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  • After reviewing the results of a year-long Gulf Coast strategic study, the Secretary of Defense has announced homeporting decisions affecting nine Gulf Coast cities. The plan, to be implemented in the late 1980s and early 90s, involves some 29 ships and approximately 15,000 personnel.

    The current Navy shipbuilding program will add 130 vessels by the end of the decade. Current homeport areas are at or near capacity, and prudent military planning dictates that the Navy disperse its increased fleet. This strategic dispersal, along with the lowest possible cost to the Navy, were the determining factors in the decision.

    The Navy's plan calls for the battleship Wisconsin (BB-64), a cruiser, destroyer, and minesweeper, to be homeported in Corpus Christi, Texas. In addition, the Navy training carrier will be shifted from Pensacola, Fla., to Corpus upon completion of facilities. Two frigates and three minesweepers will be homeported in the Houston/Galveston areas as part of the Surface Action Group initiative.

    Five ships will be homeported in Louisiana—two mine warfare vessels and an oiler in Lake Charles, and two additional fast sealift ships in the New Orleans area at Violet.

    A decision has also been made to station the 15th Navy carrier battle group in the Gulf. An operational carrier (replacing the training carrier) and a mine warfare ship will be stationed in Pensacola. Two destroyers, two frigates, and a minesweeper will go to Mobile, Ala. Pascagoula, Miss., will be homeport for two cruisers and two destroyers. A mine warfare vessel will be based in Gulfport, Miss.

    Rounding out the Navy's move to the Gulf Coast will be homeporting of a landing craft repair ship, a salvage ship, and the establishing of a shore-based ocean surveillance ship support group in Key West, Fla.

  • will be McElroy Electric Double Wildcat for l'/2-inch chain and 3,000-pound anchors. According to Robert G. O'Connor, president of Florida Gulf Coast Corporation, when the Ponce de Leon is completed in 1986 she will provide her 148 passengers with the amenities of a luxury liner and the ambience

  • River and the Intracoastal Canal. Circle 65 on Reader Service Card HALTER MARINE Halter Marine is operating six shipyards in the U.S. Gulf Coast area. When combined, the current workload at all six yards makes Halter a leader on the Gulf Coast. In addition, Halter has supplemented its

  • Construction of a 4,000-cubic-yard hopper dredge is progressing on schedule at Twin City Shipyard (TCS) in St. Paul, Minn. The 8,000- bhp vessel for Gulf Coast Trailing Company of New Orleans is being designed and constructed by TCS using the latest modular and zone construction methods. TCS is using

  • were held recently at Twin City Shipyard in St. Paul, Minn., for the 3,850-cubic-foot, suction hopper dredge Ouachita being constructed for Gulf Coast Trailing Company of New Orleans. The 300-foot vessel will incorporate many state-ofthe- art features unique for U.S. dredges, such as her propulsion

  • SCS Communications Services, based in New Orleans, has been organized to provide the Gulf Coast maritime industry with public relations, communications, marketing and advertising services. Albert W. Spindler, a veteran of more than a quarter century in the aerospace, maritime, offshore drilling and

  • The board of directors of Gulf Coast Fabrication, Inc. has announced the election of Dan Mortimer Mortimer as president of the new company which has acquired an existing shipyard site in Pass Christian, Miss. The company will engage in all phases of marine construction, primarily offshore deck

  • and some 85 offshore units in the North Sea, will now be manufactured in the United States. B + V recently announced plans for a plant in the Gulf Coast area. The M1000 system is said to offer a number of advantages for fabricators as well as owners and crews. The system is approved by the

  • The Galveston Office of Designers & Planners, Inc. has been redesignated as the Gulf Coast Office, and has been relocated in Dickinson, Texas, midway between Galveston and Houston. Monroe Levy, vice president and manager of the Galveston Office, retired from D&P on December 31, 1980. However

  • , said: "Ocean Transportation Services will be active in inland waterways and coastal towing, barging, and related marine services within the Gulf Coast area. The company will offer w o r l d w i de shipping operations, but will put special emphasis on the handling of cargoes bound to and from Central

  • Oosterhuis Industries, Inc. of Belle Chasse, La., in which Oosterhuis will become the master distributor for Mitsubishi marine diesel engines in the Gulf Coast states of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. According to Herman H. Oosterhuis, president of Oosterhuis Industries

  • Jim Darby has been appointed Gulf Coast regional manager for Bird-Johnson Company, a leading manufacturer of marine propulsion and maneuvering systems. Mr. Darby will manage Bird- Johnson Company's Marine Division sales office located at 6430 Hillcroft, Suite 112E, Houston, Texas 77081. Since

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