founded great yarmouth england headquarters great yarmouth norfolk revenue 200m 2013 number of employees 1 000 website www.gardline.com the gardline group is a holding company based in great yarmouth england . the group consists of more than 35 companies focussed primarily on service industries . the holding company was established in 2009 to bring together a number of existing companies including the original gardline shipping first established in 1969 which continues today focussed on shipping and other maritime services . contents 1 history 1.1 offshore wind farms 2 group companies 2.1 america 2.2 europe 2.3 middle east 2.4 australasia 2.5 africa 3 gardline shipping 3.1 current fleet 3.2 past gardline vessels 3.3 gallery 4 references 5 external links history edit gardline shipping was first established in 1969 to provide marine support to offshore oil and gas industry in the north sea . in 2009 as part of 40th anniversary celebrations the gardline group was established to bring together a large number of multi disciplinary companies involved in a range of activities that include satellite communications marine sciences security ship building dry dock engineering geographical information systems digital mapping and vessel charters . the group currently employs around 1 000 personnel worldwide and has a turnover of approximately 140 million gbp . 1 gardline is now the largest employer in the great yarmouth area . 2 the company continues to sponsor careers fairs in the region . 3 in 2011 the gardline group was ranked the 20th largest in the norfolk region by the eastern daily press accounting firm pricewaterhousecoopers uk and law firm mills & reeve . 4 offshore wind farms edit in recent years gardline and its subsidiary companies have expanded their services to include support of offshore wind farms as a core service . the company s offshore wind farm related businesses have experienced significant growth in line with the uk government s wind farm development programs . 5 in 2010 gardline environmental a subsidiary of gardline marine services won a tender to provide environmental survey services for the proposed dogger bank offshore wind farm . 6 later that year the company announced it had been awarded environmental survey work for the proposed atlantic array offshore wind farm project . 7 in 2012 gardline announced it had entered a bid to provide port operations services to scottishpower renewables and vattenfall ab one of the successful consortia in round 3 of the uk government s offshore wind farm program . 8 in 2013 another gardline subsidiary alicat workboats announced the construction of 4 high speed catamarans to service the robin rigg wind farm . 9 group companies edit gardline marine sciences logo three gardline ships awaiting dry dock repairs in hull ocean seeker ocean observer and sea explorer . the gardline group is a multinational corporation with companies and offices around the world . america edit in the united states the company is represented by gardline surveys inc and g comm houston . europe edit in europe the company has a number of major subsidiaries including ast c a design services ltd including 3d architects gardline infotech now re branded cads mapping tait design and cadnet ltd north sea marine cluster 10 g comm richards dry dock and engineering including alicat workboats limited gardline marine science limited gardline shipping ltd gsl dardan limited including gardwell secure systems lankelma limited mk services limited setech limited the howards group including howards residential and howards commercial and independent electrical service ltd middle east edit in the middle east the company is represented by gardline lankelma middle east limited australasia edit in asia the company is represented by ast asia pte ltd and gardline surveys far east ltd. in australia gardline is represented by ast australia gardline australia pty ltd and gardline marine sciences pty ltd. in malaysia gardline is represented by asian geos sdn bhd. africa edit in africa gardline is represented by ast south africa . gardline shipping edit as the original foundation entity of the gardline group gardline shipping retains the core businesses of the gardline group . the company operates a fleet of 12 offshore vessels 4 nearshore and coastal vessels and numerous windfarm support vessels . the fleet is capable of carrying out hydrographic geotechnical oceanographic geophysical and environmental surveys . 11 12 13 current fleet edit offshore survey vessels ship built reconfigured accommodation length tonnage flag imo number image ocean discovery 1983 2010 50 berths 86.9 m 3 705 gt united kingdom 8112550 ocean endeavour ex rmas salmaster 1986 2004 32 berths 77.1 m 1 967 gt united kingdom 8402008 ocean observer 1986 2007 30 berths 80.4 m 2 820 gt united kingdom 8511275 ocean reliance 1987 2011 43 berths 85.4 m 1 814 gt saint vincent and the grenadines 8616609 ocean researcher ex rrs charles darwin 1984 2005 39 berths 69.4 m 2 556 gt united kingdom 8207941 ocean seeker 1970 2000 43 berths 80.7 m 1 943 gt united kingdom 7012179 polar surveyor ex nordsyssel 1983 2014 42 berths 71.6 m 1 859 gt united kingdom 8118994 sea explorer 1976 n a 29 berths 58.9 m 1 385 gt bahamas 7504249 sea surveyor 1979 1999 30 berths 64.1 m 1 275 gt bahamas 7813901 sea trident 1974 1984 30 berths 57.9 m 964 gt panama 7393169 tranship b.v. offshore vessels managed by gardline 14 ship built reconfigured accommodation length tonnage flag imo number image ivero 1982 2011 24 berths 34.0 m 307 gt netherlands 8108377 kommandor 1986 2011 44 berths 68.5 m 1 573 gt bahamas 8517205 l espoir 1972 n a 30 berths 67.4 m 1 168 gt netherlands 7024550 customs vessels gardline marine sciences and gardine australia own two vessels which are currently being leased to australian customs and border protection service . vessel built max speed accommodation length tonnage flag imo number image triton acv 90 2000 20 knots 42 berths 98.7 m 2 236 gt australia 4906551 ashmore guardian acv 110 1983 10 knots 16 berths 34.9 m 339 gt australia 4906551 nearshore and coastal vessels vessel built max speed length breadth flag imo number image confidante 1989 11 knots 33 m 7 m united kingdom 8831297 george d 1991 10 knots 19 m 5 m united kingdom n a melanie d 1994 17 knots 8 m 4 m united kingdom n a meriel d 2008 25 knots 17 m 6 m united kingdom n a windfarm support vessels vessel built max speed length breadth flag propulsion gallion 2010 30 knots 20 m 6.5 m united kingdom prop gardian 1 2010 30 knots 20 m 6.5 m united kingdom prop gardian 2 2010 30 knots 20 m 6.5 m united kingdom prop gardian 7 2010 30 knots 20 m 6.5 m united kingdom prop gardian 9 2010 30 knots 20 m 6.5 m united kingdom prop marianarray 2011 26 knots 17 m 6 m united kingdom jet smeaton array 2011 30 knots 20 m 6 m united kingdom controllable pitch propeller waterfall 2009 26 knots 16 m 6 m united kingdom prop past gardline vessels edit vessel image surveyor gardline s first ship sea profiler ex rrs shackleton british antarctic survey ship sea searcher ex johan mansson a swedish government hydrographic research vessel 15 gardline seeker 16 later used as pirate radio station vessel with laser 558 gardline tracker gardline locater ex hms blackburn a naval aviation stores carrier used to carry aircraft and aviation spares around the coast 17 gardline endurer 18 resolution ex german deep sea trawler 19 researcher ex ing y built 1950 as local passenger cargo vessel in norway sold to gardline in 1970 20 gallery edit sea profiler in great yarmouth dry dock confidante in old black colours ocean seeker was granuaile prior to purchase from gardline references edit gardline homepage . gardline shipping limited . retrieved 20 january 2013 . gardline trains for offshore transfers great yarmouth mercury 26 july 2011 careers in energy sponsored by gardline group norfolk chamber of commerce 2012 20 gardline shipping eastern daily press 2011 gardline is recruiting new staff every month by annabelle dickson great yarmouth mercury 29 august 2012 yarmouth company s wind farm contract great yarmouth mercury 10 february 2010 gardline group gathers offshore wind work maritime journal 20 april 2010 great yarmouth bids to run port ops for 325 turbine wind farm by liz coates eastern daily press 23 december 2012 four new alicats for e.on maritime journal 15 january 2013 north sea marine cluster . managing marine protected areas pdf . nsmc . retrieved 5 february 2013 . gardline vessels offshore . gardline marine sciences . retrieved 20 january 2013 . gardline vessels nearshore and coastal . gardline marine sciences . retrieved 20 january 2013 . gardline vessels windfarm support . gardline marine sciences . retrieved 20 january 2013 . tranship bv fleet . tranship b.v. retrieved 20 january 2013 . gardline vessel sea searcher . phil english . gardline seeker . phil english . retrieved 21 january 2013 . hms blackburn archive . world naval ships forum . retrieved 22 january 2013 . gardline endurer . gary markham . retrieved 22 january 2013 . gardline vessel resolution . phil english . retrieved 22 january 2013 . gardline vessel researcher . gerolf drebes . external links edit www.gardlinemarinesciences.com www.thecadsgroup.co.uk www.cadesignservices.co.uk www.cadnet.ltd.uk retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title gardline group & oldid 662896666 categories conglomerate companies of the united kingdomshipping companies of the united kingdomgreat yarmouthdesign companies of the united kingdom navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage 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