REFIT & REPAIR

Holyhead Marine Services has one of the best equipped and most up to date yards of its size in the UK. The capacity to lift out vessels of up to 100 tons and work on them in environmentally controlled and secure buildings, added to a skilled and permanent workforce, offers unrivalled service and efficiency to our customers.

Refits and repairs are carried out on a wide variety of commercial craft with previous and current customers including the RNLI, the Ministry of Defence, the Environment Agency, Irish Ferries and the Stena line.

Repairs are carried out on steel, aluminium, GRP and timber vessels with afloat repairs being carried out on larger vessels such as bulk carriers, coasters, tugs, barges and pontoons, conventional and high speed ferries. Vessel types range from RNLI Tyne, Trent, Arun, Severn & Mersey class lifeboats and Royal Navy 20.5m Archer class warships through to the Irish Ferries Ro-Ro conventional ferry ‘Ullysses’ , arguably the largest of its kind in the world.

With our well equipped fabrication and engineering workshops, Holyhead Marine also provides essential services for local industries. Fibreglass ovens for Peboc, fabricated gangways for Octel, the linkspan for Holyheads own fishdock, plus the ongoing maintenance work on the ferries to Ireland are some examples. More specialised work due to the groups experience in running the Single Buoy Mooring at Amlwch on behalf of Shell UK for the full 13years of the contract means that BHP in Liverpool Bay rely on Holyhead Marine for all their floating hose testing, maintenance and storage requirements.

These services include the testing, maintenance and repair of flexible floating hoses and associated equipment for the transfer of oil. Hoses of up to 24” bore with an overall assembled length of 350m can be handled. Facilities are available for testing in accordance with OCIMF rules.

The company’s Quality Management System has been approved by Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance to BS EN ISO 9001:2000.

For an insight into the refit of an Archer class Royal Navy warship take a look at our case studies pages.

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