Shipyard News – Page 66
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Quicker thickness monitoring
Dorchester, UK based, Tritex NDT have launched a new Multigauge 5700 Datalogger Metal Thickness Gauge. The new gauge, has all the advantages of the company''s Multigauge 5600 but with the added benefit of storing readings on the gauge
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NewsMore than just boats
Over 120 new jobs could be created in Brightlingsea, UK, if boatbuilder CTruk’s Advanced Composite Technology Centre project receives grant funding support.
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NewsBlack Sea invasion
After the successful delivery of five marine survey catamarans to Ukraine, Cheetah Marine has now completed a Cheetah 7.9m Survey vessel for Georgia. Powered by 100hp Honda four stroke outboard engines, the boat follows the Isle of Wight, UK company’s standard survey package specification.
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NewsFirst Sprinter leaves blocks
The official sea trials have been held of the first CoCo Yachts designed and Afai Southern Shipyard built Urban Sprinter 2000 fast ferry, named ‘Pão de Açúcar’. This is the first vessel out of a series of seven Urban Sprinters which will sail on Guanabara Bay between Rio de Janeiro ...
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News‘Atco Noura’
The 45m offshore patrol vessel ‘Atco Noura’, designed by Macduff Ship Design of the UK and built by Tor Marine of Turkey, has completed a rigorous trials schedule. This included reaching its contracted speed of 32 knots.
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NewsDutch to deliver new survey boat
North Germany’s waterways and shipping office (WSA) in Cuxhaven is taking delivery of a new Dutch-built Type 1640 hydrographic survey boat in November for service on the Lower Elbe.
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News'Reiherstieg' is last from SSB for Hadag
Hamburg’s newest Type 2000 port excursion and ferry boat ''Reiherstieg'', the 14th to enter service with Hadag, will probably be the last from small local yard SSB, which has built all but one of them.
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NewsTuco’s new baby
Denmark’s Tuco Marine Group has launched the newest vessel in its ProZero series of fast rescue boats, daughter crafts and workboats; the ProZero 11m Wind Farm Service Boat.
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NewsThe science of silencing
According to UK-based marine noise and vibration specialist, Halyard, commercial boats of all sizes can produce overbearing noise from their engines, generators and exhaust systems. This, Halyard says, can make for an extremely unpleasant and unproductive environment to work in, with prolonged exposure to high levels of engine and mechanical ...
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NewsDry dock for Burgess Marine
Britain’s largest independent ship repairer Burgess Marine has partnered with Shoreham Port, to revitalise ship repair in the commercially thriving Sussex, UK Port. Shoreham offers one of the few remaining dry dock facilities on the South Coast of England.
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NewsSpanish-built cats for Angola
A pair of 30m catamaran passenger ferries named ‘Macôco’ and ‘Panguila’ have been delivered to Instituto Marítimo e Portuário de Angola. The vessels were built by Astilleros Armon in Spain to the design of Incat Crowther of Australia and will be operated by subsidiary TMA Express.
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NewsHeavy hoist for Suffolk
Suffolk Yacht Harbour claim that its new 75 Tonne Wise hoist at Levington, UK is the biggest between Bridlington and the Solent, and it could prove handy for commercial liftouts as well as for leisure yachts.
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News‘Baia de Setubal’
As featured in brief in October’s MJ, Safehaven Marine based in Ireland have just launched a new pilot boat destined for the Port of Setubal in Portugal. ‘Bai de Setubal’ is one of Safehaven’s Interceptor 38 pilot vessels.
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Marine Supply Chain Conference
Taking place at ‘Action Stations’, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, UK on Wednesday 26 November 2014, the British Marine Federation’s Supply Chain Conference is intended for builders of small commercial and leisure vessels, their equipment manufacturers and suppliers.
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NewsHalf a century of RIBs
Humber RIBs is one of the major British builders of RIBs and has made a considerable reputation for itself in the commercial and military sector. This year the company hits a significant milestone: 50 years of RIB building.
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News14m GRP trawler launched
The latest Seahawk B46 has been launched – to be operated out of Looe, Cornwall, UK. Designed by Gary Mitchell, the Seahawk B46 has been built for Richard Chapman who will also skipper the boat.
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NewsBurgess expands into new build
As first reported in last month’s ‘Maritime Journal’, the UK''s Burgess Marine has supplemented its established shiprepair business and Trafalgar Yacht Management subsidiary by moving into new build with the acquisition of Meercat Workboats Ltd.
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NewsMonitoring work for old customs boat
A former customs boat, converted by Lower Saxony authorities in north Germany into a water measurement, laboratory and monitoring vessel, is now performing well on the River Elbe.
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NewsPunchy newbuild in all-round Weser service
Operators in Bremen/Bremerhaven are reportedly pleased with their new multi-purpose tug ''Albatros'' - the latest workboat to enter service as part of a fleet modernisation programme on the Weser in Germany’s second biggest universal port complex.
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NewsRadio ship leaves lay up
Fifty years after the launch of Radio Caroline and the birth of pirate radio, the ex-Radio Caroline ship ''Ross Revenge'' has been moved from its berth at Tilbury docks to a midstream mooring in the River Blackwater. The vessel has lain at Tilbury for some 10 years during which it ...
