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Title: Maersk B Class and the MSC Cheetah service.
Post by: Judgie on October 27, 2010, 09:59:03 AM

Anyone have any more information or pictures of the Brooklyn, Beaumont, Boston or Bentonville, that have been signed to MSC's service from the Far East to South Africa?

It would be interesting to see what's become of them, and whether or not they've been re-painted in MSC livery, given that they've lost the Maersk prefix.

Title: Re: Maersk B Class and the MSC Cheetah service.
Post by: Judgie on October 28, 2010, 11:35:34 PM

Anyone?

As a side note, picked up Brooklyn, in Jeddah on MarineTraffic.com yesterday while searching for an MOL ship. Definitely doesn't have the Maersk prefix anymore.

My guess is they'll end up being painted black. The reason for implementing these vessels on the Cheetah service is the usefulness of their speed capability in piracy areas....

Title: Re: Maersk B Class and the MSC Cheetah service.
Post by: Jan Svendsen on October 29, 2010, 10:29:03 AM

The 4 B-class sail in full Maersk colours and with the Maersk logo, nothing has benn changed except the name, photos are visible on this page.

regards

Jan Svendsen
Containership-info.com

Title: Re: Maersk B Class and the MSC Cheetah service.
Post by: Dave van Spronsen on October 29, 2010, 03:26:25 PM

Hi

Here are some links that i found on this site,

http://www.shipspotting.com/photos/middle/7/2/1/1198127.jpg

http://www.shipspotting.com/photos/middle/8/2/4/1198428.jpg

Regards,

Dave van Spronsen
Containership Admin

Title: Re: Maersk B Class and the MSC Cheetah service.
Post by: Daniel Ferro on November 03, 2010, 05:20:06 PM

The BALTIMORE (ex Maersk Baltimore)was in Gibraltar today still sporting full Maersk colours and Maersk Line on her hull although most of her containers on deck were MSC. She left a few hours ago heading for Antwerp.

Daniel

Title: Re: Maersk B Class and the MSC Cheetah service.
Post by: Judgie on November 09, 2010, 02:33:05 AM

Thanks for that fella's, you certainly cleared everything up. It is a bit of a pity to see that they're letting the rust chew in to them quite a bit, particularly on the port side along the bow (i've noticed this occuring on the other vessels of the class, right down to identical weld joints between the same hull plates on each vessel!). There was a rumour that these were being considered as testbeds for OOCL's studies on fitting small nuclear plants in to container vessels, but thats probably just a load of BS.