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Lawrence R. Glosten 1918-2010
Lawrence R. Glosten 1918-2010
Pages 142-149
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larry had joined the Naval reserve as a student at Webb and went on active duty two months after graduation. His first assignment was to the New york Naval shipyard, but after only a few months he was sent to the Pearl Harbor Naval shipyard where he served as a docking officer and ship superintendent.
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another unusual submersible barge design was the Hughes mining barge, part of a central intelligence agency scheme intended to raise a sunken cold War–era russian submarine. The glosten organization designed a number of tugs for both river and sea-going service, including small shallow draft vessels for Northern alaska, columbia river towboats, ocean towing vessels, harbor assist, and escort tugs.
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another, totally different, articulated structure is the floating bridge, consisting of a number of interconnected floating modules, anchored in place to support a roadway crossing a body of water. glosten performed analyses of the dynamic response to short crested waves of several of the floating bridges in the Seattle–Puget Sound area after one of them, the Hood canal Bridge, was heavily damaged by a severe winter storm in 1979.
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Much fundamental research on the hydrodynamics and probabilistic nature of ship motions in waves had taken place in the 1950s and 1960s, and Glosten was among the first to apply these analytical methods to such barge transportation problems. glosten's leadership in barge transportation technology and risk analysis led naturally into involvement in the developing field of barge transport of radioactive materials where he was involved in risk analysis, cargo engineering, operations planning, and design.
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Other members of the firm have begun to make their own marks on the profession, but these achievements, too, can be properly credited to larry because of the creative environment in which they flourish. larry was always a strong supporter of his professional society, the society of Naval architects and Marine engineers, and his alma mater, the Webb institute of Naval architecture.
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approximately contemporaneous to the establishment of The glosten associates, larry and Pete purchased seven acres of land on Bainbridge island, and, with the help of son larry Jr., glosten planted 700 holly trees. Nominally, this venture known as Island Holly was part of a diversification strategy: The viability of one enterprise would be unlikely to affect the profitability of the other.
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