Richardson Devine Marine

Richardson Devine Marine
Proprietary limited company
Industry Shipbuilding
Founded 1989[1]
Headquarters Hobart, Tasmania
Products Ferry catamarans, Work Boats
Website www.rdm.com.au

Richardson Devine Marine are an Australian company, situated in Tasmania on Hobart's Derwent River. Hobart is the capital of Australia's island state.

They specialise in the manufacture of aluminium passenger ferry and cruise/charter vessels as well as commercial work boats.

A number of vessels are based on designs from Incat Crowther.[2] The company has also paired with Off Shore Unlimited[3] to produce a line of offshore working boats.

Multiple passenger vessels operate on Sydney Harbour, Sydney Australia, in the South West Tasmania World Heritage Wilderness Area, New Zealand, Japan and Zanzibar, Tanzania.[4]

The company has received some support form Austrade through Export Market Development Grants (EMDG) scheme.

Awards

2009 Tasmanian Export Awards[5]

Records

A world waterskiing record of 114 Skiers by the Horsehead Water Ski Club on 28 March 2010 was set utilizing the vessel Eagle.[6]

This record was again broken utilizing the Eagle on 27 January 2012[7] with 145 skiers making the nautical mile journey.

Deliveries

ImageHull NoLengthLatest nameOperatorCountryClassNotes
17.5m Matthew Flinders Bass & Flinders Cruises  Australia PF
15m George Bass Inter Island Ferries (Aust)  Australia PF
23m SeaMelbourne  Australia PF
N/A Australian Spirit  Australia PF
N/A Halicat  Australia PF [8]
24m Wanderer II World Heritage Cruises  Australia PF
26m Wanderer III World Heritage Cruises  Australia PF
25m Peppermint Bay I (Lady Jane Franklin) Peppermint Bay Cruises  Australia PF
24m Marana Port Arthur Historic Site  Australia PF [9]
29m Adventurer  New Zealand PF
32m Lady Jane Franklin II Gordon River Cruises  Australia PF [10]
31m Patea Explorer Real Journeys  New Zealand PF
22m Peppermint Bay II Peppermint Bay Cruises  Australia PF [11]
23m Luminosa Real Journeys  New Zealand PF
35m Eagle World Heritage Cruises  Australia PF [12]
32m Discovery World Heritage Cruises  Australia PF
32m Premium Dream 石垣島ドリーム観光 Ishigaki Dream Tours石垣島ドリーム観光  Japan PF
048 24m Unlimited  Australia WB [13]
35m Kilimanjaro Azam Marine  Tanzania PF [14]
050 28.6m Limitless  Australia WB
051 35m Kilimanjaro II Azam Marine  Tanzania PF [15]
052 28m Strait Shooter  Australia WB
053 45m Cat Cocos Isle of La Digue Inter Island Boats  Seychelles PF
054 38m Kilimanjaro III Azam Marine  Tanzania PF [16]
055 35m Outer Limit  Australia WB [17]
056 26m Cahaya Baru Cocos (Keeling) Islands  Cocos Islands PF [18]
057 45m Kilimanjaro IV Azam Marine  Tanzania PF [19]
058 32m Super Dream Ishigaki Dream Tours石垣島ドリーム観光  Japan PF
059 24m Elizabeth Cook Captain Cook Cruises  Australia PF
060 24m Mary Reibey Captain Cook Cruises  Australia PF
061 24m Annabelle Rankin Captain Cook Cruises  Australia PF
062 39m Kilimanjaro V Azam Marine  Tanzania PF [20]
063 24m Violet McKenzie Captain Cook Cruises  Australia PF [21]
45m Ipipiri Hauraki Blue Cruises  New Zealand PF [22]
064 39m Kilimanjaro VI Azam Marine  Tanzania PF
065 35m Harbour master World Heritage Cruises  Australia PF [23]
066 21m Sealink Tommy Lyons  Australia PF
067 Cockle Bay Captain Cook Cruises  Australia PF
068 Blackwattle Bay Captain Cook Cruises  Australia PF
069,070 21M Harbour of Dar es Salaam  Tanzania WB
071 Inter Island Boats  Seychelles PF UC

As international deliveries of ferries is challenging, Richardson Devine Marine uses heavy lift ships like the Thorco Clairvaux.[24] http://www.soefart.dk/?art=6691

References

  1. ↑ "RICHARDSON DEVINE MARINE CONSTRUCTIONS PTY. LTD. ACN 009 578 394". ASIC. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  2. ↑ "Incat Crowther Products". Incat Crowther. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  3. ↑ "welcome to offshore unlimited". Off Shore Unlimited. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  4. ↑ "Marine Manufacturing". Brand Tasmania. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  5. ↑ "SUCCESS STORY: RICHARDSON DEVINE MARINE". Austrade. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  6. ↑ "Our Boat". www.skirecord.com. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  7. ↑ "World Water Ski Record". World Heritage Cruises. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  8. ↑ "Tasmanian Boat Builders and Ship Builders from the Register of Australian and New Zealand Vessels". Mori Flapan. 10 February 2005.
  9. ↑ "Port Arthur Memories Revisited". Port Arthur Historic Site. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  10. ↑ "Experience the Tasmanian Wilderness". Gordon River Cruises. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  11. ↑ "Peppermint Bay Cruise". Peppermint Bay Cruises. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  12. ↑ "World Heritage Cruises". World Heritage Cruises. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  13. ↑ "Unlimited". Off Shore Unlimited. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  14. ↑ "Catamarans". Azam Marine. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  15. ↑ "Catamarans". Azam Marine. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  16. ↑ "Catamarans". Azam Marine. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  17. ↑ "Outer Limit". Off Shore Unlimited. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  18. ↑ "'Cahaya Baru' Ferry". Cocos Keeling Islands. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  19. ↑ "Catamarans". Azam Marine. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  20. ↑ "Catamarans". Azam Marine. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
  21. ↑ "Fourth Generation Vessel Joins Captain Cook Cruises Fleet". Sealink Travel Group. 1 December 2014.
  22. ↑ "About Ipipiri". Hauraki Blue Cruises. 1 December 2014.
  23. ↑ "New cat ready for wilderness debut". The Mercury Newspaper Tasmania. 29 March 2016.
  24. ↑ "heavy lift ship from Thorco be loaded with catamaran ferry". http://www.soefart.dk/. 26 March 2015. External link in |publisher= (help)
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