Shipyard News

What is claimed to be the world’ s biggest coal fired, steam icebreaker still afloat, the Stettin, has undergone its regular five year check at Hamburg’ s Blohm + Voss Repair Shipyard…

The use of magnetic patches has resulted in the oil field supply ship CM Service returning to work in just 60 days after its hull was holed in the Caspian Sea. The…

The Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship Fort Rosalie is a fleet stores ship, which means it has a primary role of supplying fuel, food, munitions and just about anything else needed by the…

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…

Inverlane Marine, which recently celebrated 30 years in business on the banks of the River Clyde, has just completed the reconditioning of an FOPX613 purifier.

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…

MAN Diesel PrimeServ’ s Service Center in Frederikshavn, Denmark, has successfully completed a large main engine repair and overhaul job aboard the Argentine fishing factory trawler Centurion Del Atlantico.

A& P Tyne Ltd has completed the annual refit onboard the ro-ro cargo ferry ‘ Norcape’ for P& O Ferries. Over 100 personnel were working on the the 14,087gt vessel at peak…

A 60 year old Danish fishing boat has been rescued from decay after capturing the heart of a sailor. ' After seeing her sitting there, I couldn' t let her just rot,'…

Of all the new tugs reported on in Maritime Journal it is the Damen Shoalbuster that consistently attracts attention. The reason is that since the first prototype was completed in 1995 the…

Scotland’ s renewable energy trade body Scottish Renewables estimates that in 20 years the country’ s marine renewables industry could employ some 25,000 people and provide enough power for more than 500,000…

Turkish tug builders and tugowners Sanmar Denizcilik Makine ve Ticaret Ltd, of Istanbul, celebrated in fine style at the flag change ceremony for the first vessel of their new Sanmar Eskort 80…