Those are retired Island-Class cutters being given to Ukraine. Two were sent over in 2019 aboard the Ocean Freedom.
Ukraine got the cutters Ocracoke, Cushing, Drummond, Washington, and Kiska.
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Not sure what this one is classed as:
Little Noah’s Ark passing Alblasserdam and heading direction Rotterdam pushed by pusher tug JOHANNES-J and in the front the ORION.
Photo: Hans van Tooren ©
There is another “replica” of the Ark in Kentucky that you may want to visit:
If not, you get can see it all here:
2nd Anniversary of the Ark Encounter - YouTube
I have been looking at this one being “rebuilt” in Cumberland, MD for almost 30 years. I see it from I-68 every time I go paddling on the Youghiogheny River.
“So God spoke to him again…” (What’s a cubit?)
That’s Federal Yoshino
Not a ship, or any seafarer in the pictures, but there are a nautical connection:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/allatsea/permalink/4996529647048235/
Two Russian Trawler in Ålesund today. Waiting for space at a shipyard:
KAPITAN DURACHENKO, blt. Norway1997 (ex Icelandic Husvikingur)
BOOTS, blt 1986 in Straalsund, East Germany.
Multi-purpose / Ro-Ro Short Sea Vessel TRANS CARRIER navigating the Sognefjord on its way to Ardalstangen.
Photo: Chris Rombouts (c)
Self-elevating mobile offshore drilling unit “HAKURYU 12” belonging to Japan Drilling Co. (JDC) and self-elevating mobile offshore accommodation/work barge “SEAFOX MATSU” belonging to Seafox Group, working at an complex offshore Qatar
Photo: Capt. Zefri Nurzafrial ©
The SEVEN RIO and SEVEN WAVES moored in Banit-Brazil
Photo: Capt Jan Plug Master Seven Rio ©
SubSea 7 is busy in Brazil:
SEVEN SUN well painted during her maintenance stop in Niteroi and now back at work in Buzios field, Campos basin in Brazil, in a tandem lay operation with SEVEN RIO.
Photo: Capt Jan Plug Master Seven Rio ©
With a single mast but a wall of columns:
Drilling in the North Sea UK sector.
Helicopter coming in for crew change on a semi-submersible drilling rig the Ocean Princess semisubmersible drilling rig.
https://www.infield.com/rigs/rig-ocean-princess-semisub-60038
The drilling rig Transocean Winner ran aground on a Lewis beach in a storm in August after breaking free while under tow from Norway to Malta:
Hooking up tow:
SSCV Hermod is sadly no more with us. Broken up 2017:
MV Norbjørn in Port of Longyearbyen, Svalbard.
Photo: Thomas Nilsen
She is on a regular run Tromsø - Longyearbye, with calls at Ny.Ålesund and Barentsburg as req.
Sunset over the Mississippi River near New Orleans as seen by ROG’s Martin van Leest enroute the Workboat Show 2021 in New Orleans.
Fish feed carrier EIDSVAAG OMEGA moored in Stokmarknes
Photo: Henk de Winde ©
An interesting vessel, the Petrotrans 5904, passed Ålesund today on her way from ARKHANGELSK, RU to ISKENDERUN, TR:
She is a RSD59 dry cargo Sea-River vessel (AKA “Volga-Don Max”):
http://meb.com.ua/n_ewse/n_ews-e.html?1694
PS> For those not familiar with Arkhangelsk (soon to be Putingrad):
On a different scale:
The 23992 TEU EVER ACE and the 23964 TEU MSC AMELIA moored at Felixstowe
Photo: Steven de Bont - Chief Engineer TSHD Medway ©
And back to a smaller and more interesting vessel:
The research/survey vessel “OSCAR DYSON” incoming for Seattle. She was built in 2005, her length overall and breadth is 63,00 x 15,00 mtrs.
Photo: Aart van Essen ©
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amazing they good fit 2 of every animal on board that vessel
Cyprus-flagged, 2021 delivered, RoRo Ferry ‘ELEANOR ROOSEVELT’, 12.262 GROSS, servicespeed 33,0 knots, moored alongside Balearia Ferryterminal in Denia (Sp).
Photo: Alexander Hoogstrate (c)
Twice a week the 249-passenger ferry M/S Sarfaq Ittuk plies 1,330 kilometers along the west coast of Greenland from Ilulissat in the north to Qaqortoq in the south.
http://www.ferry-site.dk/cruiseship.php?id=8913899&lang=en
Arctic Umiaq Line operates passenger and freight services by sea in Greenland.
McDermott’s CSV AMAZON departed from Rotterdam Waalhaven to sea for trials 6 dec. 2021.
Photo: Henk Van der Heijden ©
The PSV NS IONA “rolling” into the port of Aberdeen Photo : George Saunders (c)
MSV KASTEELBORG working in the North Sea Leman field
Photo: Edwin Drost - Medic MV Kasteelborg ©
C1 vessel FYE:
1944 Built as CAPE SEBASTIAN at Pennsylvania Shipyards Inc., Beaumont, Texas, USA for US War Shipping Adm., Beaumont, Texas. Delivered in August.
1947 Sold in April to Westfal-Larsen & Co. A/S, Bergen. Renamed EIDANGER .
1965 Sold in April to K/S Skips-A/S Solhav (Johannes Solstad, Skudeneshavn), Bergen.
1966 Registered in September at Skudeneshavn. Renamed SOLSYN .
1971 Sold in November to Singapore Cosmos Shipping Co. Ltd, Singapore.
1972 Renamed GOODYEAR .
1974 Sold to Singapore Goodyear Shipping Co. (Pte.) Ltd, Singapore.
1977 Sold to Singapore Cosmos Shipping Co. (Pte.) Ltd, Singapore.
1979 Arrived 06/09 at Kaohsiung, Taiwan for demolition that began 17/09 by Chi Young Steel Enterprise Co.
PS> From the funnel it looks like a steam ship, but:
Propulsion: 2 diesel engines, Nordberg. Each 2-stroke / single TV, 6-cylinder, awl. dim .: 21.5 ‘’ x 29.0 ‘’. Total 3,400 BHK at 220 rpm. geared to 90 rpm. on a propeller shaft. Built by Nordberg Mfg. Co., Milwaukee, WI, USA.
The 1999 built 37236 t DWT STOLT CONCEPT navigating the Singapore Strait
Photo: Piet Sinke www.maasmondmaritime.com (c
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Main hook (SWL 7000MT).Semi submersible crane vessel “Saipem 7000”.
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I was as Towmaster.on two project with SSCV Micoperi 7000 (now Saipem 7000) back in 1989
She has two crane of 7000 m.t. SWL, for a tandem lifting capacity of 14000 M.t.
PS> Those two fall wires you see here are 36000 m. in length each, with 4 winches serving the block. (One winch at each end of the falls)
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