Gladding-Hearn delivers 69’ patrol boat to NYPD

摘要

Wide open it hits 42 knots, is built with ballistic-resistant windows and panels, and has a couple of non-lethal weapons. That's the 69′×19′ tactical-response boat delivered to the New York City Police Department in April by Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding in Somerset, Mass. The new patrol boat is the first of two 69′ vessels for the NYPD Harbor Unit that are based on a design from C. Raymond Hunt Associates in New Bedford, Mass. Gladding-Hearn used the same design for 12 submarine escort boats built in 2008-2009 for the Navy. The major difference between the boats is that the tactical-response boat's superstructure is much larger.