Marine Washing Machines

Load bands from 6 to 35 kg on one page

These marine washing machines run from 6 kg Little Giants up to 35 kg Benchmark units, with drum volumes between 57 and 320 litres. That spread lets a designer cover small crew laundries and full hotel services with the same brand, instead of mixing platforms. Net weights move from under 110 kg for the smallest machines to just under 700 kg for the largest, so floor loading and vibration transfer into the deck change significantly as the load class increases.
Most machines on this page are electric, with a small number of steam-heated variants where the vessel has steam available. Width ranges from 596 mm to 1090 mm, which is the practical corridor and doorway question: Little Giants sit below 605 mm, while Benchmark machines start at 700 mm wide and rise, so refit access and route to the laundry need checking before specifying the larger sizes.

Little Giants for compact and stacked laundries

Little Giants cover 6 to 8 kg with 57 to 73 litre drums, sitting in the 2.85 to 5 kW band. All are marine approved and offshore specified, and every Little Giants model on this page carries a disinfection programme and a honeycomb drum. The combination suits smaller crew laundries on yachts and offshore units where each cycle may be a mixed load of workwear, personal clothing and galley linen rather than bulk hotel linen.
Their 596 to 605 mm width and net weight around 100 kg make them realistic for stacked columns and for spaces that started life as domestic laundries. Little Giants are also the most flexible on supply: across the series there are models at 208–240 V, 230 V, 400 V and 400–480 V, with every listed Little Giants unit named for 60 Hz and most also for 50 Hz. That matters on a vessel that changes trade, because the laundry can follow the ship's supply without a transformer in front of it.

Benchmark machines for shipboard bulk washing

Benchmark washer-extractors start at 9 kg and rise to 35 kg with drums from 80 to 320 litres and power draws from 5.25 up to 31.6 kW. They are specified where the laundry is handling bedding, towelling and uniforms at scale and where the higher electrical connection and deck load can be justified by throughput. As with the smaller machines, all Benchmark models here are marine approved, offshore specified and carry disinfection programmes, with most also tested virucidal.
Benchmark width runs from 700 to 1090 mm and net weight from 140 to 692 kg, so they sit firmly in the “planned plant” bracket rather than opportunistic refits. Supply voltages run to 230 V, 400 V, 440 V and 480 V variants, and there are both 50 Hz and 60 Hz machines, with 50 Hz the more common. That allows a naval architect to match a 440 V or 480 V / 60 Hz main distribution without creating a one‑off voltage just for the laundry, but it does mean that the final model choice must follow the ship’s single supply standard.

Specifying for marine power and space constraints

Across the whole category, electrical power spans from 2.85 to 31.6 kW, and the machines spread fairly evenly through that range rather than clustering at one size. On a shipboard switchboard designed around 440 V or 690 V, a pair of high‑end Benchmark washers can represent a noticeable block of load, so aligning machine size with the real daily tonnage is more than a theoretical exercise. The presence of a small number of steam‑heated machines in the range gives designers with a central boiler the option to move some of that load off the electrical side, provided the ship’s steam is available when the laundry is busiest.
Every machine on the page carries a disinfection programme and a marine approval, so the differentiation is not about basic suitability but about footprint and connection. Width facets show that some units sit in the 401–600 mm band, others between 601–800 mm and a similar number between 801–1200 mm. In practice that means a designer can build from narrow stackable columns at one end to wide, high‑capacity Benchmarks at the other, as long as door widths, escape routes and maintenance access are planned around the largest machines in the layout.

Where Tumble Dryers, Ironers and Stacks take over

This page is only about washer‑extractors; it does not cover drying, finishing or combined footprints. Where the driving constraint is deck area rather than washing capacity, the Washer‑Dryer Stacks category is often a better starting point, because it shows what can be achieved vertically without increasing the footprint. If the bottleneck is drying rather than washing, the Tumble Dryers page carries both vented and heat‑pump machines sized to match the loads here.
For flatwork finishing such as table linen, napkins and bedding, the Ironers category is the relevant section of the catalogue. In a fully specified shipboard laundry the washing machines on this page, selected by load class and supply voltage, will normally be paired with at least one category of those sibling products rather than specified in isolation.