Marine Laundry Equipment

Load, footprint and deck weight in one range

From 6 to 44 kg load and 57 to 800 litre drums, this laundry range runs from Little Giants up to the largest Benchmark washer-extractors and tumble dryers. Widths start at 596 mm and go up to 2759 mm on the biggest Professional rotary ironers, with net weights between 39 and 692 kg, so the naval architect gets clear bounds for deck loading and plant-room space. Electrical power spans 1.2 to 37.7 kW, with Benchmark reaching 37.7 kW and Little Giants confined to 1.2–6.4 kW.
On a vessel this spread lets a designer cover anything from a compact yacht laundry to a full production set-up for commercial vessels and offshore units, still within a single brand. Smaller 596–606 mm machines suit narrow laundries and stair cores, while widths over 1200 mm give the roller length needed for serious flatwork throughput. Knowing the extremes means beam, deck height and cable sizes can be locked in early instead of retrofitted around an under-specified plant.

Little Giants stacks and small-galley laundries

Little Giants cover 6–8 kg loads with drum volumes from 57 to 130 litres and widths between 596 and 606 mm, all in net weights from 49 to 108 kg. Electrical power in this class runs from 1.2 to 6.4 kW, which makes them easier to feed from a constrained hotel-services board than a 20 kW machine. Supply options include 230 V, 208–240 V, 400 V and 400–480 V, at both 50 Hz and 60 Hz, so a single series can be matched to European, US or 440 V shipboard systems.
These are the natural candidates for yacht laundries, boat galleys carrying a few crew cabins, and any vessel where stacked columns have to live in a pantry or corridor recess. All Little Giants are tagged Marine approved and Offshore specified, and many carry disinfection and tested virucidal programmes where hygiene control matters more than sheer throughput. Where vertical space allows, using washer-dryer stacks from the Benchmark range lets a similar footprint carry bigger single-batch loads without giving up the flexibility of separate machines.

Benchmark and Professional for higher throughput

Benchmark covers 9–44 kg loads with drum volumes from 80 to 800 litres, widths from 700 to 1206 mm and net weights from 72 up to 692 kg. Power ratings in this series stretch from 4.6 to 37.7 kW, so the same platform can sit on modest or heavily provisioned electrical services. Supply voltages span 230 V through 400 V, 440 V and 480 V at both 50 Hz and 60 Hz on many models, supporting mixed-fleet standardisation where shore and ship supplies differ.
Professional rotary ironers in the same marine catalogue run from 985 to 2759 mm wide and electrical loads from 3.2 to 23.5 kW. These are the pieces that turn washer capacity into usable linen throughput on cruise, ferry and offshore accommodation laundries. A significant part of the Benchmark and Professional ranges is flagged Energy management ready, Payment system ready and Network connectable, which matters if the owner wants to monitor consumption, run coin or card systems, or link machines into a ship-wide management platform instead of leaving them as stand-alone islands.

Vessel voltages, frequencies and heating choices

Across the 113 products the data plate voltages range from 208–240 V and 220–240 V up to 400 V, 400–480 V, 440 V and 450 V. Both 50 Hz and 60 Hz are represented on most of the catalogue, mirroring the reality that ships and shore power are not standardised to a single combination. Benchmark and Little Giants machines in particular show 50 Hz on dozens of products and 60 Hz on a similar count, allowing like-for-like models to be chosen for different flags without redesigning the laundry.
Almost all of the equipment is electrically heated; only two products are steam heated, so on a vessel with steam available the laundry will still be mainly an electrical load. Heat-pump dryers without exhaust vents sit alongside air-vented models, giving naval architects a choice between an exhaust duct run through fire zones and a condensate drain connection instead.

When to move to Washing Machines, Tumble Dryers or Ironers

This Marine Laundry Equipment page is the right place when the specification involves a complete laundry mix of washing machines, tumble dryers, rotary ironers and washer-dryer stacks, sized and powered to work together. It is the wrong place if the task is to drill into only one equipment type in detail, or to compare models purely within a single function. For that, the separate Washing Machines, Tumble Dryers, Ironers and Washer-Dryer Stacks sub-categories give a tighter view by load class, width band and heating method within each function.