Parkol Marine Engineering

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Parkol Marine Engineering
IndustryShipbuilding
Founded1971
Headquarters Whitby,
England
Number of locations
2
Number of employees
70 (2020)
Website Official website

Parkol Marine Engineering is a shipbuilding and engineering company based in Whitby, North Yorkshire, England. The company was founded in 1971 and, since 1997, has built an average of two ships per year: orders increased, however, between 2015 and 2018, which led to the company opening a second site on Teesside.

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History

Originally formed in 1971, during the 1970s and 1980s the business was a marine repair yard which employed 40 people. [1] Prior to Parkol Marine Engineering (PME) constructing boats in 1997, the last recorded boat to be built in Whitby was in the early 1970s. [2] The Parkol company was formed by Ken Parker and John Oliver, with the new venture being a portmanteau of the first parts of their surnames. [3] In 1997, after acquiring a dry dock from the Netherlands, [4] Parkol Marine Engineering ventured into the boat-building business, launching a 33-foot (10 m) scalloper in 1997, though the first trawler they built was the Rebecca in 1999. [3] Originally located at Spital Bridge in the town, they moved to a new site closer to the riverside on Church Street. [5]

Parkol shipbuilding site on Church Street in Whitby Parkol Marine Engineering, Whitby.jpg
Parkol shipbuilding site on Church Street in Whitby

In their Church Street site, the company have a fabrication, shot blasting and painting hall. The yard adjoins the eastern bank of the River Esk, [6] [7] and has two newbuild berths for vessels up to 82 feet (25 m) long and a dry dock capable of taking vessels up to 138 feet (42 m). [4] Every newbuild boat at Parkol Marine has been created on paper by the ship designer Ian Paton. [8]

In 2017, Parkol opened a second site in Middlesbrough that measured 230 feet (70 m) long by 115 feet (35 m) wide and 131 feet (40 m) tall. The larger site was created so that Parkol could build bigger boats and tailor bespoke boat building to the fishing industry's needs. [9] Combined with the site on Teesside, the company employed 80 tradesmen and staff, [10] dropping to around 70 in 2020. [11]

In October 2018, the first boat to be built in the new Middlesbrough site was launched officially at Whitby Harbour. The company offers a range of marine engineering services; from refurbishment and repair, to a whole newbuild ship. [12] The yard offers ship-lengthening services. The first ship to undergo this work was the Scarborough trawler Allegiance, which was extended by 26 feet (7.9 m) at a fifth of the cost of a newbuild ship. [13]

Parkol also undertake maintenance, and have, in the past, cleaned the Whitby Lifeboat and serviced her in less than six hours so as to keep the lifeboat availability at the best it could be. [14] In 2002, they built a replica of Captain Cook's ship, HMS Bark Endeavour, to two-fifths of the actual size. The replica vessel (known simply as either Endeavour or The Bark Endeavour Whitby) sails up and down the coast from Whitby and is powered by a motor. The ship was constructed from wood using the skills of local tradesmen. [15] [16] [17]

Parkol regularly feature in the Fishing Vessel of the Year competitions run by Fishing News : they won best vessel in 2015 and 2016. [18] Their yard in Whitby has been featured in an episode of Kavanagh QC on ITV in 1998. [19]

Parkol fabricate their boats on the quayside and then have a crane lift their vessels into the water, as opposed to the normal route of launching them down the slipway. [20]

Ships built

Below is a sample list of ships that Parkol Marine have built since 1997. [21] There is not a ship with yard number 13. [3]

Yard No.YearTypeNameTonnage IMO Number NotesRegistration CodeYard built inLaunch date
1199719.11m ScalloperJacqueline AnneOB 555Whitby
2199918.50m TrawlerRebecca 130 tonnes (140 tons)8957209Renamed Courage in January 2007 [22] WY 790Whitby
3200018m TrawlerOur Lass 8965476WY 797Whitby
4200118.77m Twin Rig TrawlerReliant8972716BCK 101Whitby
5200114.94m TrawlerSophie Louise II SSS 678Whitby
6200213.37m wooden ReplicaEndeavourWhitby
7200214.95m Gill NetterBerlewenPW 1Whitby
8200314.95m Vivier CrabberSiwrengale H 77Whitby
9200415.95m TrawlerEmulateWY 110Whitby
10200414.15 m ScalloperHarmoniiMR 7Whitby
11200415m twin rig trawlerRachael Jayne IIMT 100Whitby
12200516.95m Vivier CrabberCeltic Dawn8996396K 76Whitby
14200518m Scallop TrawlerRois Mhiari8996384OB 45Whitby
15200514.95m Vivier CrabberEbonnieBM 176Whitby
1620069.80m FoyboatFoy BoatWhitby
17200618.77m TrawlerCopious9395757LK 985Whitby
18200618.90m TrawlerStar of Jura9095503OB 278Whitby
19200714.95m Vivier CrabberAquilaOB 74Whitby
20200721m TrawlerOur Lass II9095515First vessel over 20 metres built by Parkol MarineWY 261Whitby
21200722.80m TrawlerRadiant Star9453808LK 71Whitby
22200816.49m Twin Rig TrawlerProlific9548859LK 986Whitby
23200816.70m Vivier PotterNoronya9564530K 733Whitby
24200917.50m Twin Rig TrawlerPleiades9564542BF 155Whitby
25200916.49 m Twin Rig TrawlerReliance II9564566BF 800Whitby
26200921.67 m Twin Rig TrawlerJubilee quest9564554GY 900Whitby
27201016.49 m Twin Rig TrawlerChallenger9564475FR 90Whitby
28201022.06m Twin Rig TrawlerVirtuous9577252FR 253Whitby
29201626.75m Motor YachtAble OneWhitby
30201326m TrawlerOur Lass III9655925WY 261Whitby
31201426m TrawlerGuiding Star261 tonnes (288 tons)9699488 [23] [24] H 360Whitby
32201427m Salmon Feed CarrierHavilah160 tonnes (180 tons)9743394 [25] Whitby
33201526m TrawlerGuardian Angell9747388LK 272Whitby
34201514.95m Vivier CrabberLa Creole II BM 177Whitby
35201627m Seiner/TrawlerResilient9781346 [26] LK 195Whitby
36201723.95m Prawn TawlerDay Star9803390FR 86Whitby
37201723.95m TrawlerVictory Rose265 tonnes (292 tons)9810288 [27] [28] WY 37Whitby
38201719m TrawlerSparkling Star9810317UL 290Whitby
39201826m Trawler Guiding Light9840025H 902Whitby
40201823.95m TrawlerUberous9850965FR 50WhitbyLaunched 21/10/2018
41202033m Scallop And Queenie TrawlerAlcedo9884875First vessel over 30 metres built by Parkol MarineBA 77MiddlesbroughLaunched 10/01/2020
42201820.30M Scallop TrawlerSummer Rose9829291 [29] The hull was built in Middlesbrough under subcontract by MacDonald OffshoreOB 141Middlesbrough
43201919m TrawlerCarvela9884746 [30] K751MiddlesbroughLaunched 23/03/2019
44201820.30m ScalloperAtlantic Dawn9850953First vessel built by Parkol Marine at their Middlesbrough yardCN 25MiddlesbroughLaunched 16/09/2018
45201922.30m Twin Rig TrawlerFruitful Bough9858917PD 109WhitbyLaunched 03/04/2019
46201924m TrawlerVirtuous 9879650FR 253WhitbyLaunched 14/09/2019
47202027m Salmon Feed CarrierHavara260 tonnes9885697MiddlesbroughLaunched 10/09/2020
48202016.49m Vivier CrabberOsprey9858931WK 4WhitbyLaunched 06/03/2020
49202020.70m Twin Rig TrawlerReliance III190 tonnes9898888BF 800WhitbyLaunched 04/09/2020
50202127.8m Vivier CrabberValhallaN/AFR 268WhitbyLaunched 29/09/2021
51202120.40m GillnetterAmanda of ladramN/APW 6WhitbyLaunched 17/03/2021
52202127.8m Twin rig TrawlerSparkling StarN/AUL 290MiddlesbroughLaunched 15/02/2022
53202123m TrawlerAmbitious II'N/ADA 62MiddlesbroughLaunched 08/09/2021
54202222.2m twin rig trawlerDay dawn9934022FR 90WhitbyLaunched 12/03/2022
55202222m TrawlerGreen isle9963645SO 500MiddlesbroughLaunched 5/09/2022
56202321.6m Twin rig trawlerSeraphimN/APD 170MiddlesbroughLaunched 29/08/2023
57202225 m TrawlerDaystar IIN/AFR 86WhitbyLaunched 16/04/2023
58202327.30m beam trawlerAdmiral Gordon226 tonnes9970181PH-330MiddlesbroughLaunched 17/03/2023
59202221.4 m CrabberWinter of Ladram218 tonnesN/AE 24WhitbyLaunched 12/07/2022
60202427.30m beam trawlerAdmiral BlakeN/APH 440MiddlesbroughLaunched 27/03/2024
61202315m vivier crabberGenesisN/AH 37WhitbyLaunched 28/10/2023
62202434m scallop & queenie trawlerHalcyon9949596Largest vessel built by Parkol MarineBA 72MiddlesbroughLaunched 09/01/2025
6320239.80m FoyboatFoy boat IIIN/AWhitbyLaunched 07/12/2023
64202424.5m survey and patrol vesselNorth Eastern Guardian IVN/AAluminum catamaranWhitbyLaunched 08/05/2025
65202427.30m beam trawlerAdmiral RamsayN/APH-220MiddlesbroughLaunched 30/06/2025
66202415m whelkerTed of LadramN/AE7WhitbyLaunched 10/05/2025
67202528m stern trawlerOur LassN/AN/ABeing built at Middlesbrough yardWY 261MiddlesbroughIn active build
6820249.80m FoyboatFoyboat VN/AN/AWhitbyLaunched 06/08/2024
69202525m Ro-Ro FerryN/AN/AN/ABeing built at Whitby yard (New ferry for Fair Isle Shetland)N/AWhitbyIn active build
70202528m stern trawlerN/AN/AN/AWill be built at Middlesbrough yardN/AMiddlesbroughBuild starting September 2025
7120258m stock fishing BoatN/AN/AN/ABeing built at Whitby yard as a stock item, (Aluminum catamaran)N/AWhitbyIn active build

See also

References

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