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There are about 150 boats bearing the Luders label still in service, said Bob Wallstrom, a writer and designer who once worked for the company. Mr. Wallstrom is compiling a Luders history and a directory of existing vessels that came out of the yard on the west branch of Stamford Harbor. \"We dabbled in fiberglass and made a few prototype boats,\" recalled Bill Luders, 85 and a resident of North Stamford. \"But we didn't want to get into it. It seemed to us that if you built with fiberglass you did not need to be on the water.\" That was true. Fiberglass boat building factories arose in former farmers' fields in the Midwestern and Southern states and the boats were trucked to water sites. Big shipyards like Luders became dinosaurs, the land worth more for marinas -- for keeping boats rather than building them. The steel-hulled, 112-foot Doromar was built by the Luders Marine Construction Company in Stamford in 1931.; The Weatherly, left, won the America's Cup in 1962. DB boats, above, were built in 1941 to service mines. Lone survivor among the Luders subchasers, right. (The Stamford Historical Society)

He said that Russia owed Motorenwerke Bremerhaven in Germany $3.2 million for repairs to the engines on the research vessel Akademik Fyodorov, and the shipyard was refusing to release the vessel unless Russia paid its bill.

He said that Russia owed Motorenwerke Bremerhaven in Germany $3.2 million for repairs to the engines on the research vessel Akademik Fyodorov, and the shipyard was refusing to release the vessel unless Russia paid its bill.

The Abu Dhabi Ship Building Company will be adjacent to the Mussafah Channel. It will be a public joint stock company with majority ownership in the United Arab Emirates, but the yard will be managed by Newport News officials and Tenneco will be an investor.

The American President Companies of Oakland, Calif., said yesterday that it had ordered three new container ships from Daewoo Shipbuilding...

Foreign ship orders received by Japanese yards in April rose sharply, to 12 ships of 1.3 million gross tons,...

LEAD: The Soviet Union has agreed to buy eight container ships from West Germany at a cost of 1.2 billion marks, or $620 million, Bremer Vulcan A.G., the state-owned shipbuilder, said today.

It said management will consider the guilt of strike leaders later and take ''appropriate disciplinary decisions.''