The Royal Navy formally welcomed RFA TIDESURGE A 138 her newest fleet replenishment tanker, in a ceremony at Greenock’s Ocean Terminal on Wednesday, February 20th. She’s a Tide Class Replenishment ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA). The 39,000-tonne vessel is the third of a planned four TIDE Class Military Afloat Reach and Sustainability (MARS) …
Naval News – RFA TIDESURGE A 138 commissioned – 20.02.2019 Read More »
2 persons have sustained grievous injuries following an accident with their boat of which around 0500 hrs the Police were informed that a boat collided with the wall of the Ramla Bay Resort Hotel in Marfa, at great speed. Police from the Rapid Intervention Unit (RIU) , the Qawra police station as well as the …
Rescue – 2 Persons injured in a boat accident at Marfa, Malta – 20.02.2019 Read More »
FS BEAUTEMPS-BEAUPRE A 758 is a ship of the French Naval Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service named after the hydrographer Charles Francois Beautemps-Beaupre. She was launched on 26th April 2002 and entered service on 13th December 2003. She entered Valletta on Monday 28th January 2019 berthing port side alongside to Pinto 3 Wharf, Valletta Cruise Port. …
Naval Visits – FS BEAUTEMPS-BEAUPRE A 758 – 28.01 to 01.02.2019 Read More »
Diana Shipping Inc based in Greece, a global shipping company specialising in the ownership of dry bulk vessels, on Friday 15th February, 2019 announced that it has signed, through two separate wholly owned subsidiaries, two Memorandum of Agreement to sell to two affiliated parties, the 2001 built bulker DANAE and the 2001 built bulker DIONE …
Bulkers – Diana Shipping Selling Two Dry Bulk Vessels – 15.02.2019 Read More »
On the evening of Thursday 15th February 1996, a 1993 built LBR flag single hull tanker, the SEA EMPRESS loaded with 130,824 tonnes of Forties crude (light crude from fields in the North Sea) en route for the Texaco refinery in Milford Haven, ran aground on the rocks at Saint Ann’s Head at the entrance to …
Casualties – Tanker SEA EMPRESS grounded in UK – February 1996 Read More »
The LEVIATHAN FIELD is a large natural gas field located in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Israel. Saturday 26th January,2019. The 1988 built BLZ flag crewboat TOSCA 1 was spotted operating with the semi-submersible crane vessel THIALF of which she has a lifting capacity of 14,200 metric tons (one of the biggest of her …
LEVIATHAN Field Movements Reports till 15.02.2019. Read More »
On Wednesday 13th February 2019 around 2045 hrs the 2000 built Italian flag stern trawler SALVATORE RUSSO entered Mgarr Harbour, Gozo with a waiting Ambulance from Gozo General Hospital. She was built in 2000 at Campobasso, Termoli in Italy with metal hull and 21.21 metre length overall. Her former name was LINA CANNARSA MADRE and …
Rescue – Italian Trawler SALVATORE RUSSO calls to Gozo – 13.02.2019 Read More »
KALIZMA is a 50.29 metre classic private yacht built in 1906 by Ramage & Ferguson at Leith, Scotland as MINONA. She was later renamed CORTYNIA and ODYSSEIA. She was requisitioned by the Royal Navy during both World Wars and underwent several major refits and remodelling during her lifetime. In 1967 she was bought by the …
The 2005 South Korean built crude oil tanker NS CONCEPT departed Venezuela late January with half a million barrels of oil for Houston, USA arriving on the 3rd February and few days after sanctions on Venezuela’s state owned oil firm PDVSA were placed. After spending 6 days in Houston, the tanker has been unable to …
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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 …
