Gary Wilson and Charlie Barley two of UKDOCKS Directors completed their sponsored Coast to Coast challenge, cycling 144 miles over three days, cycling from Whitehaven to Tynemouth. They raised £3565 for St Barnabas Hospice. Great effort.
We wish to thank all of our Friends, Employees and Companies who donated and made this a great success.
UKDOCKS Marine Services are supporting Gary Wilson and Charlie Barley in their efforts to raise sponsorship for St. Barnabas Hospice.
They will be cycling from Whitehaven to Newcastle (West Coast to East Coast) along the C2C route. A 140-mile journey, with about a 10,000 feet ascent, they intend to complete this over 3 days, starting on the 17 September 2015.
For those that are not aware, Charlie’s younger sister passed away at St. Barnabas Hospice on the 1st September 2014, after a long battle with cancer. Although she was only in the Hospice for a short time, she received fantastic palliative care and we will be supporting Charlie and Gary in their efforts to raise as much money as possible on this anniversary.
We are grateful for any donations, no matter how small, and these can be given via their Just Giving Page or donating via the sponsorship forms held by Gary in the Northern Office (South Shields) or Charlie in the South Office (Gosport).
This is Charlie’s way of saying thank you to this Hospice for the palliative care they gave his sister, and your contributions will go a long way in helping this organisation in maintaining the amazing level of care it gives.
If you want to learn more about the work this Hospice does, you can visit their website: www.stbarnabashospice.co.uk
The UK Docks workforce at our Sandquay facility, based in Dartmouth, have received team recognition and credit from Captain H Duffy, Captain for the Royal Navy, for their valued efforts and a ‘can do attitude’.
The Captain described the team as ‘a credit to Britannia Royal Naval College’ and thoroughly deserving of recognition.
GulfMark NS were experiencing problems with excessive rolling on the vessel ‘Highland Chieftain’ and a modification to the vessel was required. This modification required antiroll tanks to be installed onto the ship in order to reduce the roll motion and roll angle during adverse weather conditions. The antiroll sections were manufactured in the Netherlands and GulfMark contracted UK Docks to carry out the installation of the tanks onto the vessel. Timing was crucial on this project as the vessel was on charter providing Offshore Supply Services however, due to a gap in the charter schedule, the vessel was able to collect the pre-manufactured units from a port in the Netherlands and sail to UK Docks facility at Middlesbrough.
On arrival, the vessel was dry docked and preparations began with removing all of the vessel structure aft of the accommodation so that the new antiroll tanks could be installed directly against the aft face of the vessels accommodation. The tanks were constructed as a complete single section weighing approximately 60 tones and extending across the entire weather deck from port to starboard side and extend upward from the deck to the bridge deck.
Once the tanks were installed as a seamless and fully integrated part of the ships structure, further extensions were made to the ships structure to include foundations for ships cranes that were installed to both Port and Starboard sides of the vessel. All ships structure such as walkways and access stairs, which had previously been removed, were refitted to the vessel.
The vessel was re-painted on completion of all works and the vessel was handed back to the owners on the scheduled date, sixteen days after arrival at UK Docks dry dock facility.
