Coastal Express vessel Havila Capella in Brønnøysund.
Photo: Martin Giskegjerde / Oclin
Havila Capella won Nor-Shipping “Next Generation Ship Award. 2022”:
Vessel review:
Coastal Express vessel Havila Capella in Brønnøysund.
Photo: Martin Giskegjerde / Oclin
One of Fred Olsen Jr.'s many inventions:
This one didn’t catch on for tankers, but maybe a forerunner to modern tugs as part of ATBs?
PS> Big crews on tankers at that time
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Just another trip rounding Cape of Good Hope:
WIND EAGLE - P/R WIND TANKERS OSLO
https://skipshistorie.net/Oslo/360EHSamuelsen/Tekster/OSL36019770200000WindEagle.htm
I do . But on a different/ newer type of ship 1980/1981/1983. Suzez Canal. Lines-man boat yelling as usual : maina maina maina maina. 
M/V Kraszewski built in Denmark " locomotive " carrier . Company Chipolbrok. Soviet camp/W.Europa to China and N.Korea run via Suez Canal . Steel products to China and N.Korea and Gen cgo back to Europe and PL. Was assisting Ch/mate and 4th off in doing the stowage plan, which looked like a persian carpet . Abt 250 000 items all told from honey to ball pens , woman underwear and Chinese vodka “Sunflower” and the one with little snake inside the name of which I do not remember.
9 months back to back and I dragged my nuckles on the floor upon signing off in Sept 1981 . My wife told me I looked like gorilla
another one :
Sovietcamp/Europe to Gulf of Aden run to bring containers of French Cognacs&Brandy to Koran believers and practicioners in white jalabiyas and driven in long limos. I must also mention French perfumes -several containers . We also visited our Yemeni brothers in Al-Hudaida port where I saw impoverished goats in port eating newspapers. I checked the tasty morsel of one and it was Soviet " PRAVDA" GAZETTE. .
In Jeddah i witnessed sth incredible . The white jalabiya dressed pilot with two black rings on his noble head broke the russian/polish record in drinking our local beer “ZYWIEC” 0.75 ltr bottle… He moved into the pilot cabin which was next to the bridge and carefully covered the curtains there, so Allah would not see his sinfull act . Then I gave him 3 opened bottles and closed the doors but not completely . My curiosity ovewhelmed me so I peeked through to see him down these three bottles before I could blink a second time.
Chhers
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Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, photographing ships. The bulk carrier CASTELLANI proved elusive off the Canterbury NZ coast on November 7 as she nosed her way through sea fog. Photo: Nick Tolerton (c)
Source: Maasmond Maritime Newsclippings, 314/2024
McDermott’s Lay Bbarge 200 (LB200) seen her in Bf. Force 12 hurricane, while acting as Accommodation unit for the commissioning of the Condeep platform Statfjord B in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, autumn 1981:
Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=6523330057693748&set=gm.10159007313942918&idorvanity=2353227917
(Google translation)
PS> I was Marine Advisor onboard that time.
Wind at 10 m. above sea level reached 120 kts.
Pretty helpless feeling adrift on an accommodation barge. Had one slip her anchors to clear a production platform off Vung Tau. One Indonesian tug broke down, the other couldn’t hold it and the whole song and dance was on its way to the Phillipines with 400 people onboard. I managed to catch it and towed it and the broken down tug back to Vung Tau.
So what was your advice?
This was one year after the Alexander Kielland accident that cost 121 persons their life.
The reason I was there that day was that Norwegian Authorities did not approve the LB 200 to be used in a similar capacity without a marine qualified person in charge.
Since McDermott’s Barge Superintendent had no such qualifications a compromise was made. My company was hired by Mobile (the operator at the time) to supply two qualified Master Mariner to attend onboard while the barge was in Norwegian waters.
(14/14 days on/off)
Hope that satisfy your curiosity and snarky remark.
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I was flippant, perhaps, but not intending to be snarky. Thanks for sharing your experience.
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Somebody mentioned the Ramform seismic vessels in another thread.
Here is the real thing:
Pay a visit onboard a Ramform vessel:
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She ain’t not beauty:
No matter which angle you see her from:
https://www.americansteamship.com/fleet-and-operations/fleet/m-v-american-integrity/
The Damen shipyards group built VB CAYENNE was delivered March 27 in Rotterdam by the UHL FREEDOM above seen heading for Rotterdam-Europoort - 4e Petroleumhaven.
Photo : Reinier van de Wetering Skyphoto Maassluis (c)
Seen her being loaded on UHL Freedom in Vietnam:
Source: Riviera - News Content Hub - Newbuild tugs loaded for African and European ports
The pusher tug L’ÄVENIR with the MEN CREN casco enroute Holland Shipyards for outfitting. Photo: Arie Boer (c)
VELIKA – (Ex Lykes Ranger) - 05/04/2025 in Rio Grande
Photo: Marcelo Vieira (c)
PS> Valika since 2023
