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Shipping News and information / Re: Ships sold for scrap

« on: Yesterday at 06:58:57 PM »

USA-flag fish processor GORDON JENSEN (IMO 8836273), was renamed and reflagged at Seattle, Washington, USA to GORDON, St. Kitts & Nevis flag. Vessel departed Seattle under its own power on 22/05/24 showing AIS destination of Alang, India, ETA 15/07/24.

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Maritime Research and History / Re: WRECK 5 in the Red Sea

« on: May 17, 2024, 12:24:46 AM »

Regarding the STARLET, it makes sense when paired with this salvage operation summary from the website of Five Oceans Salvage:

"LOF dd 31/07/2015

M/V “STARLET”
Chemical tanker STARLET (10,048 dwt, built 2003), in ballast, suffered water ingress in her engine room whilst at anchor in the inner anchorage of Hodeidah, Yemen. A Lloyd’s Open Form was signed between Five Oceans Salvage and Owners on 31st July 2015 and Scopic was invoked. Salvage tug IONIAN SEA FOS (10,560BHP, 102BP), fully equipped with salvage, patching and antipollution equipment was engaged to assist together with a salvage team of eight persons and five armed guards to ensure the safety of the tug and crew while inside the Yemeni warzone. The personnel embarked in Djibouti since air transportation to Yemen was not an option due the state’s war situation. In the course of the following two months, the tug and salvage team successfully obtained permission to work onboard the casualty and prepare her for the onward towage out of Yemen. Due to the escalating war situation in Yemen, the tug and crew was forced to leave Yemeni territorial waters and the operation was suspended."

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Maritime Research and History / Re: GAME: SHIP DESTROYS BRIDGE

« on: May 04, 2024, 04:51:43 AM »

The Second Narrows Rail Bridge in Vancouver, British Columbia has quite the history of ship collisions. While there have been many other minor incidents, the following three collisions managed to knock down at least one span of the bridge:

24 April 1930: Carried by a strong tide, the freighter LOSMAR (US Official Number 219284) made contact with the bridge, knocking the southern span into the water.

13 September 1930: The former tall ship-turned-barge PACIFIC GATHERER (Canada Official Number 156616) broke tow and became wedged under the center span of the bridge. The rising tide then lifted the barge, raising the span from its foundation and allowing it to fall into the water.

12 October 1979: The freighter JAPAN ERICA (IMO 7112735) lost course in heavy fog and collided with the bridge, knocking the span north of the lift section into the water.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Narrows_Rail_Bridge

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Maritime Research and History / Re: Unknown shipwrecks in the Red Sea

« on: April 28, 2024, 04:55:23 AM »

The location of the wreck is consistent with the location where the Greek-flag ATTIKI (IMO 6617295, built 1966 as MASASHIMA MARU) was lost in 1978.

https://wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?59458

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Shipping News and information / Re: Containership Dali IMO 9697428 destroyed bridge in Baltimore

« on: March 29, 2024, 09:28:06 PM »

MattB,

It has been reported that the heavy-lift crane barge en route to the site is Donjon Marine's CHESAPEAKE 1000:
https://www.shipspotting.com/photos/2521355

The 500-ton capacity derrick barge WEEKS 533 has also been reported en route, as well:
https://www.shipspotting.com/photos/1466844

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Can the name of this city be corrected?

« on: October 01, 2023, 06:03:45 AM »

Found a bunch more Ports that need amending of the "Portland" variety.

Portland, Oregon, USA:
Exists in database as both "Portland, Oregon United States" and "Portland United States"

Portland, Maine, USA:
Exists in database as both "Portland, Maine United States" and "Portland (me) United States"

Portland, Victoria, Australia
Exists in database as both "Portland Australia" and "Portland-au Australia"

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: DELETIONS, Important notification

« on: September 22, 2023, 02:31:54 PM »

I think ID-ing old photos that don't meet the site standard and reporting them should be OK.

That would be a significant clean-up operation, and rather than looking backward, we can better spend our time dealing with what is ahead of us.

I feel like there are some situations where it should be prioritized. For example, bad images are often given an exemption and kept on the site when they are the first image uploaded of a particular vessel. In the long run, however, how often is the photo readdressed after other examples that do meet the quality standards have been added? I can see this kind of "temporary exemption" regularly slipping through the cracks, especially for vessels that do not have an IMO number.

Perhaps, in particular if a vessel is still active, the vessels featured in photos granted a temporary exemption for poor quality should be added to a "wanted" list of vessel photos, either publicly viewable or maintained for admin use only?

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Can the name of this city be corrected?

« on: August 25, 2023, 02:04:51 PM »

Pieter, thank you for the prompt response. It would not surprise me to find a few more like those above, so I will identify them as I find them.

I have also found a couple that are functionally duplicates within the database:

Newport OR United States / Newport (or) United States
Newport RI United States / Newport (ri) United States
Richmond Virginia United States / Richmond (va) United States
Kingston United States / Kingston ferry United States

In the case of Kingston, both locations include the lat/long of the ferry terminal at Kingston, Washington (roughly 47.79, -122.497). There is also a Kingston in the state of New York (roughly 41.919, -73.979), which is a Hudson River port, and home to a significant shipyard. I suspect "Kingston United States" may have been intended to be this port, but got the other's lat/long.

In the case of Richmond, there is also a third "Richmond United States" with the lat/long of Richmond, California, so it should probably be modified to something such as "Richmond (California) United States."

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Shipping News and information / Re: Longest Ships name

« on: August 25, 2023, 03:24:17 AM »

It's not an oceangoing vessel, but one of the longest current names I've seen is on a harbor dinner boat operating in the San Francisco Bay area:

CABERNET SAUVIGNON COMMODORE

In fact, the name is painted in large enough letters that it takes up nearly a quarter of the vessel's length...

https://www.shipspotting.com/photos/3041344

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Site related news, functions and modules / Re: Can the name of this city be corrected?

« on: August 24, 2023, 07:18:51 PM »

I've found a few cases in the locations that also could use clarification, especially where names have been doubled up. I'm including lat/long to help out whoever may take on fixing this issue.

I may add more in additional posts if I find them, but for now I have:

Toledo, United States (41.7, -83.46) - Should be Toledo (Ohio), United States
Toledo, United States (44.6142, -123.94) - Should be Toledo (Oregon), United States

Rockport, United States (37.8908, -87.0455) - Should be Rockport (Indiana), United States
Rockport, United States (44.1834, -69.0727) - Should be Rockport (Maine), United States

The following aren't doubled-up, but I recommend modification to match common usage:

Channel Islands, United States - Channel Islands Harbor, United States
Judith Point, United States - Point Judith, United States

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Site related news, functions and modules / Grays Harbor (USA) Ports

« on: August 24, 2023, 03:12:26 PM »

I just recently noticed a port in the United States that seems to be separated from what should be a "parent" port.

Within the ports listing, "Grays Harbor, United States" exists as an umbrella port area, with two sub-ports:

Aberdeen, Grays Harbor, United States
Hoquiam, Grays Harbor, United States

As a result, I had often uploaded photos taken at the small fishing port of Westport, Washington under the parent "Grays Harbor" location, since the town is at the harbor entrance, about 20 km west of Hoquiam, the nearer of the two other ports. Just yesterday, however, I noticed that the location list now includes a port of "Westport, United States" with a lat/long (46.9086, -124.105) that corresponds to the town on Grays Harbor.

Given that Westport is associated with the greater Grays Harbor area, and is even the base of operations for the Grays Harbor pilots, shouldn't it be listed as a Grays Harbor sub-port as well?

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

« on: July 30, 2023, 01:43:33 AM »

Appearance-wise, SANGU seems to be the ex-LINDISFARNE, in one regard, and TURAG matches up to ex-GUERNSEY in another.

Of the LINDISFARNE and GUERNSEY, the LINDISFARNE had a series of 5 fixtures of some sort attached to the side of the bridge wings, while the GUERNSEY did not. Photos of SANGU show the same five fixtures. It took a bit of digging, but I finally found an image of TURAG at the following link, which shows the absence of the same fixtures. The TURAG photo also shows the presence of a cableway down the port side of the superstructure, of which the placement seems to be a feature unique to GUERNSEY. LINDISFARNE images also show a cableway, but it's shorter, and probably about a meter closer to the bridge wing.

https://pdf.defence.pk/threads/bangladesh-navy.168818/page-296#post-10644483

Images of the port side of SANGU also show the cableway placement matches that of LINDSIFARNE:

https://history.gg/hms-guernsey-launched-aberdeen/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/33297516@N05/3718424396


Dealing in miniscule details like that isn't an absolute certainty, but I can think of no reason such fixtures would be added to one vessel, but removed from the other, and vice-versa.

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Shipping News and information / Re: Ships sold for scrap

« on: March 22, 2023, 08:07:30 PM »

I stumbled upon this one a couple months late:

DOLPHIN, IMO 8034825, US-flag, 51m x 10m fishing vessel built 1944, arrived at Ensenada, Mexico on 04 January 2023, presumably for scrapping.

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Shipping News and information / Re: Ships sold for scrap

« on: January 06, 2023, 05:52:21 PM »

It looks like the season's been opened for container vessels...

https://gcaptain.com/wan-hai-lines-selling-10-containerships-for-scrap/

And so it continues. K-Line's 2001-built AKINADA BRIDGE, IMO 9224532, is reported to have arrived at Alang on 5 January 2023.

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Shipping News and information / Re: Sisterships...?

« on: November 19, 2022, 03:59:36 AM »

I'm seeing that Ten of those 1,489 GT suppliers were ordered from Halter Marine's Moss Point yard:

#1793 CAPE HOPE - ON: 1076117 IMO: 9207182
#1794 CAPE BEAUFORT - ON: 1076186 IMO: 9208887
#1808 CAPE HAWKE - ON: 1076185 IMO: 9214630
#1809 CAPE BYRD - ON: 1076184 IMO: 9216377
#1810 CAPE ST. JAMES - ON: 1076183 IMO: 9219848
#1811 CAPE ST. JOHN - ON: 1076182 IMO: 9224934
#1812 CAPE DAVIS - ON: 1088474 IMO: 9229922
#1813 CAPE DOUGLAS - ON: 1088475 IMO: 9234551
#1814 CAPE NOME - ON: 1097128 IMO: 9236884
#1815 CAPE NORTH - ON: 1097129 IMO: 9240184