‘There\u2019s not very far you can go’: Nine days on Scotland’s most famous lighthouse<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n \u201cWe are now looking forward to getting POLE STAR into service to support our vital safety service for mariners in Scottish and Isle of Man waters.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n The 70-metre vessel marks an important step towards more sustainable maritime operations, using new technology to minimise the impact on the environment and additional capability to help deal with the effects of climate change.\n<\/p>\n
\n NLB announced the award of a \u00a351.8 million contract to Spanish shipyard GONDAN in December 2022 for the build of the new hybrid powered vessel.\n<\/p>\n
\n The tender included\u00a0a commitment to place over \u00a32 million of contracts with UK suppliers with a requirement for any contract over \u00a325k to be advertised in the UK.\n<\/p>\n
\n As part of the deal Gond\u00e1n also created a special fully funded internship programme for up to 15 UK based students who benefited\u00a0from a range of placements at the yard during the vessel\u2019s construction.\n<\/p>\n
\n Speaking after the contract was awarded for the ship, then Maritime Minister Baroness Vere said: \u201cThis new vessel will deliver vital stores and supplies to lighthouses along the coastline and help to carry out important buoy work, providing a crucial service to the wider maritime sector and upholding world-class levels of safety in our waters.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cAs we continue working to deliver Maritime 2050 and decarbonise, it\u2019s great to see the new POLE STAR will also be much greener than its predecessor and make use of innovative technology to reduce emissions, while supporting jobs and skills in the UK.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n NLB operates two ships NLV PHAROS and NLV POLE STAR. The ships carry out buoy work, deliver stores and supplies to lighthouses and inspect navigation aids on oil and gas rigs in the Scottish sector.\n<\/p>\n
\n The new vessel\u00a0follows a tradition started in 1892 by being the fifth NLB vessel to bear the name POLE STAR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the fifth vessel to bear the name POLE STAR, the ship will support the Northern Lighthouse Board\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-657913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115791869288207765","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}