Press release- With over 50 years behind him in ship and boatbuilding and civil engineering, Alastair Brown, Commercial Manager of Alnmaritec in Blyth, Northumberland, has announced his retirement.
With a family background in engineering, it was almost inevitable that brown would follow in his father’s footsteps to become an engineer, starting his working life as an apprentice draughtsman with Vickers-Armstrong Shipbuilding and Swan Hunter Shipbuilders in Newcastle. He further consolidated his shipbuilding credentials at Swan Hunter. In 1974 he moved to the offshore industry, moving to Scotland in 1976 and then to try his hand at the civil engineering sector in London until 1981 when he returned to shipbuilding and engineering where he stayed until the demise of the shipbuilding industry on Tyneside.
Throughout his career, Brown traveled widely, spending time in Australia, Indonesia and Malaysia.
In 2003, hearing of an opportunity at the fledgling aluminum-hull boat builders, Alnmaritec, he jumped at the chance to return to his roots and to an industry he knew well.
When he joined Alnmaritec, it was on project number 7. The builder is now completing projects 169 and 170 – and Alastair has been involved in every one of these, from diving boats and small cargo tenders to offshore line-handling and hose-handling vessels and aquaculture boats.