News Release #01 June 1st; Howard Electric Boat Company [GALWAY]
After extensive talks, the Howard Electric Boat Company [HEBCO] and the Irish Free State have concluded an agreement to open a HEBCO Shipyard and Marine Research Facility at the port of Galway, Ireland, beginning, FY3Q1936. HEBCO considers this mutually advantageous venture, to be the beginning of a future partnership that will benefit greatly both the Irish Free State and HEBCO.
News Release #02: June 1st; Howard Electric Boat Company [GALWAY]
HEBCO is proud to announce the construction of two HEBCO Cochrane Class Open Ocean Diver Support ships for its first customer, Royal Dutch Shell, at its new Galway, Ireland, facility. The contracts, signed today in Dublin, call for the first such vessel, the MSV Marcus Samue to commence construction FY3Q1936 with customer delivery NLT than the middle of FY1Q1937. The second ship, the MSV Samuel Samue will commence construction at or about the beginning of FY4Q1936, with customer delivery, after fit-out and trials, of NLT the beginning of FY2Q1937.
With the recent Danish submarine tragedy still fresh in the minds of the INTERNATIONAL maritime community. HEBCO is proud that its first commercial sales include two of the the class vessels that our founder, Mister Charles Howard, not only originally conceived as open ocean diver operation support ships; but also as capable submarine rescue and salvage vessels, so that such a tragedy as the K.D.M. Bellona need not occur, again, without the immediate means of assistance at hand..
The HEBCO Cochrane Class tenders. are state of the art vessels: sized, configured, and priced so that even the smallest of navies and commercial operators can afford to purchase and operate such vessels.
The HEBCO Cochrane Class can be configured as a: submarine tender, salvage ship, hard hat diver operations support vessel, ocean research vessel, or resource survey ship. HEBCO can mission fit the HEBCO Cochrane to any such configuration the customer so desires.
For information on the HEBCO Cochrane and other fine products that the Howard Electric Boat Company offers contact HEBCO, currently headquartered at Dublin, Ireland. Charles Howard, CEO.