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Shipping News and information / Disney has a Global Dream

« on: November 17, 2022, 10:00:54 AM »

Disney Cruise Line will buy the unfinished cruise ship Global Dream of bankrupt MV Werften Wismar in Germany. Disney announced this in a blog entry.

The construction of Global Dream (completed by 75%) will be finished at Wismar supervised by Disney with the help from experts of Meyer shipyard. Originally planned to accommodate 9,600 passengers Disney announced to reduce the number of passengers to 6,000 (with 2,300 crew members).

https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2022/11/disney-cruise-line-announces-acquisition-of-ship-with-plans-to-visit-new-markets/

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Help and Advice / HMS Lindisfarne P300 & HMS Guernsey P297 - Help needed!

« on: May 12, 2022, 06:02:56 PM »

Hello everybody,

during my constant hunt for IMO numbers I lately came across the above mentioned patrol vessels.

IMO.org says that Lindisfarne (IMO 7516333) in 2004 became the Bangladesh Sangu and Guernsey (IMO 7516321) the Bangladesh Turag.
Wikipedia however says that Lindisfarne became Turag and Guernsey became Sangu.

Can anyone say for sure who is right? Wikipedia or IMO.org?

Cheers,

Jens

PS: Until this is solved I followed Wikipedia and added Guernsey's IMO also to Sangu's photos.

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Help and Advice / Can someone identify this ship?

« on: September 14, 2021, 12:02:48 AM »

Hi all,

is someone able to identify this vessel...

http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1339600#

I read something like "XXX YEUN No. 33" or No. 30, but so far I came up with nothing searching with these terms.

Cheers,
Jens

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Help and Advice / Does someone have a name for this fishing vessel?

« on: September 10, 2021, 09:51:09 PM »

Hi all,

is there someone out there who can provide a name for this vessel?

http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=582840

She was still around by the end of last year with registry EMD4.

https://esys.org/news/SOS-Bilder-2020/12-29-EMD-4_2(Foto%20WSP%20Emden).jpg

I don't get anywhere with just the fishing registry number.

Cheers,
Jens

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Shipping News and information / TUI Cruises: Careful return to business

« on: July 24, 2020, 10:08:50 PM »

Tonight MEIN SCHIFF 2 left Hamburg on a three-day passenger cruise to Kristiansand, Norway.

TUI cruises' CEO, Wybcke Meier, said that emphasis is not placed on the profitability of the voyage but to show that going on a cruise is possible during the pandemic.

MEIN SCHIFF 2 is sailing with not even half of its normal passenger capacity (normally about 2,900 passengers). While boarding the ship every passenger was checked with a infrared camera and had to fill in a health questionnaire. Every passenger will have his/her temperature taken every day and passengers will not be allowed to leave the ship during the voyage. The whole crew of the ship has been in quarantine prior to the voyage.

Of course social distancing rules also apply on the ship (e. g. only every second table will be used in the restaurants).


Jens

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Shipping News and information / Mein Schiff 3: 2,890 crew quarantined at Cuxhaven

« on: May 02, 2020, 04:28:06 PM »

After a crew member was positively tested for the coronavirus, Mein Schiff 3 has been put under quarantine at Cuxhaven, Germany.

The ship had been collecting crew members of the TUI-fleet in the Mediterranean and around the Canary islands before it arrived last Tuesday at Cuxhaven where the crew was supposed to leave the ship and travel home.

15 crew members had reported feeling unwell when the ship was already berthed at Cuxhaven, one of them was tested positive for the coronavirus.

About 110 people had already left the ship on Thursday before the positive testing and are on their way home. They have been contacted.

Official ports of quarantine for cruise ships in Germany are Bremerhaven and Hamburg. Mein Schiff 3 was allowed to berth at Cuxhaven because TUI cruises had assured officials that there were no cases of the virus reported aboard the ship and because the ship had had no contact with the outside world for four weeks (the last passengers left the ship on March 23). However, Cuxhaven authorities did not know (and were not told by the shipping company) that mein Schiff 3 spent more than 24 hours at Santa Cruz de Tenerife harbour on April 17/18.
If there has been contact with the outside world at Sta. Cruz de Tenerife is unclear.

Mein Schiff 3 will now be heading for an anchorage in the German Bight, aboard is a medical team which will test all 2,890 crew.

So far the person which was positively tested has fortunately shown only mild symptoms.

Jens

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Shipping News and information / Sun Essex IMO 7529067

« on: October 27, 2019, 12:08:42 PM »

Hi all,

I'm just trying to update my ship data regarding broken up vessels/total losses.

Equasis has the tug SUN ESSEX, IMO 7529067, as "broken up during 2019".

Does anyone happen to know where and when exactly she was broken up?

Thanks for the help.

Cheers
Jens

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Shipping News and information / Ex-Hannelore (IMO 6602513) scuttled

« on: October 04, 2019, 08:36:00 PM »

On June 23, 2019, Voici Bernadette (ex-Hannelore, Karina W, Adele Hagenah), built 1965 by Flensburger Schiffsbau-Gesellschaft, was scuttled about 11 miles southeast of the Fort Pierce Inlet (Florida) to become an artificial reef.

I found a video made with a drone showing her 11 days before the scuttling:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiA5r_bIIz0

A video when she finally was sunk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgenfUuuF8Q

A video shot with cameras installed onboard during the sinking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eefTQBlaUms

And finally a video of scuba divers visiting the wreck:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lFMZmMLm_g

Enjoy! (I did though with a small tear in my eye)

Jens

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Shipping News and information / POLARSTERN and AKADEMIK FEDOROV set sail for largest polar expedition in history

« on: September 20, 2019, 07:01:44 AM »

19 countries involved, 600 scientists, 5 icebreakers (from China, Russia and Sweden)...

Today, German "Polarstern" (IMO 8013132) and Russian "Akademik Fedorov" (IMO 8519837) will set sail in Tromso, Norway, starting the MOSAiC-expedition which is following in the footsteps of Fridtjof Nansen's famous expedition from 1893 to 1896.

Impossible to describe the full extent of the expedition in a few sentences here, see for yourself: https://www.mosaic-expedition.org/

Akademik Fedorov
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/search.php?query=akademik+fedorov&x=26&y=7

Polarstern
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/search.php?search_imo=8013132&page_limit=12&viewtype=1

Cheers
Jens

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Shipping News and information / Terrible diving boat fire on Californian coast

« on: September 02, 2019, 09:27:20 PM »

The diving boat "Conception" burnt and sank off Platts Harbor, Santa Cruz island, Californoa, last night, leaving 4 people dead, 34 still missing and 5 surviving crew members.

Coast guard says they have little hope of finding the missing people alive...

Info in English
https://www.edhat.com/news/confirmed-34-people-missing-5-rescued-in-diving-boat-fire
Info in German
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/kalifornien-schiffsunglueck-103.html

So sad...

Jens

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Site related news, functions and modules / Shipspotting.com wants to show messages?

« on: April 06, 2019, 08:06:48 PM »

Hi all,

opening the Shipspotting.com homepage a small window pops up. The text in the window says ,in very bad German,

"http://shipspotting.com bittet eine Erlaubnis Benachrichtiggunggen anzuzeigen

(Shipspotting.com ask for permission to show messages)

There are two buttons, "block" and "allow". I'm not inclined to click any of them.

This happens both on Windows 10 using Firefox and on macOS Mojave using Firefox.

Is this supposed to be a new feature or is it malware?

Cheers,
Jens

PS:
I've logged in via the log-in on the Forum page. There this pop-up window doesn't appear.

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Site related news, functions and modules / ENI and IMO numbers on European inland vessels

« on: March 09, 2019, 11:44:29 AM »

Hello fellow shipspotters!

Last year I've worked my way through the complete inland dry cargo vessels category and inland tankers category adding ENI numbers (and also some IMO numbers) which was quite a tedious task.

The eight-digit ENI (European number of identification) is as unique as an IMO number and as such a valuable tool to find all photos of a certain ship on this website. The ENI is not only used for ships of the above mentioned categories, but also for inland passenger ships, ferries, barges, fire fighting vessels, tugs etc. But always keep in mind that it is only used for European inland vessels!

Unfortunately I see that a certain number of regular contributors to all of these categories for whatever reason don't fill in the number in the box on the photo upload page. Like the IMO number the ENI number is a requirement for the upload of a photo and NOT optional to fill in.

The number is displayed on the side and/or the stern of these vessels, for example (ENI 02323514):
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1481325


If you can't find the ENI on the ship itself have a look on the websites listed here under point 3:

http://www.shipspotting.com/support/faq.php?category=Inland%20Vessels

Or just try and search by name for the appropriate ship here on Shipspotting.com

As I mentioned above some of these vessels even have IMO numbers (especially inland tankers).
If applicable add the IMO number, too. (Lately I've also found a lot of photos where the ENI was given, but the IMO was not.)

Last but not least... There's a special type of Dutch inland vessels called "Beunschip", see e.g.
https://www.debinnenvaart.nl/schip_detail/4948/

These should be uploaded to the Inland special purpose vessels category not Inland DRY cargo vessels.

Here's a short video where you can see the cargo handling of a beunschip, I guess you shouldn't try this with a dry cargo vessel...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb08UgxzYK4

Thanks in advance for your help!

Best wishes to all,
Jens

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Shipping News and information / EVER GIVEN severely damages Hamburg harbour ferry and pontoon

« on: February 09, 2019, 06:52:58 PM »

Ever Given (IMO 9811000) on Saturday morning severely damaged Hamburg harbour ferry Finkenwerder (ENI 05111310) which was berthed at the Blankenese ferry station. The ferry station's pontoon was also damaged.

Police assumes that strong winds at the time of Ever Given's departure for Rotterdam caused the collision.

Luckily no one has been harmed. There were no passengers on the ferry at the time of the collision. The crew of three of course was extremely shocked.

For the time being here's a report, some photos and a short video (in German only, though):

https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/hamburg/Blankenese-Frachter-rammt-Faehre-auf-der-Elbe,schiffskollision212.html

Best wishes,
Jens

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Shipping News and information / Up to

« on: March 20, 2018, 02:16:14 PM »

A real bargain... Repair and modernisation of German naval training vessel "Gorch Fock" (IMO 5133644) will cost up to

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Shipping News and information / Peking back in Germany

« on: July 30, 2017, 06:01:24 PM »

Flying-P-Liner PEKING after 85 years finally returned home to Germany.

The 1911-built ship arrived this afternoon from New York at Brunsb