Sea Axe hullform attracts growing interest from military users

摘要

The Axe Bow or 'Sea Axe' concept for monohull vessels, which was developed and introduced approximately five years ago with great commercial success is attracting a growing number of customers in the military and paramilitary markets. Large numbers of Sea Axe vessels have been built and are on order for applications ranging from crewboats in offshore industry to super yacht tenders to pilot craft and high-speed patrol boats for the military. Damen Shipyards uses the Sea Axe brand for designs that are based on the Axe Bow concept, which was originally developed by Lex Keuning at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). The Sea Axe, which has a proven design history behind it, was the successor to the Enlarged Ship Concept that TU Delft developed with Damen in 1995.