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Lloyd's Register & DNV Approved Yard

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Emergency and scheduled repair for commercial fleets — steel renewal, propulsion, and class survey support, delivered dockside in 40+ ports. Average response: under 6 hours.

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Vessels repaired since 1987
2,400+
Average emergency response
6hrs
Ports with mobile teams
40+
Redelivered on or before date
96%
Capabilities

Everything below the waterline, and most of what's above it.

One yard, one project manager, one accountable schedule — from routine drydocking to emergency structural repair.

Recent Work

Delivered, on the date we promised.

A selection of recent repair and refit projects, with the scope and the schedule we held to.

MV Northern Star — after repairAfter
MV Northern Star — before repairBefore

Emergency structural repair · 62 tonnes steel renewed

Collision damage, bow to frame 118

Struck a quay wall in ballast. We had a survey team aboard in 5 hours and returned her to class in 19 days against a 30-day estimate.

Vessel
MV Northern Star
Type
Handysize Bulk Carrier
Duration
19 days
Year
2025

The vessel contacted a quay wall at low speed in ballast condition, setting in the bow plating between frames 104 and 118 and fracturing two web frames. Our superintendent was aboard within five hours of the call with a portable 3D scanner; the damage model went to LR the same evening.\n\nBecause we could crop, roll and fit plate in-house, the critical path stayed on the welding rather than on procurement. 62 tonnes of steel was renewed, the forepeak was pressure tested, and she sailed with full class 11 days ahead of the owner's worst case.

Since 1987

Four decades of steel, salt and deadlines.

BoatGap began as a two-berth yard on the Tyne repairing North Sea trawlers. Today we run three drydocks, a 4,000-tonne shiplift and mobile teams that fly to your vessel wherever she lies.

What hasn't changed is the thing our customers actually buy: a berth date we hold to. Every day alongside is revenue lost, so we quote honestly, we start on time, and we tell you early when something under the paint turns out worse than the survey suggested.

Callum Reid

Yard Director

Thirty-one years in repair, the last twelve running this yard. Started as an apprentice plater on Dock 2.

Priya Raghavan

Head of Structural

Naval architect, LR-approved for structural repair schemes. Signs off every steel renewal that leaves the yard.

Tomasz Wójcik

Superintendent, Emergency

Runs the mobile response desk. If you call at 0200, this is who picks up.

Steel renewal work inside a vessel's hull at the BoatGap yard

Dock 2 · Frame renewal

Approvals & accreditations

Approved Repair Facility

Lloyd's Register

Approved Service Supplier

DNV

Recognised Repair Yard

American Bureau of Shipping

ISO 9001:2015

Quality Management

ISO 14001:2015

Environmental Management

ISO 45001:2018

Occupational Health & Safety

“They called us on day four to say they had found more wastage than the spec allowed, gave us a fixed price by the next morning, and still hit the original redelivery date. That phone call is why we keep coming back — nobody else rings early with bad news.”
MLMargrethe LindqvistFleet Technical Director · Nordkapp Shipping
Get in touch

Tell us what's wrong with her.

Send us the vessel, the symptom and your position. A superintendent — not a call centre — replies within 6 hours, day or night.

Emergency line

+44 191 555 0147

Yard

Albert Edward Dock North Shields, Tyne & Wear NE29 6EA, United Kingdom

Hours

24/7 emergency response · Office Mon–Fri 07:00–18:00 GMT

55°00'27"N 1°26'34"W · Drydocks 1–3

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