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Michael Grey to speak at IIMS London Conference Gala Dinner

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Michael Grey is set to speak at the IIMS 25th Anniversary London Conference Gala Dinner on 31 August 2016
Michael Grey is set to speak at the IIMS 25th Anniversary London Conference Gala Dinner on 31 August 2016

Michael Grey has accepted an invitation as guest after dinner speaker at the forthcoming IIMS 25th Anniversary London Conference Gala Dinner. He will address dinner guests on the evening of 31 August 2016. The venue for this special occasion is the wonderful and atmospheric Museum of London Docklands, located at West India Dock Road in east London (by Canary Wharf).

Michael Grey will be well known to many already and is a competent and knowledgeable speaker. He is a columnist and correspondent and has been associated with the maritime industry for the whole of his working life. At sea for twelve years with the Port Line of London and the holder of a British Foreign Going Master’s certificate, Michael came ashore to work in the safety and technical department of the UK Chamber of Shipping, before moving into maritime journalism.

Michael has been Technical Editor of Shipbuilding and Shipping Record, Editor of both Fairplay International Shipping Weekly and Lloyd’s List, where he continues to write a weekly column. He is the London Correspondent of BIMCO and contributes to a large number of maritime publications in the UK and Continue reading “Michael Grey to speak at IIMS London Conference Gala Dinner”

MCA issues MGN 543: Safety of Navigation: Offshore Renewable Energy Installations

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windfarmThe UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency has issued guidance note MGN 543 to highlight issues that need to be taken into consideration when assessing the impact on navigational safety and emergency response (search and rescue, salvage and towing, and counter pollution) caused by offshore renewable energy installation developments. It applies to proposals in United Kingdom internal waters, Territorial Sea and Exclusive Economic Zone.

Offshore Renewable Energy Installations (OREI) include offshore wind farms, tidal energy converters (including tidal range devices), wave energy converters and any associated infrastructure with the potential to affect marine navigation and emergency response, proposed in United Kingdom (UK) internal waters, Territorial Sea and Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).

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Generous donation of Scottish timber means Nelson’s flagship, HMS Victory, will fight on

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Timber donated from three Scottish estates will help to preserve HMS Victory for future generations
Timber donated from three Scottish estates will help to preserve HMS Victory for future generations

Timber has long been a vital backbone for shipbuilding and famously HMS Victory was built from over 5,500 oak trees, 250 years ago. It even inspired the Royal Navy’s anthem Hearts of Oak. That strong tradition will now continue with a generous donation of timber from three estates in Aberdeenshire that will ensure that the ship survives for the foreseeable future.

The timber, from eleven elm trees and ten oak trees, is due to be felled shortly and embark on its long journey south. In the 250th year of her launch in 1767, HMS Victory is in the midst of a 15 year conservation project and in need of the very best quality materials to ensure she survives a further 250 years.

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Report on IIMS ultrasonics small craft training day

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Some of the group pictured who met at Watford for the IIMS small craft ultrasonics training day
Some of the group pictured who met at Watford for the IIMS small craft ultrasonics training day

A group of 20 plus IIMS members and non members braved the worst that storm Imogen, which was blanketing the south of the UK on Monday 8 February, could throw up for the first small craft training day of the year.

The group met at a hotel in Watford just a stone’s throw from Ralph Kitts’s yard, P&S Marine, where the afternoon’s practical use of ultrasonics testing equipment took place.

John Excell, IIMS Chairman of Small Craft Surveying, welcomed guests and scoped out the day ahead. He introduced veteran marine surveyor, Jeffrey Casciani-Wood, who put his many years of experience to good use Continue reading “Report on IIMS ultrasonics small craft training day”

MAIB report on deck collapse on St Helen

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The report relates to the MAIB’s investigation of the collapse of a mezzanine deck on the Wightlink ferry St Helen, at Fishbourne ferry terminal, Isle of Wight, on 18 July 2014. The passengers and vehicles on board the cross Solent roll-on roll-off passenger ferry St Helen were in the process of disembarking at Fishbourne ferry terminal on the Isle of Wight when the vessel’s starboard forward mezzanine deck collapsed. The deck collapsed because one of its steel wire lifting ropes parted. The lifting rope parted because it had not been routinely lubricated and the mezzanine deck had not been properly maintained.

A crewman and 11 cars, with their seated passengers, were on the deck when it collapsed. The crewman suffered a minor head injury and was temporarily rendered unconscious; several passengers suffered minor impact related injuries. The mezzanine deck was structurally damaged and was later removed from the vessel.

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Fairline Yachts established from failed Fairline Boats

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Fairline Yachts has emerged from the collapse of Fairline Boats following investment from two Russian businessmen
Fairline Yachts has emerged from the collapse of Fairline Boats following investment from two Russian businessmen

Fairline Boats, which had seemed to be on the verge of disappearing just a few weeks ago, has been saved following the intervention by two Russian investors.

A new company, Fairline Acquisitions, funded by two UK based Russian investors with a background in the marine sector, is to take on the failed company’s order book and initially plans to recruit around 100 of the 380 staff who were made redundant before Christmas following the collapse. The new company plans to trade as Fairline Yachts.

The new business will be run by Russell Currie. He has been a Fairline dealer for the past 18 years.

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Storm damaged City of Rotterdam heads to Tyneside for repairs

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The storm damaged City of Rotterdam is now in Tyneside for repairs
The storm damaged City of Rotterdam is now in Tyneside for repairs

A&P Group has welcomed the City of Rotterdam, one of the biggest ships to be affected by Storm Desmond, to its Tyneside yard for repair.

The 5,000-tonne dwt Ro-Ro Cargo ship collided with another vessel on the Humber Estuary when Storm Desmond hit the north of England earlier this month.

A&P Group’s 100 strong Tyneside team will now undertake a 5-week programme of structural steel repairs before the City of Rotterdam returns to service at the end of January.

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2016 Motor Boat Awards winners announced

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Winners of the 2016 Motor Boat Awards
Winners of the 2016 Motor Boat Awards

The tenth Motor Boat Awards were celebrated at a gala dinner hosted by Time Inc UK, the publishers of Motor Boat & Yachting magazine, and sponsor Pantaenius Sail and Motor Yacht Insurance.

An audience of 230 international guests at the prestigious Rosewood Hotel in London saw the 2016 Motor Boat Awards presented to winning boats in eight categories ranging from Sportsboats and RIBs to 100 foot plus Custom Yachts. A further seven boats were highly commended by the judges.

The Awards presentation was hosted by Motor Boat & Yachting’s editor, Hugo Andreae, and deputy editor, Jack Haines.

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Oyster Yachts set to expand its workforce

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On the back of a strong order book Oyster Yachts is set to recruit up to 50 new staff
On the back of a strong order book Oyster Yachts is set to recruit up to 50 new staff

Oyster Yachts has started 2016 with a better order book than the same time last year with contracts totalling £70m. There are 15 yachts currently in fit-out – ten in Oyster Yacht’s Norfolk shipyard, five in its Southampton yard – and 11 others waiting to start.

The moulding of the first Oyster 118 commenced late in 2015 and fit-out will start in the Southampton shipyard in a few months’ time. This pioneering project, the largest Oyster ever built in the UK, together with a pipeline of three Oyster 825s, two Oyster 745s and two ‘Raised Deck’ versions of the Oyster 885, means that Oyster is now expanding its team in Southampton by 25%, recruiting 50 staff across all trade skills over the next 3–6 months.

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UK marine industry grows for fourth consecutive year

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British Marine statistics reveal the UK marine industry has grown for the fourth consecutive year
British Marine statistics reveal the UK marine industry has grown for the fourth consecutive year

The UK marine industry, including leisure, superyacht and small commercial sector continues to grow, according to new statistics published by British Marine at the London Boat Show 2016.

The statistics, which are released alongside British Marine’s bi-annual Industry Trends survey, show:

Industry revenue stands at £2.97bn for 2014/15, up 1.1% from 2013/14.

The domestic market continues to grow, expanding from 68% of total revenue (2013/14) to 70% (2014/15).

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IIMS Small Craft Working Group Ultrasonics Training Day

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ultrasonicsThe first Small Craft Working Group training day of 2016 has been organised for Monday 8 February.

The day will focus solely on ultrasonic NDT equipment and its use in practice. This will be done by looking at how it works in theory in the morning and then in practice outside after lunch at P&S Marine. The location is Croxley Green, Watford.

The day’s agenda is as follows:

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MCA issues Hovercraft Code Marine Guidance Note

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The UK MCA has released a Marine Guidance Note to introduce the Hovercraft Code
The UK MCA has released a Marine Guidance Note to introduce the Hovercraft Code

UK MCA has issued a Marine Guidance Note to introduce the new Hovercraft Code which has been developed for Light and Small hovercraft operating in the United Kingdom or United Kingdom Waters (both at sea and on inland waterways).

Currently all hovercraft used for reward must be built to the requirements of the High Speed Craft (HSC) Code. The Hovercraft Code introduces a voluntary set of standards appropriate for small commercial hovercraft, which are equivalent to the HSC requirements.

Where a hovercraft is surveyed and certificated under, and continues to comply with, this Code, it is exempted from those parts of the Hovercraft (General) Order 1972 and the Merchant Shipping (High Speed Craft) Regulations 2004 which require the hovercraft to be surveyed and certificated against the British Hovercraft Safety Requirements (BHSR) and the IMO High Speed Craft Code. The General Exemption is annexed to this MGN.

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