Local Shipping – Bunkering Tanker VALLIERE
One of the Swedish Built ships around is the bunkering tanker VALLIERE. She was built at Asiverken, Amal, Sweden in 1962 as the HAMNSJO and was renamed to ALPHA AV DONSO as one of the smaller bunkering tankers in Scandinavia. She was […]
Drug Bust – Spanish police seize $114 Million in cocaine from Livestock Carrier ORION V – 26.01.2023
On Thursday 26th January, 2023 Spanish Police seized 4.5 tonnes of cocaine with an estimated street value of €105 Million ($114 Million) after raiding the livestock carrier ORION V off the Canary Islands. The Police arrested the 28 crew members on the Togo flag (TGO) ship, which had been trailed from Colombia in an operation […]
Fishing Vessels – TOK TOK
A British built fishing vessel which ended her years in black events was the 1975 built TOK TOK. She was originally the Petershead Tynedraft 86 Class Fishing Vessel GOLDEN DAWN bearing fishing matricola PD 211 and later while she was delivered to Maltese owners she was flying Irish (IRL) Flag and with matricola as BS […]
Maltese Fishing Vessels – 1975 built GOLDEN DAWN
One of the United Kingdom (UK) based fishing vessels bought locally was the 1975 built GOLDEN DAWN. She was built at Cubow Ltd, Woolwich, London as yard no 704 for Skipper A. Cowe (later to become assistant harbour master at Peterhead) as GOLDEN DAWN with fishing matricola as PD 211. She was a Tynedraft 86 […]
Casualties – Lebanese ship SEA BIRD loaded with grain sunk with no fatalities – 28.08.2021
On Saturday 28th August, 2021 early morning the 1985 built general cargo ship SEA BIRD homeported at Lome (TGO Flag) sank in Cretan Sea east of Greek peninsula after she ran aground. She was underway from Ukraine to Tunisia with 7,000 tons of wheat on board. Large scale SAR was launched, with all 16 Syrian […]
Passenger Ships – AFRODITE
The first newbuilding passenger ship of Sten A. Olsson now the famous Stena Line was the 1964 built AFRODITE which called at Grand Harbour, Malta on Wednesday 28th April, 2010 for bunkering purposes while underway to new life in Lebanon. She was built in Germany by D.W Kremer & Sohn, at Elmshorn holding a GRT […]
Breaking Up – 1964 built bitumen tanker JAGUAR – July 2019.
On Tuesday 4th May, 2019 the Maltese tugboat SPINOLA towed the 1964 built asphalt/bitumen tanker JAGUAR from OPL Malta towards Grand Harbour. Late afternoon she was joined by another tugboat , the SEA SALVOR and entered Valletta. She berthed starboard side alongside at Shipwrights Wharf at Bezzina Ship Repair Yard. She was built in 1964 […]
Casualties – Inland Tanker LADY SANDRA – 25.03.2020
The 89.90 metre inland tanker LADY SANDRA was split in two on Wednesday 25th March, 2020. A Mayday call was received by the Rescue Coordination Centre Malta (RCC Malta) situated at the Armed Forces of Malta (AFM) Operation Centre at Luqa Barracks around 2230 hrs. She was seen at Istanbul, Turkey last 6th February after she […]
Cargo Ships at Valletta, Malta – Week 22 of 2018. The following are movements within Week 22 – Sunday 27th May, 2018. Afternoon we had the departure of the 1975 built TGO flag Lebanese owned cargo ship NOUR F from Magazine Wharf. Monday 28th May, 2018. Around 0700 hrs the 1992 built PAN flag vessel […]
SEIZED – Libya’s Naval Forces Seized Tanker LAMAR – 14.03.2018. On Wednesday 14th March, 2018 Libya’s naval forces seized a TGO flag bunkering tanker LAMAR in the territorial waters without permissions from the state of Libya and arrested her Greek crew on suspicion they planned to smuggle oil out of the North African country. Libya’s […]
