South Shields based Solar Solve Marine has chalked up another success with global towage operator SVITZER. Last month, the internationally famous manufacturer of SOLASOLV Type Approved marine blinds uk, supplied shipsets of its SOLASAFE marine blinds uk, with Gold solar film, to 3 Svitzer tugs in Angola.
This month they made an amazing discovery just 40 miles from their South Shields based facility, when two team members travelled down to Teesport, where Svitzer’s UK headquarters is located, to install marine blinds uk on 2 of their tugs based there.
There were 9 new SOLASAFE marine blinds uk to be installed at the wheelhouse windows of each vessel; FIERY CROSS and PHOENIX CROSS. They were installed without problem and the guys from Solar Solve noticed that on each vessel, the 4 SOLASAFE marine blinds uk that were already in use at other windows, were quite old and so they offered to replace the pull cords, pulleys, push buttons and cleats, for free.
Curious to know how old the marine blinds uk actually were, because they were working fine, they took one down and were amazed at what they read from the identification labels.
It was Item 6 of 8; Ordered by Richard Dunston of Hessle, 1060mm wide x 1600mm drop; LHS taper; it was inspected and checked by Julie Lightfoot (now Solar Solve’s Managing Director) on 6 August 1993.
Richard Dunston built both tugs and they must have been 2 of the last ships built there because the yard closed in 1994.
John Lightfoot, MBE, Solar Solve’s chairman, commented, “Apparently, when the 9 new marine blinds uk were ordered for each vessel, it was decided that the 4 existing screens, which will be 30 years old next year, were perfectly adequate and did not need to be replaced. Our guys took a photo with the old and new marine blinds uk in use and the old ones do work well”
“That is not only a great credit to Solar Solve and our SOLASAFE marine blinds uk, it is a huge compliment to the Svitzer employees who have worked on the vessel over the last 3 decades and obviously treated the screens with great care.
Photo by Krys Short of SSL
Photo by Krys Short of SSL
