The Pamlico County Sheriff's Office and Emergency Management has obtained from a grant through Homeland Security, a 23-foot ...

Metal Shark has announced the delivery of a new 40’ x 12’ welded aluminum monohull pilothouse fireboat to Tampa Fire Rescue.

Designed and built by Metal Shark, the Frenzy features electric waterjet propulsion, carries a payload of up to 14 lbs., and, like Prowler, can loiter in a semi-submerged state. “I’ve been toying with ...

Metal Shark, a boat builder based in Jeanerette, is enhancing emergency response capabilities with its new generation of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

U.S.-based boat builder Metal Shark is expanding its presence in its home state of Louisiana with the addition of a third… Friday, June 20, 2025.

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 ...

A drone image shows the former Metal Shark Boats shipyard in Bayou La Batre that was purchased by Birdon in early 2024. (Birdon) Courtesy of Birdon ...