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Help and Advice / Re: HMS Sheffield F96

« on: October 01, 2017, 08:01:56 PM »

there is a sheffield association---try sheffielddirectory.org.uk--it has an e-mail address and a link to the sheffield association--i was not able to connect off the link--it quotes a contact as nicholas wilkin telephone 07785537459 or try thr royal navy museum at portsmouth historic dockyard maybe they are now custodians of the logs--good luck-hue city

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Trip reports / Re: shipspotting Rotterdam, 120303 in foggy conditions ;-(

« on: March 04, 2012, 07:33:48 AM »

hi fred--it is 0730 in the west of scotland----your video is absolutely brilliant---and the fog makes it even better--you must always post your work--best wishes---hue city

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Shipping News and information / shipspotting slag maasmond august 15/16 2012

« on: February 25, 2012, 01:52:59 PM »

post lunch here in the west of scotland having watched shipspotting rotterdam 18/19.02.2012--spent the morning on line booking flights / hotels / hire cars etc to visit slag maasmond in august--had to negioate with memshab several days in amsterdam to achieve this objective !!!!!!!!!!---many thanks to fred vloo and others who gave real good advice---best wishes--hue city

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Trip reports / shipspotting visit to slag maasmond

« on: February 13, 2012, 02:58:17 PM »

planning now a trip to slag massmond for shipspotting later this year--flying glasgow / schipol and train to rotterdam---need a hotel --three nights--close to slag maasmond --short cab ride--walking--bus ride distance--that will avoid the necessity to hire a car with all its associated navigation problems--accompanied by "mrs hue city"--i found an ibis hotel but they tell me it is quite a way from slag maasmond--want to make reservation on line---all help and advice greatly appreciated--best wishes--hue city

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Shipping News and information / Re: Costa Concordia - wreck removal or salvage for repairs and relaunch ?...

« on: January 22, 2012, 11:59:02 AM »

 i read that SMIT are planning on useing "hot tapping" technology to remove the fuel, oils etc from costa concordia--please can someone advice details of "hot tapping" technology

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Trip reports / Re: shipspotting Rotterdam, 120108, Vale Rio de Janeiro at 14:10

« on: January 09, 2012, 10:12:29 PM »

fred
ok i have found it--thank you
best wishes

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Trip reports / Re: shipspotting Rotterdam, 120108, Vale Rio de Janeiro at 14:10

« on: January 09, 2012, 09:45:46 PM »

Fred
thank you for the video or should i say video's---please i have a question for me to photograph at the location you have used would need some planning---would you identify this location--place names--latitude / longitude---from the numbers of people in your video there appears to be no problem in gaining access to this position--does one need some sort of security clearence prior to a visit--all help appreciated

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Shipping News and information / Re: Gloria Siderum as Multi Service 300, pics?

« on: December 02, 2011, 03:25:46 PM »

ok --- i have changed the file from "tiff" to jpg and it has been uploaded--the photograph is actually of very good quality but the upload not so--so i guess that "i am still doing something not quite correct"
hue city

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Shipping News and information / Re: Gloria Siderum as Multi Service 300, pics?

« on: December 02, 2011, 03:05:13 PM »

i have just scanned at my local library a b&w photograph of the gloria siderum in valletta harbour malta on 11 november 1974--i have "failed" to upload this to the site "on my first upload" as the "system is telling me "only jpg photographs uploaded"--so some advice from someone about this please---with her two hulls rig on the "port" side with legs to the starboard side--she is about to uplift an offshore oil loading buoy to return same to oxidental's oil terminal at zuitina libya--
hue city

gd,

I have been reading about the Gloria Siderum (IMO : 7006754) lately, one of the first dedicated heavy lift vessels in the world.
She was constructed of two similar coasters (Hermes, IMO 514914 & Hada II, IMO 513945) welded together in 1969. she was equipped with a 300 tons derrick on the stb-side hull.

See some pics & info on her: <http://beejee.home.xs4all.nl/1960-02/HADA-II-26-10-06.htm>.

She was sold in 1983 to Multi Services Shipping Co from Panama and renamed Multi Service 300 to be used in the offshore industry.

In 1993 she was sold to be scrapped in Amsterdam.

There are some pictures of her while sailing as Gloria Siderum for HOLSCHER SHIPPING BV from the Netherlands and from her on the scrapyard in Amsterdam but I haven't been able to find any of her time as Multi Service 300.

Does anybody on here have some pictures from that time or information about what she actually did in that time?
Would be much appreciated.

Thanks & Grtz
Bart