One more Dutch veteran ship, the KPMC interisland vessel MV Holland:
Miramar Ship Index
http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz/ship/list?search_op=OR&IDNo=5153450
Another Dutch built veteran who outlasted her time by a fair bit: Mariner, here arriving at her home base of Loyang. Scrapped only a couple of years ago in 2019. Built as Kaisa Dan at the IJsselwerf in NL for Danish company J. Lauritzen in 1962 - Ice strengthened for the Greenland trade.
Converted into a geotechnical drilling ship by Heerema in 1974; working for Fugro since the early 90ies. Was still fitted with here original Smit-Bolness 10 cylinder 2 stroke cross-head engine (reduced to about 1250hp in the warm waters she sailed in). Allegedly a great ship to work on, heard one of the captains worked on board from the conversion in '74 to her scrapping in 2019. I imagine the forward viz would take some getting used to!
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Yes the old Mariner was a regular at Loyang Base for many years.
I inspected her last in 2002 and can confirm that Capt. Henk G.Nieuvenhuis was the Master then. He had been the Master on her since the conversion in 1974.
Here she is as Kaisa Dan:
And as Mariner, seen at Loyang,
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I recall a number of vessels trading in the Pacific with a name ending in Dan. Nowadays vessels of this size and simplicity are hard to find and many small Island communities can’t afford more sophisticated tonnage.
That Miramar link don’t work unless you are paid up.
Here is the statistics:
Built 1951 by Amsterdam DD Amsterdam - yard No86 as HOLLAND.
Cargo -Netherlands.
1504 tons - 1284 Dwt.
L77.4m x B11.6m.
Single screw diesel - 10Kts.
Name Changes:
1966 Greyville.
73 Tropic Sands.
82 Jaya Wijaya 1.
Owners:
66 Durban Lines Pty Ltd.
70 Palm Sg and Tdg Co Pty Ltd.
73 Southwind Sg Co Pte Ltd.
77 PT Perusahaan Pelayaran Nusantara.
82 PT Mahakam Maskapai Pelayaran Nusantara.
Broken up Surabaya 11.1985.
PS> I was Master on the first trip S’pore - Irian Barat (West Papua) in 1973. Handed over to the Bugis Ch.Mate in Samarinda. Was asked to take the sextant and chronometer with me, since Bugis don’t need such thing.
She didn’t have a radar.
Whaler Lyngøy pulling a mink whale onboard in her earlier life:
Now used as a whale safari boat stationed at Finnøy:
The harpoon gun is now for show and for guests to take selfies with.
Used to be an old - though not this old - Smit (Lloyd?) supplier mooring in Loyang quite often as well. Converted into a geotech drill vessel as ‘Technic Samudra’ for TL. According to the galley telegraph they had ‘cockroaches the size of mice, mice the size of rats and rats as big as small dogs’.
This one:
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=128967
Yes she was a regular at Loyang Base.
The SEVERN SEA, formerly Swedish Navy built 1947 and still working hard. Seen outbound from Great Yarmouth. Photo : Paul Gowen ©
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One more veteran ship. Seen here in her days on charter to the Norwegian Coast Guard:
https://www.sjohistorie.no/no/skip/613269
Still in service.
She should be well known to many here under her present name:
A nearly pre-historic picture of Heavy Lift Vessel LADY JANE during delivery heavy goods for Port-Talbot Steel Factory ( Wales UK 1968 ).Photo : via Bas van der Voet.
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1767471
Her history:
https://www.marhisdata.nl/schip&id=3578
As Happy Mammoth:
The state of Vermont and the Lake Champlain Transportation Company are dropping plans to sink a century-old Adirondack ferry in Lake Champlain, where it could have been used as an underwater scuba diving destination.
SS Stord built 1913
Statsraad Lehmkuhl built 1914 as the Grossherzog Friedrich August
RS Ragnhild Schanche built 1938. Served as a rescue vessel.
HNoMS Hitra built by Fisher Boat Works 1943
MS Vestgar built 1957
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Sad sight of a tug I remember well:
Built in 1983 at the Schram Shipyard in Bolnes and completed at the Damen Shipyard BV in Gorinchem for Damen Marine Service BV in Gorinchem and named DAMEN DRAGON FLY. the 40.57 x 9.52 x 3.50 tug which is powered by 2 x 1200 HP Caterpillar engines was sold in 1989 to L.H. Visser & Zn Towage & Marine Services BV in Oude Schild – Texel The Netherlands and renamed ELIZABETH, for worldwide towage, as we did several projects together I remember the ELIZABETH as a tug with “the secret weapon” as captain Menzo van Heusden from Terschelling. that time in command of the tug always said which was the retractable/dropdown- azimuth thruster in the bow giving the vessel some extra pulling power.
The ELIZABETH was in 1996 sold to Jasa Merin Sendirian Berhad in Kentang (Maleisië) and renamed PERMINT SETIA, and sold again in 2008 to Kei-Ross Maritieme Ltd. in Visakhapatnam and renamed COROMONDEL above the “once” the proud of Texel as the COROMONDEL SUPPORT IV “in cold lay up”in Kakinada, awaiting her fate as spotted last week by Teun Hofman - Manager Operations Offshore - Jumbo The Maritime Heavy lift Company ©
When ships looked nice:
Concordia Taleb, blt. in Germany 1960,
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This is the Yavari, one of two ship on Lake Titicaca commissioned by the Peruvian government in the 1860s as warships with which they intended to fight the Bolivians on the lake. The ships were constructed at Thames Ironworks, bolted together, trialed, then taken to bits and shipped to South America, the final stage of the journey being carried out by mules. By the time they got there the war was over. Her sister ship the Yapura travels about the lake providing medical services.
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The TS Earnslaw a coal fired twin screw ship 168 ft long 24 ft beam 6.9 ft was built in Dunedin, New Zealand. Then dismantled she was transported by train to Lake Wakatipu where it was reassembled and launched in 1912. Coal fired she has two 500hp triple expansion steam engines and is still classed with Lloyds as a passenger vessel. The slip way where she undergoes surveys has a winch and steam engine recovered from a vessel Antrim built in 1880.
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AFAIK, the Yavari’s Bolinder is the only surviving hot bulb engine with more than two cylinders.
I’ve considered travelling there just to hear it run.
Well, I travelled there just to see the ship. It was a rewarding expedition so well worth a trip to see the engine run.
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Normo Group produced semi-diesel engines with up to 4 cylinders and 300 Hp. until 1980:
http://semidiesel.no/engines/Normo.html