SMS Completes Hat Trick of European Refits

UK ship repairer and marine engineering services provider SMS has completed three refits this month. 

This has included the refit of the maintenance vessel ‘London Titan’ which returned to the port of Lowestoft for the second time.

Southampton-based SMS, has an enviable reputation as specialists in ship repair, marine engineering and major fabrication projects in the commercial marine, defense and Superyachts sectors.

It has completed the three major refits across its national and international network.

Chris Norman, the Managing Director of SMS, said: “This marks a major milestone for the business as we’ve completed the last of three major ‘live’ refits that have been going on across the recently expanded ship repair group.

“In recent months our business has gone from strength-to-strength. We’ve completed a significant refit in Avonmouth onboard the ‘City of Cardiff’ for Tarmac.

“We’ve completed a refit in Cherbourg for Condor Ferries onboard their HSC ‘Condor Rapide’, the 86m Incat, and just this week we’ve undocked the ‘London Titan’ in Lowestoft for the Port of London Authority.”

James Grala, the General Manager of SMS Lowestoft, said: “The refit of the ‘London Titan’ has been a great project.

“We’re pleased to welcome her back for her annuals. This is the second time she’s been into our Lowestoft dry dock.

“Over a four week period the works included ship side valves inspections, painting of deck, hull and topsides.

“Steel work repairs on the deck fixtures. We relocated the off ballast valves spindles, and completed a program of bow thruster maintenance.

“Works also included generator overhauls, deck lighting upgrades, tank cleaning, fendering repairs anode replacement and crane upgrades.”

Chris said: “Three different customers, three different markets, and three different locations - this is great example of the scale of SMS and the sort of turn-key solutions that we now provide.

“Having recently completed a further major refit in Shoreham on MY Spada we look forward to launch MY Alicia from a major three year refit later this month here in Southampton.”

The ‘City of Cardiff’ is an aggregate dredger, with a LOA 72m and a 15m beam.

The HSC ‘Condor Rapide’ is a fast ferry, with a LOA 86m and a 26m beam.

The ‘London Titan’ is a maintenance vessel with a LOA 36m and a 13.5m beam.