Parkol Marine Engineering
![]() Parkol Marine shipyard Whitby | |
Industry | Shipbuilding |
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Founded | 1971 |
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.
History
[edit]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]
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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
[edit]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. | Year | Type | Name | Tonnage | IMO Number | Notes | Registration Code | Yard built in |
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1 | 1997 | 19.11m Scalloper | Jacqueline Anne | OB 555 | Whitby | |||
2 | 1999 | 18.50m Trawler | Rebecca | 130 tonnes (140 tons) | 8957209 | Renamed Courage in January 2007[22] | WY 790 | Whitby |
3 | 2000 | 18m Trawler | Our Lass | 8965476 | WY 797 | Whitby | ||
4 | 2001 | 18.77m Twin Rig Trawler | Reliant | 8972716 | BCK 101 | Whitby | ||
5 | 2001 | 14.94m Trawler | Sophie Louise II | SSS 678 | Whitby | |||
6 | 2002 | 13.37m wooden Replica | Endeavour | Whitby | ||||
7 | 2002 | 14.95m Gill Netter | Berlewen | PW 1 | Whitby | |||
8 | 2003 | 14.95m Vivier Crabber | Siwrengale | H 77 | Whitby | |||
9 | 2004 | 15.95m Trawler | Emulate | WY 110 | Whitby | |||
10 | 2004 | 14.15 m Scalloper | Harmonii | MR 7 | Whitby | |||
11 | 2004 | 15m twin rig trawler | Rachael Jayne II | MT 100 | Whitby | |||
12 | 2005 | 16.95m Vivier Crabber | Celtic Dawn | 8996396 | K 76 | Whitby | ||
14 | 2005 | 18m Scallop Trawler | Rois Mhiari | 8996384 | OB 45 | Whitby | ||
15 | 2005 | 14.95m Vivier Crabber | Ebonnie | BM 176 | Whitby | |||
16 | 2006 | 9.80m Foyboat | Foy Boat | Whitby | ||||
17 | 2006 | 18.77m Trawler | Copious | 9395757 | LK 985 | Whitby | ||
18 | 2006 | 18.90m Trawler | Star of Jura | 9095503 | OB 278 | Whitby | ||
19 | 2007 | 14.95m Vivier Crabber | Aquila | OB 74 | Whitby | |||
20 | 2007 | 21m Trawler | Our Lass II | 9095515 | WY 261 | Whitby | ||
21 | 2007 | 22.80m Trawler | Radiant Star | 9453808 | LK 71 | Whitby | ||
22 | 2008 | 16.49m Twin Rig Trawler | Prolific | N/A | 9548859 | LK 986 | Whitby | |
23 | 2008 | 16.70m Vivier Potter | Noronya | N/A | 9564530 | K 733 | Whitby | |
24 | 2009 | 17.50m Twin Rig Trawler | Pleiades | N/A | 9564542 | BF 155 | Whitby | |
25 | 2009 | 16.49 m Twin Rig Trawler | Reliance II | N/A | 9564566 | BF 800 | Whitby | |
26 | 2009 | 21.67 m Twin Rig Trawler | Jubilee quest | N/A | 9564554 | GY 900 | Whitby | |
27 | 2010 | 16.49 m Twin Rig Trawler | Challenger | N/A | 9564475 | FR 90 | Whitby | |
28 | 2010 | 22.06m Twin Rig Trawler | Virtuous | N/A | 9577252 | FR 253 | Whitby | |
29 | 2016 | 26.75m Motor Yacht | Able One | Whitby | ||||
30 | 2013 | 26m Trawler | Our Lass III | 9655925 | WY 261 | Whitby | ||
31 | 2014 | 26m Trawler | Guiding Star | 261 tonnes (288 tons) | 9699488 | [23][24] | H 360 | Whitby |
32 | 2014 | 27m Salmon Feed Carrier | Havilah | 160 tonnes (180 tons) | 9743394 | [25] | Whitby | |
33 | 2015 | 26m Trawler | Guardian Angell | 9747388 | LK 272 | Whitby | ||
34 | 2015 | 14.95m Vivier Crabber | La Creole II | BM 177 | Whitby | |||
35 | 2016 | 27m Seiner/Trawler | Resilient | 9781346 | [26] | LK 195 | Whitby | |
36 | 2017 | 23.95m Prawn Tawler | Day Star | 9803390 | FR 86 | Whitby | ||
37 | 2017 | 23.95m Trawler | Victory Rose | 265 tonnes (292 tons) | 9810288 | [27][28] | WY 37 | Whitby |
38 | 2017 | 19m Trawler | Sparkling Star | 9810317 | UL 290 | Whitby | ||
39 | 2018 | 26m Trawler | Guiding Light | 9840025 | H 902 | Whitby | ||
40 | 2018 | 23.95m Trawler | Uberous | 9850965 | Launched 21/10/2018 built in Whitby | FR 50 | Whitby | |
41 | 2020 | 34m Scallop And Queenie Trawler | Alcedo | 9884875 | Launched 10/01/2020 built in Middlesbrough | BA 77 | Middlesbrough | |
42 | 2018 | 20.30M Scallop Trawler | Summer Rose | 9829291 | [29] The hull was built in Middlesbrough under subcontract by MacDonald Offshore | OB 141 | Middlesbrough | |
43 | 2019 | 19m Trawler | Carvela | 9884746 | Launched 23/03/2019 [30] built in Middlesbrough yard | K751 | Middlesbrough | |
44 | 2018 | 20.30m Scalloper | Atlantic Dawn | 9850953 | Launched 16/09/2018 First Parkol Marine build vessel in Middlesbrough yard | CN 25 | Middlesbrough | |
45 | 2019 | 22.30m Twin Rig Trawler | Fruitful Bough | 9858917 | Launched 03/04/2019 built in Whitby yard | PD 109 | Whitby | |
46 | 2019 | 24m Trawler | Virtuous | 9879650 | Launched 14/09/2019 built in Whitby yard | FR 253 | Whitby | |
47 | 2020 | 27m Salmon Feed Carrier | Havara | 260 tonnes | Launched 10/09/2020 built in Middlesbrough yard | Middlesbrough | ||
48 | 2020 | 16.49 m Vivier Crabber | Osprey | 9858931 | Launched 06/03/2020 built in Whitby yard | WK 4 | Whitby | |
49 | 2020 | 20.70 m Twin Rig Trawler | Reliance III | 190 tonnes | Launched 04/09/2020 built in Whitby yard | BF 800 | Whitby | |
50 | 2021 | 27.8 m Vivier Crabber | Valhalla | Launched 29/09/2021 built in Whitby yard | FR 268 | Whitby | ||
51 | 2021 | 20.40 m Gillnetter | Amanda of ladram | N/A | N/A | Launched 17/03/2021 built in Whitby yard | PW 6 | Whitby |
52 | 2021 | 27.8 m Twin rig Trawler | Sparking star | N/A | N/A | Launched 15/02/2022 in Middlesbrough yard | UL 290 | Middlesbrough |
53 | 2021 | 23 m Trawler | Ambitious II' | N/A | N/A | Launched 08/09/2021 built in Middlesbrough yard | DA 62 | Middlesbrough |
54 | 2022 | 22.2 m twin rig trawler | Day dawn | N/A | N/A | Launched 12/03/2022 built in Whitby yard | FR 90 | Whitby |
55 | 2022 | 22 m Trawler | Green isle | N/A | N/A | Launched 5/09/2022 built in Middlesbrough yard | SO 500 | Middlesbrough |
56 | 2023 | 21.6 m Twin rig trawler | Seraphim | N/A | N/A | Launched 29/08/2023 built in Middlesbrough yard | PD 170 | Middlesbrough |
57 | 2022 | 25 m Trawler | Daystar II | N/A | N/A | Launched 16/04/2023 built in Whitby yard | FR 86 | Whitby |
58 | 2023 | 27.3 m beam trawler | Admiral Gordon | N/A | N/A | Launched 17/03/2023 built in Middlesbrough yard | PH-330 | Middlesbrough |
59 | 2022 | 21.4 m Crabber | Winter of Ladram | N/A | N/A | Launched 12/07/2022 built in Whitby yard | E 24 | Whitby |
60 | 2024 | 27m beam trawler | Admiral Blake | N/A | N/A | Launched 27/03/2024 built in Middlesbrough yard | PH 440 | Middlesbrough |
61 | 2023 | 15m vivier crabber | Genesis | N/A | N/A | Launched 28/10/2023 built in Whitby yard | H 37 | Whitby |
62 | 2024 | 33m scallop & queenie trawler | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Middlesbrough |
63 | 2023 | 9.80m Foyboat | Foy boat 2 | N/A | N/A | Launched 07/12/2023 built in Whitby yard | N/A | Whitby |
64 | 2025 | 24.5m survey and patrol vessel | North Eastern Guardian IV | N/A | N/A | Being built at Whitby yard | N/A | Whitby |
68 | 2024 | 9.80m Foyboat | N/A | N/A | N/A | Being built at Whitby yard | N/A | Whitby |
See also
[edit]References
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