August 1981 issue of Maritime Reporter and Engineering News

Content

• 143 Ships In Five-Year Naval Shipbuilding Plan page: 4
• R.A. Simpson Promoted To N e w l y Created VP Post At Crowley Division page: 4
• Lehman Joins Bultema M a r i n e Transportation page: 5
• Southwest Marine Purchases San Pedro Y a r d From Beth Steel page: 5
• Navire Cargo Gear Wins Kuwait Linkspan Contract page: 6
• Detroit Diesel Engines Commercial Marine Models —Brochure Available page: 6
• Tracor Marine Salvages 500-Ton Restaurant Vessel page: 6
• Walz & Krenzer Conveyor Belt Doors Solve Problem On New Keystone Collier page: 6
• Halter Delivers Two Crewboats For Offshore Service In California page: 6
• Valmet Yard To Build Feeder Type Barge Carriers For Soviets page: 7
• CDS Awarded Chestnut Sh ipping To Retrofit Tanker At Northwest Marine page: 7
• Racal-Decca Marine Expands U.S. Operations page: 7
• Phoenix Management Rig To Be Built By Bethlehem Sparrows Point page: 7
• John Manly Shipyard Delivers MTU-Powered Patrol Vessel page: 8
• Twin City Barge To Acquire Transload And Transport, Inc. page: 8
• $70.8-Million Conversion Contract Awarded AMSHIP page: 8
• 34 Ways For Tugs To Assist Tanker—Test Results Available page: 9
• Bender Shipyard Builds Own Floating Drydock page: 9
• $1.5-Million Tanker Contract Signed By Halifax Shipyards page: 9
• Nordquist Appointed At Twin Disc, Inc. page: 9
• First Of A New Hybrid Line From Halter page: 10
• SNAME Chesapeake Section Hears Landing Craft And Steering Gear Papers page: 10
• J Storm XVI Is 50th Jackup Commissioned At Bethlehem, Beaumont page: 10
• Inert Gas Generators To Operate On #6 Oil —Literature Available page: 10
• $326-MiIIion Order For 8 Rigs Awarded To Marathon Manufacturing page: 12
• HAC Names Lauth VP Technical And Nautical page: 12
• Three Key Appointments Announced In Marine Department At Texaco page: 12
• Chromalloy Acquires Flowers Marine Group For About $15 Million page: 12
• Tracor Wins $8.3 Million Four-Year Navy Contract page: 12
• McDermott Scotland Is Awarded $150 Million In Offshore Contracts page: 13
• International Paint Enters Korean Coatings Market page: 13
• ITT Mackay To Market Oil Pollution Monitoring Equipment In The U.S. page: 13
• Luquette Sales Manager For Offshore Express page: 13
• W.J. Magratten Joins TOOLTECH As VP, Marketing/Development page: 14
• Two Tuna Seiners Christened At Peterson Builders Yard page: 14
• M / V Jeffboat page: 14
• French Group Purchases Marine Structure Firm page: 15
• New 34-Page Brochure Describes Marathon Offshore Drilling Rigs page: 15
• Mid-Coast Marine Yard Delivers Its First Twin-Screw Tugboat page: 16
• Dravo SteelShip Delivers Coastal Tugboats 'Sioux' And 'Maya' page: 16
• NABRICO Dedicates New Facilities page: 16
• Jos. L. Meyer Shipyard Delivers LPG Carrier Dorothea Schulte page: 17
• $13-Million In Title XI Guarantees Sought For 50 Hopper Barges page: 18
• Du Pont Offers Brochure On Planned Corrosion Control Program page: 18
• W.R. Martyn Appointed Commodity Director-Grain For Dravo Mechling page: 18
• Great Lakes Dredge Is Apparent Low Bidder On $32.9-Million Job page: 19
• Dan Mortimer Elected President Of New Yard —Gulf Coast Fabrication page: 19
• Swiftships Will Build Two Supply Cargo Vessels For L & P Boat Rentals page: 20
• J. Frank Williams Receives N a v y Meritorious Citation page: 20
• Nashville Bridge Delivers Two Integrated Tows To Coastal page: 20
• Tacoma Boat Launches $3.4-Million Oil Test Barge For Sohio Use page: 20
• 33rd Annual Gulf Section Spring Meeting Featured Six Interesting Papers page: 21
• Richard Palk Elected President Of American Trading Transportation page: 22
• $58-Million Navy Order For 8 Oceanographic Systems To Hydroscience page: 22
• Shell Caprinus® R Oil 40 Meets Requirements Of Auxiliary Engines page: 22
• Offshore Express In $10-Million Expansion- 'Lightning Express1 Delivered By Progressive Shipbuilders page: 22
• Another Panamax Bulker Delivered By B&W Yard To Liberian Owner page: 24
• Hyundai To Build 9 Ships For United Arab Shipping - T o t a l Cost $400 Million page: 24
• Paper On Adaptive Steering Module Available From Sperry page: 25
• $33-Million Ore Handling Facility Dedicated At Port Of Toledo page: 25
• Westinghouse Awarded $40-Million Order For Navy Generator Sets page: 26
• Hvide Delivers First Two Catug Vessels To Occidental Petroleum page: 26
• 500th Raytheon RAYCAS page: 26
• Brown & Root Promotes Akin, Sides And Muellner page: 26
• Port Of Hamburg Completes Tour Of The United States page: 28
• First Of 3 Rigs For Danish Firm Completed At Hitachi Zosen page: 28
• Geiger Succeeds Zuehlke As President Of Bay Shipbuilding Corp. page: 29
• Hawaii Awarded Major New OTEC Project page: 31
• RCA Service Company Introduces Marine Services Global Network page: 31
• HUDSHIP Delivers Utility Vessel To Gray Mackenzie Marine page: 32
• Bay Shipbuilding Lays Keel For Ocean Barge Corp. Bulk Cargo Barge page: 32
• Racal-Decca Introduces New ARPA Radar System At Whitehall Club Reception page: 32
• IOT Opens New Southern Fleet Center In Tampa page: 34
• Reel-O-Matic Modifies Standard Product For Special Application page: 34
• Bath Iron Works Plans New $46.7-Million Portland Yard page: 34
• $400 Million To Be Spent On Newfoundland Offshore Oil Drilling This Year page: 35
• Bayou Black Shipyard Delivers Cummins-Powered Push Boat To Hillman Marine page: 36
• Panamax Bulker For Greek Owner Delivered By Hitachi Zosen page: 36
• Largest U.S.-Built Tug/Barge Unit Enters Service page: 36
• Burmeister & Wain Shipyard Delivers The M/S Baumare page: 36
• Tacoma Boat $20-Million Debentures To Finance Expansion Program page: 38
• John G. Smith Promoted To General Manager Of Krupp Atlas Electronik page: 38
• Raytheon's 'Sub Sig II' To Provide Sea Trial Support For Electric Boat page: 39
• Lockheed Shipbuilding Awards LSD-41 Contract To J.J. Henry Co., Inc page: 39
• James Sessions Named President At Newpark — Haskew And Lehman Appointed VPs page: 39
• Deutz Producing Air-Cooied Diesels At Richmond Plant- Free Spec Sheets Offered page: 39
• Marine coatings & corrosion control page: 40
• Dravo Acquires Nilo Barge Line From Olin page: 40
• Halifax Industries Ltd. Appoints Kenneth Wood As President And CEO page: 40
• Transamerica Delaval Runs Diesel On Liquid Coal —Report Available page: 41
• Augsburger And Sylvester Promoted At Tenneco page: 42
• Foss To Order New Tugs With Voith Schneider Systems page: 42
• Skagit Offers 130-Page Catalog On Full Line Of Offshore Deck Machinery page: 42
• M/V Ogden Dynachem Christened At Avondale page: 44
• Four Directors Elected At Levingston Industries page: 53
• NABRICO Delivers New Two-Barge Tow To Alabama River Barge page: 53
• New Officers Elected At NCAA National Conference page: 53
• Houston Offshore Takes Delivery Of Two New Rigs, Orders Another page: 63
• General Morris Named President Of National Waterways Foundation page: 64
• Sperry Awarded $51-Million Contract By U.S. Navy For Spanish Combat Systems page: 64
• Swiftships Completing 20-Acre Repair Yard In Freeport, Texas page: 65
• First Of Five For Mexico From MARCO page: 66
• New York Harbor Carriers Association Issues Ten User Charge Guidelines page: 66
• Design Contract Let For New Container Terminal In Port Of Los Angeles page: 70
• Goldston Shipbuilding To Build Supply Vessel For Jackson Marine page: 70
• Bird-Johnson's 100th Controllable Pitch Propeller For U.S. Navy page: 71
• Practical Compliance With Latest USCG and IMCO REGULATIONS page: 72
• Bay Shipbuilding Delivers M/V Columbia Star To Oglebay Norton Company page: 78
• Swiftships Delivers M / V C/Wanderer To Co-Mar Offshore Corporation page: 79
• John K. Stuart Named Fleet Engineer At Oglebay Norton Company page: 80
• Bailey In New Orleans Building Stores Boxes For Five Avondale Tankers page: 80
• Tracor Marine Awarded $1.7-Million Contract For R/V Conrad Overhaul page: 81
• Simrad Track Plotter Extends Loran C Use- Literature Available page: 82
• Armco Offers Bulletin On High Strength, Low Alloy CT Steels page: 82
• Joseph Coco Appointed Controller Of Consolidated Inland Marine page: 82
• ASNE/SNAME Joint Meeting Hears Report On Clearing Of Suez Canal page: 89
• Dravo SteelShip Delivers Two Crane Boats To Weber Marine page: 95