Renaming – EUROCARGO CATANIA to LISTA – January, 2025
One of the Danish built ro/ro ships trading around – EUROCARGO CATANIA was sold during January 2025 and renamed as LISTA. She was built at Odense Steel Shipyard, Denmark as STRAIT OF MAGELLAN in 2011 with yard number 233 as one from Eight Sisters with 3,663 lane metres roll on/roll off (roro) Despite the fact […]
Cable Layer – CERTAMEN
The world’s first icebreaking cable repair ship built was the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) ship CCGS JOHN CABOT named after John Cabot, a Venetian explorer from the Age of Exploration of which was built in Montreal, Canada and commissioned on 31st May 1965. During 1996 she was decommissioned, refitted for more service and acquired by the […]
Valletta Cruise Port – Busy Thursday with 5 Passenger Ships – 10.10.2024
Like I call it Never Ending Thursday, last Thursday 10th October 5 passenger ships entered Grand Harbour with of them overnight/s scheduled calls on a foggy day with Southwest wind. The first lady to enter which calls weekly was the 2010 built cruise liner 288 metre long AZURA passing breakwaters at 0503 hrs. Berthing at […]
Malta Naval Visits – August 2024
Contrary to the month of July, August was an interesting month indeed, starting with an interesting Russian Navy Replenishment tanker RFS AKADEMIK PASHIN that passed in the Malta/Sicily Channel on Friday 2nd August. Tuesday 6th August. The Italian Navy (Marina Militare Italiana) ocean ketch , a sail training yacht ITS ORSA MAGGIORE A 5323 anchored […]
MSPAP – Malta Ship Photos & Action Photos 34th Anniversary – 01.08.2024
And Today Thursday 1st August , Malta Ship Photos & Action Photos (MSPAP) celebrate her 34th anniversary. It is a great honor and a great joy for me that together with my team we embarked on a great adventure and we are navigating worldwide. For some of you, you think that this is our hobby….We […]
Malta Naval Visits – June 2024
Monday 3rd June. The operated Military Sealift Command of the US Navy Pathfinder Class Oceanographic Ship USNS MARIE THARP T-AGS 66 left Valletta, Malta from DWQ 2 wharf passing breakwaters at 1515 hrs. Tuesday 4th June. The Marine Nationale (French Navy) Vulcain Class MCM Diving Tender FS ACHERON A 613 left Valletta passing breakwaters at 0919 hrs from […]
Naval News – LE EITHNE P 31 last voyage to the breakers – 01.06.2024
Nearly 2 years after she was decommissioned from the Irish Naval Service the 1984 commissioned former Flagship and Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) LE EITHNE P 31 left Cork Harbour, Republic of Ireland for the last time on Saturday 1st June, 2024 bound to breakers at Gent, Belgium. She was built by Verolme Cork Dockyard (VCD) […]
Malta Naval Visits – April 2024
Thursday 11th April. The Marina Militare Italiana (Italian Navy) Thaon Di Revel Class Multipurpose offshore patrol vessel, also known as Pattugliatore Polivalente D’Altura (PPA) – ITS PAOLO THAON DI REVEL P 430 called at Malta , passing breakwaters at 1612 hrs making her both as maiden call and the first PPA to be seen in […]
Cruise Liner News – Strong weather preventing cruise liners calling at Malta – 28/29.04.2024
With the current winds that is strong at times on exposed areas of the Maltese Islands Cruise Liner Scheduled port of calls were hampered and automatically they had to call to other ports in Sicily. On Sunday 28th April the 326 metre cruise liner NORWEGIAN ESCAPE had to cancel her scheduled call at Valletta and […]
Towage – MACISTONE towing 2 former GDF Corrubia Class Patrol Craft – 04.03.2021
It is not the first time that former Italian law Enforcement marine units are seen in Maltese Territorial Waters and back to March, 2021, two former Guardia Di Finanza (GDF) Corrubia Class Patrol Craft were towed/brought to Malta by the 1982 built Italian flag and owned tugboat MACISTONE for further service as an Anti Piracy […]
