Staff

Stephen Phillips, CEng FRINA FIMarEST
Stephen Phillips is the managing director of Seaspeed Marine Consulting Ltd and is an experienced naval architect and marine engineer. Having been closely involved in the developing fast ferry industry in both the UK and Australia, he founded Seaspeed in 1990. Since that time he has continued to specialise in the technology and safety of high speed marine transportation.

Dan Hook, CEng MRINA
Dan Hook is the company’s technical director with responsibility for the running of the technical office covering naval architecture, design support, trials and testing and R&D. He is a graduate of Southampton University with a particular interest in the performance and operation of advanced marine vehicles.

Richard Daltry, GMRINA
Richard Daltry is the company’s senior naval architect with additional responsibility for the company’s IT and test & trials instrumentation. He is also a graduate of Southampton University, with a special interest in CAD, computer modelling and ship motion control.

Phil Clark, BEng
Phil is responsible for the mechanical design, production and testing of components for Seaspeed projects. He is experienced in 3D design, rapid prototyping and design for production.
 

Facilities

Management and Design Offices – The company owns and occupies two adjacent modern offices near the city centre of Chichester in West Sussex. A networked IT system ensures that all staff can access the full range of company resources and data. All work is covered by the ISO 9001/2000 quality assurance accreditation. 

Electronics Workshop – This is used for the preparation and maintenance of instrumentation and other electrical/electronic equipment used by the company for model testing, trials and prototype development.

Engineering Workshop - The 1000 ft² workshop, outfitted with a comprehensive set of engineering equipment and tools, is used for ship model and prototype build and for preparation for tests and sea-trials.

Test Facilities – Seaspeed also has access to a range of UK test facilities including towing tanks (Solent and Haslar), a large manoeuvring basin (Haslar) and large shallow water basins (Wallingford). Additionally, the company has arrangements with local harbour authorities for the testing of free running models and prototypes in open-water and open–sea conditions.