Casualties – Update 3 of Super Sailing Yacht BAYESIAN sinking – 23.08.2024
Articles regarding the super sailing yacht BAYESIAN sinking awful accident published on Tuesday 20th August after our Italian Team Members arrived on site – https://maltashipphotos.com/casualties-super-sailing-yacht-bayesian-sinks-after-storm-with-fatalities-19-08-2024/ Update 1 published on Wednesday 21st August with 5 Bodies found – https://maltashipphotos.com/casualties-update-1-of-super-sailing-yacht-bayesian-sinking-21-08-2024/ Update 2 published on Thursday 22nd August with 1 unaccounted soul – Casualties – Update 2 of Super Sailing […]
Casualties – Update 2 of Super Sailing Yacht BAYESIAN sinking – 22.08.2024
Articles regarding the super sailing yacht BAYESIAN sinking awful accident published on Tuesday 20th August after our Italian Team Members arrived on site – https://maltashipphotos.com/casualties-super-sailing-yacht-bayesian-sinks-after-storm-with-fatalities-19-08-2024/ Update 1 published on Wednesday 21st August with 5 Bodies found – https://maltashipphotos.com/casualties-update-1-of-super-sailing-yacht-bayesian-sinking-21-08-2024/ With 5 bodies found of which the 5th one (Male) was retrieved in the morning the search […]
Casualties – Update 1 of Super Sailing Yacht BAYESIAN sinking – 21.08.2024
With the search for the missing persons continuing at night rescue divers are facing a really dangerous operation getting inside the sunken sailing yacht BAYESIAN and according to local news reports, rescue teams have managed to enter the yacht by smashing through a glass window after a local blacksmith has crafted jacks that were used […]
Casualties – Super Sailing Yacht BAYESIAN sinks after storm with fatalities – 19.08.2024
The 58 metre super sailing yacht BAYESIAN homeported in London (GBR Flag) sank off Porticello, Sicily, Italy, following a violent waterspout that struck around 0430 hrs local time on Monday 19th August. The 2008 built sailing yacht was carrying 22 souls of which 15 were rescued by the 1958 built sailing ship SIR ROBERT BADEN […]
Ferry – 2009 built ropax GNV SEALAND seen again at Malta – May 2024
The Bari homeported ropax GNV SEALAND was seen again in 2024 for few calls replacing a chartered roro while she was drydocked on the route Palermo-Malta-Palermo. She was last here last year (2023) at Palumbo Malta Shipyard to install the scrubber system and drydocking. Below are images while she was berthed at Parlatorio Wharf. More […]
Casualties – RoRo ship CAROLINE RUSS disabled for few minutes – 05.04.2024
On Friday 5th April, 2024 the German built and owned Roll On Roll Off (RoRo) ship CAROLINE RUSS reported to Valletta VTS at 1432 hrs that while she was underway to Valletta from Palermo with her scheduled port of call she had a main engine failure , approximately 4 miles off Fish Farm Area (AJD Tuna Ranch). […]
Cruise Liner News – MSC SINFONIA drydocking at Malta from 19.02 to 21.03.2024
The 2002 French built 275 m cruise liner MSC SINFONIA was seen again calling at Grand Harbour, bound to Palumbo Malta Shipyard, She passed breakwaters on Monday 19th February at 0742 hrs bound to Dock 6 coming from Palermo. Last 6th January she had a mishap when strong whirlwinds broke her mooring lines of which […]
Casualties – 16 metre pleasure yacht caught fire with 9 rescued off Gorgona Island – 10.08.2023
On Thursday 10th August an Italian 16 metre Raffaelli Maestrale ’52 pleasure yacht homeported at Pesaro that left the port of Marina di Pisa with nine people on board including three children – all from Tuscany, and was headed for Capraia to spend the day at the beach, caught fire around 1230 hrs one mile […]
Fire – Vigili Del Fuoco tries again new tender for 8 ‘medium’ Fireboats – May 2023
After the failure of the procedure launched last June 2022 , Vigili Del Fuoco (Italian Fire Service) is now trying again to find a shipyard capable of ensuring the supply of a new class of ‘medium’ size fireboats. It does so after reviewing the tender, in particular after increasing both the number of units requested […]
High Speed Craft – 1997 built ALE M
One of the High Speed Craft trading in Italy is the 1997 built ALE M. She was built by Kvaerner Fjellstrand at Omastrand in Norway as WATERJET 5 with Philippine flag (PHL) until 1997 with yard number 34. Then she was renamed as VITTORIA M with Italian Flag (ITA) trading until 7th June 2004 and […]
