August 1978 issue of Maritime Reporter and Engineering News

Content

• Acetylene Gas Used To Straighten Ships' Decks page:
• Dillingham Of Guam Bids $294,000 To Repair GPA Barge Inductance page: 4
• Beliard, Crighton Opens New Drydock In Dunkirk page: 4
• Booklet Tells How To Keep Seawater Piping Systems Free Of Growth page: 4
• General Electric Gets $50-Million Gas Turbine Contract For Navy Ships page: 5
• 1,000-Foot Bulk Carrier M / V Lewis Wilson Foy Joins Bethlehem Steel's Great Lakes Fleet page: 7
• Gastech 78 LNG/LPG Conference Includes Major Paper From OPEC page: 7
• Bender To Build Fisheries Research Vessel For NOAA page: 7
• Tenn-Tom Towing Asks Title XI For Barges And Towboats page: 7
• Admiral Synnot Compliments Todd Shipyards At Launching Of Frigate For Australian Navy page: 8
• Abex/Denison Promotes W. Grimes And R. Holmes page: 8
• Congressman Murphy To Receive AOTOS Award page: 9
• Crowley Orders Two Additional Triple-Deck Barges From FMC page: 10
• International Paint Names Robert Hartley page: 10
• 1980 LNG Conference Set For Kyoto, Japan page: 10
• City Of Ponce Orders First Portainer Crane page: 10
• Blount Marine Delivers Fueling Tanker Reiss Marine To Service Great Lakes Shipping page: 11
• Use Of Helicopter To Install 18 Tank Cleaning Machines Saves Operator $37,000 And Time page: 12
• Alcoa Marine Forms New Offshore Division page: 12
• Oceaneering Int'l Names Taylor Potter page: 12
• Hoffert Marine Inc. Names Byrne Exec. VP page: 13
• A.L. Burbank And Co. Named Worldwide Agents For Fuel Savers, Inc. page: 13
• U.S. And Canadian Banks Lend $50 Million To Argentine Shipping Firm page: 14
• Dr. Wilkins Joins CDI Marine Company page: 14
• Carrington Slipways Pty. Ltd. Appoints Four Directors page: 14
• Alco Power Names Neil H. Whitehead page: 15
• Lube Oil Pump Power For Emergency page: 15
• OCEANS 78 To Feature Public Policy Issues page: 16
• Alco Power Inc. Names Richard Fuller page: 16
• Nav-Com And Simrad Co-Host Navigation Seminar page: 16
• Built By Jeffboat, Inc., The Gemini Will Transfer Bulk Materials To Ships In New Orleans Area page: 17
• Chevron Shipping Elects William Banks President page: 17
• U.S. Maritime Operations Cited For Outstanding Safety Records page: 18
• Int'l Symposium On Fracture Mechanics Proceedings Available page: 19
• British Firm Sells Survey Technique To Maritime Administration page: 20
• MTU Group Forms U.S. Subsidiary page: 20
• National Maritime Historical Society Elects Admiral Will page: 22
• Tacoma Boat Names Streb Chief Engineer page: 22
• American Society Of Naval Engineers Names Ivan Monk President page: 23
• NYC Requests Proposals For Use Of High-Speed Passenger Vessels page: 24
• Burmeister & Wain American Corporation Organizational Change page: 24
• Raytheon Marine Offers Line Of Commercial Doppler Speed Logs page: 24
• Worthington Engineered Pump Division Names Kenneth McGuckin VP page: 25
• McDermott Delivers Tug/Supply Vessel To Int'l Mooring & Marine page: 25
• Bremer Vulkan Names T.A.S.T. Corp. Exclusive U.S. Representatives page: 26
• Bird-Johnson Expands Product Line —Brochure Available page: 26
• Marine Concrete Structures Relocates Headquarters page: 26
• Southeast Asian Technical Committee Formed By ABS page: 27
• C.J. Hendry Company Announces Appointments page: 28
• San Francisco Dedicates New Ferry Terminal page: 28
• Merger Of Lykes Bros. Into LTV Corporation Approved By MSB page: 29
• Ship Performance Analyzer page: 30
• Catalog Details All BFG Industrial Hose Products page: 32
• Arctic Transportation Ltd. Commissions Research Vessel To Work For Imperial Oil page: 32
• Jakobson Shipyard Delivers Innovative Oil Skimmer Catamaran To Lagoven, C.A. page: 32
• Ocean Minerals Recovered From Floor Of Pacific By OMCO page: 33
• Maintaining Design Performance In Marine Boilers page: 34
• BSRA Confidential Report On Catamarans Can Now Be Purchased page: 35
• Newpark Shipbuilding Opens Gas-Freeing Facility In Houston page: 36
• Palmer Industries, Inc. Formed For Container Repair And Storage page: 37
• Laborde Named To Head New Orleans Office Of Marsh & McLennan, Inc. page: 37
• Dravo SteelShip Delivers The M / V P.N. Ellis For Bunkering Service On the Lower Mississippi page: 37
• Cummins KT-2300-Marine Diesel Makes North American Debut page: 38
• Todd Reports Third Successive Profitable Quarter page: 39
• Harland And Wolff Ltd. And M.A.N. Enter Agreement page: 40
• Murphy Pacific Marine Salvage Promotes Madeo page: 40
• Dates Set For International Symposium On Marine Salvage page: 42
• Sulzer Diesels Power First Combined Ro/Ro Mini-Bulk Carrier On Inland Waterways Of Europe page: 42
• Middle East Liner Trades — An Economic Analysis page: 42
• Halter Marine Delivers Two Supply Boats To Tidewater page: 43
• MSC Towing Contract Awarded To Dillingham page: 43
• Ship Design Paper Attracts Wide Interest page: 44
• Cammell Laird Opens Ship Production Line page: 45
• Congressman Murphy To Address Offshore Oil Conference page: 45
• ASNE And SNAME Members Tour Long Beach Naval Yard Complex page: 46
• General Dynamics Names Lennox General Manager Quincy Shipbuilding page: 48
• Far East-Levingston Building Pipelay Barge For NPCC, Abu Dhabi page: 49
• Schottel Of America, Inc. Opens New Office And Plant page: 50