MARGARET HILL

[Charles Mercier]

Dear all,

Does anyone know when the MAGARET HILL is due to leave Soton ? I am a fan of LNG ships and would love to catch her at Calshot before she disappears for good.

Your advice will be much appreciated !
 :-)

[Andrew McAlpine]

Hi Charles,

No news of her intended sailing date as yet. as soon as it is known it will be posted on the site.

Regards
Andrew

[ChasB46]

Latest ..Nov 24th 06.00
For sometime VTS details of ships alongside / departure dates has reverted to 28th Sept 2009 .. glitch with their server??

[JOHN ALLEN]

No sailing date yet but she has been released and will now go to Dubai and refurbed
into a floating treatment plant for LNG

[James Langford]

Hello,
We are penciled in to take the tugs up from Fawley on Tuesday to lift her off, not sure what time though?
James

[ChasB46]

Southampton VTS show 18.00 as departure time.
Now but for how long 14th at 17.00??

[John Jones]

Does anybody know how much she sold for?
Regards
John J.

[Kelvin Davies]

Is Margaret Hill really a ship?
Or a boomerang?
I thought it had left Southampton last month but on today's VTS schedule, she is down to sail on Sunday.
Wouldn't it need to return to Southampton before leaving again, or have I missed something?
Kelvin

[ChasB46]

HI Kelvin,I guessed you had been hibernating. Margaret has not moved an inch but has been joined by Methania ( a dock length away).

[Kelvin Davies]

Hi Chas,

Oh!
Not so much hibernating, more avoiding this awful weather.
Isn't it typical; today is glorious weather, perfect for photography, I have a day off work and not a sausage moving in the daylight hours!
Sir Percivale was down for departure today but it suddenly came off the schedule this morning, just as I was about to leave home.

[Ship's Cat]

kelvin wrote:
Isn't it typical; today is glorious weather, perfect for photography, I have a day off work and not a sausage moving in the daylight hours!

I'm a temp and I have been working in Cowes (complete with nice Solent view. The temptation to look out of the window A LOT is very high!) this week. Today there was the sum total of about three ships on the move - I didn't get their names - a CMA CGM container ship going out, an OOCL container ship going in (I have just looked at the Southampton VTS site and it's OOCL Southampton, which is leaving again tomorrow) and a tanker going out. Both the OOCL Southampton and the tanker were moving as the light was going.

[Andrew McAlpine]

Hi,

The CMA CGM Vessel was CMA CGM Don Giovanni.

rgds
Andrew

[Ship's Cat]

Thanks.  :-D

[Brian Cawkwell]

JamesL113 wrote:
Hello,
We are penciled in to take the tugs up from Fawley on Tuesday to lift her off, not sure what time though?
James

Welcome to the forum James , I take it from your reply you work on the tugs . Nice job.

Brian

[laurie]

Re vessels seen today. If you go to www.ais-live.co.uk   or to www.solentwaters.co.uk  then main menu then ais maps and radar you can get live positions of ships in the area. there is also a historic sectin where you can get details of ships positions at hourly intervals for approx the past 3 weeks so you should be able to identify the tanker you saw plus anything else you have seen recently. the site also has a section with items of local news.


Laurie