16 Oct

Top 50 index 2013

Professional Mariner StaffAmerican Ship Review, Maritime News
ACO Dodie Lorraine, 185’ OSV Designer/Builder: Master Boat Builders, Bayou la Batre, AL Owner/Operator: Abdon Callais Offshore, Golden Meadow, LA AET Excellence, 185’ Lightering Support Vessel Designer/Builder: Elliott Bay Design Group, Seattle, WA/Leevac Shipyards, Jennings, LA Owner/Operator: AET Lightering Services, Galveston, TX Aiviq, 360’ Arctic Ice-Class Anchor Handler Designer/Builder: North American Shipbuilding, Larose, LA and LaShip, Houma, LA Owner/Operator: Edison…
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Murden
16 Oct

Murden

Professional Mariner StaffAmerican Ship Review, Maritime News
Throughout history, shifting dirt from one place to another has consumed much of man’s energy and intelligence, resulting in ingenious, sometimes cruel, and often inventive solutions to the problem of moving huge quantities of material. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers moves a lot of dirt, and it has designed a new dredge with which to do it. Murden, named…
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American Phoenix
16 Oct

American Phoenix

Professional Mariner StaffAmerican Ship Review, Maritime News
American Phoenix is a vessel reborn from the ashes, the lone survivor of an ambitious plan by Shell to build three top-of-the line Jones Act product carriers that could deliver petroleum to Florida’s shallow-draft ports more efficiently than the competition while reaping the benefits of diesel-electric propulsion and technological wizardry. It almost didn’t make it. By the time the 49,000-dwt…
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Harvey Champion
16 Oct

Harvey Champion

Professional Mariner StaffAmerican Ship Review, Maritime News
Building on the achievements of its first Tiger Shark-class platform supply vessels, Eastern Shipbuilding Group has launched a new series of three boats featuring diesel-electric propulsion, enhanced berthing and unprecedented environmental credentials. The first delivery from its Panama City, Fla., shipyard was Harvey Supporter, for Harvey Gulf International Marine. The 292-foot PSV is at work in the Gulf of Mexico,…
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28 Oct

Bernard C. Webber

Professional Mariner StaffAmerican Ship Review, Maritime News
The U.S. Coast Guard loves tradition, but there's one that its crews won't mind losing: the bumpy ride in the forward berths on its Island-class patrol boats, a space affectionately known as the anti-gravity chamber. Better seakeeping, in fact, is one of the key characteristics of the Coast Guard's Fast Response Cutters, a class of 154-footers designed to replace the…
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28 Oct

Top 50 index 2012

Professional Mariner StaffAmerican Ship Review, Maritime News
This register lists vessels of interest to professional mariners completed by North American shipyards in the year ended Sept. 1, 2011. In the case of sister vessels built by the same yard, we list only one. AET Innovator, 185' Lightering Support Vessel Designer/Builder: Elliott Bay Design Group, Seattle, WA/Leevac Industries, Jennings, LA Owner/Operator: AET Lightering Services, Galveston, TX AquaLink II,…
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