DMS Maritime, formerly Defence Maritime Services, is a company providing port services to the Australian Defence Force and Marine Unit. It is a subsidiary of Serco.

History

Defence Maritime Services was founded in 1997 as a 50:50 joint venture between P&O Maritime Services and Serco to fulfill a contract to organise tug boats and ferries and supply and maintain small boats for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). In 2012, Serco bought out P&O's shareholding. Headquartered in Sydney, it has operations in Cairns, Darwin, Dampier, Fremantle, Western Port, Jervis Bay and Sydney. It currently operates eight oceangoing vessels and over 100 harbour craft and has around 350 staff. The services DMS is contracted to provide to the RAN include operating tug boats and lighters at RAN bases, training members of the RAN, and maintaining RAN warships.

Vessels operated

Auxiliaries

General-purpose tenders Both Vessels have been Retired and removed from DMS Service. Submarine rescue and escape ships

Yard and service craft

60-ton flat-top lighters Southerly 65 class diving tenders Miscellaneous concrete ammunition lighters Wattle class crane stores lighters Steber 43 naval general purpose workboats Noosacat 930 harbour personnel boats Riviera class VIP launch Admiral's barge Shark Cat 800 harbour personnel boats Naval work boats Halvorsen-design workboat 40-foot Mk 1 and 1963-design workboats '''AWB Mod. II workboat''' AWB short and long group cabin workboats 7.2 metre rigid-hulled inflatable boats Radio controlled surface targets Wallaby-class water and fuel lighters All vessels have been retired and Replaced by larger, newer and safer designed craft post 2017. Torpedo recovery craft Withdrawn and no longer operated. Vessels have been sold to private owners. Compact tug Tug/workboat Coastal tugs Medium harbour tug Bronzewing-class harbour tug

Training craft

Aviation training ship Sail training craft Swarbrick III class small training yachts Tasar sail dinghies ASI 315 class navigation and seamanship training craft