Anchor & mooring winches

The Rolls-Royce concept offers tailor-made winch solutions from a range of standard modules that are light, compact and easy to install, to deliver real value for money solutions. Modular design and our global production and distribution centres located close to the world's main shipbuilding centres means short lead times.

Select from all-electric, high pressure or low pressure hydraulic drive options to match your requirements. Each winch is built of modules that include the drum, shafting with accessories, brake, bearing bracket, warping end, gear and drive.

Windlasses are made up of cable lifter unit, pinion shaft and the clutch and brake module - the drum size and the main shaft line are open design parameters and can be specified. Mooring winches can be supplied with pulling capacities from 5 to 40 tonnes and anchor windlasses for up to 137mm chain.

Low-pressure hydraulic systems are often the preferred choice for LNG carriers and large VLCC's where safety is a vital consideration. System features real high speed dynamic lowering of anchor of up to 40m/min is possible and have now been installed on over 70 vessels of this type.

High-pressure hydraulic systems are a popular choice for oil product and chemical tankers. They can be directly integrated with the vessels central hydraulic system that is used to drive the cargo pumps, so there is no need for a dedicated powerpack.

Frequency controlled winches are now the natural choice for cruise ships where speed, stepless control and quite operation are important. They are also favoured for LNG carries by some yards and owners.