ship repair
Fixing maritime vessels
Ship repair is the maintenance, restoration, or fixing of vessels—from routine servicing to major overhauls after damage.
The term covers everything from hull cleaning and engine work to emergency repairs following collisions or groundings.
Ship repair yards and dry docks specialize in this work: The tanker went into dry dock for ship repair after striking the reef.
- patchingRepairing by covering
- sandblastingCleaning surfaces with pressurized grit
- underwater weldingFusing metal submerged
- engine overhaulMajor motor reconstruction
- marine engineWatercraft propulsion system
drydock · riveting · welding · painting · antifouling · dockyard · floating dock · slipway · surface cleaning · seaworthy · sea trial · refit · hull · steel plating · corrosion · varnishing · polishing · bilge
- maritimeships, boat, boats, anchors, sailor
- Maritime Industryshipping lines, container ships, merchant ships, steamships, merchant marine
- portsport, seaport, harbor, seaports, harbors
- shippingshipping, cargo ships, container ships, freight, package
- seamanshipseamanship, steering, anchoring, navigation, chartwork
- shipbuildingshipyards, dockyards, dockyard, hull, hulls
maintenance vs. construction
ship repairshipbuilding
Constructing maritime vessels
ship construction · new construction · naval construction · boat building · new build