Metal Shark was awarded a share of a $290 million contract to build as many as 73 patrol boats for the Navy. The Jeanerette-based shipbuilder has already built 42 40-foot patrol boats for the Navy and ...

JEANERETTE, La. (AP) — Metal Shark Boats says it’s expanding its Jeanerette shipyard again. Company President Chris Allard and Gov. Bobby Jindal said Monday the expansion will create 88 new jobs with ...

Metal Shark has announced the delivery of a new 40’ x 12’ welded aluminum monohull pilothouse fireboat to Tampa Fire Rescue. Designed in-house by Metal Shark and built at the company’s Jeanerette, ...

Metal Shark Boats, which has operations in Jeanerette and Franklin, is expanding its south Louisiana presence by opening a manufacturing facility in Iberia Parish near Tabasco’s headquarters in Avery ...

The United States sent Metal Shark high-speed boats to Ukraine for its Maritime Guard, the State Border Guard Service reported on July 9 on Facebook. The watercraft were transferred in cooperation ...

The Coast Guard (including its heritage services) have employed boats since the beginning. Boats are just as important, if not more so, than ever.America’s first “boat force” came about in 1878, with ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I., Oct. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Metal Shark, a Louisiana-based boat builder and major supplier for the U.S. Armed Forces and allies, and HavocAI, the leading builder of maritime ...

The Anne Arundel County Fire Department has teamed up with Metal Shark Boats to build two new fireboats. The new fireboats will be added to their fleet in 2024. The twin Defiant NXT Monohull ...

Louisiana-based boat builder Metal Shark has announced the debut of “Prowler,” a versatile military craft combining multiple unique technologies to meet the current and near future warfighting ...

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- On 31 January 2023, Birdon America Inc. acquired Metal Shark Boats' 32-acre shipyard in Bayou La Batre, Alabama. This acquisition brings a fully developed ...

U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Robert F. Godec presents boats to Kenyan officials. (State Department photo) The final six of 10 Metal Shark boats, provided through 500 million Kenyan shillings of grant ...