Company Profile
Nearly 30 years ago the company was formed to provide a source of high quality marine diesel engines at a competitive price for the boat building industry. The product would be backed up by first class after sales service.
The policy was evidently a success as within a few months the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, several pilotage and police authorities as well as the country’s leading fishing and pleasure boat builders were all Mermaid customers.
It was decided that the Mermaid Marine Engine would be based on diesel engines in large scale production by the Ford Motor Company, thus enabling the low volume marine market to benefit from the technology and economies of scale.
The advantages of these successful Mermaid diesels soon spread overseas and the start of the overseas distributor network enabled engines to be marketed and serviced in an ever increasing number of countries worldwide.
Each Mermaid diesel engine is assembled in our factory under strict quality control procedures to the Mermaid designs which incorporate only top quality components and equally important many years of practical experience.
After assembly every engine is thoroughly tested and its performance recorded against Mermaid standards to guarantee its long and reliable service life. Finally the engine is finished to the highest specification to ensure protection from the hostile environment in which many engines will be operated.
Today Mermaid offers a complete range of marine diesel propulsion engines all of which incorporate a Ford basic engine but with considerable further development by Mermaid’s own engineers, who are able to blend Ford technology with their specialist knowledge of the marine industry.
Mermaid engines are now distributed in countries from Australia to Zimbabwe and give the designed-in reliability in climatic extremes from the Antarctic to the Middle East, operating in all types of pleasure boats and commercial craft alike, ranging from heavy fishing to the fast rescue boats of the Royal Navy.
Throughout the development of the company the emphasis has been, “to produce the most reliable product, backed by an impeccable after sales service” and this philosophy will remain to ensure the continuing success of Mermaid.