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BOATBUILDING “T e primary design challenge with these vessels is balancing the customer’s varied mission requirements and the equipment needed to perform those missions within the space and weight- carrying constraints of the craf .” – David Hunt, Government Business

Development Manager at Silver Ships

Silverships day ? nds itself largely comprised of workboat sized tonnage (albeit for different reasons), the global market for military and law enforcement craft is steadily moving away from the pre- viously ubiquitous 600-foot warship platform and instead embracing the

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draft, more versatile and capable hull.

As they do, customers everywhere are "2-