Manor Marine
Manor Marine UK Ltd is a shipyard at Portland Port in Dorset, England, building, converting, repairing and maintaining steel and aluminium vessels up to 40 metres. Alongside newbuild work — including workboats, barges, pontoons, passenger vessels and offshore windfarm service craft — it offers dry-dock and slipway refits, alongside repairs, marine engineering, welding and fabrication, and sea-fastening design for the offshore renewables sector. The yard operates covered workshops, two slipways, an 80-tonne synchrolift, a hydraulic launch pad and around 200 metres of quayside, and its teams also work on site elsewhere in the UK and internationally.
Manor Marine
Manor Marine UK Ltd is a shipbuilding, repair and conversion yard based at Portland Port, Dorset. The company states it has supplied specialist vessel construction and remedial services for over 30 years, working in both steel and aluminium on craft up to 40 metres. Recent projects listed include construction of ZeroUSV Oceanus12 and Oceanus17 class vessels, cargo-carrying pontoons for the Ascension Island Government, Chartwell-designed crew transfer vessels for Manor Renewable Energy, offshore windfarm service vessels for Mainprize Offshore, and refits of the research vessel RV Callista and passenger vessels including Pride of Exmouth and Dorset Belle.
Services
- New vessel construction in steel and aluminium up to 40m
- Refit, conversion and repair, including dry-dock refits of high-speed catamaran ferries, tugs, tankers, cable ships and windfarm service vessels
- Slipway, docking and scheduled maintenance services
- Wet-dock and alongside repair and maintenance
- Electrical and mechanical engineering, welding and fabrication
- Design and fabrication of equipment sea-fastenings, with deck strength and motion assessments
- In-house project management, planning, procurement and design; machining and joinery
- Cable storage
Facilities
- 55m × 52m main undercover workshop with 10t gantry cranes; additional 22m × 11m undercover workshop
- Custom hydraulic launch pad for vessels up to 40m
- Two open slipways with slip trolleys for vessels up to 40m length, 20m beam and 350 tonnes
- 80-tonne vessel synchrolift with direct transfer into covered workshops
- 200m secure waterfront berthing with 4m low-water minimum depth, waterside craneage and shore power
- Machine, electrical, welding/fabrication and fitters workshops; sawmill and joiners workshop to cabinet-making standards
- UHP and painting facility, profiling facility, clean workshop for engine rebuilds and hydraulic repairs
- Forklifts, mobile crane, tracked trolley system, mobile MIG/TIG welding equipment, secure stores and 22m × 20m cable store
- Beaver work boat
Vessel Types
- Work boats and maintenance vessels
- Multi-purpose and offshore support vessels, including crew transfer vessels
- Passenger and sightseeing vessels
- Work barges, pontoons, hopper and dredging barges, pusher and wide beam tugs
- Office barges
- Uncrewed surface vessels
Location
- Manor Offices, Portland Port Business Centre, Castletown, Portland, Dorset, DT5 1PB, United Kingdom
- Management system certified by NQA to ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001
- Contact: 01305 820777 / [email protected]