McTay Marine

McTay Engineering had been set up in 1963 by James McBurney and Jim Taylor. McTay Engineering specialised in the construction of storage tanks and associated plant. Taylor and McBurney had previously been employed by another shipbuilding company, and in 1973 they began to consider the building of small workboats and launches, leading to the formation of the subsidiary McTay Marine Ltd in 1974. The group was acquired by Mowlem in the late 1970s and by Daniel Contractors of Warrington in 2006.

McTay Marine Ltd was founded as a subsidiary of McTay Engineering. Over the following 39 years the company went on to build over 120 vessels, including several UK firsts. The company built the first beam trawler in the United Kingdom, which was also the largest built up till that time. The company also built the United Kingdom's first "Voith" tug and first "Azimuth" fitted tug. The McTay-built tug Trafalgar became the world's most powerful "Voith" tug on its completion and delivery in 1998.

The company went into liquidation in 2015 and the shipyard was taken over by Carmet Marine Ltd.

McTay Marine Limited was involved in the design, build and delivery of specialised ships and workboats since 1974. Located at its 6-acre site, at Bromborough on the banks of the River Mersey, the company built over 120 vessels over a period of forty-two years.

The shipyard had a build hall and engineering workshop. The build hall is 80 metres in length by 25 metres in height with 10.4-metre-high doors opening directly onto the slipway. The engineering shop is 50 metres in length and is directly adjacent. Overhead cranage is available in the form of one 25-ton and two 5-ton travelling cranes; engineering shop has similar capacities to hand.

The slipway has a maximum 300-tonne capacity, and can be used for both vessel repairs and also launch activities.