DMS Maritime

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DMS Maritime
Founded1997
Founder P&O Maritime Services
Serco
Headquarters
Sydney
,
Australia
Area served
Australia
Parent Serco
Website www.serco.com

DMS Maritime, formerly Defence Maritime Services, is a company providing port services to the Australian Defence Force and Marine Unit. It is a subsidiary of Serco.

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History

Seahorse Mercator on Sydney Harbour in August 2007 Seahorse Mercator.jpg
Seahorse Mercator on Sydney Harbour in August 2007

Defence Maritime Services was founded in 1997 as a 50:50 joint venture between P&O Maritime Services and Serco to fulfill a contract to organise tug boats and ferries and supply and maintain small boats for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). [1] [2] In 2012, Serco bought out P&O's shareholding. [3]

Headquartered in Sydney, it has operations in Cairns, Darwin, Dampier, Fremantle, Western Port, Jervis Bay and Sydney. [4] It currently[ when? ] operates eight oceangoing vessels and over 100 harbour craft and has around 350 staff. The services DMS is contracted to provide to the RAN include operating tug boats and lighters at RAN bases, training members of the RAN, and maintaining RAN warships.

Vessels operated

Auxiliaries

General-purpose tenders [5]

Both Vessels have been Retired and removed from DMS Service.

MV Besant at Henderson, Western Australia MV Besant (Submarine Intervention Gear Ship) at Henderson, June 2020.jpg
MV Besant at Henderson, Western Australia

Submarine rescue and escape ships [6]

Yard and service craft

60-ton flat-top lighters [7]

Southerly 65 class diving tenders [7]

Miscellaneous concrete ammunition lighters [7]

Wattle class crane stores lighters [7]

CSL 02 Boronia at Fleet Base East in September 2012 Crane stores lighter Boronia at FBE in September 2012.JPG
CSL 02 Boronia at Fleet Base East in September 2012

Steber 43 naval general purpose workboats [8]

Noosacat 930 harbour personnel boats [8]

Riviera class VIP launch [8]

Admiral's barge [8]

Shark Cat 800 harbour personnel boats [8]

Naval work boats [8]

Halvorsen-design workboat [9]

40-foot Mk 1 and 1963-design workboats [9]

AWB Mod. II workboat [9]

AWB short and long group cabin workboats [9]

7.2 metre rigid-hulled inflatable boats [9]

Radio controlled surface targets [9]

Wallaby-class water and fuel lighters [9]

Wyulda at HMAS Kuttabul in February 2008 DMS lighter Feb08.JPG
Wyulda at HMAS Kuttabul in February 2008

All vessels have been retired and Replaced by larger, newer and safer designed craft post 2017.

Torpedo recovery craft [10]

Withdrawn and no longer operated. Vessels have been sold to private owners.

Compact tug

Tug/workboat

Coastal tugs [10]

Medium harbour tug [10]

Bronzewing-class harbour tug [11]

Training craft

Aviation training ship

Sail training craft [11]

Swarbrick III class small training yachts [11]

Tasar sail dinghies [11]

ASI 315 class navigation and seamanship training craft [11]

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<i>Wattle</i>-class crane stores lighter

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<i>Wallaby</i>-class water and fuel lighter

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References

  1. ↑ $300m navy contract awarded Australian Financial Review 21 April 1997
  2. ↑ Joint Austal and Defence Maritime Services bid for RAN Replacement Patrol Boat Project Austal
  3. ↑ Serco to fully own its defence and marine services joint venture Australian Defence Magazine 13 November 2012
  4. ↑ Who We Are DMS Maritime
  5. ↑ Wertheim (2007). The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World. p. 28.
  6. ↑ Submarine search and rescue capability boosted Navy Daily 16 July 2015
  7. 1 2 3 4 Wertheim (2007). The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World. p. 29.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Wertheim (2007). The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World. p. 30.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Wertheim (2007). The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World. p. 31.
  10. 1 2 3 Wertheim (2007). The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World. p. 32.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 Wertheim (2007). The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World. p. 33.

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