Boatbuilder Holyhead Marine Services in Anglesey, North Wales, has delivered a new £1.6m pilot boat, Atlantic to clients Falmouth Harbour in Cornwall.
Its arrival to the south-west England port was celebrated by the harbour with the boat designed by Camarc and built by Holyhead Marine, which also provides re-fit and repair of aluminium, steel, and GRP boats up to 24 m LOA or 100 ton displacement and military vessels of the same length.
Among its long term clients are the RNLI and the UK Ministry of Defence.
The boatbuilder has completed its year and a half build of a clean, safe, fuel-efficient pilot vessel to join the Falmouth fleet. It operates 24/7, 365 days a year and completes more than 1,000 boardings and landings per year within the Falmouth Harbour Pilotage Area.
Atlantic becomes one of the biggest investments by the Trust Port for almost 20 years.
The newbuild replaces the 46 year old LK Mitchell, which left the West Country port in September, surrounded by a flotilla of well-wishers. As the former pilot boat was bound for another commercial role on the west coast of Scotland in Campbeltown on the Mull of Kintyre.
More from InsiderMedia on the new pilot boat's delivery.
