Workboat builder Mustang Marine has won a US$5.3 million contract to construct three new pilot boats for the Port of Milford Haven in the UK.
The new contact will see Mustang build three 19-metre pilot boats at its deep-water facility at Pembroke Dock. The vessels, designed by Camarc Design, will have a maximum speed of 14 knots and capacity for 12 persons.
The three new pilot boats are similar in design to the 'Picton' delivered to the port authority in 2008. Mustang Marine has previously built nine similarly designed boats.
The craft are designed to be used extensively in heavy weather, capable of operating in swells up to five metres in wave height, and are expected to withstand 1,000 vessel impacts over a duty cycle of 2,500 hours on average every year.