Shipyard News – Page 88
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NewsNew Life for Oldest Steamship
Community involvement is at the heart of a valuable and ongoing vessel restoration project at Canary Wharf in London''s Docklands. The SS Robin is the world''s oldest complete steamship, having been built in 1890 at the Orchard House Yard on London''s Bow Creek by Mackenzie Macalpine .The vessel was then ...
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NewsHull Fouling Foiled by Ecopseed
In December 2004 a crowd of 50 people including ship owners, representatives of newbuiding yards, the Belgian and other national navies as well as government representatives gathered in anticipation at the Zeebrugge naval base. Their interest was to witness the efficiency and effectiveness of the Ecospeed system after it had ...
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NewsVeteran Survey Boat Gets New Home in Egypt
An Egyptian multi-millionaire has paid 136,200 for the German survey ship veteran Wittesand , built more than half a century ago as a dredger supply boat on the Weser.
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NewsSHIPMATES' Money Lifts Repair Technology
Shipyards used to repair and convert existing vessels are set to become more efficient and environmentally friendly with the help of a grant for ? 2,151,000 from the EU''s Framework Programme .
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Greenwich University Scientists Work to Save 'Cutty Sark'
New computer models of the endangered Victorian tea clipper Cutty Sark are to be made by its neighbour, the University of Greenwich .
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NewsBahrain Repair Yard In Top Gear
The Arab Shipbuilding and Repair Yard (ASRY) of Bahrain has consolidated outstanding results from the first half of the year with a successful third quarter in which business and sales figures were up by some 7% on the previous quarter.
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NewsHebburn Village Nurtures FPSO Refit
A&P Tyne has successfully re-delivered the FPSO Haewene Brim to Holland''s offshore specialist Bluewater following an extensive upgrading to its process plant alongside a hull maintenance refit. The contract was won in a partnership between A&PTyne Ltd and McNulty Offshore Contractors Ltd of South Shields UK, who were the prime ...
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NewsIntercontinental Underwater Repair
A 30,000dwt, 200m long bulker needed urgent crack repairs when it arrived in the Brazilian port of Portocel in September.
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NewsShiprepair's Future Present for Training
A West Country UK shiprepair and conversion yard is continuing to invest in the future of high quality skills by welcoming its latest intake of new apprentices to the yard. The 13 new recruits, all from West Cornwall and aged between 16 and 18, spent their first week in September ...
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NewsHomecoming Refit for 'HMS Northumberland'
The marine division of Gateshead UK based protective coatings specialist Pyeroy ismaintaining the region''s links with one of the last Royal Navy vessels built on the Tyne.
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NewsArmon Produce Four More Jewels for Belgium
URS - Towage & Salvage Union Ltd of Antwerp are by no means strangers to the Spanish shipyard of Astilleros Armon SA , in Navia. The last eight shiphandling tugs, six Voith tractors and two stern drive vessels, built for the Belgian company started life in their yard. Therefore it ...
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NewsFowey Harbour Commissioners introduce the new launch 'Polmear'
The new multi-purpose launch Polmear is now in service with the The Fowey Harbour Commissioners . Built principally to serve the nearby port of Par, the new vessel replaces an earlier dual-purpose pilot/workboat that has given good service since its introduction in 1977.
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Multijet's Fast Blast for 'European Diplomat'
UHP (UK) recently won a contract to remove 1,600m2 of epoxy mastic coating from the main and upper decks of P& OIrish Seas '' ferry European Diplomat within a very tight time frame.
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NewsEnzymes Attack Fuel System Superbugs
Hugo Wall''s earliest recollection of fuel system contamination dates to a Reader''s Digest article he read in the 1960s about a Second World War cruiser trying to raise steam to escape Valetta Harbour in Malta as dive bombers approached. The ship''s boilers were coughing, spluttering and finally died. Despite the ...
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NewsWings on the River Dee
Earlier this year one of the most specialised transport vessels ever to enter service on Britain''s waterways commenced operation in North Wales. Named Afon Dyfrdwy and operated by the Holyhead Towing Company Ltd the vessel has the vital task of transporting aircraft wings from the Airbus factory at Broughton near ...
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NewsASRY Gets ISPS and US Boost
It is proving to be another eventful summer for the Arab Ship Repair Yard (ASRY) in Bahrain. In the week following seawork ASRY was awarded the ISPS Code Certificate bythe Bahrain Security Committee .
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NewsCattewater Harbour Commissioners Meet Their 'Maker'
The second new vessel this year for Cattewater Harbour Commissioners of Plymouth attended seawork2004 on its delivery voyage from the Great Yarmouth UK based boatbuilders Goodchild Marine Services Ltd . Following on the heels of Cattewater''s twin screw tug Prince Rock (see MJ January 2004), Maker is a first of ...
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NewsSanmar Move up a Gear with their First ASD Tug
Sanmar Denizcilik Makine ve Ticaret Ltd, the Turkish tug owner and shipbuilder, has delivered their largest and most sophisticated tug to date.
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NewsA&P Falmouth Lands RN Refit
The British Royal Navy''s Antarctic Patrol Vessel HMS Endurance berthed last month at A&P Falmouth for a multi-million pound mid-life refit that is scheduled to take four months. Its arrival followed by only two weeks the departure of another icebreaker, M/V Polar Star, which had left following a refit.
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NewsDestroyer's Indestructible Clips Replaced
The original Jubilee Clips on board the last of the World War II destroyers, HMS Cavalier, have been replaced recently after being damaged in ongoing restoration works.
