Allseas has sold its Tog Mor shallow-water pipelay barge for repurposing after the vessel ran aground in Mexico in September while seeking shelter from a storm.
The salvage operation was successful.
After Allseas acquired the vessel in 1997, it underwent conversion for pipelay and construction between 2001 and 2002. Its first job in the new guise was the Interconnector Scotland-Ireland pipeline, followed by installations of more than 400 km of nearshore pipeline at various locations worldwide.
Tog Mor ("Big Lift" in Gaelic) had originally been built in 1975 as a heavy-duty floating derrick, with Stülcken masts for the assembly of large sections and modules for offshore production platforms.
Its first job was the construction of Phillips’ Maureen platform in the UK North Sea. Later, the vessel was chosen to lift the 16th century Mary Rose warship from the Solent seabed offshore southern Englans.
