Azura refit
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Azura refit
Just been reading that Azura is being refitted at Harland and Wolffs shipyard in Belfast. She was I believe slated to go to Spain but maybe the Covid situation has change that.
Nice to see P&O back with Harland and Wolff, it may be a number of years since the last PO ship was there.
Nice to see P&O back with Harland and Wolff, it may be a number of years since the last PO ship was there.
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Re: Azura refit
Indeed it is parked right outside our office at the minute. It should actually have been doing med cruises and we should have been on her last week.
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Re: Azura refit
No idea, but she isn't in dry dock (when we were up during the week) it is just berthed along side.
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Re: Azura refit
She will need to go into dry dock to complete the critical part of her 5 yr service.
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Re: Azura refit
We were told that refitting in Belfast is being done under the guise of ' Fred ', info from ' Fred '.
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Re: Azura refit
Had a look on the H&W site, they have a dry dock that could I assume comfortably take 190mt long Azura in the dry dock at 335mts by 50mts wide. Iona is 334mts so to big
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Re: Azura refit
She's 290m long but you're right should still fit, assuming the depth is also adequate.
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Re: Azura refit
When we were in Belfast recently on a staycation cruise we were told that H&W had been taken over by Fred Olsen
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Re: Azura refit
It was once owned by Fred Olsen (from 1989) it was put up for sale but there were no bidders. In the end an energy company, Infrastrata, picked it up for a bargain (2019?).
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Re: Azura refit
H&W recently bought the Appledore shipyard.
They are refitting Frigates.
Empty vessels .. and all that
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We were told it was Freds' and that they were expanding in this sector ... in 2017
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Re: Azura refit
That would have been correct in 2017 - I am reasonably sure it was 2018 when it went for sale. I only know because it was (obviously) huge news over here with politicians doing their best to out-willy-wave each other as to who cared the most.
It was nice to see that when InfraStrata bought Appledoore they paid homage to the H&W heritage by renaming it H&W Appledoore
It was nice to see that when InfraStrata bought Appledoore they paid homage to the H&W heritage by renaming it H&W Appledoore
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They called it H&W Appledore because that’s what the company is called.
Nothing about paying homage.
Nothing about paying homage.
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I think the homage is to H&W barney. Appledore are the company that purchased it.
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InfraStrata is the company that bought both H&W and Appledore. They renamed the Appledore yard to include H&W, probably because of the huge international reputation H&W had
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-53903667
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Re: Azura refit
From Azura going in for a refit we have had a potted lesson of the great shipyard H&W, most interesting.
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Indeed, the bit I thought was funny though was that Appledore had only one employee prior to being purchased by InfraStrata.
Here's hoping that both yards can make a go of it.
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That one employee is my wife’s cousin.
He was kept on when Babcock pulled out, to keep a presence on site. He’s worked there since he left school.
Babcock pulled out for their own commercial decision but it wasn’t because of lack of work, because they had actually stopped quoting for work.
They transferred some of the staff to Plymouth, a two hour each way commute.
Most of those skilled people are now back working locally.
He was kept on when Babcock pulled out, to keep a presence on site. He’s worked there since he left school.
Babcock pulled out for their own commercial decision but it wasn’t because of lack of work, because they had actually stopped quoting for work.
They transferred some of the staff to Plymouth, a two hour each way commute.
Most of those skilled people are now back working locally.
Empty vessels .. and all that
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Re: Azura refit
The word on Facecloth (always accurate of course) is she's going to have a crack welded. Similar thing happened to Ventura. Not clear if they're doing anything else or not at this point, but it would seem daft not to do so when she's out of service anyway, rather than have to take her out again later.
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Re: Azura refit
Our granddaughters partner did some work on Azura last year while she was in Weymouth bay. He said at the time there was a large Crack across one of the decks.
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I hope they put their best welders on the job to repair the crack, I am on it in March. We don't want a cut and shunt job done on it.
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