Spotlight on Conrad and Detyens Shipyards
Conrad Deepwater Shipyard in Amelia Louisiana performs repairs on all types of dredging equipment. Its customers include Pine Bluff Sand and Gravel Mike Hooks Manson Weeks and Great Lakes. Some of the dredges the company has worked on are: for Mike Hooks Dredge 32 Dredge Mike Hooks and Missouri H; for Pine Bluff Sand and Gravel Dredge Marion and Alabama; for Weeks Marine RS Weeks and EW Ellefsen; for Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Key West California Texas and Alaska: and for Manson Construction Company Bayport and Newport.
Conrad also built the 512-cubic-yard shallow-draft hopper dredge Murden for the Corps of Engineers Wilmington District and delivered it in September 2012.
“We operate six drydocks at our full service shipyard in Amelia” Gary Lipely director of marketing & sales said. “The drydocks range from 900 tons to 12500 tons capacity.
Conrad employs experts on all aspects of shipbuilding and repair and can work on fabrication engine repair and rebuilding hydraulic systems and all other aspects of ship and dredge building and repair.
Conrad Deepwater is approximately five miles from Morgan City and 30 miles from the Gulf of Mexico on the Bayou Boeuf/Intracoastal Waterway.
Detyens Shipyards Inc. in Charleston South Carolina has the facilities needed for dredge repair maintenance and conversion and has a number of dredging companies as customers. It is the shipyard where Marinex built its dredge Savannah.
Established in 1962 as a central location for a number of shipyards Detyens leased the shipyard segment of the Charleston Naval Facility on the Cooper River in the mid-1990’s with its three graving docks machine shops portal cranes and other support structure for servicing large vessels. It now offers extensive crane services and shops flexible work environment including cross-craft policies three graving docks and six piers providing 7000 feet of pier space 10 pier cranes up to 56-ton capacity and two floating cranes up to 100-ton capacity. The facility boasts one of the largest ship repair-oriented machine shops on the eastern seaboard of the Americas.
Among the dredges Detyens has worked on are the Corps of Engineers Dredges McFarland and Wheeler. For Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Detyens has worked on the dredges 54 New York Texas Illinois Ohio Alaska Padre Island and Dodge Island. The shipyard has done work for Sterling Equipment worked on Norfolk’s Atlantic and Charleston and Southern Dredging Company’s Cherokee as well as scows for Great Lakes and Norfolk.
The company is safety-oriented and was awarded the “Safest Shipyard” award by the Shipbuilders Council of America five times in 2004 2006 2007 2008 and 2010.
Chairman of the board is D. Loy Stewart son-in-law of founder William Detyens. Stewart is sole shareholder of the company. His son Loy Stewart Jr. is now president. Loy Jr. is a 1991 graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point with a degree in marine engineering.
