SubscribeBabcock Marine is a strategic UK provider of engineering and support services to the Royal Navy.
It also operates in specialised commercial markets. Its main business activities are centred on three key operational sites:
- Devonport Royal Dockyard and the co-located Devonport Naval Base site in Plymouth, England
- Rosyth Business Park in Fife, Scotland
- HM Naval Base Clyde in Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Within its extensive facilities at Devonport Royal Dockyard, the largest marine support complex in the Western Europe, Babcock Marine uses a number of Bainbridge's cover guard products to protect both surfaces and objects during refit work on surface ships and submarines. Nuclear submarines have been worked on at Devonport Royal Dockyard since the early 1970s. Devonport Royal Dockyard is now the UK's sole refitting and defueling site for nuclear powered submarines. Scaffold cover guard has been specially formulated for use in nuclear submarines and is used to create protection tents to safely contain shot blasting debris, paint overspray and contamination from other work places.
Ship Covers
Deck plate cover guard and Impact Corrieboard cover guard are both used as ship covers to protect internal and external walkways, flightdecks and other exterior areas on both naval ships and superyachts.
Bubblewrap cover guard provides temporary protection to electrical equipment, panelling, walls and other items that require protection from airborne particles, light impact and during storage and transportation.
VT Group Plc
VT Shipbuilding is a major supplier to the Royal Navy and, through VT Shipbuilding International, is one of the world's leading exporters of naval vessels. VT's capabilities range from advanced surface warships such as Frigates, Corvettes, Fast Attack Craft and Mine Counter Measure Solutions, to Offshore Patrol Vessels and Patrol Craft for EEZ Management and Fishery Protection Duties.
VT use both deck plate cover guard and wall cover guard for protection during a variety of projects. To date, cover guard has been used on the bow sections and radar towers of the new type 45 ships (also known as the D or Daring class) - A state of the art air defence destroyer programme of the Royal Navy.
