Rhode Island-based shipbuilder Blount Boats recently handed over a new icebreaking buoy tender to the Hydrographic Operations fleet of the Maryland Department of Natural ..
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Rhode Island-based Blount Boats has been awarded a US$9 million contract to build an icebreaking buoy tender for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR). The ..
Blount Boats Inc., Warren, R.I., has been awarded a $9.1 million contract to build a 90’x26’x10’ icebreaker/buoy tender for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.
The vessel will be designed by BMT Designers & Planners Inc., Arlington, Va. The new vessel will have a steel hull and an aluminum deckhouse. Cummins will supply the main engines and the vessel will be outfitted with a Melcal deck crane.
The new vessel will replace the 100’x24’, 167-ton J. Millard Tawes, commissioned by the Coast...