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Offline Dеnis

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What ship is this?
« on: January 21, 2015, 11:58:46 AM »
Found on one forum: no name or IMO given, so I wonder if someone recognizes this?
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Re: What ship is this?
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2015, 02:59:12 PM »
Hi,
Size could match with KAN-2 (IMO9550852), built in Turkey. But I cannot find a photo.
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Offline Phil English

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Re: What ship is this?
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2015, 03:40:17 PM »
Yes, Kan-2, confirmed by this:

http://www.seft.com.tr/upload/GeneralCargo.pdf

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Re: What ship is this?
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2015, 04:35:17 PM »
KAN-2 is building - very slowly - by Karadeniz Gemi Insaa Sanayi ve Ticaret AS, Unye. I don't think that the location matches:
http://www.karadeniztersanesi.com/vinc.php
http://preview.tinyurl.com/ouvsgcp

Photo apparently taken 3/2010. But KAN-2 listed as already launched 15/5/2009.
But presumably a sister, then building at another yard.

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Re: What ship is this?
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2015, 04:56:37 PM »
Thanks all!  Much appreciated!
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Denis

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Re: What ship is this?
« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2015, 05:04:02 PM »
Yes, agree with you David.
On Google Earth view dated 23 Apr 2010 of Unye, no trace of the ship. And the yard seems to be fitted with one gantry not two as on the photo.

Perhaps partially built at Unye and completed in other place ? Or sister-ship ...

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Re: What ship is this?
« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2015, 05:19:20 PM »
Just for info, the 'launch dates' given by Equasis/IHS for newbuild vessels are notoriously incorrect with some vessels not having been launched at all.

The company who designed the ship don't appear to have a sistership on the table either, otherwise it would have been in their PDF.

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Re: What ship is this?
« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2015, 06:35:24 PM »
Although I don't disagree with that, and certainly failure to show ships as launched when they have been is not at all uncommon, it is less so the other way round.  Do you have an alternative launch date for KAN-2?

Anyway, the photos doesn't seem to match the yard anyway, particularly the background buildings on the left and what looks like land laid out in plots for future shipyards (like Tuzla must have been years ago). 

The Seft.com.tr website is peculiar - I cannot see how to navigate to the pdf you found (though it is undoubtedly there, perhaps it's intentionally hidden as no longer current? The logo has changed also).  All very odd.

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Re: What ship is this?
« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2015, 07:37:59 PM »
There are numerous instances of owners confirming newbuildings cancelled having never got to the keel laying stage, yet Equasis says they are on order and have been launched. But that's by the by. This is a mystery - I have no alternative information in this case and I agree that the location looks wrong.

I'll see what else I can dig out tomorrow.

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Re: What ship is this?
« Reply #9 on: January 22, 2015, 04:58:36 PM »
Karadeniz Gemi Insaa Sanayi ve Ticaret AS is part of the Altintas Group who owned a separate shipyard, Altintas Shipyard, in Altinova. That facility appears to have closed down and the cranes were removed in 2009 according to the below link (requires translation). I believe that it is the Altintas cranes that we see in the photo above.

http://www.virahaber.com/haber/altintas-2-vinc-kaldirdi-10274.htm

As such, I remain of the opinion that the vessel above is Kan-2.

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Re: What ship is this?
« Reply #10 on: January 22, 2015, 05:17:02 PM »
Phil,

I think you have it. The current aerial photography on Google Earth shows what appears to be this vessel at Altinova. One can also see the shadows from two gantry cranes, and what appear to be the concrete pads visible in the photo nearby.

https://goo.gl/maps/Zm0dW

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« Last Edit: January 22, 2015, 05:37:51 PM by Kyle Stubbs »
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Re: What ship is this?
« Reply #11 on: January 23, 2015, 01:18:48 AM »
Excellent Phil/Kyle.  Excellent match of location/background.
Suspect the photo Denis posted may be only a little bit before the current Google.  She is sitting on the pad in the same position by the stern. 

Do you think, Phil, that the KAN-2 hull was ever at

 

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