Link to youtube video of the ferry departing drydock.
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The wreck of the SAINT CHRISTOPHER (HMS Justice) aground in the harbor of Ushuaia, Argentina. The SAINT CHRISTOPHER is an American-built rescue tug that served in the British Royal Navy in World War II. After the war she was decommissioned from the Royal Nay and sold for salvage operations in the Beagle Channel. After suffering engine problems in 1954, she was beached in 1957 in Ushuaia’s harbor where she now serves as monument to the shipwrecks of the region. Nestled at the southern tip of South America, Ushuaia is known as the southernmost city in the world.
Text & Photo: Reinier van de Wetering (c)
Source: Maasmond Newsclippings
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ATR-20 was laid down by Camden Shipbuilding & Marine Railway Co., Camden, Maine, 20 January 1943; launched 18 October 1943; sponsored by Miss Joy D. Creyk; transferred to the United Kingdom under lendlease 24 April 1944; and commissioned as HMS Justice at Boston, Massachusetts, the same day, Lt. J. S. Allison, RNR, in command.
During the remainder of World War II, Justice served as a rescue tug in the Royal Navy. She reportedly served at the Normandy invasion in June 1944.
Justice was returned to the U.S. Navy on 20 March 1946 and redesignated BATR-20. She was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 3 July 1946 and sold 3 October 1947 to Leopoldo Simoncini of Buenos Aires as the Costa Rican-flagged St. Christopher. In 1953 she was chartered for salvage operations in Beagle Channel on the sunken Hamburg South America Line ocean liner SS Monte Cervantes along with several Argentine Navy vessels.
After suffering engine trouble and rudder damage in 1954, she was laid up at Ushuaia.
Source: Saint Christopher HMS Justice (W140) - Original art. - Photography, Landscapes & Nature, Beach & Ocean, Other Beach & Ocean - ArtPal
M/V Hoi Ying was one of a fleet of similar ships belonging to H.M.Wrangell & Co. that carried deck passengers from Swatow in China to Singapore and Malaya in the 1950s.
She was in a collision in 1968:
A 3,400-TON NORWEGIAN FREIGHTER HOI YING WAS IN DANGER OF SINKING AFTER A COLLISION WITH A 8,400-TON SHIP MASTER GEORGE NEAR HORSBURGH LIGHTHOUSE.
THE BIGGER SHIP WAS ABLE TO RETURN TO SINGAPORE ON ITS OWN FOR REPAIRS BUT THE IMPACT LEFT A GAPING HOLE IN HOI YING’S HULL.
Date: 05/09/1968.
Source: A 3,400-TON NORWEGIAN FREIGHTER HOI YING WAS IN DANGER OF …
https://skipshistorie.net/Haugesund/HAU207HMWrangell/Tekster/HAU20719550100000%20HOI%20YING.htm
19 of the “Norilsk-class” (aka SA-15 type) ships were built in Finland in the 1980s for year around operation in the Russian Arctic and NSR:
MV KANDALAKSHA: https://www.shipspotting.com/photos/1118903?page=1&perPage=8&navList=moreOfThisShip&imo=8119156&lid=3275007
Noter the slott at the stern to pull in less ice-capable vessels for passage in ice covered waters.
Bank line (UK) had some of them. I last saw one in Papeete where its capabilities were not required.
I have visited one of the Norilsk-class (can’t remember the name) back in the early 1990s.
This was of all places in Berau, Kaltim, Indonesia, where I was doing a “Loss Prevention Study” for an insurance company.
She came from Houston with equipment for the construction of a pulp mill: web.kertas-nusantara.com
I remember she had Russian and Ukrainian (Black Sea fleet) crew but not sure if still Russian flag.
I noticed especially the notch at the stern and the thickly insulated entrance doors to the accommodations/bridge.
PS> Bank Line had 4 of them on the US to South Pacific run for some years.
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Steamer Joseph H. Frantz:
Captain Frank Blacklock,
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Retired tugboat “Big Boy”. Photo: Bent Page
Source: Shipspotting: Merchant shipping, Tugs, Cruiseships, Ferries | Facebook
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This on will never sail again:
Petrel is a whale catcher that can be seen on the foreshore at Grytviken. She was built in 1928 in Oslo, Norway. She is 35.1 m long and 245 tons and was powered by triple expansion coal fired steam engines.
Source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/606669159393098/permalink/7597048493688428/
Arild Brede Pauli
Maybe I missed her, but was the Coast Guard cadet-training ship on this forum? There is also the no-name ship in Baltimore, the Taney and the Ingham, which I believe is now in Key West.
Some impressions of the steam icebreaker (“Eisbrecher”) Stettin, built in 1933, and still in operation for enthusiast cruises. She is maintained and crewed by a team of volunteers.
The Stettin is powered by a coal fired triple expansion steam engine, and all moving parts in the engine room, including pistons and crankshaft are without covers, an awe-inspiring sight, when underway.
The term “oiler” really comes to its own on this ship, as only the major moving parts are continuously lubricated, whereas smaller or special parts have to be oiled manually all the time, with the ship carrying stores of various dedicated lubricants.
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Furter on the D/S Petrel from a post on a Norwegian Facebook page today:
Source: Norske skip 1850-2024 | Facebook
Hans Øyvind Trædal
https://skipshistorie.net/Buenos%20Aires/BAS902AlfredoRyan/Tekster/BAS90219600400000%20PETREL.htm
As mention in the Sail ship tread, several vessels are visiting Ålesund twice a year, eitherv to or from Svalbard for the summer cruise season.
The former Swedish Buoy Tender, “Stockholm” was in Ålesund 19. April:
Builder’s plaque:
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F/V Sjødis (R17SK) is an former prawn trawler built in 1966. Now belonging to Dalane Folkemuseum:
Technical details:
https://www.nesvaag-motormuseum.no/sider/sjodis.htm
She is stationed at Nesvaag Sjø- og Motor Museum and used for short fishing tours in the nearest area:
Come for a little trip at sea with F/V Sjødis (Seamist):
If you liked the sound of the Callesen Diesel, here is more:
PS> Sorry, only in Norwegian but translate well with Google.
The RIGEL of the Zeekadetkorps Maassluis for a maintenance period at De Haas Rotterdam-Shipyard and looks as new again.
https://www.scheepvaartwest.be/CMS/index.php/other/9159-rigel-eni-02716156
Since 2010 a band of volunteers in the Bay of Islands has been working to restore the Minerva, a passenger ferry built in Auckland in 1910.
The 114-year-old historic Bay of Islands Steam Ship Minerva is now closer to being back in the water after getting a new boiler.
The SS MINERVA was built in 1910 to ferry passengers between Auckland’s Queen St wharf and Howick, here it steams in to Howick circa 1910.
Former Chicago FD Fire Boat FRED A BUSSE Engine 41 performing tours along the Chicago waterways
Photo : Wibbo Hofman (c)
M/V Sandnes is a former coastal passenger ship, built in 1950. She was used as “overnight ferry” between Stavanger and Bergen. Now a museum ship in Stavanger making short trips with groups in the fjords around Stavanger during the summer season:
Seen here in Stavanger a few days ago:
Have little look around her clean and well maintained machinery space:
A presentation found onboard:
Deck layout:
Source: Norske skip 1850-2024 | Facebook
Erling Lea
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