VESSEL REVIEW | Eddie Somers – Icebreaking buoy tender for Maryland Department of Natural Resources

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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Blount Boats awarded $9 million contract to build new icebreaker for Maryland

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...

https://www.workboat.com/news/shipbuilding/blount-boats-awarded-9-million-contract-to-build-new-icebreaker-for-maryland/

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