Parkol Marine Engineering


Parkol Marine Engineering is a shipbuilding and engineering company based in Whitby, North Yorkshire, England. The company was founded in 1971 and since 1997, has built an average of two ships per year, although orders have increased between 2015 and 2018, which has led to the company opening a second site on Teesside.

History

Originally formed in 1971, during the 1970s and 1980s the business was a marine repair yard which employed 40 people. Prior to Parkol Marine Engineering constructing boats in 1997, the last recorded boat to be built in Whitby was in the early 1970s. The Parkol company was formed by Ken Parker and John Oliver, with the new venture being a portmanteau of the first parts of their surnames. In 1997, after acquiring a dry dock from the Netherlands, Parkol Marine Engineering ventured into the boat building business, launching a scalloper in 1997, though the first trawler they built was the Rebecca in 1999. Originally located at Spital Bridge in the town, they moved to a new site closer to the riverside on Church Street.
In their Church Street site, the company have a fabrication, shot blasting and painting hall on church street in Whitby. The yard adjoins the River Esk on the eastern bank, and has two newbuild berths for vessels up to long and a dry dock capable of taking vessels up to. Every new build boat at Parkol Marine has been created on paper by ship designer by Ian Paton.
In 2017, Parkol opened up a second site in Middlesbrough that measured long by wide and tall. The larger site was created so that Parkol could build bigger boats and tailor bespoke boat building to the fishing industries needs. Combined with the site on Teesside, the company now employs 76 people.
In October 2018, the first boat to be built in the new Middlesbrough site was launched officially at Whitby Harbour. The company offers a range of marine engineering services; from refurbishment and repair, to a whole newbuild ship. the yard offers ship lengthening services,The first ship to undergo this work was the Scarborough trawler Allegiance, which was extended by at a fifth of the cost of a new build ship.
Parkol also undertake maintenance, and have, in the past, cleaned the Whitby Lifeboat and serviced her in less than six hours so as to keep the lifeboat availability at the best it could be. In 2002, they built a replica of Captain Cook's ship, HMS Bark Endeavour to two fifths of the actual size. The replica vessel sails up and down the coast from Whitby and is powered by a motor. The ship was constructed from wood using skills of local craftsmen and women.
Parkol regularly feature in the Fishing Vessel of the Year companions run by Fishing News; they won best vessel in 2015 and 2016. Their yard in Whitby has also been featured in an episode of Kavanagh QC on ITV in 1998.
Parkol fabricate their boats on the quayside and then have a crane lift their vessels into the water, as opposed to the normal route of launching them down the slipway.

Ships built

Below is a sample list of ships that Parkol Marine have built since 1997. There is not a ship with yard number 13.
Yard No.YearTypeNameTonnageIMO NumberNotesRegistration Code
1199719.11m ScalloperJacqueline AnneOB 555
2199918.50m TrawlerRebecca 8957209Renamed Courage in January 2007WY 790
3200018m TrawlerOur Lass 8965476WY 797
4200118.77m Twin Rig TrawlerReliant8972716BCK 101
5200114.94m TrawlerSophie Louise II SSS 678
6200213.37m wooden ReplicaEndeavour
7200214.95m Gill NetterBerlewenPW 1
8200314.95m Vivier CrabberSiwrengale H 77
9200415.95m TrawlerEmulateWY 110
10200414.15 m ScalloperHarmoniiMR 7
11200415m twin rig trawlerRachael Jayne IIMT 100
12200516.95m Vivier CrabberCeltic Dawn8996396K 76
14200518m Scallop TrawlerRois Mhiari8996384OB 45
15200514.95m Vivier CrabberEbonnieBM 176
1620069.80m workboatFoy Boat
17200618.77m TrawlerCopious9395757LK 985
18200618.90m TrawlerStar of Jura9095503OB 278
19200714.95m Vivier CrabberAquilaOB 74
20200721m TrawlerOur Lass II9095515WY 261
21200722.80m TrawlerRadiant Star9453808LK 71
22200816.49m Twin Rig TrawlerProlificN/A9548859LK 986
23200816.70m Vivier PotterNoronyaN/A9564530K 733
24200917.50m Twin Rig TrawlerPleiadesN/A9564542BF 155
25200916.49 m Twin Rig TrawlerReliance IIN/A9564566BF 800
26200921.67 m Twin Rig TrawlerJubilee questN/A9564554GY 900
27201016.49 m Twin Rig TrawlerChallengerN/A9564475FR 90
28201022.06m Twin Rig TrawlerVirtuousN/A9577252FR 253
29201626.75m Motor YachtAble One
30201326m TrawlerOur Lass III9655925WY 261
31201426m TrawlerGuiding Star9699488H 360
32201427m Salmon Feed CarrierHavilah9743394
33201526m TrawlerGuardian Angell9747388LK 272
34201514.95m Vivier CrabberLa Creole II BM 177
35201627m Seiner/TrawlerResilient9781346LK 195
36201723.95m Prawn TawlerDay Star9803390FR 86
37201723.95m TrawlerVictory Rose9810288WY 37
38201719m TrawlerSparkling Star9810317UL 290
39201826m Trawler Guiding Light9840025H 902
40201823.95m TrawlerUberous9850965FR 50
41202034m Scallop TrawlerAlcedo9884875launched on the 10/01/2020 under fit outBA 77
42201820.30M Scallop TrawlerSummer Rose9829291The hull was built under subcontract by MacDonald Offshore, MiddlesbroughOB 141
43201919m TrawlerCarvela9884746K751
44201820.30m ScalloperAtlantic Dawn9850953First Parkol Marine build vessel in Middlesbrough launched 16/09/2018CN 25
45201922.30m Twin Rig TrawlerFruitful Bough9858917PD 109
46201924m TrawlerVirtuous 9879650FR 253
47202027m Salmon Feed CarrierN/Aunder construction in Middlesbrough
48202016.49 m Vivier CrabberOsprey9858931under construction in Whitby launched 06/03/2020WK 4
49202020.70 m Twin Rig TrawlerReliance IIIunder construction in Whitby to be launched on the 3rd or 4th of September 2020BF 800
502021N/AN/Aunder construction in Whitby