Casualties – Yacht MY SAGA sinks offshore Catanzaro, Italy – 20.08.2022
On Saturday 20th August the Port Authority of Crotone VTS (Vessel Traffic Services) received a distress call from the 39.4 metre motor yacht MY SAGA that she was taking water ingress at her stern while on passage from Gallipoli to Milazzo. Immediately VTS advised Guardia Costiera (Italian Coast Guard) who dispatched CP 321 and a Romanian […]
Yachting – 2017 built Yacht HOME at Malta for filming in tv series – 2021
One of the Heesen built yacht under the project name of Nova and launched in 2017, the 49.8-metre HOME is currently at Malta. HOME is the world’s first Fast Displacement Hull Form motor yacht with a hybrid propulsion system. Infact she burns 57 litres per hour at a speed of 10 knots. Without compromising high speed, she can […]
Naval News – Towed Array Sonar by Dutch Navy Submarine S 810 HNLMS BRUINVIS – March 2002
A towed array sonar is a system of hydrophones towed behind a submarine or a surface ship on a cable. Trailing the hydrophones behind the vessel, on a cable that can be kilometres long, keeps the array’s sensors away from the ship’s own noise sources, greatly improving its signal-to-noise ratio, and hence the effectiveness of detecting and tracking faint contacts, such as quiet, […]
Naval News – Japanese Navy Submarine hit bulker while surfacing – 08.02.2021
The crew of the Japanese Navy Soryu Class Diesel-electric submarine SS 501 SORYU suffered minor injuries, while the submarine suffered damage to her mast, after they surfaced underneath a Hong Kong homeported 229 metres long bulker OCEAN ARTEMIS. The submarine was in the process of surfacing about 27 nautical miles south of Cape Ashizuri on Japan’s […]
Ferry News – Delivery Voyage of Newbuild TUSTNA – 28.12.2019
The newbuild electric double ended ferry TUSTNA entered Valletta, Malta on Saturday 28th December, 2019 with Redwise Crew berthing at Valletta Cruise Port Pinto 4 Wharf. She was built by Cemre Shipyard in Turkey for the Norwegian operator Fjord1. She left Yalova, Turkey on Saturday 21st December, 2019. She’s a Havyard designed vessel with a […]
Yachting – 126 metre OCTOPUS for sale – Sept 2019
During September 2019 the 126.2 metre Lürssen built superyacht OCTOPUS has been listed for sale. Commissioned by Microsoft co founder Paul Allen who died last year OCTOPUS is one of the largest superyachts in the world. Built in steel by German yard Lürssen and delivered in 2003, she remains one of the most impressive explorer yachts to […]
