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VT Halmatic Packs the Pontoon at Seawork 2005
01 Jun 2005
Prolific Portchester UK based boat builders VT Halmatic return for Seawork 2005 with a small flotilla of newbuild workboats which at least partially reflects the diversity and range of their capabilities.
Largest of these will be Spirit of Portsmouth , a 32.6m LOA ferry for the Portsmouth Harbour Ferry Company which will replace Halmatic's earlier steel built ferry Maid of the Harbour asa floating venue for AGMs and other functions on the Seawork pontoon.
Spirit of Portsmouth is a most significant boat for VT Halmatic (see Works in Progress, MJ November 2004) in that it is the first vessel from the company's Steel Division to have its hull and superstructure built in Poland.
Also expected at Seawork 2005 is a Halmatic 19 training boat for the Sea Cadets, the first of an order comprising seven such vessels. Another likely first is the first of class Cara 52, a high performance patrol boat for the Turk and Caicoss Islands.
Either the Cara or a Nelson 48/50 pilot launch for ABP Southampton will be on the Seawork 2005 pontoon, possibly both.
The Nelson 48/50 has been so successful in Southampton that ABP's Humber Estuary Services (HES) has just placed a £1.9m order with VT Halmatic to upgrade its fleet with three new pilot launches. Delivery of the vessels will be phased over three stages, with the first launch expected to come into service in December of this year and the last in the summer of 2006.
The three launches will be capable of carrying eight pilots and a crew of two at speeds up to 23 knots, and will replace the three oldest in ABP HES's existing fleet of five pilot launches.
MJ Information No: 20724
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