British Marine Society News

The British Marine Society & Sea Cadets will say farewell to its training vessel, TS Royalist, while a replacement with the same name is already under construction at the Spanish Gondan Shipyard. The new training ship is expected to enter service during summer 2015. Richard Sadler, CEO of Lloyd's Register Group Services Limited, made the announcement during the farewell ceremony of the previous Royalist, held in London. The ship has served for 43 years training more than 30,000 cadets. During the event, Captain Nigel Palmer, Chairman of MSSC, referred to the new construction that is underway in Gondan shipyard, where work will increase this autumn.

Gondán Shipyard celebrated the keel laying ceremony of the sail training vessel that the yard is building for the British Marine Society & Sea Cadets (MS-SC). In the ceremony, which took place this morning in Figueras Shipyard (Castropol) participated representatives from the British organization, among others, the Chairman of Trustees, Captain Nigel Palmer, and the Chief Executive Officer, Martin Coles, accompanied by Gondán Shipyard´s Chairman, Álvaro Platero. The keel laying ceremony, highly symbolic, marks the start of the assembly of the vessel in the slipway.