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Established in 1949, Blount Boats is a full-service shipyard, which specializes in boat design, engineering, craftsmanship and repair. Located in Warren, R.I., the company employs more than 50 people. Its facility includes a lift dock, construction shop, fabricating unit and construction shed. It builds commuter boats, dinner excursion boats, passenger and vehicle ferries, ship cruise vessels, tugs, bunkering tankers, oil supply boats and commercial fishing boats. Blount Boats has the capacity to build vessels of more than 200 feet. Its boats are found on the waters of Great Lakes and the Caribbean Islands and on various ports in Central America and South America.

Since its establishment in 1955, Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding has produced more than 350 high-quality commercial vessels. The company is renowned for its ability to design and build unique and specialized craft, such as fast ferries, police and fire boats, pilot boats, tug boats, fishing boats, research vessels and other distinctive vessels. In 1987, it delivered its first INCAT designed high-speed catamaran. Since then, the company has built more than 30 passenger vessels. The company works exclusively with INCAT Designs of Sydney, Australia, to develop high-speed catamaran designs. Its pilot boats are designed in conjunction with C. Raymond Hunt Associates, the developer of the Deep-V hull. The company is recognized as a premiere pilot boat builder in the United States. Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding is located in Somerset, Mass.