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: orders increased, however, between 2015 and 2018, which 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. The yard adjoins the eastern bank of the River Esk, and has two newbuild berths for vessels up to long and a dry dock capable of taking vessels up to. Every newbuild boat at Parkol Marine has been created on paper by the ship designer Ian Paton.
In 2017, Parkol opened 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 industry's needs. Combined with the site on Teesside, the company employed 80 tradesmen and staff, dropping to around 70 in 2020.
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 newbuild 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 the skills of local tradesmen.
Parkol regularly feature in the Fishing Vessel of the Year competitions run by Fishing News: they won best vessel in 2015 and 2016. Their yard in Whitby has 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.YearTypeNameGross tonnageIMO NumberNotesRegistration CodeYard built inLaunch date
1199719.11m ScalloperJacqueline AnneOB 555Whitby-
2199918.50m TrawlerRebecca 1308957209Renamed Courage in January 2007WY 790Whitby-
3200018m TrawlerOur Lass 8965476WY 797Whitby-
4200118.77m Twin Rig TrawlerReliant8972716BCK 101Whitby-
5200114.94m TrawlerSophie Louise II SSS 678Whitby-
6200213.37m wooden ReplicaEndeavourWhitby-
7200214.95m Gill NetterBerlewenPW 1Whitby-
8200314.95m Vivier CrabberSiwrengale H 77Whitby-
9200415.95m TrawlerEmulateWY 110Whitby-
10200414.15 m ScalloperHarmoniiMR 7Whitby-
11200415m twin rig trawlerRachael Jayne IIMT 100Whitby-
12200516.95m Vivier CrabberCeltic Dawn8996396K 76Whitby-
14200518m Scallop TrawlerRois Mhiari8996384OB 45Whitby-
15200514.95m Vivier CrabberEbonnieBM 176Whitby-
1620069.80m FoyboatFoy BoatWhitby-
17200618.77m TrawlerCopious9395757LK 985Whitby-
18200618.90m TrawlerStar of Jura9095503OB 278Whitby-
19200714.95m Vivier CrabberAquilaOB 74Whitby-
20200721m TrawlerOur Lass II9095515First vessel over 20 metres built by Parkol MarineWY 261Whitby-
21200722.80m TrawlerRadiant Star9453808LK 71Whitby-
22200816.49m Twin Rig TrawlerProlific9548859LK 986Whitby-
23200816.70m Vivier PotterNoronya9564530K 733Whitby-
24200917.50m Twin Rig TrawlerPleiades9564542BF 155Whitby-
25200916.49 m Twin Rig TrawlerReliance II9564566BF 800Whitby-
26200921.67 m Twin Rig TrawlerJubilee quest9564554GY 900Whitby-
27201016.49 m Twin Rig TrawlerChallenger9564475FR 90Whitby-
28201022.06m Twin Rig TrawlerVirtuous9577252FR 253Whitby-
29201626.75m Motor YachtAble OneWhitby-
30201326m TrawlerOur Lass III9655925WY 261Whitby-
31201426m TrawlerGuiding Star2619699488H 360Whitby-
32201427m Salmon Feed CarrierHavilah1609743394Whitby-
33201526m TrawlerGuardian Angell9747388LK 272Whitby-
34201514.95m Vivier CrabberLa Creole II BM 177Whitby-
35201627m Seiner/TrawlerResilient9781346LK 195Whitby-
36201723.95m Prawn TawlerDay Star9803390FR 86Whitby-
37201723.95m TrawlerVictory Rose2659810288WY 37Whitby-
38201719m TrawlerSparkling Star9810317UL 290Whitby-
39201826m Trawler Guiding Light9840025H 902Whitby-
40201823.95m TrawlerUberous9850965FR 50WhitbyLaunched 21/10/2018
41202033m Scallop And Queenie TrawlerAlcedo9884875First vessel over 30 metres built by Parkol MarineBA 77MiddlesbroughLaunched 10/01/2020
42201820.30M Scallop TrawlerSummer Rose9829291The hull was built in Middlesbrough under subcontract by MacDonald OffshoreOB 141Middlesbrough
43201919m TrawlerCarvela9884746K751MiddlesbroughLaunched 23/03/2019
44201820.30m ScalloperAtlantic Dawn9850953First vessel built by Parkol Marine at their Middlesbrough yardCN 25MiddlesbroughLaunched 16/09/2018
45201922.30m Twin Rig TrawlerFruitful Bough9858917PD 109WhitbyLaunched 03/04/2019
46201924m TrawlerVirtuous 9879650FR 253WhitbyLaunched 14/09/2019
47202027m Salmon Feed CarrierHavara2609885697MiddlesbroughLaunched 10/09/2020
48202016.49m Vivier CrabberOsprey9858931WK 4WhitbyLaunched 06/03/2020
49202020.70m Twin Rig TrawlerReliance III1909898888BF 800WhitbyLaunched 04/09/2020
50202127.8m Vivier CrabberValhallaN/AFR 268WhitbyLaunched 29/09/2021
51202120.40m GillnetterAmanda of ladramN/APW 6WhitbyLaunched 17/03/2021
52202127.8m Twin rig TrawlerSparkling StarN/AUL 290MiddlesbroughLaunched 15/02/2022
53202123m TrawlerAmbitious II'N/ADA 62MiddlesbroughLaunched 08/09/2021
54202222.2m twin rig trawlerDay dawn9934022FR 90WhitbyLaunched 12/03/2022
55202222m TrawlerGreen isle9963645SO 500MiddlesbroughLaunched 5/09/2022
56202321.6m Twin rig trawlerSeraphimN/APD 170MiddlesbroughLaunched 29/08/2023
57202225 m TrawlerDaystar IIN/AFR 86WhitbyLaunched 16/04/2023
58202327.30m beam trawlerAdmiral Gordon2269970181PH-330MiddlesbroughLaunched 17/03/2023
59202221.4 m CrabberWinter of Ladram218N/AE 24WhitbyLaunched 12/07/2022
60202427.30m beam trawlerAdmiral BlakeN/APH 440MiddlesbroughLaunched 27/03/2024
61202315m vivier crabberGenesisN/AH 37WhitbyLaunched 28/10/2023
62202434m scallop & queenie trawlerHalcyon9949596Largest vessel built by Parkol MarineBA 72MiddlesbroughLaunched 09/01/2025
6320239.80m FoyboatFoy boat IIIN/AWhitbyLaunched 07/12/2023
64202424.5m survey and patrol vesselNorth Eastern Guardian IVN/AAluminum catamaranWhitbyLaunched 08/05/2025
65202427.30m beam trawlerAdmiral RamsayN/APH-220MiddlesbroughLaunched 30/06/2025
66202415m whelkerTed of LadramN/AE7WhitbyLaunched 10/05/2025
67202528m stern trawlerOur LassN/AN/ABeing built at Middlesbrough yardWY 261MiddlesbroughIn active build
6820249.80m FoyboatFoyboat VN/AN/AWhitbyLaunched 06/08/2024
69202528m stern trawlerN/AN/AN/ABeing built at Middlesbrough yardN/AMiddlesbroughIn active build
70202526m Ro-Ro FerryN/AN/AN/ABeing built at Whitby yard N/AWhitbyIn active build
7120258m stock fishing BoatN/AN/AN/ABuilt as a stock item, N/AWhitbyLaunched
72202615.58m HullMax WorkboatSalcombe 1N/AN/ABeing built at Whitby yard for Salcombe Harbour AuthorityN/AWhitbyIn active build