About our Logo . . .

Our logo is a silhouette of the powerful deep-sea salvage tugs John Ross and Wolraad Woltemade owned and operated by Smit Marine in Cape Town. The tugs are both 94.6m long with a breadth of 15.8m and a gross tonnage of 2 860. Their bollard pull of 180 tonnes is delivered by 26 200 IHP main engines.
   The tugs have done sterling salvage work off the SA coast and world-wide since they were commissioned in the mid 1970s.

The John Ross heads for a casualty in South African waters.

Ocean-going tug Wolraad Woltemade manoeuvring off a damaged 357,647 dwt tanker, having just connected the bow.

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