Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding
Family-owned Somerset, Massachusetts shipyard building steel and aluminum pilot boats, fast ferries, patrol boats, fireboats, tugs and offshore wind CTVs since 1955.
Somerset, MA · Shipyard / Builder
About
George Duclos co-founded the yard in 1955 with Pret Gladding and Richard Hearn and bought out his partners in 1983; the second generation of the Duclos family now leads the company. In 1978 the yard and C. Raymond Hunt Associates built the first pilot launch with a deep-V hull. Its first high-speed passenger catamaran, in 1987, introduced fast-ferry service on the Great Lakes, and it built the first U.S. commercial application of Volvo Penta IPS drives.
The 7-acre yard has 60,000 sq. ft. of heated indoor fabrication space with plasma cutting, press brakes and shears, 10,000 sq. ft. of storage, a 600-ton railway, a 260-foot deep-draft pier and up to 100 employees.
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- Baltimore Class Pilot Boat
- Charleston Class Pilot Boat
- Chesapeake Class Pilot Boat
- Galveston Class Pilot Boat
- Resilient Class Pilot Boat
- St. John's Class Pilot Boat
- Tug Boats
- Catamaran Ferries
- Catamaran Water Taxi
- Catamaran Whale Watcher
- Monohull Ferries
- Coastal & Offshore Patrol Boats
- Harbor Patrol Boats
- Pilot-Response Boat
- Fire Boats
- Research Vessels
- Offshore Wind Crew Transfer Vessels
- Vessel Refit and Repowering
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