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Front Cover Imagery Credits 1. RRS Discovery on approach to Liverpool in October 2016 – Image courtesy of National Oceanography Centre. 2. Deep Trekker ROV deploying under ice in Svalbard – Image courtesy of Planet Ocean, credit to Plymouth University. 3. HMS Queen Elizabeth – Image courtesy of BAE Systems, credit to Aircraft Carrier Alliance. 4. BAE Systems' PAC950 Rigid Inflatable Boat operating autonomously in the


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Solent – Image courtesy of BAE Systems, credit to Julian Hickman, Blue Harbour. 5. Autosub Long Range AKA ‘Boaty McBoatface’ in the work‐ shop at the NOC – Image courtesy of National Oceanography Centre. 6. The C‐Worker 7 Autonomous Vessel – Image courtesy of ASV Global. 7. HMS Queen Elizabeth Naming Ceremony – Image courtesy of the Royal Navy, MoD/Crown copyright 2017. 8. RFA Tidespring – Image courtesy of the Royal Navy, MoD/Crown copyright 2017. 9. Deep Trekker ROV deploying for mine location and removal – Image courtesy of Planet Ocean. 10. Valeport miniCTD in a manipulator of Subsea 7’s SMD Centurion ROV off Morocco / Mauritania – Image courtesy of Valeport.


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Society of Maritime Industries Annual Review 2017 5 2 Contents


Introduction President’s Foreword


Archie Bethel CBE A Message from the Chief Executive


John Murray The Councils of the Society of Maritime Industries 10


Featured Articles A Year in Pictures


Forthcoming Events


A Year in the Life of DE&S Ship Acquisition Henry Parker, DE&S


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Maritime Autonomous Systems in the Royal Navy 18 Commander Peter J. Pipkin, Royal Navy The Dreadnought Class Submarine Programme


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William Blamey, BAE Systems Submarines The New Tide Class Tankers


Commodore Duncan Lamb, Royal Fleet Auxillary How Marine Science and Technology


is Innovating the Defence Sector Terry Sloane, Planet Ocean Limited


Duqm and the Naval Dockyard –


Sustainment at Reach David Heley, Babcock International Group


Leading the way –


A new dawn for British shipbuilding Andy Askham, Cammell Laird


Benefits of Membership with the Society


of Maritime Industries (SMI) List of Members


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