Keellaying at Great Lakes Shipyard as start of a new tug construction programme
Ten Damen Stan Tugs 1907 ICE to be built for The Great Lakes Towing Company (Illustration: Great Lakes Shipyard)
The vessels of type Damen Stan Tugs 1907 will meet the demands of new U.S. Coast Guard new Subchapter M regulations. The keel laying marks the beginning of a new construction programme to build two new harbour tugs per year for the next five years at the shipyard’s facility in Cleveland, Ohio. They will be built to ABS Class, GLS with hull numbers 6501–6510. The newbuildings will replace older tugs in the Great Lakes Towing Company fleet. The tugs will be of about 21.6m length overall and will be under 100gt. Main engines will be two MTU 8V4000 M54R units of 1,000 hp each at 1,600 RPM. They will have four twin screw propellers in Kort nozzles.
