ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION – Italian Coast Guard detains rescue ship HUMANITY 1 – 05.03.2024
The 1976 built rescue ship HUMANITY 1 operated by SOS Humanity has been detained at Crotone Port for allegedly breaching new rules on search and rescue (SAR) in the Central Mediterranean, the German NGO said last Tuesday 5th March, 2024. The ship has been placed under administrative detention for 20 days in relation to the […]
Destination Gozo – SEA CLOUD II off Gozo – 15.05.2017
One of the passenger ships that from time to time anchor off Mgarr Harbour, Gozo and transferring passengers to shore and back to the ship apart from Comino Charters etc is the 2001 built sailing passenger ship SEA CLOUD II. Unlike the SEA CLOUD , she is a newbuilding, built at the Spanish shipbuilder Astilleros […]
Maiden Call – Cable Layer CS RECORDER at Malta – 04.01.2024
Within a space of 3 hours, the second maiden call at Grand Harbour, Malta happened with the 2000 built cable layer CS RECORDER that passed breakwaters at 1014 hrs coming from Civitavecchia, Italy. She was built at the German Shipyard – Ps Werften Stralsund as MAERSK RECORDER with yard number 430, one of the famous […]
Gaza-Israel War – Cruise ship CROWN IRIS with 1,300 evacuees from Israel to Cyprus – 13.10.2023
Following the 2023 Yom Kippur attack by Hamas on Southern Israel on Saturday 7th October around 1,300 souls arrived in Larnaca, Cyprus, on Friday 13th October from Haifa, Israel, on board the cruise ship CROWN IRIS. The passengers were able to fly home on planes from Larnaca Airport if they desired mostly German citizens wanting […]
Casualties – Container Ship CMA DJAKARTA on fire – July 1999.
On the night of Monday 12th July, 1999 the 1998 built 2,102 TEU containership CMA DJAKARTA caught fire off Crete following an explosion. The vessel, owned by Gebr Winter of Hamburg, was on long-term charter to Compagnie Maritime d’Affretement (CMA), Marseilles from 9th April, 1999. She was deployed on CMA’s North Europe/Japan/China service, NCJ-TPX U.S. […]
Yachting – 156 m mega yacht DILBAR seized – 02.03.2022
On Wednesday 2nd March, 2022 the German Government seized the 4th longest yacht in the world – DILBAR as part of a series of sanctions on Russian oligarchs during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine owned by Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov. DILBAR is named after Usmanov’s mother. Below is the first DILBAR launched in 2005 as a 66 […]
Naval News – German Navy Frigate F 207 FGS BREMEN scrap – November 2021
On Wednesday 13th October, 2021 the German Navy Type 122 Class Frigate FGS BREMEN F 207 left Wilhelmshaven for the last time and last voyage towed to the breakers at Aliaga, Turkey by tug ONYX which passed off Malta on the 7th November 2021. She was the lead ship of the class known as the Bremen Class, […]
Local Shipping – Bunkering Tanker VANNA (1980 built)
One of the Go Fuels tanker that was used for bunkering purposes was the 1980 built VANNA. She was built in Germany by Busumer Schiffsweerft at Busum as the chemical/oil products tanker HELGA ESSBERGER built for John T. Essberger, the pioneer of purpose-built parcel tankers and today is one of Europe’s leading operators of such tankers, […]
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION – 86 souls rescued by German Sailing Yacht NADIR – 16.06.2021
Currently at the Grand Harbour, under COVID-19 Quarantine there is the 18 metre long German sailing yacht NADIR anchored in Bighi. She entered Grand Harbour on Friday 18th June at 1736 hrs and proceeded to Bighi Bay on anchors as instructed by Valletta VTS after she dropped anchors close to the Tank Cleaning Farm ( […]
Former Military – GHM 1.
One of the two former military bridge erection boat 1691 was used for sometime at Grand Harbour Marina as GHM 1 to assist yachting matters at the Marina in Malta. She was powered by 1 engine with a Schottel rudderpropeller Type 100 with manufacture no as 894 and she was built in 1983. Above images […]
