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SS Marine Electric was a 605-foot bulk carrier that sank on 12 February 1983, about 30 miles off the coast of Virginia, in 130 feet of water.Thirty-one of the 34 crew members lost their life due to hypothermia; the three survivors endured 90 minutes drifting in the frigid waters of the Atlantic.
The destroyer completed a 315-nautical-mile voyage Thursday from its Mississippi River berth to Houma’s Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors shipyard, where it will undergo an overhaul and restoration ...
Delivered to the Navy 23 September 1971, Houma served at Naval Base Roosevelt Roads, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Stricken from the Navy List 9 November 1999, ex-Houma was sold by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS), 6 March 2003, to Marine Tug LLC, Falmouth, Maine. Later acquired by McAllister Towing, ex-Houma was renamed Stacy ...
Large (land-based) electric powerplants built using this combined cycle can reach conversion efficiencies of over 60%. [ 1 ] If the turbines do not drive a propeller shaft directly and instead a turbo-electric transmission is used, the system is known as COGES (combined gas turbine-electric and steam).
Work included repairing electrical machinery, such as armatures, transformers, and arc lamps. [1] [2] In 1894, Carlisle and Finch purchased the shop from General Electric, intending to continue the repair business and branch out into manufacturing. [1] [2] [3] The new company was incorporated on April 17, 1897, with Carlisle serving as president.
Houma (/ ˈ h oʊ m ə / HOH-mə) [2] is the largest city in and the parish seat of [3] Terrebonne Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is also the largest principal city of the Houma– Bayou Cane – Thibodaux metropolitan statistical area .
Bollinger Shipyards is an American constructor of ships, workboats and patrol vessels. [2] Its thirteen shipyards and forty drydocks are located in Louisiana and Texas. Its drydocks range in capacity from vessels of 100 tons displacement to 22,000 tons displacement.
The vessel had electric lights installed along the decks and was also equipped with wireless of De Forest type. As built, the ship was 435.0 feet (132.6 m) long ( between perpendiculars ) and 56.2 feet (17.1 m) abeam , and had a depth of 33.5 feet (10.2 m). [ 4 ]