Cheshire-based marine engine supplier James Troop & Co has completed a full engine and Inboard Propulsion System (IPS) service on Njord Freyr , the first UK work of its kind on a wind farm support vessel, according to Bob Troop, the company’s Chairman and Managing Director.
The contract for wind farm crew transfer company Njord Offshore involved taking the year-old catamaran Njord Freyr out of the water for the first time at a Wirral slipway for a 1,500 hours’ service of the underwater parts of the vessel’s IPS.
Njord Freyr is a 26 metre, 115 tonne vessel and one of a class of four built in Singapore. She has a beam of 9 metres and a top speed of 28 knots.
The work included servicing the Njord Freyr’s ‘quad installation’ of 4 Volvo Penta D13-IPS 900 engines and transmissions.
The vessel is now back on station at her Barrow-in-Furness base ready for the company’s next scheduled wind farm support sailings in the northern Irish Sea.
“We feel very honoured to be the first company in the UK to carry out this work, after being given this opportunity in a highly competitive market place,” Troop said.
“We are very active in the windfarm support vessel market and we are authorized service dealers not only for Volvo Penta engines, but also for MTU and MAN. We are pleased to see that business has improved in the windfarm market after some quiet years. Although we are based on Merseyside, we are also active all around the country, especially in other windfarm bases at Barrow and Grimsby.”
As a direct result of the success of the Njord Freyr project, James Troop were awarded a further contract to carry out the 6,000 hour QL3 overhauls on four MTU V8 2000 series engines at their workshops in Runcorn.