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Yard NewsSouthamptonWe’ve just this week launched MY Alicia after a three year refit. She’ll complete her trials and then head to the Med. More to follow in the next issue.

HMNB PortsmouthThe team are working on one infrastructure project as well as supporting works onboard HMS Forth and HMS Queen Elizabeth.

DoverThe team have been busy on numerous diving jobs - including working in-house to support the launch of MY Alicia.

PooleWorks for both Poole Harbour Commission and Rollalong (builder of temporary accommodation blocks for the MoD) continues.

HMNB DevonportMatt and Spencer are grafting to support an ever expanding program of works on the T23 life-extensions programs - and supporting works on HMS Ocean which has recently been sold to the Brazilian Navy.

LowestoftThe team have been busy - works for Boston Putford and the PLA, and the recent dry docking of a tall ship.

AvonmouthChris and team are recovering from the largest dredger refit in recent history, which coincided with a move to their new 11500sqft facilities.

The SMS Group trades from 7 locations in the UK and currently employees circa 200 FTE’s.

John Buck’s returned from Scotland with a Maltese client who’s very close to proceeding with the 24m newbuild workboat.

We’ve this month signed a refit contract for Sept in Cherbourg to support the annual docking ofthe Normandie Express for Brittany Ferries.

Our Dive team specialises in underwater surveys and rope removals from fouled shafts and propellers.

Our workboat business is progressing; we’ve signed an International marketing and distribution deal with WorkBoatSales.com.

The SMS Hydraulics team have a bespoke flushing rig which flushes 300 litres per minute at 40bar; and we rent it out.

The electrical department within SMS can, and often does, build switchboards in-house -for both SMS and theWight Shipyard Co.

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NewsletterAug - Sept 2018

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Did you know we had a 3000T Ship Lift in France?

Ferries we were impressed with both the speed and quality of SMS’s works and their co-ordination on the ground in Cherbourg. It was a planned, challenging project, and all parties performed well”. SMS has a partnership agreement which allows them to use the Syncrolift facility at the Port of Cherbourg on a ‘turn up and go’ basis. SMS have no permanent base in Cherbourg - the company is built around mobility, flexibility and a dynamic multi-skilled workforce that routinely travel. Hence refits and repairs alongside nationally, and now internationally, are considered the norm.

If you’d like to talk about the shiplift in Cherbourg - or you can foresee any opportunities for it’s utilisation please do reach out either Nick or John.

Our sister co, the Wight Shipyard Company, has just launched Red Jet 7. We’ve two more boats in build for Mexico.

Bob Gray, the Founder of SMS, has sadly this month decided to ‘step down’. He’s already sorely missed and we’d welcome him back anytime - thank you for everything Bob! We genuinely miss you and we appreciate all you did for us and SMS.

Global Services is trading ahead of budget, and has extensively supported the provision of goods to MY Alicia.

The team at SMS Southampton are chasing not one, but two Superyacht refits; 2019 & 2020 could be very busy!

According to The Sunday Times Wightlink is up for sale for £300m - any takers? Interesting timing as their new diesel electric hybrid ship is soon due to sail over the horizon.

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GROUP GOSSIP

Let’s talk about Cherbourg.

We’ve an exclusive partnership agreement with the Chamber of Commerce in Cherbourg that allows us to turn-up and use their 3000T Rolls Royce ship lift as, and when, we want. A great example would be last month’s docking of the Condor Rapide. The lift is 90m x 32m and is located just 75 miles from the Solent - it’s a more effective solution for Solent centric operators than the ship repair yards in the North East and South West.

John Webb, SMS’s Technical Manager for the refit comments: “our senior team, including Nick Jalie and myself, have been docking vessels in Cherbourg for the best part of 15 years now - SMS have the ‘knowhow’ and ‘experience’. This particular program of works benefited from the scheduled removal of the vessel from service with works then undertaken on the Wartsila waterjet propulsion system on POME (port outer main engine), minor structural repairs and planned electrical upgrades. Whilst the refit cycle was challenging time wise we returned the ship to her Owners on schedule”.

In conclusion, the customer, Rob Loder, Ship Manager for Condor Ferries comments: “as Condor

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MAINTENANCE / BUILD HALL

COMMERCIAL ROAD

• Lowestoft; workshops and dry-dock; 76.5m LOA and 14.5m beam, plus 70m layby berth

• Maintenance / Build hall• 30/40 skilled SQEP• Mobile support for the

entire East Coast• 24/7 regional call out

Lowestoft

WORKSHOP DRY-DOCK

COVERED DOCK NEWBUILD HALL

BELVID

ERE ROAD

• Workshops and dry-dock; 60m LOA and 8.5m beam

• Covered dock and maintenance / Newbuild hall

• 200 skilled SQEP• Mobile support for the entire

South Coast• Bespoke, state of the art

joiners shops• All marine engineering trades;

to include electrical and hydraulic engineering

• 24/7 regional call out

Southampton - Head Office

The Wight Shipyard Co., Cowes

• 100 skilled SQEP• Newbuild fabrication shops• Refit and maintenance hall

Shoreham Dry Dock

• 50.5m x 8.5m• Supported by mobile teams

from Southampton

Cherbourg

• 3000T ship lift• 90m x 32m• Supported by mobile

teams from the UK

Portchester

• 1000T• 60m x 13.5m• Supported by teams from

Southampton

OurWaterfront Sites

SMS Head OfficeNick JalieUnit 1, Ocean Quay, Belvidere Road, Southampton, SO14 5QY 07747 039 504

SMS LowestoftJames Grala The Dry Dock, 50 Commercial Rd, Lowestoft, NR32 2TE07342 945 700

SMS DoverJohn Webb Warrprop House, Channel View Road, Dover, CT17 9TP07767 347 808

SMS HMNB PortsmouthMatt StoweBuilding 1/209, HM Naval Base, Portsmouth, PO1 3NJ07342 945 699

SMS PooleGrant Hordle61A New Harbour Road Central, Poole, Dorset,BH15 4AJ07919 384 214

SMS AvonmouthChris Lynch Unit B, Motorway Distribution Centre, Avonmouth, Bristol, BS11 9YT07843 350 633

SMS HMNB DevonportSpencer Cooper Building SO97/98, HMNB Devonport, Plymouth, PL2 2BG07471 902 643

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