shipyard to begin detail design and construction of the lead ship of a new class of multipurpose amphibious assault ships, t
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on April 15, 1984A recent meeting of the New York Metropolitan Section of The Society of Naval Architects heard a paper titled "A New Approach To Computer-Based Preliminary Ship Design." The authors were Dr. Farrokh Mistree and Timothy D. Lyon, both of the University of Houston. The following paragraph is a
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on April 15, 1984The Standards and Specifications Panel of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME Panel SP-6) will hold their next meeting at ASTM Headquarters in Philadelphia, Pa. on May 17-18, 1984 immediately following the May 14-16, 1984 meeting of ASTM Committee F-25 on Shipbuildin