Martin Coles News

The Lord Mayor of the City of London, Lord Mountevans, lent his weight to the launch of a new three-year project designed to inspire and engage young people across the U.K. in thinking about a future in marine engineering. It is being led by maritime charity Seafarers UK, in conjunction with its delivery partner Sea Cadets. The launch of the project was announced to more than 150 of Seafarers UK’s supporters and beneficiaries at the charity’s Annual Meeting at Mansion House on Wednesday, June 15.

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.