The Coastal Express ship “Lofoten” during one of her hundreds of crossing of Stadthavet,
PS> A ship tunnel will be constructed allowing coastal shipping to avoid this notorious stretch of open water on the inshore fairway along the Norwegian coast:
“Lofoten” was built in 1964, retired from the Coastal express in 2021 but still in active service as a training ship for Sørlandet Maritime High School:
1957 Built as EDDA at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Re-org., Kobe, Japan for Skips-A/S Edda (Berge Sigval Bergesen), Oslo. Launched 15/05, delivered in July. 1964 Sold to Skibs-A/S Akersviken (Torvald Klaveness), Oslo. Renamed SKARVA . 1973 Sold to Easthampton Co. Ltd (Bouboulina Shipping S.A.), Piraeus, Greece. Renamed EASTAR . 1979 Sold to Grecian Prosperity Inc. (Lelakis Shipping Ltd, Piraeus), Panama. Renamed EASTERN NAV . 1983 Sold to Framlingham Ltd (Regal Bay SS. Co. Ltd - N. Vassiliades), Panama. Renamed BRAZILIA . 1985 Sold to Atlantic Fishing Enterprises (Pty.) Ltd (Cape Town), Panama.
Arrived 06/04 at Yantai, China for demolition.
Source: skipshistorie
Translation: A young herring seller treading herrings on a string on the deck of Bratt.
He would take it around town, hoping to make a good sale.
PS> Could be me.
SS Ohio entering grand harbour in Malta 15 August 1942.
[quote] Ohio was possibly the largest and fastest tankers on the planet when she was launched by the Texas Oil Company in 1940. These qualities led to her commandeering by the British government in July 1942 and her reassignment with a British crew under captain Dudley Mason.
Finally at 9:30 AM on August 15, Ohio staggered into Malta’s Grand Harbor, greeted by jubilant crowds and a brass band. On the verge of breaking in two and her bow nearly submerged, the tanker was sandwiched between the destroyers Ledbury and Penn with the Rye holding her stable from the rear.
The broken Ohio sat out the remainder of the war in Grand Harbor serving as a storage facility and barracks. Her separate halves were finally towed out of the harbor and sunk in 1946.
Fernbrook:
IMO 5140002 , Dead.
Ship Type : General Cargo Ship.
Dim : Loa / Lpp x Beam - 138.7 / 126.8 x 18.1 mtr.
Cargo Gear Capacity : 17 Derricks 1 x 50 t - 6 x 10 t - 2 x 8 t - 6 x 5 t x 2 x 3 t SWL.
Built in 1960 by Reheinstahl Nordseewerke G.m.b.H. Emden Germany as " FERNBROOK " for D/S I/S Garonne, A/S Glittre & A/S Marina ( Fernley & Eger Rederi A/S Oslo as manager ) Oslo Norway.
The CAPE NOME (AKA 1014) completed its final journey to SMS Brownsville – All Star Metals, Tuesday, December 05, 2023. The CAPE NOME is an AK-578 Class Cargo ship and served a combination of purposes, including as a container ship, break-bulk cargo ship, and roll on/roll off (RORO) ship. The CAPE NOME has had a distinguished career, Laid down in 1969 as the commercial ro-ro containership SS MORMACSTAR, the CAPE NOME served under several different names and shipping lines before her 1987 acquisition by the Maritime Administration. serving actively in the United States Navy for over a quarter of a century and almost another in the National Defense Reserve Fleet. We are honored to receive the CAPE NOME. As always, SMS prides itself in a safety-first work environment and emphasizes the highest standards of environmentally safe remediation and recycling.
There have been many attempts to save the SS United States over the years, but nothing has come of it YET!!. Here is an article from 1980 about one such attempt:
