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- Versatile Pacific Delivers Search And Rescue Vessel To Canadian Coast Guard Maritime Reporter, Feb 1991 #16
Versatile Pacific Shipyards Inc., Victoria, B.C., Canada, recently delivered the mediumendurance, search and rescue patrol vessel Esquimalt to the Canadian Coast Guard.
The 164-foot-long by 36-foot-wide Esquimalt is of fully molded form, and has a single continuous main deck with a fully enclosed, raised forecastle deck extending from aft of midships forward. The superstructure consists of a single tier deckhouse, with the wheelhouse above, flanked by twin exhaust casings. The vessel has a transom stern with notched stern ramp for launch and recovery of a fast rescue boat.
The vessel is twin-screw, powered by two pair of medium-speed diesel engines, each driving through a twin input/single output reduction gear to a controllable pitch propeller.
The vessel is of all-welded steel construction, with the exception of a wheelhouse and masts which are of welded aluminum alloy construction.
For free literature on the facilities and capabilities of Versatile Pacific Shipyards, Circle 21 on Reader Service Card
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- Versatile Pacific Delivers Arctic Icebreaker 'Henry Larsen' To Canadian Coast Guard Maritime Reporter, Feb 1989 #51
The Northern Vancouver yard of Versatile Pacific Shipyards, Inc. (VPSI) has delivered the Type 1200 Arctic Class 4 icebreaker Henry Larsen to the Canadian Coast Guard. She is now in operation providing large vessel escort service in the Gulf of St. Lawrence during the winter months and in the Eastern Arc
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- Halifax Shipyard Gets Contract For C$10.7 Million To Modernize Canadian Coast Guard Tender Maritime Reporter, Oct 15, 1984 #39
Halifax Industries Limited of Nova Scotia, Canada, has won a C$10.7-million contract to carry out the mid-life modernization of the Canadian Coast Guard's Narwhal, a 2,222-dwt NavAids tender. Nine shipyards competed for the contract, which was awarded on the basis of competitive bidding. The
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- Versatile Pacific Delivers Canadian Coast Guard Type '500' Search And Rescue Cutters Maritime Reporter, Nov 1991 #121
Versatile Pacific Shipyards Inc., Victoria division, recently delivered two new Type "500" SAR cutters to the Canadian Coast Guard. The vessels—CCGS Gordon Reid and John Jacobson—bear the names of two noted British Columbia native Indians, both of whom had strong ties to the maritime community.
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- Oil Spill Response: USCG, CCG & Foss Team Marine News, Dec 2014 #28
of the North.” And, the Simushir was heading straight for the park on the south end. Eventually, however, the close coordination between the Canadian Coast Guard, U.S. Coast Guard and Foss Maritime turned a potential shipwreck and possible salvage operation into a study of close coordination. A situation
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- Ulstein Maritime Reports On Z-Drive Success Maritime Reporter, Jun 1986 #94
, and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans vessel Leonard J. Cowley. The first of six Ulstein Maritimedesigned fixed-pitch thrusters for Canadian Coast Guard 1100 vessels was commissioned on the Martha L. Black, constructed at Versatile Pa- cific Shipyards Inc. in North Vancouver. In January,
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- Omnithrusters installed In Variety Of Canadian Government Vessel Types Maritime Reporter, May 1986 #59
and tankers. Units manufactured in Sarnia, Ontario have been supplied to the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans and to the Canadian Coast Guard, both for newbuildings and retrofits. Omnithruster«Canada sales and service representatives are John W. Shelley, Sarnia, Ontario (519/337- 3410)
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- SEACO/Elliot Introduces New Line Of Reversible Life Rafts/Platforms Maritime Reporter, Sep 1990 #52
recently introduced its line of new reversible life rafts or platforms and it is the only U.S. manufactured platform with USCG and Canadian Coast Guard approval. SEACO/Elliot offers sales and servicing facilities worldwide through its extensive network of factory authorized distributors
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- KMSS Training/Simulation Division Is Buoyant Maritime Reporter, Nov 2002 #34
Maritime Ship Systems (KMSS) has announced a buoyant period for its training and simulation division. They have recently received contracts from the Canadian Coast Guard College, the Navy Academy in Taiwan and the AMA Computer College in the Philippines. KMSS has also opened a new training center on
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- Arctic Coast Guard Forum: Eyes and Ears Up North Maritime Reporter, Dec 2015 #10
. The ship was holed and stuck on the rock. While there were no injuries, there was minor pollution, in addition to severe damage to the ship. A Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker on patrol in the Arctic arrived on scene two days later and safely evacuated the 128 passengers and some nonessential crew. The vessel
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- Centrico Offers Advanced Fuel/Lube Oil Purifier Maritime Reporter, May 1991 #74
other properties of the oil. Centrico has supplied Westfalia purifiers to the U.S. Navy, Military Sealift Command, U.S. Coast Guard, and the Canadian Coast Guard. For further information and free literature on the Westfalia automatic self-cleaning oil purifier, Circle 37 on Reader Service Car
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- Avondale Boat Division Licensed To Construct High-Speed Hovercraft Maritime Reporter, Mar 1991 #33
regular passenger service and operation in the U.K., Canada, Scandinavia and Australia. Variants are also in service for the U.S. Navy and the Canadian Coast Guard. The craft is designed for high reliability, with a rugged welded hull structure, a simple transmission and air-cooled diesel engines. Albert
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 33regulated industry in the world.” How- ever, commercial success depends on many factors, not least a predictable OPEX. Over the past four years, SMD has worked with Oil States Industries to calculate cost per tonne ? gures for prospective customers. Patania II uses jet water pumps to Oil States’
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 9from marinas along the western coast. The exact number of lizing laser detection systems can detect mines just below the mines, as well as their locations, remains largely a mystery, surface, even those hiding in murky water. The Airborne Laser although reports suggest that over three hundred have been
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 27RADM PHILIP SOBECK, MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND With COVID, we had to make some hard choices for our Do your CIVMARs have upward mobility? mariners because we couldn’t rotate. Many of our mariners The Navy has Sailors who become “Mustangs,” and work found other employment, and were able to use their skills
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 22INTERVIEW WE ARE ENGAGED WITH MULTIPLE US OSW WIND DEVELOPMENTS AND SEEING AN UP-TICK FOR CVA, TECHNOLOGY REVIEW AND RISK REDUCTION SERVICES IN EARLY DEVELOPMENT PHASES. WITH NEW LEASE ROUNDS COMING AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES, WE DO NOT SEE A BIG SLOWDOWN FOR OSW DEVELOPMENTS APART FROM THE OBVIOUS
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 18MARKETS & gas activity returns, we anticipate that supply of the vessels The Question of Emissions to offshore wind projects will reduce, driving demand for ad- Given that SOVs and CSOVs operate in a segment target- ditional CSOVs. ing reduced emissions, and many operate in the North Eu- Outside of China
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 6Editorial MARITIME REPORTER AND ENGINEERING NEWS his month’s coverage is M A R I N E L I N K . C O M almost an afterthought HQ 118 E. 25th St., 2nd Floor following the tragedy that New York, NY 10010 USA T +1.212.477.6700 Tunfolded in Baltimore in the wee hours of Tuesday, March 26, CEO John C.
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 37Feature Electric Tugs could change down the road. “What do we really need an In San Diego, eWolf’s transits will typically run 20-30 engineer to do? There are no moving parts. So, how does minutes, “not the optimal operation to really see a lot of that [role] change? How does that change where we work?
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 33Feature Electric Tugs ing tug design. ABB was brought on as systems integrator, and Coden, Ala. shipbuilder Master Boat Builders began building the vessel later that year. The result of these efforts is the 82-foot-long tug eWolf, built to ABS class and is compliant with U.S. Coast Guard Subchapter M
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 28Feature Shipbuilding WindServe Marine you don’t have the sustained backlog.” Previous editions of Marine News’ U.S. Shipbuilding re- port have noted the increasing concern about what ABS’s Bleiberg (moderating the Marine Money panel) called “the big push for sustainable” shipping”, adding that: “What we
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 27Feature Shipbuilding Loumania Stewart / U.S. Coast Guard focus), which require very different business systems to be in place. “We’ve been able to do both,” he said, noting that having systems in place for government jobs makes East- ern Shipbuilding “move-in ready for the Navy and other DOD agencies
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 26Feature ECO Edison, the ? rst U.S.- Shipbuilding built wind farm service operations vessel. Ørsted U.S. SHIPBUILDING REPORT By Barry Parker If nothing else, building vessels in the U.S. is a com- handle), handling “…government and commercial work, plicated business. primarily newbuilds, but also
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 25though indirectly and not linked to navigation concerns, say, for NOAA’s own ? eet. Rather, NOAA hands-off the issue to its Integrated Ocean Observing System which suggests that BOEM include a requirement, as a condition of project ap- proval, that wind companies “must develop a high frequency radar
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 24Feature Navigation cables, 9 miles of cables connecting substations and up to blurred, undependable information for vessel crews. two export transmission cables with “associated secondary In the fairways Notice, the USCG references the NAS cable protection” (text is from the permit) within a 42-mile-
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 22Feature Navigation inside the approved lease area as a requirement under the BOEM’s attention to the USCG’s recent 27-page Federal terms and conditions of a speci? c lease. Register Notice (January 19) to establish “shipping safety • For structure siting, the USCG (again) “insists” that fairways along
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 21Feature Navigation “Wind Turbines: The Bigger, the Better” – USDOE Of? ce of Energy Ef? ciency & Renewable Energy, August 24, 2023 ast December the Bureau of Ocean Energy Man- Agencies write: we want to advance wind energy, but ocean agement (BOEM) published a proposed sale no- areas can only yield so
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 19• Investment in Infrastructure and Onshoring Man- sharing best practices. Additionally, given the global nature ufacturing: The administration is committing over $20 of maritime operations, international cooperation is essen- billion towards U.S. port infrastructure over the next tial for establishing
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 14Insights tion on a couple of issues, including engine room crew- For AWO, as an organization, what is its top ing on ATBs with automated systems. This is an issue priorities for the coming six to 12 months and that Congress thought that it addressed in the last Coast what’s being done to address them? Gua
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 13Q&A We’ve still got some work to do. Despite the new guid- Looking across the industry, what are some ance, we are seeing differences in the way that the Coast other important regulatory issues that AWO is Guard is applying crewing and life-saving requirements to currently paying attention to? ATBs from
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 12Insights century technology in 2024.” That’s an area of focus. industry. We want to do that in a realistic way. These are We also want to make sure that we have workers on our great careers where a hardworking person can make a six- vessels who are ? t for duty. One of the things that we have ? gure
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 11Q&A Increasingly, cyber security has been gaining focus as an area of concern across maritime supply chains, and recently the Coast Guard has been tasked with creating and enforcing maritime cyber standards. What do you hope to see from these standards as they are drafted and put to use? Two key
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April 2024 - Marine News page: 6Marine News April 2024 • Volume 35 Number 4 Contributors 1 2 3 5 4 6 7 1 Tom Ewing 5 Barry Parker is a freelance writer specializing in marine, energy and envi- of bdp1 Consulting Ltd provides strategic and tac- ronmental issues. He contributes regularly to this magazine. tical support, including
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 43OPINION: The Final Word lenges related to quality of life factors GAO made six recommendations that may affect this. Currently, reports on also affects the Coast Guard’s ability to the Coast Guard, among other things, these types of issues are expected to be retain personnel. For example, in April
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 42OPINION: The Final Word GAO: USCG Should Address Workforce Recruitment and Retention Challenges By Heather MacLeod, Director, GAO’s Homeland Security and Justice team he Coast Guard has strug- Coast Guard established cyberspace as vessels to determine whether they meet gled for years to recruit an
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 4Authors & Contributors MARITIME REPORTER AND ENGINEERING NEWS M A R I N E L I N K . C O M ISSN-0025-3448 USPS-016-750 No. 2 Vol. 86 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News Goldberg Haun (ISSN # 0025-3448) is published monthly Galdorisi except for March, July, and October by Maritime Activity Reports, Inc.