Posted on February 26, 2025
Freire shipyard has delivered a new maintenance support vessel, Forth Constructor, to Briggs Marine.
Freire shipyard has delivered a new maintenance support vessel, Forth Constructor, to Briggs Marine.
Forth Constructor, designed by Cintranaval and Freire Shipyard, will perform multiple roles including offshore wind farm support services.
The vessel, with a length of 40 m and DP-2 diesel-electric propulsion, will conduct survey, diving and ROV operations in UK and northern European waters. Onboard systems include a moon-pool, a demountable A-frame, a four-point mooring system, an active heave compensated crane and a survey project office.
It also has a detachable ladder for crew transfer vessel boarding for renewable energy projects.
The vessel provides accommodation for six crew and 10 project members.
In July 2024, Briggs Marine launched its new Forth Constructor vessel at Freire Shipyard in Vigo, Spain. The Forth Constructor then moved to a new “wet berth” where the fit-out was completed ahead of its delivery.
Other recent newbuilds
The Charybdis, America’s first domestically built offshore wind turbine installation (WTIV) vessel, has commenced sea trials offshore Brownsville, Texas, according to Dominion Energy’s Feb. 3 news release.
The vessel, constructed at the Seatrium AmFELS shipyard in Brownsville, will support the construction of the 2.6-GW Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project.
Standing at 472 ft long, Charybdis was built using more than 14,000 tons of domestic steel, with nearly 10,000 tons sourced from Alabama, North Carolina and West Virginia.
Dominion Energy is the developer of the CVOW project and owns the Charybdis vessel through its subsidiary Blue Ocean Energy Marine.
Charybdis is designed to handle turbines with a capacity of 12 MW or larger and will operate from Hampton Roads, Virginia, when the vessel becomes fully operational. During the remainder of the project’s construction, Charybdis is expected to perform the world’s largest completed lift totaling 23,000 tons.
In other news, SUARDIAZ Group’s SUARDIAZ Energy division staged a naming ceremony on Feb. 17 for the newly built offshore service vessel RS Alegranza at the Astander shipyard in Cantabria, northern Spain.
Representatives attended from Fugor, the vessel’s future charterer.
RS Alegranza will undergo harbor and sea acceptance tests (DP FNEA 2 and station keeping) to ensure compliance with offshore dynamic positioning standards.
It will then start operations in the North Sea.
With a length of 40 m and DP-2 diesel-electric propulsion, the new vessel is designed to carry out reconnaissance, maintenance and offshore work operations.
