Coastguard – USCGC Polar Star WAGB 10 leave Sydney on Antarctic Resupply Mission – 27.12.2024
The U.S. Coast Guard’s (USCG) only heavy icebreaker – USCGC POLAR STAR WAGB 10, left Sydney, Australia on Friday 27th December, 2024 to begin her Antarctic mission supporting Operation Deep Freeze 2025. The departure marks the vessel’s 28th voyage to Antarctica, where she will play a crucial role in resupplying U.S. research stations. Before leaving […]
Casualty – US Sanctioned Russian ro/ro ship URSA MAJOR sinks in the Mediterranean Sea – 23.12.2024
On Monday 23rd December, 2024 before midday a distress call by ro/ro ship URSA MAJOR was being transmitted stating that the ship is in trouble after an engine room explosion and with restricted manoeuvrability and we are going to try to repair it with the vessel listing badly. URSA MAJOR was in the same area […]
Icebreaker – German Research Icebreaker POLARSTERN
One of the German Government Ships is the 1982 built German research icebreaker POLARSTERN (meaning Pole Star) of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven, Germany. She was built by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW) in Kiel and Nobiskrug in Rendsburg as yard 707 with keel laid down on 22nd September 1981, launched on 6th January, […]
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY – Polar Class Heavyload Carrier AUDAX
One of the first Polar Class (PC) 3 Vessel Heavy Load Carrier AUDAX was photographed from the air by Malta Ship Photos in the Mediterranean Sea during her first cargo voyage. She was built in 2016 by Guangzhou Shipyard International Co Ltd at Guangzhou, China with Hull Number as 14664001 with keel laid on 12th […]
Coastguard – Latest addition to the Canadian Coast Guard – 02.01.2023
On Monday 2nd January , 2023 the Canadian Coast Guard interim buoy tender/icebreaker CCGS JUDY LAMARSH was seen underway at the Welland Canal, Canada. She arrived in Canadian Waters back to January 2022 as the Kazakhstan flag fire fighting vessel MANGYSTAU-2 homeported at Aktau. She was built for the Caspian Offshore Construction at Kazakhstan. She […]
Ships from Canada – Self Discharging Bulk Carrier SAGINAW
A 69 year old lady still trading in Canada is the 1953 built self discharging bulk carrier SAGINAW. She was built at Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co at Manitowoc, Wisconsin in USA as the American Steamship Company ship JOHN J.BOLAND with yard no 417. By the 1980s the ship had become among the oldest operated by American […]
Offshore – Icebreaking Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessel (AHTS) AIVIQ
One of the Edison Chouest Offshore vessels is the 2012 built icebreaking anchor handling tug supply vessel AIVIQ. During July 2009, Edison Chouest Offshore won a $150 million contract for the construction of an icebreaking anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessel for Royal Dutch Shell. The 110 metre vessel, largest ever built by the company, would be […]
Broken Up – Roro ship SPEYBANK – 2009
One of the Finnish built vessels for the Soviet Union shipping industry was the OKHA seen here as the SPEYBANK owned by the Bank Line (Andrew Weir Shipping Ltd., UK. In the late 1970s Sudoimport, the Soviet foreign trade organization with a monopoly for the foreign trade of ships, requested for tenders for the design and construction of […]
Yachting – 2020 converted yacht RAGNAR at Malta – 18.08.2020
On Tuesday 18th August the 2020 converted yacht RAGNAR entered Grand Harbour, Malta during her maiden call at 1539 hrs bound to Grand Harbour Marina with Maltese (MLT) flag. On Friday 24th August 2012 Wagenborg Offshore accepted delivery of the IMSV SANABORG the first in a series of ice-breaking multipurpose support-vessels with a 34 tons […]
Icebreaker – AURORA AUSTRALIS final voyage – 17.03.2020
The final operational voyage of Australia’s Antarctic icebreaker AURORA AUSTRALIS left Hobart last week for the sub Antarctic Macquarie Island. The ship’s last trip south, after 31 years of service to the Australian Antarctic Program, will be a two week voyage to resupply Macquarie Island and transport expeditioners. She was built by Carrington Slipways in Tomago, New […]
