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Title: Ex Tropic Isle, Caribe Isle
Post by: Lyndon Henry on February 18, 2018, 02:39:03 PM

Anyone knows what happened to the ex Tropic Isle ro/ro vessel last recorded name was Caribe Isle?

  General Description   Ro Ro Landing craft
  Built   1977, HULL #482
  Shipyard: Ishikawajima Shipyard, Tokyo, Japan
  Class   Honduran
  Flag   Antigua & Barbuda
  IMO Number: 7616638

Title: Re: Ex Tropic Isle, Caribe Isle
Post by: Bj on February 18, 2018, 03:24:54 PM

Hei
https://wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?255680

Title: Re: Ex Tropic Isle, Caribe Isle
Post by: Lyndon Henry on February 18, 2018, 04:02:29 PM

Thanks Bj

Title: Re: Ex Tropic Isle, Caribe Isle
Post by: rarcand on February 18, 2018, 07:47:44 PM

Hi,

Some info here about being sold but no date.

http://www.sdusa.com/ships/tropic_isle.php

The last info I saw was in 2016 but nothing else. Reported sold but no info about the new owner.

Title: Re: Ex Tropic Isle, Caribe Isle
Post by: davidships on February 18, 2018, 09:31:03 PM

Another pre-2010 photo:
https://www.vesseltracker.com/en/ShipPhotos/117504-Caribe-Isle-7616638.html

Sale by Hyde Shipping seems to have been in 3/2010, and Antigua registration also closed at that time.  Quite a distinctive vessel, but found nothing more.  There are a few half-hearted reports on MarineTraffic at Roatan but, as they quote the old Antigua c/s-MMSI, are probably phantoms.

But quite a lot of vessels just lying around at Roatan, Honduras, but cannot see this one on (rather indistinct) Googlemaps.  Who fancies a cruie there?  Or can you get a charter, Capt Ted?

Title: Re: Ex Tropic Isle, Caribe Isle
Post by: rarcand on February 18, 2018, 11:26:01 PM

Hi,

According to this document, the ship was involved in drug traffic in 2007.

https://cases.justia.com/federal/appellate-courts/ca11/09-12638/920100121/0.pdf

Also, I am not quite sure but I think the ship is visible in Google Earth on the rather blurry july 2013 layer at  16

Title: Re: Ex Tropic Isle, Caribe Isle
Post by: davidships on February 19, 2018, 09:27:24 AM

I too read that yesterday - there was no implication of wrong-doing by the master or owner, and the ship continued to trade for Hyde Shipping until about 2010.

That does certainly look as if it could be her in 2013.

Title: Re: Ex Tropic Isle, Caribe Isle
Post by: Lyndon Henry on February 20, 2018, 12:20:59 AM

Thanks for all the information

Checked out Google Earth did see a blurry image of her. Got this pic, not sure how recent this picture is but you can see her

https://images.trvl-media.com/hotels/3000000/2480000/2479100/2479022/b61a81ca_z.jpg

Title: Re: Ex Tropic Isle, Caribe Isle
Post by: davidships on February 20, 2018, 01:05:46 AM

And even better here in photo dated 22 December 2015 (according to exif)
https://images.sunwingtravelgroup.com/HotelImages/RTBFAN/16x9/005.jpg (https://images.sunwingtravelgroup.com/HotelImages/RTBFAN/16x9/005.jpg)