Royston Completes Overhaul On Cable Layer

A five-strong team of engineers completed the 24,000 running hours service work on a Stork-Wärtsilä 12SW280 engines and a Stork-Wärtsilä 16SW280 unit onboard the 130m length CS Sovereign while the vessel was in dock at Schiedam, in Rotterdam.

This involved the overhaul of the crankshaft vibration damper on the main engine generator DG.1 before refitting with new gaskets. Main engine works on the two other generators (DG.2 and DG.3) saw the similar overhaul of crankshaft vibration dampers alongside checks and repairs to cylinder heads, liners, bearings, connecting rods and pistons. On completion of engine work, full sea trials were successfully undertaken.

Royston engineers have also recently completed the overhaul of diesel power plant systems onboard another vessel within the Global Marine Group fleet, the 130m length Global Symphony, in a tight 10-day time frame.

The Group’s Global Symphony is a multi-purpose vessel designed to meet the demands of power cable projects and has recently been working on multiple offshore wind farms sites across Europe, including floating turbines, to install and protect both export and inter array cables. The purpose-built CS Sovereign is a class DP2 type cable ship used for subsea fibre optic cable installation and repair works which is currently involved in projects off Britain’s south coast.