Dales Marine Services

Dales Marine Completes Latest Ferry Contract For Caledonian Macbrayne
5 November 2008

Dales Marine Services has successfully completed on budget and schedule a £300,000 contract at its Aberdeen facility for general annual maintenance and other work on the Caledonian MacBrayne ferry, Lord of the Isles, which operates on Scotland’s west coast.

The vessel was dry-docked for 12 days and alongside for six, with the scope of work including maintenance; blasting of the underwater area of the hull, using new UHP water jet technology; tailshafts and rudders removed for a new survey and new seals fitted; and the lounge bar and shop refitted, with joinery and carpets the main work.

The Lord of the Isles, which operates out of Oban, was the second Caledonian MacBrayne ferry dry-docked with Dales Marine this year and the eighth on which the company has worked in four years since taking over the Aberdeen facility.

She was followed into the dry dock an hour later by the oil-related vessel, Great Ship Dipti, for Indian owners, Great Offshore.

Operating around the clock and with bookings for the dry dock as far ahead as mid-2009, Dales Marine, part of the Dales Group, provides ship repair, dry docking, fabrication and engineering activities in Aberdeen and elsewhere for a range of industries.