Preserved Ships – WWII Concrete Ship SIP at Belgrade, Serbia – October 2023
One of the interesting maritime craft found at Sava River, Belgrade Serbia is no doubt the 1943 built concrete ship SIP. The first official idea of using concrete to build a ship dates back to 1848 France. During World War I, due to lack of raw materials, especially iron about a hundred concrete ships were […]
Maiden Call – Liner AIDAcosma at Malta – 31.10.2022
The longest cruise ship to date that entered Grand Harbour, Malta and berthed at Valletta Cruise Port was the 2021 built AIDAcosma during her maiden call, on Monday 31st October, 2022. In March 2015, Carnival Corporation and Meyer Werft agreed on a letter of intent to build four new ships at the Papenburg and Turku sites […]
Casualties – Russian bulker KUZMA MININ aground – 18.12.2018
A Russian cargo ship has ran aground on a beach in Cornwall as strong winds whipped across the southwest on Tuesday 18th November, 2018. Emergency services were launched after 0600 hrs to help the bulker KUZMA MININ which was stuck just metres off Gyllyngvase Beach in Falmouth Bay. According to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) she […]
Soviet Era – NMT Silvia
One of the famous ro/ro ships built at Meyer Neptun, Rostock in Germany as the Soviet vessel KOMPOZITOR BORODIN was seen at Valletta, Malta back on the 27th May, 2005 when she was named NMT SILVIA running for Dutch Line NMT based in Amsterdam. She was built in 1985 with IMO : 8521945 , 6,894 GRT and 4,673 DWT. […]
