Casualties – FELICITY ACE sinks off the Azores – 01.03.2022
On Tuesday 1st March, 2022 around 0900 hrs local time Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) car carrier FELICITY ACE that caught fire in the Atlantic last February 16th while carrying nearly 4,000 cars from Germany to the US sunk despite several efforts to tow her safely. The 6,400 CEU ship sank 220 nautical miles off the coast of Portugal’s […]
Passer By – SEA BRAVO towing OLYMPIC Z – 24.05.2021
On Monday 24th May, 2021 the 2008 built tug SEA BRAVO towing the 2007 built offshore tug/supply ship OLYMPIC Z passed by 32.2 nautical miles NNE off Malta underway from West Africa bound to Greece. SEA BRAVO is a Damen built Shoalbuster 3209 with a length overall of 32.08 metres with 9.10 metres beam and […]
Passer By – DIAN KINGDOM engaged in towing – 08.08.2020
On Saturday 8th August the 2015 built tug DIAN KINGDOM engaged in towing operations was spotted passing by 65 nautical miles North East (NE) off Malta She was towing the 1998 built offshore supply ship HIGHLAND ROVER for her final voyage from Corporation Quay at Sunderland, UK bound to breakers for scrap at Aliaga, Turkey. […]
Towage – BALABAN with UR 6 – 23.11.2019
The 1996 built Comoros (COM) flag tugboat BALABAN was spotted again in our territorial waters, this time towing the 91.44 metres flat top barge UR 6 from offshore Tripoli, Libya. UR 6 was built in 1997 in Russia originally VIKING BARGE 6 and her dimensions are – 91.44 m long with 27.43 m beam and […]
