Saturday 30 May 2015

MILLAU BRIDGE

2015 / 150,709gt 13870 teu owned by K Line, Japan.She is their first Ultra Large Container
 Ship and is the first of this type to be built in Japan. She is returning from her maiden voyage
 to N.Europe and is enroute from Antwerp to China via Piraeus and Singapore.She is about to
 land her deep sea pilot at Brixham 30/5/2015.


                                Picture taken from the pilot boat off Brixham 30/5/2015.
                                                 Copyright Rodge Musselwhite

Friday 22 May 2015

AMADEA

Leaving Torbay bound for Dover with the pilot boat MTS Agility following her ready
 to take off the local pilot.


                                 Picture taken from Daddyhole Plain, Torquay 22/5/2015.
AMADEA

1991 / 29,000 gt 600 pass owned by Amadea Shipping Company and chartered to Phoenix
 Reisen, Germany. She is finishing an Icelandic cruise from Hamburg and called at Cobh
 yesterday before arriving at Torquay at 0740 this morning and left at 1515 for Dover then
 back to Hamburg.


                                    Picture taken from the pilot boat off Brixham
                                 after the local pilot had been embarked 22/5/2015
                                                Copyright Rodge Musselwhite
GALATEA

2007 / 3672gt Trinity House Buoy Tender. She had come from Penzance arrivimg 21/5/2015
to maintain the marker buoys around the wreck of the Emsstrom off Torquay.
 Then later 22/5/2015 she sailed to Weymouth Bay.


                                 Picture taken from Marine Drive, Torquay 22/5/2015
                                                     Copyright Rodge Musselwhite
BUNGA KASTURI DUA

1997 / 57017gt owned by AET Petroleum Tanker,Malaysia.She was enroute from Rotterdam to Singapore when she landed her deep sea pilot at Brixham 20/5/2015.


                                 Picture taken from Waterside, Paignton 20/5/2015,
                                                        she was 7 miles away.
                                                Copyright Rodge Musselwhite

Tuesday 19 May 2015

BALTIC SUMMER

1989 / 10842gt Ex Hansa Visby 2013 owned by Ost -West -Handel Und Schiffahrts,
 Germany and operated by Baltic Reefers. She is enroute from St.Petersburg to
 Puerto Bolivar,Colombia and sheltered in Lyme Bay 19/5/2015. She also sheltered
 in Lyme Bay 11/11/2014


                                 Picture taken from Marine Drive, Torquay 19/5/2015.
                                                 Copyright Rodge Musselwhite
CSCL ARCTIC OCEAN

2015 / 184,000gt 19,100 teu owned by China Shipping Container Line.She is returning
from her maiden voyage to N.Europe and was enroute from Rotterdam to Port Klang
when she landed her deep sea pilot at Brixham 19/5/2015.


                              Picture taken from the pilot boat off Brixham 19/5/2015
                                               Copyright Rodge Musselwhite

Thursday 14 May 2015

ANNEGRET

2000 / 8397gt owned by SAL Heavylift, Germany. She is a type 161A equipped with
2 x 320 ton and 1x 200 ton cranes and she loaded 2 Gottwald mobile harbour cranes
at Antwerp and is bound for Pakistan. She is sheltering in Torbay 14/5/2015.


                                  Picture taken from Shoalstone, Brixham 14/5/2015.
                                                   Copyright Rodge Musselwhite

Saturday 9 May 2015

ETERNAL ACE

2011 / 59,027gt 6400 cars owned by MOL,Japan,She was enroute from Barcelona to
Zeebrugge and boarded her deep sea pilot at Brixham 9/5/2015.


                                 Picture taken from the pilot boat off Brixham 9/5/2015.
                                                   Copyright Rodge Musselwhite
MOL QUALITY

2013 / 151,200gt 13900 teu owned by APL,Singapore and chartered to MOL,Japan.
She was enroute from Rotterdam to Port Said and landed her deep sea pilot at
Brixham 9/5/2015.


                                 Picture taken from the pilot boat off Brixham 9/5/2015.
                                               Copyright Rodge Musselwhite

Tuesday 5 May 2015

AMADEA

1991 / 29000gt 600 pass ex Asuka 2006 owned by Amadea Shipping Co and chartered to
 Phoenix Reisen,Germany.She is at the end of an East Coast of USA and Canada Cruise from Hamburg and called at Cork yesterday and was supposed to call at Dartmouth today but the
lack of shelter outside the port caused her to call at Torquay instead.This evening she sails for Hamburg.


                                         Picture taken from Preston 5/5/2015.
                                              Copyright Rodge Musselwhite