Gladding-Hearn

Gladding-Hearn delivers newbuild to Alabama pilots Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding of Somerset, Mass., has delivered a new pilot boat to The Alabama Pilot Inc., based in Mobile. The 53-foot aluminum vessel has twin 671-hp Caterpillar C-18 engines turning five-blade nibral props through a Twin Disc gearbox. Other features include a Humphree trim-tab control system, 9-kW Northern Lights genset and six Llebroc seats. The Chesapeake-class vessel, named Dixey, can hold 800 gallons of diesel, good for 400 miles at 20-knot speeds.