Shipyard News – Page 80
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News'Mustang': an impressive delivery
Another highly distinctive new tug has been delivered to the independent Dutch tugowners G. Bouwman Towing & Shipping BV of Zierikzee by the Gebr Kooiman BV shipyard of Zwijndrecht. The new Mustang, resplendent in bright yellow paintwork, illustrates once again the style and workmanship inherent in previous purpose designed vessels ...
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NewsRapid return with magnetic patches
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 54m vessel was on supply duties off Kazakhstan when it hit an uncharted object that ripped two holes ...
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NewsRefitted river cruiser ready to sail
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 considered they had a choice of either selling the vessel or undertaking a major refit. The latter course ...
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NewsShipRepair & Conversion returns to London
ShipRepair & Conversion returns to London this month, running from 28-30 April at the Olympia in London.
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News'Iron Lady' gets another five year makeover
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 and been declared fit for further service.
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NewsShipyard completes 'formidable' refit
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 Royal Naval fleet while on operations at sea.
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NewsNew cat sails after fit out at Dales
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 new Pentalina has reduced the journey time to under an hour, giving both visitors and locals the ...
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NewsNew website for historic ship preservation
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 specialist skills needed to maintain the UK' s historic fleet, but also researchers, suppliers, and other heritage ...
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HMS Endurance in for repairs
HMS Endurance, the damaged British Royal Navy ice patrol ship, has finally been transported home from the Falklands to undergo extensive repairs following her flooding incident last December.
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NewsThirty years history and 'props' at Inverlane
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.
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NewsTape shapes up to seal safety
You could guess at what can happen if a flange carrying fuel fails, and just how nasty the resulting spray of fuel could be. But what happens if this fine spray meets the kind of hot spots commonly found in engine rooms?
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News'Inis Cealtra' to help shape the Shannon
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 country''s inland navigable waterways.
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News'Forth Linesman' is the first Tri-Meercat
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 of the seven sections which comprise one of the vessel''s hulls reminded him of a small underground burrowing ...
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NewsBriggs raises its game with three new vessels
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 the trio is a new flagship for Briggs, a powerful anchor handling tug delivered to the company during ...
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NewsShoalbusters keep getting bigger - By Jack Gaston
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 Shoalbuster has become an increasingly popular design that continues to evolve, often in spectacular fashion.
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NewsGentlemen blast old queen's bottom
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.
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NewsRapid repair for modular RIBs
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 MkII RIB that had hit a submerged obstruction at speed - putting a large hole in the bottom.
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NewsCutty Sark acquires the 'Knowledge'
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 the track of solving the riddle behind one of the maritime industry' s greatest icons.
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NewsTrawler travels for engine overhaul
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.
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NewsRo-ro refit on time at Hebburn
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 times and all contract work completed on day 42, in line with the original schedule.
