Shipyard News

Blyth Tall Ship (BTS) has received initial support from the UK’s Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for an innovative exploration of Blyth’s ship building and Antarctic heritage from the 1800s.

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s latest class of lifeboat is preparing to enter service with arrival of the first £2m Shannon class station lifeboat RNLB The Morrell at Dungeness in Kent UK.

Svitzer, a major provider of towage and marine services, took delivery of the latest addition to its UK fleet on 6 February.

Small German shipyard Meidericher Schiffswerft has marked 115 years of operation by completing a series of very different specialist repair, improvement and conversion jobs.

Germany’s booming Schiffswerft Diedrich has been busy with ferry ship conversion and modernisation designed to extend operation for old boats after new safety regulations come into force.

Built in 1924, the paddle steamer Medway Queen has sailed again.

With some 1,400 ships predicted to be consigned to the breakers each year, shipbreaking is an expanding business sector.

The PowerShark WB3000 made its first ever showing in continental Europe at the recent METS exhibition in Amsterdam.

Britain’s largest independent ship repairer has scored a double by signing new long term contracts with operators Wightlink and Gosport Ferry Ltd.

Ship repair company A&P Falmouth has won a major contract with the Southampton UK based historic steamship SS Shieldhall, which has graced many a Seawork exhibition as an events venue.

Estuary Services Ltd (ESL) has celebrated the entry into service of two new French designed, British built pilot launches for operation in the demanding waters of the Thames Estuary.

In the 1950s cinema classic African Queen, gin drinking Humphrey Bogart, bible punching Katherine Hepburn and a clapped out river boat join forces to sink a German gunboat in the middle of…

MMS Ship Repair, based in Hull UK, has recently completed a conversion to the Atlantic Offshore Rescue vessel Ocean Troll.

Shipyard De Schroef of Sas van Gent in the Netherlands has bought an additional dry dock (Dock B) from Shipyard Myklebust of Gursken in Norway.

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.