Shipyard News

Germany’s most famous sail training ship, Gorch Fock, has undergone its latest annual overhaul and it looks as though the work has not cost as much as it did last year.

Alicat Workboats has been building windfarm service vessels since Guardian 1 debuted at Seawork in 2009.

Bremerhaven repair yards have seen more than their usual share of special ships of late, among them offshore, seismic and polar expedition tonnage.

Birkenhead UK based IPS Marine Fabrications recently completed a metal fabrication and welding contract on the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth.

In a recent dry docking project done by Goltens Dubai three vessels were docked in a sequence, with a one week time span between each vessel.

Virgin Atlantic Challenger II, which broke the Atlantic crossing record in 1986, is back in Britain after an absence of 27 years.

One small classic workboat is on the way to complete restoration and another is now in safe maintenance hands after ship lovers in Germany stepped in to save them both .