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- Izar Gijon Delivers Two Massive Dredgers Maritime Reporter, Feb 2004 #10
Last December Izar Gijon Shipyard delivered to Jan De Nul the suction dredgers named Taccola and Francesco di Giorgio each of which boasts a 4.400 cu. m. capacity. With a total of eight dredgers delivered in two years. Izar consolidates its position in the construction of these technologically sophisticated ships. Gijon has recently delivered two other dredges for the fFrench company Dragages Ports, of with 5,000 cu.
m. and 8,500 cu. m. of capacity.
Over the last two years. Izar has built dredgers of several sizes at its shipyards in Gijon and Sestao. The biggest ones, the Kaishuu and the Juan Sebastian Elcano, with a capacity of 16.000 cu. m.
each were built at Sestao Shipyard which also built the Filippo de Brunelleschi, and the Francis Beaufort with a capacity of 11,500 cu. m. Six of the ships were for the Belgian owner Jan de Nul.
These are the main data of the twin Taccola and Francesco di Giorgio.
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- Sea-Kindly: A Steady Vessel by Design Maritime Reporter, Oct 2001 #26
will develop and build until equilibrium condition is reached. This phenomena was categorized by the 19th century English sailor, Admiral, Sir Francis Beaufort, KCB. The Beaufort scale matches wind velocities to wave conditions or Sea States. This terminology has been adopted to define design conditions
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 6, President & COO Publisher & Editor crashing into and taking down a large Greg Trauthwein Photo Justin Zurre [email protected] section of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The scope of this tragic event will echo Sobeck is charged to ensure that the U.S. Editor - MarineNews Eric Haun through the
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November 2023 - Marine News page: 54Feature Great Vessels of 2023 All American Marine SHACKLEFORD Built to service the growing offshore wind market as allowing accurate and repeatable lever arm calculations to well as accomplish many other scienti? c survey missions, all survey sensors. Coordinate Uncertainty Analysis of the Shackleford
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March 2022 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 22, or trawls, which typically require a medium ABOUT SUBMARINE CANYONS or a large vessel equipped with an A-frame plus a winch with Scripps professor Francis Shepard de? ned submarine canyons a slip ring and hundreds of meters of EM cable. The usage of as “steep-walled, sinuous valleys with V-shaped
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March 2022 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 22, or trawls, which typically require a medium ABOUT SUBMARINE CANYONS or a large vessel equipped with an A-frame plus a winch with Scripps professor Francis Shepard de? ned submarine canyons a slip ring and hundreds of meters of EM cable. The usage of as “steep-walled, sinuous valleys with V-shaped
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January 2022 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 24THE ARCTIC Foundation began providing ? nancial support in 2014, allowing Improvement also has occurred in the geographic scope of the eventual inclusion of forecasts for Alaska and Antarctica. the forecasts, which for ? ve years have included the Bering, The network uses dozens of forecasts from a
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December 2021 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 36TECH FEATURE NAVIGATION RADAR GINA helps guide Sikuliaq through the ice he research vessel Sikuliaq, a Center notes that satellites have only Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra- 261-ft. ice-capable research ves- been continuously monitoring sea ice tion’s Joint Polar Satellite System. sel operated by UAF
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December 2021 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 29GREAT SHIPS of 2021 Jim Paterson, Marine Executive Consultant, Mercy Ships, from a variety of sources all integrated by the EVAC team. has been with the charitable organization for more than three When operating properly the discharge should be fresh water decades. While this unexpected career trek has
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November 2021 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 20In the FIeld ARCTIC NAVIGATION servations and on weekly ice charts based on airborne observa- Sikuliaq’s voyages. The National Science Foundation owns tions and reports from observers on the coasts and other ships. the Sikuliaq, a part of the U.S. academic research feet, and Avoiding the ice is often
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October 2021 - Marine News page: 36Sup- itime. Ortiz leads a new division established in June 2021 by plemental Criteria.” This expands the review of students MMA president Rear Admiral Francis X. McDonald. Massachusetts Maritime Academy 36 | MN October 202
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September 2021 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 21handlers and use it for technical water such as laundry water.” In terms of fuel for the ship, ultra low sulfur diesel was the choice, as alternatives such as LNG were not an option premised on the ship’s area of operation and fuel availability. “One of our biggest challenges at the moment is availability
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June 2021 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 57, the for a ship... How did I arrive here…? I meet my ? rst Captain on my ? rst ship old “tightie-whities.” You would think came into this world Francis Kowalski as Third Of? cer… As I prepared to walk this objectionable mess would have had Natale… into the Captain’s of? ce, I contemplated the
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May 2021 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 15HQTXLULHV#EOXHSULQWVXEVHDFRP VRXQGE\GHVLJQ 0XOWLEHDP,PDJLQJ6RQDUV 6LQJOHDQG'XDO)UHTXHQF\WRN+] Jim Thomson read- ies a ? xed mooring equipped with a Signature500 ADCP for deployment in the Beaufort Sea. The instruments were left in situ for a year. Professor Thomson has been research- ing wave and
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May 2021 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 14CASE STUDY Arctic Waves The R/V Sikuliaq during a cruise to research sea ice in the Beaufort Sea. ACOUSTIC TECH TO UNDERSTAND THE ARCTIC Photo ©: Onpoint Outreach. ajor changes are occurring in the ocean. for waves to form. Any waves that do so ? nd their energy Climate change and subsequent
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March 2021 - Marine News page: 30industry and what it means both globally and closer to home in attracting a new more diverse generation of future mariners.” – Rear Admiral Francis X. McDonald, President, Massachusetts Maritime Academy Mass. Maritime One of the new NSMVs will replace the Training Ship Kennedy, currently used
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March 2021 - Marine News page: 29, almost promising extensive pay- he said, “inadequate to do the job here in Texas.” offs considering that state maritime academies graduate Rear Admiral Francis X. McDonald is president of Mas- more than half of all new of? cers each year. sachusetts Maritime Academy, due to receive the second Concerted
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February 2021 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 50TECH FILES HEAVY LIFTERS Watch William Goodall discuss Mission Ease on MR TV: bit.ly/3r9MOtk Photo: Vestdavit He attributes the “impressive longevity” of Vestdavit’s company’s experience with previous deliveries enables it to systems to durable components and regular preventive determine the correct
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January 2021 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 59to save America’s Flagship is United States Conservancy and grand- red, white and blue funnels heralded the real and progressing daughter of William Francis Gibbs. To arrival of not just another ship, but a More than any other vessel, the SS learn more about the SS United States symbol of her namesake
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January 2021 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 58hull. The use of alumi- a gratuitous shot at the ship’s designer over 10,000 miles without refueling. num in her design was unprecedented William Francis Gibbs, the preeminent The ship’s 240,000 hp engines were the in any structure until the construction of American naval architect of his time.
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January 2021 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 17dreds of dollars. But, he didn’t have enough money to go back to his home in Scotland; otherwise I think he may have, and I probably wouldn’t be here. Just surviving in business through those early years is a notable achievement. The 1960s were really formative period in the history of our company
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October 2020 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 51on multiple levels that tional landmark moment in their common history. Blessed has garnered global attention as the ? rst 23,000-TEU con- by father Francis Fang, the vessel was then of? cially named All images CMA CGM tainership in the world to be powered by lique? ed natural by her Godmother, Tanya
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September 2020 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 24rules, the forerunner for ABS. A big player at the adopted on other vessels incredibly quickly, and was readily American Ship Master’s Association was Francis A. Martin adopted into the larger maritime commercial context due to who joined the Board of Captains in 1875 and was the Chief classi? cation
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April 2020 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 29loting and emergency response plans, says Burnett. Throughout, velopment project has included deploying a Seaglider from an permissions had to be secured to do the work and full command AutoNaut, to extend its range. and control capability of the USV had to be demonstrated. Seiche However, “use of
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March 2020 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 57integrity of the product or system cies, corresponding to Beaufort 6 completely, not to mention the lives winds and over 3m signi? cant wave of those depending on it should heights. This is in addition to Sur- disaster strike,” said McCormick. vitec’s own in-house tests. “It is therefore imperative
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January 2020 - Marine News page: 38best positioned to support this important initiative for the Commonwealth and the nation,” said President of Massachusetts Maritime Academy Rear Admiral Francis X. McDonald, USMS. The evolving role of the nation’s maritime academies is destined to meet the changing realities of the domes- tic waterfront