Passers By – ALP DEFENDER towing ssdr LEIV EIRIKSSON – 09.04.2021
On Friday 9th April, 2021 the 2017 built anchor handling tug (AHT) ALP DEFENDER towing the 2001 built semi-submersible drilling rig (ssdr) LEIV EIRIKSSON from Agotnes, Norway bound to Aliaga, Turkey for breakers. LEIV EIRIKSSON was a Trosvik Bingo 9000 ultra-deepwater semi-submersible oil rig (ssdr) built at Dalian No 1 Production Yard (DSIC) , China. […]
Broken Up – Cruise Liner MARCO POLO – 09.01.2021
The classic cruise liner MARCO POLO arrived at Alang, India on Saturday 9th January, 2021. Following the demise of Cruise & Maritime Voyages, due to the COVID 19 Pandemic Disease she was sold at auction by CW Kellock & Co. Ltd. for US$ 2,770,000 on 22 October 2020. She was built as an ocean liner in 1965 […]
Cruise Liners – SAGA ROSE
One of the elegant Ocean Liners we had around was undoubtedly the SAGAFJORD. She was built in 1965 as yard number 1366 by Société Nouvelle des Forges et Chantiers de la Meditarranee, France for Norwegian America Line costing around $30 million as a combined ocean liner/cruise ship trading until 1980. in 1983 she was sold to Cunard […]
Breaking Up – Cruise Liner ASTOR – 23.11.2020
The 33 year old cruise liner ASTOR was sold last 15th October at an auction by C.W. Kellock London Ltd. She was built in 1987 by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW), Kiel in West Germany as ASTOR for the Mauritius-based Marlan Corporation, although originally ordered by the South African Safmarine as a combined ocean liner/cruise ship for the Southampton-Cape Town service. In 1988, she was sold to the Soviet Union Black Sea Shipping […]
Breaking Up – Oil Rig JACK BATES – Feb 2019
Early February 2019 the 1986 built semi-submersible drilling rig (SSDR) JACK BATES homeported at Vanuatu, Port Vila arrived for demolition at Alang, India. She was built in Japan by Harima Heavy Industries at Tokyo as ZANE BARNES until 1993 from which she was moved from the US Gulf to Malta in 1992 and renamed JACK […]
AERIAL – FAIRMOUNT SHERPA towing GSF JACK RYAN – 02.02.2018 On Friday 2nd February, 2018 the 2005 built NLD flag tug FAIRMOUNT SHERPA owned by FAIRMOUNT MARINE, part of KONINKLIJKE BOSKALIS WESTMINSTER BV GROUP, Netherlands was spotted towing the 2000 UK built VUT flag 239m long drillship GSF JACK RYAN owned by TRANSOCEAN OFFSHORE DEEPWATER DRILLING INC, […]
AH VARAZZE fixed again by TRANSOCEAN. The 2014 built anchor handling tug/supply vessel A.H. VARAZZE formerly ASSO TRENTADUE has been fixed again by TRANSOCEAN to tow the midwater floater TRANSOCEAN PROSPECT from offshore Methil, Fife, Scotland to Aliaga, Turkey for recycling in an environmentally responsible manner. Eta to Aliaga is at the end of September 2017. […]
Transocean to acquire Songa Offshore Transocean has agreed to acquire the entire share capital of Songa Offshore , under a transaction estimated at around $3.4 billion. The combination of Songa Offshore and Transocean is a strategic fit,” said Frederik W. Mohn, chairman of Songa Offshore. “By adding Songa Offshore’s Semi-Submersible Oil Rigs (SSDR) to Transocean’s existing harsh […]
