Ship of the Year Award for revolutionary SAR boat

The SAR 1906 is a 35-knot self-righting vessel, with an aluminium hull and a composite wheelhouse

Damen Shipyards Group and its partners KNRM, Delft University of Technology and De Vries Lentsch Naval Architects have won the Royal Netherlands Society for Marine Engineering (KNVTS) ‘Ship of the Year Award’ for Nh1816, the first of a series of the SAR 1906, a revolutionary new Search & Rescue boat.

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