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Shipping News and information / M.V.SMART aground

« on: August 20, 2013, 08:23:54 AM »

Bulk Carrier MV Smart Breaking Up After Running Aground in South Africa
By Mike Schuler On August 19, 2013
A bulk carrier has run aground and appears to be breaking up along the east coast of South Africa near Richards Bay.
The 151,000 dwt bulk carrier MV Smart ran aground on a sandbar Monday in 10 meter swells after departing Port Richards Bay. The vessel had finished loading coal at the Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT) earlier Monday.
Photos of the grounded ship show the hull has suffered structural failure at around amidships and is severely sagging.
The National Sea Rescue Institute was alerted of the grounding at about 1:30 p.m. local time. At approximately 4 p.m., the structural integrity of the ship was compromised and the captain gave the order to abandon ship, NSRI said in a statement.
All 23 crew members have been rescued by NSRI helicopter crews.
A source has told us that the vessel started to break in half and at this point may be in two pieces.
SAMSA (South African Maritime safety Authority) are en route to investigate and begin evaluations for salvage, the NSRI statement said.
A local news report said that the vessel was no longer under pilotage and may have experienced engine failure.
http://gcaptain.com/bulk-carrier-mv-smart-aground-richards-bay/


http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1714117

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Help and Advice / WARSHIP PREFIX for CHINA and CHILE

« on: February 20, 2013, 09:07:06 AM »

Can anyone help with correct prefix for CHINA for naval craft.

It is not ROCS this is for TAIWAN only.

Also CHILE, they may not have an offical prefix though.

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Shipping News and information / Reefer ASIAN LILY aground in Australia

« on: January 06, 2013, 12:29:38 AM »

Public Notice
 
Vessel grounding in Milne Bay
 
 
Date of release: 02 January 2013
 
On the morning of Christmas Eve (24th December), a fast refrigerated cargo ship ran aground on Kwaiawata Island in the Milne Bay Province. At the time, the Panamanian registered vessel,

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Shipping News and information / Freedom class Final Survivors

« on: November 24, 2012, 03:09:05 AM »

I think all the originals have been withdrawn, below is the final Mark 2's in service.

Any updates, corrections would be welcome.

IMO     NAME            BUILT   CURRENT NAME

8306943   AN BAO JIANG   1987   1988
8306955   AN HUA JIANG   1987   1988
7640483   AQUA MARINA   1979   2002
7718072   BLACKSTONE   1979   2002
8306929   GLORY OCEAN   1985   2012
7705544   HUA SHENG 1   1979   2010
7718175   MYRA           1979   2002
8314823   PERUN           1984   2009
8114041   PONTICA           1983   2004
8314885   SEA LORD   1985   2012
8010908   SEA MERCHANT   1981   2011
8306864   TANZANITE   1984   2005
7924839   TOPAZ II   1980   2010
8314811   VICTORY HOPE   1984   1990

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Help and Advice / STANDARD Ships - Freedom/Fortune/Friendship

« on: July 27, 2012, 05:29:33 AM »

I am compiling a list of these vessels

So would any member be able to supply with the IMO any of these three types of ships completed after the end of 1983, my list is complete up to that year.

My email is

[email protected]

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Help and Advice / IMO Numbers Korean Fishing Vessels

« on: March 27, 2012, 06:38:10 AM »

I cannot find this vessel in ISR or EQUASIS

SURESTE No.707

Does anyone know her IMO ?

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Shipping News and information / RENA Official Report

« on: March 08, 2012, 10:26:08 AM »

RENA took shortcuts - official report
 
10:12 08/03/2012
The Rena's passage plans were repeatedly changed on its journey from Napier to Tauranga on October 4 and 5 last year, a Transport Accident Investigation Commission (TAIC) interim report reveals.
The captain of the Rena was looking out into the ocean trying to see what a radar signal had picked up when the ship crashed into the Astrolabe Reef.
The ship was heading directly for the reef when the radar signal alert was activated, just nine minutes before the grounding. But the master wasn't aware of the course the ship was on and was walking back to plot the ship's position when it grounded.
The commission released its findings this morning, which show that the Filipino crew took several shortcuts so they could reach Tauranga by 3am on October 5.
But they never made it to their destination - the ship grounded on the reef at 2.14am.
Statements from the second mate and master about what happened in the moments leading up to the grounding contradicted each other. While the second mate told investigators that he showed the master the charts, plotting the ship's path, prior to the radar signal alert, the master said he didn't see them.
Commissioners boarded the ship on October 6 and took documents and equipment to analyse.
The documents reveal that the last time the ship's position was marked on a chart was at 1.20am, which shows the vessel starting to divert from its plan and head towards the reef.
A watchkeeper went to the chartroom to plot the ship's position at 2am, but the master and second mate were leaning over the chart and he didn't want to interrupt them.
He noted the position in the log book, but someone later altered it.
The ship's position at 2am was plotted after the grounding, and was further north than the Rena's position at the time, TAIC's investigator in charge, Robert Thompson, said.
But it is still unclear as to who is responsible for making the mark, Thompson said.
There was no evidence to suggest that the crew were drinking or celebrating the master's birthday, as rumours have suggested, Thompson said.
But the culture on board the ship and the relationship between management and crew would be investigated.
Both the master and second mate have pleaded guilty to charges over the grounding. They have remained in the country since the grounding and are awaiting sentencing.
RENA: WHAT WENT WRONG
* Rena was under pressure to make 3am pilot boat deadline off Tauranga
* Rena course changes to short-cut the distance to the pilot boat takes it toward Astrolabe Reef
* Confusion over the new course on the bridge, with the watchkeeper, captain and second mate all involved
* two navigation systems gave different readings, two degrees apart
* the crew failed to immediately react to a 2.05am echo signal dead ahead on the radar
* conflicting evidence over when a pencil mark on the chart one nautical mile north of Astrolabe was drawn
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/6543331/Rena-took-shortcuts-official-report

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Shipping News and information / MSC again

« on: March 02, 2012, 07:58:59 AM »

Another Rena,MSC Clorinda,MSC Napoli etc etc

MSC CAROLE (PANAMA)
 
London,Mar 1
A press report, dated today, states: Fully cellular containership MSC Carole (52191 gt, built 1989) under the alternating command of MSC and Maersk and which services the Australian trades, has ran aground on a reef, off the coast of Jakarta in so far unexplained circumstances on Feb 28. Crewmembers on board the vessel are reportedly safe. No oil pollution has been observed until the morning of Feb 29. A planned attempt to remove the vessel from the reef on the morning of Feb 29, failed. The vessel supposedly ran aground on a reef at some point on Feb 28 but no further details are currently available. Data from the AIS station at Jakarta, records the vessel as being stopped for 15 hours at 1848 hrs, Feb 27. Since then, AIS data indicates that the vessel has effectively stopped. Cargo on board the vessel will be transferred to Baltimore. No other information is available on Baltimore, as of now .MSC will be providing space on their Capricorn service as a contingency for the cargo o Fmsc Carole, Maersk reported. MSC Carole was working under a vessel sharing arrangement at the time of incident. An executive at MSC inAustralia denied that MSC had operational control of the vessel at the time of incident, stating instead that Maersk had control. A Maersk spokesman stated that at the time of incident, the vessel was under the overall control of Maersk, on that particular leg of the service. He also added that the vessel had MSC crew on board. Recovery operations are now being handled by MSC, the Maersk spokesman said

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Shipping News and information / JUNG WOO No.2 - Ross Sea Casualty

« on: January 10, 2012, 09:10:55 PM »

The third ex Japanese longliner to become a casualty in last two years.

Sparta hit an iceberg a few weeks ago and Jung Woo No.2 is latest.


http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1471859

Fire on Korean fishing boat in Southern Ocean

08:39 11/01/2012
LATEST: Three sailors are missing and three injured in a fire drama on a Korean fishing boat in the Southern Ocean.
The Jung Woo 2, carrying 40 crew, has issued a mayday call from deep in the Southern Ocean, saying there is a fire aboard.
Three sailors from the are missing and three injured, and the ship had only one viable lifeboat, the Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand (RCCNZ) said.
The 51 metre ship was in the Ross Sea, about 2000 nautical miles (3704 kilometres) south east of New Zealand and about 600 kilometres north of McMurdo Station.
Jung Woo 2 issued a distress call, which was picked up by another Korean fishing vessel, Hong Jin 707, and relayed to RCCNZ by the NZ vessel Antarctic Chieftain just before 3am.
RCCNZ search and rescue mission coordinator Dave Wilson said the fire had been reported as "out of control".
Of the crew, 25 were believed to be in a lifeboat and 12 remained onboard. The three injured men were among those still on board.
Wilson said five vessels were responding to the distress call, including the sister ship Jung Woo 3, which was about 35 minutes away.
Wilson said a US research vessel with hospital facilities was about 12 hours away from the Jung Woo 2's reported position, with two other vessels around 10 hours away.
Contact was also being made with the Italian and Australian Antarctic bases to investigate whether it is possible to use an aircraft to lift any injured from the Italian base at Terra Nova Bay to McMurdo Base.
The weather in the area currently is clear, with light winds, although a low is expected tomorrow.
The Jung Woo 2 was built in 1985 by Kanasashi Heavy Industries in Shizuoka, Japan, and originally named the Koryo Maru 32.
It is a 51m longliner which fishes for Patagonian Toothfish, rays and crabs in the Antarctic Ocean. It has a gross registered tonnage of 489 and can carry up to 2.749 tonnes of catch.
The ship is owned by the Sunwoo Corporation of Korea.
The mayday call is the second from a ship fishing near Antarctica in a month. Last month the 48-metre vessel Sparta, with a crew of 32 aboard, ran into trouble after hitting ice in the Ross Sea.
The ship was stuck there for 12 days while repairs were made. It received help from another fishing boat and a Royal New Zealand Air Force plane dropped supplies and a pump. The Sparta returned to Nelson yesterday.
On December 13 2010, the No 1 Insung, a 31-year-old Korean toothfish longliner with Vietnamese crew operating out of Bluff, sank in the same area with the loss of 22 men.
In February last year a Norway-flagged yacht, Berserk, sank north of Scott Base, forcing HMNZS Wellington, an off-shore patrol boat, into a lengthy and dangerous search. Three men died in that sinking.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/6239153/Fire-on-Korean-fishing-boat-in-Southern-Ocean

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Help and Advice / Naval Designations

« on: October 02, 2011, 03:53:34 AM »

Naval Designations

As I intend to post many naval scans can anyone confirm for me the correct naval designations for the following countries.

Belgium
Germany
Denmark
Norway
France
Italy
Greece
Russia post cold war
Spain
Portugal
India
Singapore
Malaysia
Indonesia

Thanks

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Help and Advice / GENERAL CARGO or REEFERS

« on: April 13, 2011, 09:32:31 PM »

I have uploaded numerous photographs of ships of

Blue Star Line
Federal SN
NZ Shipping
Shaw Savill and Albion

Most I have put in the General Cargo Category, but many for example Melbourne Star/Imperial Star etc were primarily reefers, so what category should they be in ?

Or what percentage of refrigerated spaces makes a reefer ?

To complicate things, all the ships of these companies carried general cargo outward bound to Australasia, so basically the ships with freezers were only reefers on the return trip to the UK.

Thoughts please.

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Shipping News and information / CHRISTCHURCH , NEW ZEALAND Earthquake Today

« on: February 22, 2011, 08:10:55 AM »

Sadly the prime minster has just announced 65 people have lost their lives and many more are trapped and the death toll is likely to rise after a 6.3 aftershock from the September 2010 earthquake, hit Christchurch at 1251 today.

For any of the members who have visited Christchurch the spire on the cathedral has collapsed and hundred's of people remain trapped in buildings.

The epicentre was beneath Lyttelton, but there are no reports yet as to damage to the port.
Aerial footage has shown the Lyttelton Timeball has been heavily damaged.

By Good fortune our largest Warship the Canterbury and two smaller navy vessels are in Lyttelton.The main street of the port has been completely devestated.

A 150 member specialist rescue team will arrive from Australia during the night with world wide offers of help being offered.

The Prime Minister has warned the country this could be our darkest day ever and is the worst tragedy since the Erebus air crash of 1979.

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Shipping News and information / CHRIS HOWELL Album

« on: December 21, 2009, 09:44:57 AM »

Dear Members

I have finally started uploading what will be thousands of Black and White scans from negatives loaned by Jorgen Lonn of Sweden for use on Ship Spotting and Ships Nostalgia.
Unfortunately most do not have dates/locations or the photographers name.
His system is to put details of the ship on the negative packets.
Anyone who has any informtaion or recognises their work please comment or send a PM.
Finally I will not be putting long histories as I do not have the time, but a quick and easy starting point for more information is MIRIMAR ships index found thru Google.
Hope you like the oldies !