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Shipping News and information / Re: Kherson built artic supply vessels

« on: September 08, 2019, 12:34:39 PM »

I'm answering to myself to keep the information in a single thread.

Caballo Azteca drifted ashore in 2017 after dragging anchor and not having diesel for the generators. This was apparently a common occurrence for Oceanografia ships - five were stranded or flat out sank in 2016-2018.

In 2018, there was a fire that pretty much gutted the vessel. Since then, the ship has slowly been broken up and earlier this year it was towed to a nearby port without permission, supposedly to complete the scrapping:

You can find photographs with Google by searching for "barco Caballo Azteca"; here is one that seems to be quite recent, showing how some parts have already been removed:



I guess it's safe to say this Project 10620 ship won't be returning to service anymore...

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Shipping News and information / Re: KUZMA MININ (IMO 7721263)

« on: May 17, 2019, 05:50:02 AM »

IHS Sea-web shows change of name, flag and ownership. The sales price is cited as $1,017,120. She has also been disclassed by RMRS and listed as "total loss" as of 18 December 2018.

Based on the above information, I'd put my money on a one-way ticket to the sunny beaches of South Asia, but then again noting the new owner's (Compass Energy Pte Ltd) other fleet she might be up for a more interesting future as some kind of process platform.

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Shipping News and information / Re: "Father-Son" Engine Room Configuration

« on: April 05, 2019, 06:18:12 AM »

No problem. I wonder if the Norwegian accident report will include at least a sketch of the engine room configuration. Of course, noting that there was no flooding, the relative location of the engine rooms within the hull is probably not relevant information.

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Shipping News and information / Re: "Father-Son" Engine Room Configuration

« on: April 02, 2019, 12:00:15 PM »

The single line diagram in this brochure gives a good idea of the configuration: one 12-cylinder ("father") and one 9-cylinder ("son") engine in each engine room. However, nothing short of the actual general or machinery arrangement drawings will give you a definite answer; the Significant Ships drawings about Viking Star excluded engineering spaces. However, considering the fact that the engine casing is aligned exactly with the main fire bulkhead, I'd say the engine rooms are located end-to-end: aft engine room in main vertical zone no. 1 and the forward engine room in main vertical zone no. 2.

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Shipping News and information / Re: Only working US icebreaker catches fire on return from Antarctica

« on: March 24, 2019, 09:34:06 AM »

When you have absolutely no idea what kind of ship you need but yet insist that it should be built at a shipyard that has never built an icebreaker, no wonder it takes more than a decade to procure a single vessel that ends up being also the world's most expensive icebreaker.

With Finland's latest icebreaker, Polaris, it took about 3

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Shipping News and information / Re: Kherson built artic supply vessels

« on: January 29, 2019, 09:43:40 AM »

Xue Long (#6003) recently hit an iceberg near Antarctica:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6WfX5AJAlE

Anyone know what Caballo Azteca is doing in these days? IHS Sea-web lists her as "total loss".

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Why can't I see photos accross the whole monitor?

« on: January 18, 2019, 02:31:54 PM »

Perhaps your new monitor has higher resolution (more pixels) than the old one, and some photographs just don't fill it completely at 100% magnification.

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Shipping News and information / Re: Alang !

« on: December 30, 2018, 09:31:40 AM »

I guess it's some tugboat that first towed something bigger for the scrapyard and then ended up scrapped as well.

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Shipping News and information / Re: Does anyone know what type of ship is it?

« on: September 06, 2018, 08:15:41 PM »

I wrote an article about the ships in Wikipedia some years ago:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SA-15_(ship)

We have a very detailed scale model of Nizhneyansk next to my desk at the office, complete with the hovercraft on deck.

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Shipping News and information / Re: ships sold for scrap

« on: September 03, 2018, 02:48:15 PM »

Ivan Papanin (IMO 8837928) has been sold for scrap to Chittagong following grounding or ice impact in Antarctica earlier this year. The 1990-built MSCO-operated vessel was a Project 10621 ("SA-10") Arctic cargo ship which has been used for Antarctic research base resupply missions.

www.shipspotting.com/gallery/search.php?search_imo=8837928

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Shipping News and information / Re: Kherson built artic supply vessels

« on: September 01, 2018, 08:26:39 AM »

Looks like Ivan Papanin has bit the dust after the incident in Antarctica earlier this year; she's at Chittagong anchorage and listed for "scrapping":

http://cpa.portal.gov.bd/sites/default/files/files/cpa.portal.gov.bd/common_document/a1196d2c_2ad4_410b_97a4_732c62a76600/VESSEL%20-%2029-08-18.pdf

https://www.fleetmon.com/maritime-news/2018/21417/russian-scientific-ship-breached-antarctic-confusi/

The list in my previous post has been updated.

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Is there a site problem?

« on: June 07, 2018, 07:05:10 AM »

Finland/Firefox 60.0.1 64 bit, getting the same message and a notification from F-Secure that it's a virus.

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Copyright Policy Query

« on: April 16, 2018, 10:12:27 AM »

Given the situation in the USSR as described by the poster...

...is not correct, we should follow our standard policy on posting content by other photographers.

You can find discussion about the Soviet copyright laws and whether or not material is considered public domain in e.g. Wikimedia Commons.

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Help and Advice / Re: Cheapskate shipowner looking for free photos

« on: January 25, 2018, 10:06:21 AM »

I guess one of the issues here is also whether the photographer wants to make money with their photos or not. Cheapskate shipowner or not, I bet there are still amateur or hobbyist photographers who would just be happy if someone liked their photos and wanted to use them for something, perhaps even give credit to the photographer. My photographs from Shipspotting.com have appeared in a few news articles in the past few days and I'm just happy to see my name next to them. They could have picked any of the other freely-available pictures, but at least now they chose, in my opinion, the best...

Of course, I fully understand why someone would not want to hand over their photographs for free.

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Shipping News and information / Re: Kherson built artic supply vessels

« on: December 12, 2017, 08:16:33 AM »

Following received from "AntonioGtz" by email to Shipspotting:

That's interesting information - thank you for sharing.