Jenkins Marine Responds to Stricken Yacht
Jenkins Marine recently received a call at 4am from the skipper of a 41m sailing yacht that had lost power (It was later discovered it had net caught in its prop). As there was no wind she could not return to port under her own steam. Thankfully the conditions were ok so we mobilised the tug ‘Polmear’ with crew to meet her near Bournemouth Pier. Read More
Avon Goes Diving
AVON is currently being chartered by ‘Commercial and Specialised Diving’ to provide a working platform for dive teams to undertake underwater condition surveys, monitoring and maintenance work for a selection of marine infrastructure projects. Read More
The Boys Are Back in Town…
Back in April (See news article: "Who you Gonna Call"), Jenkins Marine was called to complete emergency repairs at a section of Poole Quay. Following emergency piling works to stabilise the failed quay wall at the residential/marina development, further detailed design and engineering works have been completed to produce a design for a more permanent repair... Read More
Remembering D-Day
UNION flags were waving for the arrival cruise ship Boudicca in Poole Harbour with hundreds of D-Day veterans on board. The arrival of the MV Boudicca on Tuesday morning was doubly exciting as it was the largest ship ever to have docked at Poole Harbour - assisted by Jenkins Marine's tug Handfast Read More
Green Delivery
Jenkins Marine's twin-screw, Motor Tug Handfast has successfully towed 50m x 14m pontoon ‘JML 50’ from Poole to Teeside on behalf of our client ‘Manor Renewable Energy’, Read More
Who You Gonna Call?
Who you gonna call? Obviously Jenkins Marine! Well, when you have a marine emergency anyway. And that's exactly who got called to carry out some emergency piling work in Poole when part of the quayside collapsed. Read More
Dredging a New Channel to Cowes
Jenkins Marine are thrilled to confirm that they have been asked by Cowes Harbour Commission to dredge a new Eastern Channel in to Cowes Harbour. Read More
Keeping the Sandbanks Ferry Running
Jenkins marine have for many years been involved with regular refit and docking work for the sandbanks chain ferry, operated by the Bournemouth Motor Road and Ferry Company. Every 2 years the ferry must be removed from it's running chains for surveys, inspections, maintenance and general upkeep. Read More
Dredging for History (Nov 2018)
Jenkins Marine's self-propelled Spud Leg Pontoon utility vessel Doreen Dorward is currently dredging in Portsmouth harbour for Portsmouth Historic Dockyard in preparation for the installation of some new heritage pontoons to allow the addition of more historic vessels at the site... Read More