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Category: Metal Shark

  • USCG awards four contracts for response boat-small demonstrator boats

    USCG awards four contracts for response boat-small demonstrator boats The Coast Guard on Jan. 8 awarded four contracts to acquire response boat-small demonstration boats that will be used to develop and validate performance requirements, assess industry capabilities and gather information about the marketplace. The service will use the information captured from operation of the boats…

  • Metal Shark acquired by Magnet Defense

    Metal Shark acquired by Magnet Defense Miami, Fla.-headquartered Magnet Defense LLC, which says its mission is to “build a fleet of autonomous unmanned surface vessels to strengthen U.S. national security and advance U.S. and Allied maritime interests at home and abroad,” said today that it had completed the acquisition of Jeanerette, La.-based boatbuilder Metal Shark.…

  • Dominican Navy commissions its second 85-foot Metal Shark NCPV

    Dominican Navy commissions its second 85-foot Metal Shark NCPV The Dominican Navy has received its second 85 x 19.5 foot welded aluminum Near Coastal Patrol Vessel (NCPV), built by Jeanerette, La.-based boat builder Metal Shark. Christened Arcturus CG-114 in keeping with the Dominican tradition of naming military vessels after constellations and celestial bodies, the new…

  • VIDEO: Tampa Fire Rescue takes delivery of first of two advanced new fireboats

    VIDEO: Tampa Fire Rescue takes delivery of first of two advanced new fireboats Metal Shark has delivered a new 40 x 12 foot welded aluminum monohull pilothouse fireboat to Tampa Fire Rescue. Designed in-house by Metal Shark and built at the company’s Jeanerette, Lna production facility, the new vessel is the first of two next-generation…

  • New A-O-S G-class vessel M/V Gamekeeper is ready for operations

    New A-O-S G-class vessel M/V Gamekeeper is ready for operations American Offshore Services (A-O-S) reports that it has taken delivery of M/V Gamekeeper, the fourth addition to its growing G-class fleet, from Metal Shark boats. The vessel and is now operational, ready to support projects along the U.S. East Coast. The 30-meter, U.S.-built, Jones Act-compliant…