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Vessels

Hybrid-electric CTV and design of the vessel would occur during 2022-2023, set- ting the stage for building and launching the hybrid CTV in the mid-2020s, timing that would ? t well with the start of operation of wind turbines by May? ower Wind.

Incat Crowther is the designer of the vessel, which will be based upon one of its CTVs already in service in Europe and customized to suit local requirements. ABS is on board to provide design review for approval in principle, veri? cation of applicable rules, standards and U.S. Coast Guard regula- tions, and classi? cation of the CTV. BAR Technologies brings its foil optimized stability system as well as its advanced com-

May? ower Wind putational ? uid dynamics modelling and simulation. Corvus

U.S. offshore wind farm developer May? ower Wind has is supplier of its onboard battery energy storage solution.

signed an agreement with Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding/ “May? ower Wind aims to develop the most innova-

Duclos Corporation of Somerset, Mass. for the speci? ca- tive, fuel-ef? cient CTV built in the United States,” said tion, design and manufacture of a Jones Act-compliant, hy- Michael Brown, CEO of May? ower Wind. “Ensuring brid battery diesel electric crew transfer vessel (CTV). The that this vessel is constructed at a shipyard in Somerset is project will proceed if May? ower is awarded a contract un- a big boost to the Massachusetts maritime economy and der the latest Massachusetts procurement for offshore wind, launches this shipyard toward a new and growing market.”

Sentinel-class Fast

Response Cutters

Bollinger Shipyards has delivered the newest Sentinel-class

Fast Response Cutter (FRC), USCGC John Scheuerman, to the U.S. Coast Guard in Key West, Fla. nearly one week ahead of schedule despite a three-week shutdown due to the signi? - cant damage sustained to Bollinger’s facilities during Hurri- cane Ida. On September 24, following an extensive multi- week recovery and rebuilding effort, Bollinger welcomed

Bollinger Shipyards employees back to all 11 of its facilities across Louisiana. Bol- linger’s Lockport facility is home to the FRC program, which Sentinel-class FRC, USCGC Emlen Tunnell, delivered to directly supports 650 jobs. The USCGC John Scheuerman the USCG in July. departed Lockport on October 11 for Bollinger’s Fourchon USCGC Emlen Tunnellin and USCGC John Scheuerman facility where it performed a shakedown exercise prior to dry are the 168th and the 169th vessels Bollinger has delivered docking for ? nal inspection in preparation of its delivery. The to the U.S. Coast Guard over a 35-year period and the 45th

Cutter departed Fourchon for Key West on October 17. and 46th FRCs delivered under the current program. They

Days earlier, on October 15, Bollinger joined U.S. are the fourth and ? fth of six FRCs to be home-ported in

Coast Guard of? cials at USCG Sector Delaware Bay in Manama, Bahrain, which will replace the aging 110’ Island

Philadelphia, Pa., for the commissioning of another new Class Patrol Boats, built by Bollinger Shipyards 30 years ago.

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