VT TSS Relocation in July

01 Apr 2003

Motion sensor specialist VT TSS (UK) is to relocate this July from Witney, Oxfordshire to the Watford premises of associate company, S G Brown. 

IESSG Funding Grants

01 Apr 2003

The Institute of Engineering Survey & Space Geodesy at Nottingham University is offering a range of funding opportunities for its postgraduate degree, diploma and short courses for 2003-4. 

Century of Global Tidal Records Archive Inherited

01 Apr 2003

Archival news from Liverpool Museum, which has inherited a century of global tidal records from Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory at Bidston (formerly the Liverpool Observatory & Tidal Institute). 

New Royal Navy Survey Vessel Comissioned

01 Apr 2003

HMS Echo, the UK Royal Navy's new multi-role hydrographic and oceanographic survey vessel, was formally commissioned at a ceremony in Devonport on 7 March. Built by Appledore Shipbuilders in Bideford under contract to Vosper Thornycroft, the 3,500dwt, 90.6m-long vessel will begin operational deployment later this year; it will also be available for frontline operational roles in support of minesweepers and amphibious forces. 

New Joint Venture Company Established

01 Apr 2003

Innovation 4C, a new European joint venture company which aims to be a 'technology hothouse for the marine industry' according to its Chief Executive, Stuart Heaver, has been established with headquarters at Whitstable, Kent. It's an amalgam of Verhaert of Antwerp, Belgium, 02 Marine Services in Kent and Fairwater Technology Group, Aberdeen.