November 15, 1977 issue of Maritime Reporter and Engineering News

Content

• ARINC Awarded $117,000 MarAd Study Contract page: 4
• Second $81-Million Gulf Oil Supertanker Christened At Bethlehem Sparrows Point page: 7
• Veliotis To Manage Electric Boat Div. page: 8
• Sun Shipbuilding Consolidates All Marketing Activities —Orth, Winstead And Hunt Named Department Heads page: 10
• Samson Ocean Systems Names John Williamson Regional Manager page: 10
• Hartzman To Retire- Bossier Slated For Avondale Presidency page: 11
• Ocean Orders Five More Ships page: 14
• M a r i n e Boiler Reliability page: 17
• Navy Awards Boeing $178 Million To Build Missile Firing Boats page: 19
• Plan To Convert Three Vessels At Estimated Cost Of $12.8 Million page: 20
• Kleschick Elected To Sun Ship Board Of Directors page: 20
• Norshipco Adopts New Corporate Logo page: 22
• Cayman Energy Ltd. Reports On Activities page: 22
• Samson Sells Marine Survey Division To Local Management page: 22
• Ed Toale Joins Bailey Sales Staff page: 23
• Marine Firms Attend Hoffert Marine Seminar page: 23
• $3-Million Surface Effect Ship Award To Philadelphia Gear page: 24
• Jonathan Feffer Named President SSI Navigation page: 24
• Navy Adds $4.2 Million To Tracor Contract page: 26
• C.F. Bean Corp. Names Charles R. Barron VP page: 26
• Argo International And Sealol Join Forces page: 27
• Space-Age Insulation Approved By Lloyd's page: 27
• Raytheon Promotes A. Newell Garden page: 28
• National Steel And Shipbuilding Delivers Second Of Four 90,000-Ton Tankers To OSG page: 28
• W.A. Whitney Corp. Introduces New 28XX Tooling Catalog page: 29
• Swan Hunter To Build Vessel To Transport Spent Nuclear Fuels page: 29
• Floating Oil Storage Better Prospects For The Unemployed? page: 34
• Alaska Maritime Names William Lorch Valdez Port Manager page: 36
• No. New England Section Of ASNE Reports On Two Technical Sessions page: 36
• Moran-Thibodeaux Names Captain North Vice President-Sales page: 38
• Diamond Manufacturing Building Ro/Ro Dock For Port Of Tampa page: 38
• Newport News Shipyard Installs Powerful Hoists page: 39
• Kawasaki Endows M.l.T. Research Fund With Gift Of $200,000 page: 39
• Todd Shipyards Corp. Holds Company Safety Conference In Chicago page: 40
• Study 56—'Sea Trade And Transportation Of Coal' page: 41
• Spanish Society And ABS Enter Agreement page: 42
• J.M. Ringelberg Joins Seaward International page: 42
• U Of California Gives Course On Deepsea Oil Structures Jan. '78 page: 43
• Slatic Named President Ameron Protective Coatings Division page: 43
• Two Management Appointments Announced At Skagit Corporation page: 44
• IMO Pump Bulletin Describes Twin Screw Pumps page: 44
• New England Company Receives U.S. Funds To Investigate Giant Sphere As Offshore Oil Terminal page: 46
• SNAME And SSC Plan Ship Vibration Symposium For Washington, D.C. October 1978 page: 47
• Electro-Nav To Market New 400-Watt SSB Transmitter/Receiver page: 48
• CIBRO Petroleum Building Super Barge At Todd Shipyards' Houston, Texas Division page: 48
• OMNITHRUSTER Names J. Michael Melvin VP page: 49
• Santa Fe Reenters Onshore Drilling !n The United States page: 49
• ASNE Flagship Section Holds First 1977-78 Meeting page: 50
• Wigham Poland Inc. Expands Marine Insurance Division page: 50