Friday 28 September 2018

HYUNDAI DYNASTY

2008 / 52,581gt 4922 teu. She operates on Hyundai's AEX ( Asia Express Loop ) Service
from China to N.Europe which started in April 2018.She was bound from Hamburg to Suez
when she landed her deep sea pilot at Brixham 28/9/18.

                                      Picture taken from the pilotboat off Brixham.
THE WORLD

2002 / 43,155gt 330 pass Owned by Residensea Ltd, Norway and operated by Silversea
 Cruises USA.She is the largest private residental ship having 110 privately owned apartments
and 88 guest suites. She is on a 10 day British Isles Exploration Cruise and is seen arriving from
Falmouth and about to anchor off Torquay for 2 days.

                                       Picture taken from the pilotboat.

Friday 21 September 2018

CSCL URANUS

2012 / 150,853gt 14,074 teu is now owned by Cosco Shipping and was painted in their colours
in early 2017. She left Antwerp bound for Shanghai and landed her deepsea pilot at Brixham
 21/9/18. She has been operating on the NE3 service the last small ship to do so but when she
 arrives in China she will change to an unknown service.

                                      Picture taken from the pilotboat off Brixham

GUNILLA

1941 / 405gt She is a Swedish school training ship which was built as a motor sailer cargo
ship and rebuilt in 1997 as a 3 masted barque. She left Portsmouth 17/9/18 for Lisbon
and came into Torbay to shelter 18/9 and left this morning but returned 4 hours later.

                                     Picture taken from the pilotboat off Brixham

Thursday 20 September 2018

VEGA LEA

2010 / 32,638gt 53,713 dwt managed by Vega - Reederie, Germany.She arrived at
 Southampton from Bilbao to load scrap for Ho Chi Minh City.

                                        Picture taken from Marchwood 20/9/18

AL JMELIYAH

2017 / 153,148gt 15000 teu. She was the last of  11  A15 Class ships built for UASC
and completed after the merger with Hapag Lloyd so she was repainted in Hapag colours
as the brand name UASC no longer existed.She arrived at Southampton 20/9/2018
from Antwerp and will sail to Yantian.

                                              Picture taken from Eling.

Sunday 16 September 2018

HEBRIDEAN SKY

She is about to tie up to the mid stream mooring buoys and left for St Peter Port tonight.

                                                  Picture taken from Kingswear.



HEBRIDEAN SKY

1991 / 4200gt 114 pass owned by Noble Caledonia,UK and was built as Renaissance Seven.
 She is on a Round Britain Cruise from Oban and called at Pembroke and St Mary, Isles of
 Scilly before arriving at Dartmouth. She is seen turning in the river with the aid of the
 workboat Annamone that escorted her in.

                                     Picture taken from Kingswear 16/9/2018.
TINSDAL

1998 / 2981gt managed by Wessels, Germany. She arrived from Kilroot with a cargo of
 rock salt and is alongside Victoria Wharf.

                                                    Picture taken from Mountbatten.

USNS BIG HORN T-AO 198

1992 / 42,674 tons full load is a Henry J. Kaiser Class Fleet Replenishment Tanker
operated by U.S. Military Sealift Command. She is seen arriving from Rota for a
visit to Devonport with the tug SD ADEPT alongside.

                                                     Picture taken from Jennycliff.

FRANK

2000 / 9266gt owned by Carl F. Peters, Germany.She was arriving from Zeeland Refinery and
is seen with the pilotboat and stern tug Morgawr inbound for Cattedown.

                                                      Picture taken from Jennycliff.

A trip to Plymouth 15/9/2018 resulted in 4 ships being seen.

A137 TIDERACE

2018 / 39,000 tons full load.The 2nd Tide Class Tanker was moored on C buoy and is
having FOST Training.

                                                    Picture taken from Jennycliff.

Wednesday 12 September 2018

NEW EMINENCE

2018 / 159,843gt 310,000 dwt owned by China Merchant Energy Shipping.She arrived at
 Southwold 4/9 did 3 ship to ship transfers to load Russian Crude and left 10/9 bound for
 an unknown Chinese port. She landed her deep sea pilot at Brixham this evening 11/9/2018.

                                 Picture taken from the pilotboat off Brixham.

Friday 7 September 2018

COSCO SHIPPING LIBRA

2018 / 197,500gt 20,117 teu owned by Cosco Shipping,China.She is on her maiden voyage
and was en route from Rotterdam to Port Said when she landed her deep sea pilot at Brixham
7/9/2018.

                                  Picture taken from the pilotboat off Brixham.

PISCES LEADER

2014 / 69,931gt 7000 cars owned by NYK Line, Japan. She landed her deep sea pilot
at Brixham 7/9/2018 whilst en route from Bremerhaven to Suez. She had previously
called here in June and July 2015.

                                    Picture taken from Berry Head, Brixham

Sunday 2 September 2018

OLYMPIC LEOPARD

2011 / 170,004gt  319,368 dwt owned by Olympic Shipping, Greece.She was off Southwold, UK
for 18 days and in that time did 5 ship to ship transfers to load a full cargo of Russian Crude
for Qingdao,China. She boarded her deep sea pilot at Southwold and landed him at Brixham 2/9/2018.

                                     Picture taken from the pilotboat off Brixham.