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ABEKING & RASMUSSEN
Babcock gets Grimsby
back in action
The UK Royal Navy’s Sandown class minehunter HMS
Grimsby achieved contract acceptance and returned to
the fleet in mid-March after a significant 11 month repair
programme and five month refit period undertaken by
Babcock Marine at its Rosyth facility. The programme
included the largest glass reinforced plastic (GRP) repair
ever carried out for the Royal Navy.
HMS Grimsby sustained extensive damage from the
forefoot to the midway point of her hull on the port side
in February 2006 while on exercise off Norway. Babcock
Marine’s Design and Technology (BD&T) division was called
upon to carry out an initial damage survey, following which
the vessel was transported on the back of a heavylift ship to
Babcock Marine’s facilities at Rosyth in March 2006, where
she was docked into a purpose-prepared cradle.
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After a full structural survey, a comprehensive repair

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procedure was devised by BD&T and ratified by the MoD.
A & R – The red dot at sea.
The repair programme commenced in October 2006,
under a £4.25 million contract, and involved 14 GRP-trained
shipwrights working shifts, plus 30 people of other trades
undertaking the rest of the upkeep work.
The reconstruction involved the entire Babcock
Marine MCMV team at Rosyth during the removals and
replacement phase. Some 13tonnes of resin and cloth
were used in the vessel repair, with close monitoring of the
ship’s condition at all times by BD&T using laser mapping
techniques and hull break-out readings, which proved the
ship’s form did not alter as the repair progressed.
HMS Grimsby is now back in service after an 11 month repair
programme and five month refit period following extensive
damage from the forefoot to the midway point of her hull,
sustained whilst on exercise.
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