Shipyard News

This month sees a new catamaran ferry settling in on the route between Gill’ s Bay in Caithness and St Margaret’ s Hope, Orkney. Travelling at 18 knots across the Pentland Firth,…

The UK’ s National Historic Ships Directory of Skills & Services is aiming higher. Due to go online at the beginning of May, the new website aims to bring together not just…

The Mayflower Garden is the oldest operating vessel in the City Cruises fleet on London’ s River Thames, having been built in 1974 by Thomas Hughan of Greenwich. In 2007 the owners…

Mooney Boats has completed a new 22m Inland Waterways Support Vessel for Waterways Ireland, the body which has responsibility for the management, maintenance, development and restoration of the countrys inland navigable waterways.

When construction was underway on the first of his multi-role workboats, boatbuilder Peter Smith called time for the workers to have a coffee break. The sight of welders popping up from each…

During the past few months Briggs Marine, the UK based marine contracting and environmental services company, has made three major additions to its extensive marine services fleet. The most significant vessel in…

A baking powder solution of bicarbonate of soda (also an ingredient in many stomach settlers) has been used to get an old queen down to her bare bottom.

Marine Specialised Technology' s new Fleet Services division was recently put through its paces, MST tells MJ, when the company was called in to repair a damaged two year old MST 680…

A pioneering partnership between an established university and the custodians of an even older ship came together to claim not one, but two high tech awards last month, and is now on…