Laid Up Ships

[Christian]

Celje owned by Splosna Plovba was sold for scrap

[Allan RO]

HI all

At the moment there is a fine accumulation of tankers at the Nab Anchorage, off the Isle of Wight.

It seems that a couple of crude oil tankers that have discharged at EMT Fawley in the past week are now laying up there -  these are Thornbury and Eagle Otome, presumably awaiting orders for their next fill  -  also there is Marida Magnolia a smaller chemical tanker which left EMT on 30th March which may simply be waiting for a return load and we have Seamullet which arrived on 31 March, but has not yet appeared on the Soton VTS list as being due at EMT.

Given that there are 12 numbered anchorages at the Nab, with 3 car carriers that are still there, we currently have 13 vessels at the Nab Anchorage.

Allan

[FWE]

Together with the report from the Nab Anchorage seems a steady accumulation of tankers on the south coast as Lyme Bay now has the oil tankers  FRONT SCILLA IMO 9172856 , DONAX IMO 9215050 , DARAB IMO 9218492, ONDINA IMO 9248485,  KRONVIKEN IMO 9321677, SEAHERITAGE IMO 9299599 , TORM HELENE  IMO 9143532,  MORNING EXPRESS IMO 9208095, and the OBO ALKMAN IMO 8106771 but it is unclear without a visual report which are laden and being used for storage or which are unladen and so idle.

[Ulrik Gamskj]

I have just been in Emden in Germany and can to this category give the notice that to KEES ships are laid up were ..The ships are Wesser Express and not sure of the name of other the ships .....

Best Regards
Ulrik

[Kelvin Davies]

It looks as if the other one is Ems Highway
Kelvin

[Dave van Spronsen]

Hi All,

Can someone tell what happend to the Maersk Beaumont ??
She was scheduled for Bremerhaven On the Maersksite there no schedule for the Maersk Beaumont
Is she laid up ??
Regards  SDave

[Andrew McAlpine]

Hi Dave,

AIS shows her last position as
 
Latitude      N 53

[Manuel Hernandez Lafuente]

At Valencia anchorage:
Annabelle Schulte
Antonia Schulte
Navis Mini I

[Dave van Spronsen]

Thanks Andrew,

So he's Laid up to bad for a nice ship

Regards

Dave

[Phil English]

I will be in the Lyme Bay area over the Easter weekend and, weather permitting, will provide a visual update.

Phil

[Kelvin Davies]

Good luck Phil!
I was there yesterday and the haze just made it horrible.
The vessels are all lying between 2 and 5 miles off the coast, between Teignmouth and Torquay.
Kelvin

[Phil English]

Thanks Kelvin. I'm not holding my breath regarding the weather. What's more, the vessels are anchored much further West than I was anticipating. I am going to be in the Seaton area and wasn't planning on doing much driving whilst there  :-(

Phil

[OPL]

Of the 10 oil tankers anchored just outside Tor Bay only one is in ballast, the other 9 are all fully loaded. The Morning Express has been here the longest, arriving from Singapore on the 27th January with 90,000 tonnes of Aviation Jet Fuel; she has been here ever since apart from a trip to Falmouth for bunkers a couple of weeks ago. The two latest arrivals were the Seaheritage and Kronviken which both loaded at the Phillips Jetties in Teesport (North Sea Crude?) before proceeding to Falmouth for bunkers, finally arriving in Lyme Bay late last Thursday night. The other 6 loaded tankers, which arrived at various times during February and March are the Darab, Donax, Torinia, Torm Helene, Front Scilla and the (OBO) Alkman. Some are storing Crude, and some Oil Products

[Krispen Atkinson]

It's all busy at the moment.
BRIGHT (ex Pietari Bright) left the River Fal this afternoon - on what appears to be her final voyage to the Indian beaches. When I saw her last week, she'd been reflagged in St. Kitts & Nevis for the voyage. Presume the GLORY (ex Pietari Glory) will also be away in the coming days.

Krispen  8-)

[FWE]

Crane barge OCEANTEAM INSTALLER and tug BALOE arrived at anchorage in River Blackwater in Essex for lay-by yesterday and was the first vessel to enter the anchorage for lay-by since the Radio Caroline ship ROSS REVENGE departed in August 1995. This hopefully sets a precedent for further use of the anchorage which was previously used for lay-by and lay-up  of ships up to about 200 metres ( See http://www.merseamuseum.org.uk/mmshipping.php )