Casualties – NOAA Survey Ship S 221 RAINIER on Fire in South Pacific – 05.09.2023
Last Tuesday 5th September, 2023 the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) survey ship S 221 RAINIER suffered a fire aboard during operations off American Samoa. The fire was controlled and all 41 people were reported safe with no injuries. The fire started in the exhaust stacks of the survey vessel, impacting the ship’s […]
Law Enforcement – NOAA identifies 7 Nations for Illegal Fishing Activities – September 2023
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has identified seven nations and entities for their illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing activities in its 2023 report congress. Two of those nations were also cited for issues relating to forced labor, and two were identified for issues related to shark catch. The biennial report, titled 2023 Report to Congress […]
Local Shipping – Passenger Ship LA VALETTE
One of the first from 3 German Customs Patrol Craft donated to Malta to be part of the 1st Maritime Battery of the Armed Forces of Malta, now known as Maritime Squadron was the 1952 built 29 metre craft BRUNSBUTTEL who arrived in Malta as deck cargo with 2 others (nowadays both broken up) aboard […]
Former Military – CORMORANO II
One of the former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Equity Class Patrol Craft was spotted on her hull hard at Mazara Del Vallo, Sicily back to 10th April, 2014 now called as CORMORANO II. She was built in 1970 at New Orleans, USA by Equitable Construction for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as NOAA 1256 […]
Research – FUGRO awarded NOAA contract until 2025 – 08.04.2020
FUGRO has been awarded a 5 year indefinite delivery indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for the provision of shoreline mapping services in support of the agency’s Coastal Mapping Program. FUGRO GAUSS leaving Valletta back to 5th December, 2014. Issued through the NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey (NGS), the […]
Research/Survey Vessel – MED SURVEYOR.
One of the frequent vessels that call at Haifa, Israel is the 1968 built Cook Islands flag MED SURVEYOR. She was built in the USA by New England Shipbuilding at South Portland as the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration) R 445 fishery patrol vessel DELAWARE II. In August 2013 she was sold and renamed […]
Casualties – BOURBON RHODE confirmed sunk in Atlantic Ocean with three rescued – 29.09.2019
Search crews located an overturned fast rescue craft believed to be from the tug BOURBON RHODE late Saturday, Bourbon has confirmed. The craft was first located by N43RF a Lockheed WP-3D Orion NOAA Hurricane Center aircraft. And again confirmed by Falcon 50 belonging to the French Navy deployed from Dakar, Senegal. A commercial vessel participating in the operation […]
Malta Naval Visits – USNS JOHN LENTHALL T-AO 189 – 07.04 – 29.04.2004
USNS JOHN LENTHALL T-AO 189 is a replenishment ship of the United States Navy. She was launched on 9th August 1986 and entered service on 25th July 1987. She entered Valletta on Wednesday 7th April 2004 berthing starboard side alongside to Parlatorio Wharf, Malta Drydocks. It was her second call to Malta, the first one […]
