Passenger Vessels

The 330'x70' Sandy Ground was on a routine 5 ½-mile trip with 868 passengers aboard when the crew saw fire in the engine room. Photo: NY Waterway/Baris Barlas

Mariners worked together to keep passengers safe during last year’s NY ferry fire

Steel cutting for the new 302' ferry for New York's Long Island began in January with delivery scheduled for 2024. Eastern Shipbuilding rendering

Eastern hosts keel authentication ceremony for New York ferry

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The multi-purpose vehicle ferry features a steel hull and aluminum superstructure. Elliott Bay Design Group photo

Metal Shark delivers 70' vehicle ferry to New York

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Candela’s 12-meter P-12 (4.5-meter beam) is a carbon-fiber, 30-passenger catamaran hydrofoil. Candela image.

More battery-power options for commercial vessels

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Illegal charter captain fined heavily by Coast Guard. USCG photo

Coast Guard hits illegal charter captain with $98,000 fine

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The passenger vessel Natchez was moored and out of service when a fire broke out on May 3, 2022. NTSB photo

NTSB determines cause of fire aboard New Orleans passenger vessel

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Miller Boat Line awarded diesel emissions grant

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Coast Guard in South Florida in 2018 board a vessel to make sure it is in compliance with the Passenger Vessel Safety Act of 1993. U.S. Coast Guard photo

Elusive illegal passenger vessel charters continue

Everett Ship Repair with M/V National Geographic Venture in the Faithful Servant drydock. Ice Cap Holding photo

Nichols Brothers and Everett Ship Repair stay busy with passenger vessels

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The MV Tustumena is designed to carry 160 passengers and has a vehicle capacity of 680 linear feet, which is equal to approximately 34 twenty-foot vehicles. Alaska Marine Highway System photo

$384 million in grants available to modernize ferry services

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The NY Waterway ferry Thomas Jefferson on the Hudson River in New York. Photo by Kirk Moore

NY Waterways to convert ferry engines from diesel to hybrid propulsion

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A Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod crew successfully conducted a medevac of an 82-year-old male aboard the cruise ship Queen Mary II approximately 85 nautical miles southeast of Nantucket, Mass., in early January. The air crew safely brought the man back to Hanscom Air Force Base where EMS was waiting to transport the man to Massachusetts General Hospital. U.S. Coast Guard video Courtesy of Air Station Cape Cod

Coast Guard rescues octogenarian from cruise ship

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In the main cabin, with seating for 150 passengers, the interior bulkheads will be relined and the carpeting replaced. Gladding-Hearn photo

Gladding-Hearn to refit 34-year-old ferry for Bermuda

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