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Hiring marine surveyors in the United Kingdom starts with the port: Southampton and London, Liverpool and Manchester, Teesport and Aberdeen on the North Sea, Belfast over the Irish Sea. The UK is a Paris MOU member; its east coast lies in the North Sea ECA.
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Shetland Maritime Ltd draws on experience gained in Shetland and Orkney to work for clients in Norway, the UK and mainland Europe across the North Sea and the Atlantic frontier. Its consultancy work began through Noble Denton for the oil and gas industry in the North Sea and Nigeria, and it has trained fishermen, ferry and tug crews and pilots through the NAFC Marine Centre in Scalloway. Its current clients are in offshore oil and gas, aquaculture and renewable energy.
SG Survey is a south coast marine survey and consultancy firm working worldwide from the Freemantle Business Centre on Millbrook Road East in Southampton. Its surveyors cover private and commercial work: surveys for owners buying, insuring, valuing or refitting a boat, damage work, cargo and draft surveys, on/off-hire and warranty surveys, and new-build and compliance projects. It lists YDSA membership and ISO 9001.
Rockhopper Marine is a Glasgow consultancy run by a former merchant navy master who moved ashore into ship management, salvage, pilotage, port operations and towage. Work now includes draught surveys, sea trials of new builds, tow master duties and submersible barge moves, vessel security and ISPS paperwork with class, and audits, investigations and drills for ports under the Port Marine Safety Code. He holds associate membership of the UK Harbour Masters' Association and works with operators under the Workboat Code.
NE Marine Survey Services Ltd is an independent survey and consultancy firm working in both the commercial and superyacht sectors from Clavering House in Newcastle upon Tyne. Its team includes David Ormston LL.M, a chief engineer with more than 30 years on many vessel types, and Roy Elliott, a master mariner who sailed 21 years mainly on crude oil tankers before coming ashore in 2014 to work on cargo superintendence, cargo audits and oil loss control. Services include condition, on/off-hire and H&M surveys, audits and investigations.
South Coast Marine Surveyors & Consultants is run by Giles Innes, who trained as a boatbuilder at Northshore Shipyard, worked for Camper & Nicholson's in Gosport and ran his own boatbuilding firm in Chichester for ten years. He later served as an officer on offshore supply ships and anchor handlers and spent a decade as a towage master in the Port of Southampton. He now surveys yachts and motorboats, codes commercial craft through SCMS and IIMS, advises on refits and sits on the YDSA committee.
Melfort Marine Surveys is run by Robert (Bob) Fleck, a sailor since his teens who has spent almost 40 years in the marine trade, skippering charter yachts and and set up a charter business and sailing school of his own. He earned the IIMS marine surveying diploma with merit, then ran the Ardfern Yacht Centre workshop for nearly 14 years before going back to surveying. His work is split between condition surveys for buyers and insurance renewals and damage investigations for marine insurers, with an engineer on call for specialist checks.
McAlpine Marine Surveyors carries out boat surveys throughout Scotland. Its surveyor, Greig, studied for his small craft surveying diploma with the Maritime Training Academy, which lets him survey leisure boats up to 80 ft, and has worked as an engineer for 30 years. He is a a Chartered Manager and an IIMS member.
LG Maritime Limited is a corporate member of IIMS with an office at Broadcasting House on Newport Road in Middlesbrough, linked to LG Maritime, Inc. in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. It runs a 24/7 line for short-notice jobs, covering marine and cargo surveys, draft and bunker quantity checks, loading and discharge supervision, stevedoring and warehousing, and accident investigation. As port captains and cargo superintendents its staff plan cargo work around lifting gear, cranes, forklifts and weather.
Isis Marine is the business of Hugh, an independent boat surveyor who earned his small craft surveying diploma at IBTC Lowestoft, who has been around boats since the age of five. Working from bases in London and Chichester, he regularly works in Kent, Essex, Suffolk, Sussex and Hampshire as well as on the Thames and London's canals, surveying sail and power boats, Dutch barges and narrowboats in GRP, steel, aluminium and wood for purchase, insurance and damage claims.
Euro Marine Surveys Ltd, on Nelson Street in Southend-on-Sea, is approved through the SCMS Certifying Authority for MCA code vessel inspections. Since Seafish stopped inspecting fishing vessels in July 2020 it has offered fishing vessel inspections, and it also supervises newbuilds, prepares statutory stability books, and is authorised to carry out tonnage measurements and sign carving and marking notes on craft below 24 m.
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