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Naval architect and marine engineer Robert Hill of Bellingham, Mass., died July 14. He was 69. Born in Troy, N.Y., in 1952, he grew up there. He relocated to Massachusetts to pursue his career and raised his family in Bellingham, where he lived for nearly 50 years. An accomplished naval architect and marine engineer, Hill was the founder and president of Ocean Tug & Barge Engineering, based in Milford, Mass. His work focused on the development of the articulated tug/ barge (ATB). Many of the workboats he has designed continue to ply U.S. waters. For his lifetime achievement in the industry, Hill was named a distinguished Fellow of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) in 2015. "In our industry you think of successful thinkers and there would be Robert Allan, Bob Hill, Ed Shearer," said CT Marine's Corning Townsend, whose name could also be on that list. "He was a leader of a whole new concept-articulated tug and barge." |