Damen Series

International Experience & American Craftsmanship

Great Lakes Ship­yard and B.V. Scheep­swerf Damen Gor­inchem (Damen) have entered into a five-year part­ner­ship autho­riz­ing Great Lakes Ship­yard as an offi­cial builder of Damen designs. Great Lakes Ship­yard will now offer the best of both worlds, the wide range and inter­na­tion­al expe­ri­ence of Damen designs, and Amer­i­can crafts­man­ship from a high qual­i­ty U.S. builder. This com­bi­na­tion cre­ates the per­fect envi­ron­ment for fur­ther devel­op­ment of proven designs to estab­lish Great Lakes Shipyard’s Damen Series, a col­lec­tion of marine prod­ucts for the fol­low­ing markets:

• Har­bor & Ter­mi­nal: Towage and ship assist ser­vices such as Stan Tugs, launch­es, pilots and boats and Har­bor Ser­vices such as work barges, skim­mers, dredgers, and high-speed craft.
• Off­shore: Fast crew sup­pli­ers and sophis­ti­cat­ed state-of-the-art deep sea anchor handlers.
• Off­shore Wind: Wind farm sup­port ves­sels, fast crew boats, shoal­busters and wind farm main­te­nance barges.
• Defense & Secu­ri­ty: The full range of secu­ri­ty and patrol ves­sels, such as Inter­cep­tors and Stan Patrols to amphibi­ous sup­port ships and naval auxiliaries.
• Pub­lic Trans­port: Fer­ries, water taxis, and water bus­es, and dou­ble ended.
• Fish­ing: Trawlers and Research Vessels.
• Pon­toons & Barges: Truck­able prod­ucts, cus­tom pon­toons, mul­ti-pur­pose and sub­mersibles, and crane and spe­cial­ty barges.

Great Lakes Shipyard’s Damen Series is designed by Damen, proud­ly built by Great Lakes Ship­yard, and made in the U.S.A. The agree­ment also pro­vides for Damen tech­ni­cal ser­vices, includ­ing expe­ri­enced per­son­nel for onsite man­age­ment and super­vi­sion on any and all con­struc­tion projects. Now, all of the tech­nol­o­gy and know-how of Damen, includ­ing draw­ings, spec­i­fi­ca­tions and design infor­ma­tion, is at the fin­ger­tips of Great Lakes Ship­yard for the ben­e­fit of their cus­tomers in the Unit­ed States.

Built to Last

If you can dream it, we can build it. Togeth­er, we bring your vision to life by fol­low­ing a com­pre­hen­sive process that ensures your fab­ri­ca­tion project is cus­tomized to fit your needs and is built to exceed your expectations.

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About Damen

Damen Ship­yards Group (est. 1927) oper­ates more than 45 ship­yards, repair yards and relat­ed com­pa­nies world­wide. Damen employs over 6,000 peo­ple in 34 coun­tries, has deliv­ered over 5,000 ves­sels since 1969 and deliv­ers up to 150 ves­sels annu­al­ly. Based on its unique, stan­dard­ized ship-design con­cept and short deliv­ery times, Damen is able to guar­an­tee con­sis­tent quality.

Damen’s focus on stan­dard­iza­tion and mod­u­lar con­struc­tion leads to short deliv­ery times (Damen keeps ves­sels in stock), low ‘total cost of own­er­ship’, high resale val­ue, proven tech­nol­o­gy and reli­able per­for­mance. Damen offers a wide range of prod­ucts, includ­ing: tugs, work­boats, patrol ves­sels, high speed craft, car­go ves­sels, dredgers, off­shore sup­port ves­sels, oil-spill response ves­sels and even frigates and super yachts. For near­ly all ves­sel types Damen offers a broad range of Ser­vices, such as Life­cy­cle Main­te­nance Ser­vices, Cus­tomer Finance, Train­ing and trans­fer of (ship­build­ing) knowl­edge. In addi­tion to ship­build­ing, Damen Shiprepair & Con­ver­sion offers a net­work of 12 ship repair & con­ver­sion yards world­wide, most of which are con­ve­nient­ly locat­ed along the North Sea coast from Brest (France) to Gothen­burg (Swe­den). Damen Shiprepair & Con­ver­sion oper­ates more than 25 dry­docks, graven docks and cov­ered dry­docks and offers onsite/onboard repair ser­vices. Con­ver­sion projects range from refit­ting small fish­ing ves­sels into pri­vate yachts to the com­plete con­ver­sion or rebuild­ing of large jack-up rigs.