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Offline Bruce Salt

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M/Y TITANIC
« on: January 12, 2017, 01:44:12 PM »
Does anyone know the whereabouts of the 78m long M/Y TITANIC IMO: 7338561 which I photographed at St. Helena Island in mid August 2009.  She was on a delivery voyage to Grenada to undergo a conversion into a luxury motor yacht but can find no details of her now.  Does anyone know if the conversion was successful?
Of course without her delivery crew, which in actual fact some were the original crew on the Cape Town to Tristan da Cunha run she nearly sunk while in the inexperienced hands of a skeleton crew in the Carribean later that year.
if anyone has more information on her I'd like to hear from them please.

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Re: M/Y TITANIC
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2017, 12:08:39 AM »
By 11/2009 was at Grenada: http://www.marine-marchande.net/Jourlejour2/J/269-Titanic.jpg

The near-sinking was in Mar 2010, while en route Grenada to Puerto Rico for the intended conversion - towed into Frederiksted, St Croix.  This was the classic "phone-a-friend" - in this case a British crew member on the sinking ship phoned the only mobile number he could remember - a former colleague in the RNLI, who was in a DIY shop queue in Aberystwyth.  The friend then called Falmouth Maritime Recue Centre from the lifeboat station and the international rescue was launched by local French spotter plane and the US Coast Guard.  Last report seem to be that the ship was towed into Fredriksted, St Croix
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/8603276.stm

Haven't found anything later (and have not found her in the area on Google Maps)

Oh, and Bruce, you modestly forgot to link to your photos!
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/search.php?search_imo=7338561

 

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