National Grid Community Day

Welcome to a ​National Grid - Grain LNG - Community Day on board PS Medway Queen.
​The photos showing progress made are arriving here faster than I can get them on the website! Absolutely fantastic.

Thanks to a team of volunteers from the National Grid - Grain LNG Medway Queen has received a much needed "wash and brush up". The volunteer task force descended on the ship at 8:30 on Friday 24th May and carried out a wide variety of jobs for us.

The atmosphere was fantastic and supervised and supported by Mick Appleyard, Ron Vant & Judith Maguire, the volunteers were split into small working teams and did a fabulous job of:

1. Gangway - Jet off plant growth on gangway & apply non-slip tape.
2. Gangway - Replace ship access gangway netting with scaffold scrim.
3. Skylights - Clean brass work on sky lights. Sand & stain skylight frames.
4. Skylight covers - Repair sky light covers and paint.
5. Quarter deck ladder - Remove poop-deck ladder, clean, sand and stain.
6. Engine Room - Wire brush piston securing mounts and steel ladder and apply red oxide primer.  Clean painted engine parts and control gear of dust & grime.
7. Sponsons - Jet sponsons clean of plant growth.
8. Aft promenade - Apply silver paint top coat on aft’ steel plates.
9. Forward bollards – wire brush and paint.
10. Bow Rudder wheel mounting – wire brush and paint.
11. Footpath between carparks – level out designated walkway surface with chippings.

 Maurice C, Layla W & Andy H also helped with painting cleaning and ‘gofer-ing’.
Judith Maguire.

The pictures above were all taken in the first couple of hours or so of the day's work!
​If you are local come down on Saturday and see the difference for yourself. 
With very grateful thanks to all of the Community Team from National Grid at Grain LNG for their hard work, support and enthusiasm and to Judith Maguire for organising the work program and taking the photographs.