Facilities

The McTay Marine shipyard is located at Bromborough on the South bank of the River Mersey

River Mersey

The River Mersey is a river in North West England. It is around long, stretching from Stockport, Greater Manchester, and ending at Liverpool Bay, Merseyside. For centuries, it formed part of the ancient county divide between Lancashire and Cheshire....

, in the North West of England. The purpose built facilities are arranged on a 7.5 acres (30,351.5 m²) site with ramped slipway facilities directly into the River Mersey. The yard has an 80m build hall with 25 tonne cranes, and 100m fit-out quay.

McTay Marine design and build vessels in steel and aluminium up to 60m in length. They build tugs, ferries, barges, pilot boats, survey vessels, coasters and fishing vessels, fast patrol boats, landing craft, towed array recovery vessels. The company employs 150 people.

Ships built

Shannon is a harbour and coastal tug, originally built in 1981 as the Eldergarth. The tug is noteworthy as the first British-built Azimuthing Stern Drive

Azimuth thruster

An azimuth thruster is a configuration of ship propellers placed in pods that can be rotated in any horizontal direction, making a rudder unnecessary...

 tug. Shannon has been acquired by Emu Limited and re-equipped in Southampton with a suite of specialist winches and a stern mounted ‘A’ frame.

During heavy rain, London's sewage storm pipes overflow into the River Thames

River Thames

The River Thames flows through southern England. It is the longest river entirely in England and the second longest in the United Kingdom. While it is best known because its lower reaches flow through central London, the river flows alongside several other towns and cities, including Oxford,...

, sending dissolved oxygen

Oxygen

Oxygen is the element with atomic number 8 and represented by the symbol O. Its name derives from the Greek roots ὀξύς and -γενής , because at the time of naming, it was mistakenly thought that all acids required oxygen in their composition...

 levels plummeting and threatening the species it supports. Two dedicated McTay vessels, oxygenation barges Thames Bubbler and Thames Vitality are used to replenish oxygen levels, as part of an ongoing battle to clean up the river, which now supports 115 species of fish and hundreds more invertebrates, plants and birds.

The £

Pound (currency)

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 6.5M contract, to build the superstructure and assemble CRV Leonardo for NATO, safeguarded the jobs of McTay's 60-strong workforce. The Coastal Research Vessel now monitors submarine activity in the Mediterranean.

Yard No	Name	Date	Type	Owner
38	Canada	1981	Tug	Currently Svitzer
40	Eldergarth/Shannon	1981	ASD Tug	Currently Emu
41	Rowangarth	1981	ASD Tug	Currently Svitzer
45	Hendra	1982	Ferry	Shetland Islands Council Shetland Islands Council The Shetland Islands Council is the local authority for Shetland. It was established by the Local Government Act 1973 and is the successor to the former Lerwick Town Council and Zetland County Council...
46	Bon Marin de Serk	1983	Ferry	Isle of Sark Shipping Co.
54	Bramley Moore	1984	Tug	now Smit Liverpool
75	Cathy M	1986	Ferry	James Molinary Ltd, Gibraltar
79	Thames Bubbler II	1988	Oxygenation barge	Thames Water Utilities
82	Moorhen	1989		Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service The Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service was a British Government agency which ran a variety of non-combat support vessels for the Royal Navy.-Organisation:...
83	Moorfowl	1989		Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service The Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service was a British Government agency which ran a variety of non-combat support vessels for the Royal Navy.-Organisation:...
84	Chartwell	1989	Survey Vessel	Osiris Hydrographic
87		1990	45m ro-ro ferry	Orkney Ferries Orkney Ferries Orkney Ferries is a company operating inter-island ferry services in Orkney, to the north of mainland Scotland.-History:The company is owned by the Orkney Islands Council and was established in 1960 as the Orkney Islands Shipping Company....
88		1990	45m ro-ro ferry	Orkney Ferries Orkney Ferries Orkney Ferries is a company operating inter-island ferry services in Orkney, to the north of mainland Scotland.-History:The company is owned by the Orkney Islands Council and was established in 1960 as the Orkney Islands Shipping Company....
115	Fidra	1995	Firefighting tug
116		1996	35m ro-ro ferry	Caledonian MacBrayne Caledonian MacBrayne Caledonian MacBrayne is the major operator of passenger and vehicle ferries, and ferry services, between the mainland of Scotland and 22 of the major islands on Scotland's west coast...
117	Lyndhurst	1996	Tug
118	Lady Alma	1996	Tug
119	Trafalgar	1998	Tug	now Smit Trafalgar
120	Thames Vitality	1997	Oxygenation barge	Thames Water Utilities
122	Marigold	1998	Trawler
123	Oban	2000	Tender	Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service The Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service was a British Government agency which ran a variety of non-combat support vessels for the Royal Navy.-Organisation:...
124	Oronsay	2000	Tender	Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service The Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service was a British Government agency which ran a variety of non-combat support vessels for the Royal Navy.-Organisation:...
125	Omagh	2000	Tender	Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service The Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service was a British Government agency which ran a variety of non-combat support vessels for the Royal Navy.-Organisation:...
127		2001	Ferry	Strangford Lough Strangford Lough Strangford Lough, sometimes Strangford Loch, is a large sea loch or inlet in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is separated from the Irish Sea by the Ards Peninsula. The name Strangford is derived ; describing the fast-flowing narrows at its mouth...  ferry
128		2002	30m coastal research vessel	NATO
129		2003	50m ro-ro ferry	Caledonian MacBrayne Caledonian MacBrayne Caledonian MacBrayne is the major operator of passenger and vehicle ferries, and ferry services, between the mainland of Scotland and 22 of the major islands on Scotland's west coast...
Sources: Ferry Photos and Miramar