Ever wondered what it’s like to build a submarine? What about a Type 45 destroyer, superyacht or aircraft carrier? These may seem like radical projects to most of us, but for Hythe Engineering Structural Engineers and shipbuilding Designers, it’s a lifetime of craft, and ultimately, another day at work…

HMS Prince of Wales is the second Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier commissioned for the Royal Navy and will be in full active service by 2020. Engineering helped prepare HMS Prince of Wales for sea trials. Hear from Site Manager Pete Davies, about the work his team was involved with on-board this Royal Navy aricraft carrier…

HMS Queen Elizabeth has successfully completed her first dry docking in Rosyth which comprised primarily of a routine hull survey and maintenance of her underwater systems. Hythe Engineering conducted welding and fabrication support during the refit as well as Rigging, slinging and fleeting work aboard the carrier.

Hythe Engineering support both HMS Queen Elizabeth and the team at BAE Systems during their recent visit to her home base of HMNB Portsmouth.

Britain’s flagship of the future has demonstrated that it can now strike out anywhere across the globe after refuelling at sea for the first time. After a dry run, HMS Queen Elizabeth successfully took on fuel, receiving ‘amber gold’ from RFA Tidespring, the tanker purpose-built to support the new aircraft carrier on her global operations. For the maiden transfer, just 220 ‘cubes’ of F76 marine fuel was sent across on both her port (left) and starboard (right) sides. The replenishment was more about testing the principle rather than the carrier’s tanks running low. HMS Queen Elizabeth is due to return to Portsmouth shortly for a spot of maintenance, leave for her crew and preparations for her maiden voyage across the Atlantic in the early autumn when she conducts flying trials with F-35B Lightning stealth fighter/bombers for the first time. The team at Hythe Engineering is looking forward to welcoming the carrier back to its home port at HMNB Portsmouth and to supporting her crew and conducting preparations for her maiden voyage across the Atlantic in the early autumn when she conducts flying trials with F-35B Lightning stealth fighter/bombers for the first time. Hythe Engineering is the Marine industry’s choice for…