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HMS Redpole (P259) was built in 1974 by Fairmile Marine at Berwick-upon-Tweed as RAFV Sea Otter, the third Seal class Long Range Recovery and Support Craft of the Royal Air Force Marine Branch. The Seal class was similar to the Bird-class patrol vessels of the British Royal Navy . .
Xanthus-class vessels provided a diverse range of auxiliary repair functions for both the US and British navies. American-flagged ships served in the Pacific with the US Navy, repairing ships damaged in the final battles against Japan. These ships continued their role after the war by providing support for the Allied occupation of Japan ...
A repair ship is a naval auxiliary ship designed to provide maintenance support to warships. Repair ships provide similar services to destroyer , submarine and seaplane tenders or depot ships , but may offer a broader range of repair capability including equipment and personnel for repair of more significant machinery failures or battle damage.
HMS Challenger was a unique vessel in Royal Navy service, purpose built to support deep sea operations and saturation diving. Built by Scotts at Greenock , the ship was launched on 19 May 1981, but not commissioned until 1984, during a time when the Royal Navy was cutting back on expenditure.
USS Regulus hard aground in 1971 due to a typhoon: after three weeks of effort, Naval salvors deemed it unsalvageable.. Marine salvage takes many forms, and may involve anything from refloating a ship that has gone aground or sunk as well as necessary work to prevent loss of the vessel, such as pumping water out of a ship—thereby keeping the ship afloat—extinguishing fires on board, to ...
Moor-class diving support vessels (Diving support/offshore supply vessels; entered service 1989; based at Kyle of Lochalsh [citation needed]) SD Moorfowl [13] SD Moorhen [14] Multicat 2510-class recovery vessels. SD Navigator (Recovery vessel; entered service 2009; based at Portsmouth [citation needed]) [15]
The company offers shipbuilding and vessel repair services and manufactures towing tugs, work and crew boats, and offshore service vessels. The company's repair services include crank shaft replacement, new crank shaft insertion, crane barge to pipe laying vessel conversion, pipe laying barge conversion, propeller repair, steel machining, pipe ...
A Royal Navy rescue helicopter in action above a boat An Auckland Rescue Helicopter in action. Air-sea rescue (ASR or A/SR, also known as sea-air rescue), [1] and aeronautical and maritime search and rescue (AMSAR) by the ICAO and IMO, [2] is the coordinated search and rescue (SAR) of the survivors of emergency water landings as well as people who have survived the loss of their seagoing vessel.