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Vessels Gladding-Hearn Delivers First Crew Transfer Vessel operate year-round, transporting 24 offshore workers and equipment to support the construction and O&M phases of USEC offshore wind projects. The resiliently-mounted superstructure is located aft of midship with port and star- board side decks

Insights to grow our workforce as quickly as we would like. The tools for new employees. Seeing the ? nished product before learning curve for custom boat building is steep, so we con- you have to create it from scratch is a great way to learn. tinue to develop in-house training for our newer workers.

Peter QQQQQQQQQAAA & Duclos Co-president, Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, Duclos Corporation To start, will you please share your personal Since 2000, the business has largely been run by John, journey in the shipbuilding industry and what Carol and me, and in 2010, the assets were of? cially trans- led

Marine News November 2024 • Volume 35 Number 11 Contents Features 26 26 The Digital Revolution How technology is making commercial vessels safer, cleaner and more ef? cient. By Rhonda Moniz 30 Eureka Naval Craft Adapting high-speed AIRCAT surface effect ships 30 for military missions. By Edward

Warhorse & HOS Wild Horse shipyard construction contracts were wrongfully termi- nated. Gulf Island and Hornbeck settled in October 2023, clearing way for the builds to be completed by another yard. Eastern secured the contract to complete the builds from Zurich American Insurance Company, the issuer of

Vessels New Launch for St Johns Bar Pilots Gladding-Hearn pilot boat since 1962. Designed by Ray Hunt Design, the all-aluminum launch measures 35 feet overall. It has a 13-foot beam, including the foam collar, and a 3-foot draft. The deep-V hull features a steep 24-degree dead-rise at the transom that

Vessels Hayden Grace ert Allan Ltd. ordered by Bay Houston. The design team and the client worked to address operational challenges the vessel would face. Main features of this latest RApport de- sign include compact size and shallow draft allowing it to operate in more con? ned waterways than previous

Rabinowitz said her yard has 10 ships in its backlog, includ- ing the last of the Flight IIA ships and the newer Flight III variants. “Currently, seven ships are under construction. DDG 122 John Basilone was translated and christened in June, and all backlog ships have been funded by Congress. • Flight

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

TOP BOATS 2021 Gladding-Hearn SUSQUEHANNA THE LATEST AND GREATEST FROM A PILOT BOAT CLASS THAT’S TRIED AND TRUE A winning recipe from Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, all, with a 16.8-foot beam and a 4.8-foot draft. Powered Duclos Corporation, has made the Chesapeake class one by twin Volvo Penta D16

system); four tower dredge for Great Lakes Dredge and Dock. Scheduled for cranes; rail access and over 8,000 ft of deepwater pier space delivery in 2023, the dredge will feature two 800mm suc- and a ? oating dry dock for smaller vessels. tion pipes and will be able to dredge at depths of up to 100 Of course

SHIPBUILDING THE DIRECTORY Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, Duclos Corporation United States Marine, Inc. For more than 65 years, Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding has Headquartered in Gulfport, Miss., with a maintenance/re- built steel and aluminum pilot boats (95), Incat Crowther pair facility in Chesapeake, Va.

Vessels Marine 1 Moose Boats Moose Boats has delivered a new ? reboat to the With a roof monitor, a cockpit monitor, a 5” large di- Rochester, N.Y. Fire Department. The M2-38, dubbed ameter hose Storz discharge, and the ability to pump Marine 1, is the ? rst Moose in the Great Lakes, and it over 1

VESSELS ECO to Build and Operate First Jones Act SOV and Louisiana, will be engineered, constructed and operat- ed by ECO as an integral part of the operation and main- tenance of the Revolution Wind, South Fork Wind and Sunrise Wind offshore wind farms in the northeast U.S., which are dependent on

at 1,900 rpm with a top speed of 29 knots. A Humphree interceptor trim-tab control system, with its Au- tomatic Trim Optimization, will be installed at the transom. The engines will turn ? ve-blade Bruntons NiBrAl pro- pellers via ZF400A gear boxes. The launch will be equipped with a 6kW Northern Lights

GREAT WORKBOATS ment of requirements for the tug and a clear vision of the FERRIES: desired layout and accordingly the design was developed in GLADDING-HEARN DELIVERS close collaboration with Island Tug. Partway through con- ANOTHER HIGH-SPEED FERRY struction, Island Tug was acquired by Vancouver

OVER 60 YEARS OF “You are beginning to see that CUSTOMER CONFIDENCE (technology) creep up into things like The Poseidon Prin- ciples, which essentially brings the shipping technology and ? nance worlds together as you look at the next generation of vessels and the banks start benchmarking the con- ditio

VESSELS Lowell Police Takes Delivery of New RIBCRAFT top T-top, antenna arch with integrated dive ladder, the 19’ RIB provides a comfortable platform for long patrols while offering an open deck and easy access to the water for diving and rescue. Powered by a 115HP Yamaha, this 5.85 will reach speeds in

W WORKBOATS: TUG & BARGE ered the M/V Mark E. Kuebler, a Z-Tech 30-80 Termi- Jensen’s Design for Shaver Tugboat Overhaul for Bouchard Barge nal/Escort Tug to Bay Houston Towing Company. The M/V Mark E. Kuebler was designed by Robert Allan and built at Gulf Island’s, Jennings, LA facilities. The vessel

VESSELS Jensen’s Design for Shaver Transportation’s New Tugboat purpose tug was built at Diversifed Marine Inc., in Port- land, Ore., and is operating along the West Coast. The tug is ABS-classed and carries a FFV1 frefghting notation. The 112-foot by 44-foot tug has a 22-foot draft, was built for escort,

VESSELS Construction on OSU Research Ship Starts Louisiana at Gulf Island Shipyards. The ship will be the ? rst in a class of Regional Class Research Vessels funded by the National Science Foundation. The vessel is scheduled for delivery to Oregon State in the spring of 2021, and will be fully operationa

THE SHIPYARD ANNUAL 2018 Deliveries abundant and readily visible across the nered with Bristol Community College, • The Alabama Pilot, Inc. in Mobile, Ala., received a new Chesapeake Class pilot facility, with new piers, cranes, forklifts, who co-wrote the grant and provide the boat from Gladding-Hearn

1. World’s Largest Cruise Ship The contract was signed between MISC Offshore Floating Ter- With much of the talk in the cruise sector turning to the fast minals (L) Limited (MOFT) and COTL in August 2016. The growing ‘luxury adventure’ sector, it is refreshing to see ‘big- FSO will be deployed for a full

VESSELS sive standardization process earlier this year, Metal Shark DOUBLE HULL ASPHALT BARGE recently delivered the CNP its ? rst new 33-foot Relentless- DELIVERED TO VANE BROTHERS class patrol boat. Special features of this welded aluminum Bristol Harbor Group (BHGI) announced in 2017 that center