Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Panama City, Fla., has released video showing that it is well along with its conversion of a 280-foot offshore supply vessel (OSV) to a battery-hybrid service operation vessel (SOV), the HOS Rocinante, for Hornbeck Offshore Services (HOS).
The vessel is one of a number of 280-foot class OSVs acquired by HOS in 2023. It is being converted at the company’s Allanton Shipyard and will emerge from the OSV to SOV conversion as a U.S.-flag, Jones Act compliant vessel capable...