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Broken Up – Salvage Tug SALVAGE TITAN – December 2022

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One of the famous Dutch built ocean going salvage tug SALVAGE TITAN was broken up at Kaohsiung, Taiwan last December 2022. She was built by Verolme Shipyard – Heusen; Netherlands with yard number 934 for Smit International Rotterdam as SMIT NEW YORK. Below image is while she was berthed at the old Medserv Base at …

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Passenger Ships – PALOMA I

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One of the Polish built ships originally bound for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was the 1980 built ferry DMITRIY SHOSTAKOVICH from a Class of 7 as Project B492/B493 by Stocznia Szczecinska im Adolfa Warskiego Warskiego in Szczecin, Poland. She was the lead of her class which she was named for the Soviet era Russian composer …

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Delivery – Sisters dredgers MAKRAN 1 + MAKRAN 2 – April 2021.

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On Tuesday 16th March, 2021 the 2021 newbuilt sisters trailing suction hopper dredgers (TSHD) MAKRAN 1 and MAKRAN 2 started their delivery voyage from Schiedam, Netherlands towards Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. Both were built by ADA Shipyard at Tuzla, Turkey for IHC Shipyard and then towed to the Netherlands for completion and refitting based on …

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Towage – PILEAS I towing hopper barge RAS TANNURAH I – 19.09.2012

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On Wednesday 19th September 2012 the 1981 built tug PILEAS I towing the 1977 built hopper barge RAS TANNURAH I left Valletta, Malta from Palumbo Malta Shipyards. PILEAS I was built in Romania at Santierul Naval Severnav in Severin as the ALEXANDRIA 3 trading until 2000 when renamed ELPIDA until January 2003; THALASOPOROS from 2003 …

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Mgarr Harbour – NATISSA – 29.12.2005

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One of the ships that used to call at Mgarr Harbour, Gozo was the 82 metre long coaster NATISSA. She was seen several times in our territorial waters calling both Valletta (Grand Harbour) and Mgarr Harbour, Gozo. 1995 British built at Yorkshire Dry Dock in Kingston Upon Hull as SEA RHONE trading until 1998 where …

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Delivery – Tugboat OMAR-DANKALI at Malta – 08.01.2020

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The 2019 built ASD 2411 tugboat OMAR-DANKALI entered Valletta, Malta last Wednesday 8th January, 2020 berthing at Valletta Cruise Port Pinto 4 Wharf. She was built by Damen Shipyards as Yard No 512285. She arrived in October 2018 at Rotterdam, Netherlands as deck cargo aboard the United Heavy Lift ship TASMANIC WINTER of which was …

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