Navigation Technology
Raytheon Marine Opens New York Office
Raytheon Marine Company has opened a New York regional sales office to handle its lines of marine electronics for the commercial and recreational markets. The new office, located at 17 Battery Place, Suite 2435, New York, N.Y. 10004, will have
ITT Mackay Marine Hosts Product Display And Discussion On Key Marine Communication And Navigation Issues
ITT Mackay Marine, a division of International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, located in Elizabeth, N.J., recently hosted a Communication/Navigation Product Display at the Downtown Athletic Club in New York City. One of the products demonstrated was
Avondale Boat Division Delivers New Tug To E.N. Bisso
The New Orleans-based harbor tug and long distance towing firm, E.N. Bisso and Son, Inc., has taken delivery of the 110-foot tug Capt. Bud Bisso from the Boat Division of Avondale Industries, Inc. The new vessel is equipped for both shiphandling and ocean towing.
Dravo SteelShip Delivers The 'Bud Weber'
Dravo SteelShip Corporation, Pine Bluff, Ark., recently delivered a 65-foot by 26-foot by 9.5- foot towboat from their stock boat line to Dravo Mechling and on charter to Compass Marine. The Bud Weber (shown above) is powered by twin GM 16V92 diesel engines rated at 600 hp each.
Literature Describes Wager Photoelectric Smoke Indicator
A new Wager Photoelectric Smoke Indicator System, particularly suited to monitoring diesel and gas turbine emissions, detects and measures accurately the opacity of smoke exhaust with no interference to readings from ambient light. All readings
University Of California Plans To Build Large Oceanographic Vessel
A new oceanographic research vessel has been designed and is to be built for the prestigious Scripps Institution of Oceanography of La Jolla, Calif. The 170-foot, twin-screw vessel is to be built to replace other existing research vessels in the
Propulsion Systems, Inc. Expands Thruster Line
Propulsion Systems, Inc. of Kent, Wash., has entered the small thruster field with 16 and 24-inch-diameter tunnel thrusters. In these thrusters, the propeller shaft is driven directly by a hydraulic motor contained in the unit. Each of these
Detyens Concludes Largest U.S. Conversion
In May Detyens Shipyard concluded the reactivation and conversion of the LNG carrier Galleoma (formerly Arzew), finishing what the yard termed the largest commercial reactivation and conversion in the U.S. this year. Located in Charleston, S.C.
Electro-Nav's New Watch Receiver Meets I M C O Requirements
IMCO Resolution A.383 mandates that seagoing vessels must be equipped with a watch receiver tuned to the 2182 kHz voice distress frequency, which must be monitored 24 hours a day while the vessel is at sea. Electro-Nav president Robert E. Negron
The "Ultimate" Compact SSB
Raytheon Marine Company's new RAY-1285 frequency synthesized, microprocessor controlled Single Side Band is the most technologically advanced compact long-distance radiotelephone for professional worldwide mariners. Although we tried, we could