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« Reply #90 on: December 06, 2020, 02:45:28 pm » |
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Now with just one tug (BRENT) off Beachy Head. ASTORIA seems to have switched off AIS
But her ghost doesn't want to go  When they turned off her AIS once out of the Thames.
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Bob Scott
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« Reply #91 on: December 07, 2020, 07:59:05 pm » |
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AIS now gives BRENT's destination as Brest, France
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FWE
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« Reply #92 on: December 08, 2020, 08:11:06 am » |
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BRENT with ASTORIA changed course off Guernsey overnight and now expected at Portland (UK) later today
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Bob Scott
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« Reply #93 on: December 08, 2020, 04:07:05 pm » |
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Destination now Falmouth, according to AIS
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GEOFF HOATHER
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« Reply #94 on: December 09, 2020, 03:10:04 pm » |
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Brent and Astoria made an attempt to enter Falmouth today, with help from local tugs, but abandoned and Brent now showing as heading back out into Channel. Pic posted on main website. 
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davidships
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« Reply #95 on: December 10, 2020, 04:32:18 pm » |
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BRENT (presumably still with ASTORIA), continues in the Channel on heading due east at a respectable 8kn and now S of Swanage; destination "TBA". All very strange.
[later] TBA now changed to Flushing/Vlissingen - ETA seven hours ago.
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« Reply #96 on: December 12, 2020, 02:09:14 am » |
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and BRENT/ASTORIA now destined for Rotterdam, ETA 12/12 1100L
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Robert J Smith
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« Reply #97 on: December 12, 2020, 09:54:49 am » |
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Tug GINGER left the Thames last night to assist
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Bob Scott
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« Reply #98 on: December 12, 2020, 10:43:30 am » |
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Maybe while in Rotterdam (if she does indeed get there) it would make sense to repair ASTORIA so that the can sail under her own power. Has anyone seen a reliable, non-speculative report as to why she had to be towed in the first place? The only report I have seen is that the engines were "knackered". That's a bit too technical for me!(LOL)
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Clive Harvey
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« Reply #99 on: December 12, 2020, 02:00:57 pm » |
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Was there any indication before the first lockdown that Astoria's engines were 'knackered'? I'd not heard anything to that effect.
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Bob Scott
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« Reply #100 on: December 12, 2020, 04:06:36 pm » |
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ASTORIA arrived at Tilbury under her own power to lay up in March
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« Reply #101 on: December 13, 2020, 08:44:05 am » |
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Good Morning,
MAGELLAN is now underway to Port Said; COLUMBUS is going to PIraeus.
Greetings from Hamburg
Jan
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« Reply #102 on: December 13, 2020, 11:11:23 am » |
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Hi,
Can anybody confirm where ASTORIA is?
Tugs Brent and GINGER are at Rotterdam Anchorage. Are they still assisting her?
Rgds Nigel T
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Patrick Hill
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« Reply #103 on: December 13, 2020, 11:50:29 am » |
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DoverT
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« Reply #104 on: December 13, 2020, 12:26:16 pm » |
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