45699 GALATEA - JUBILEE CLASS 4-6-0
She is running with the dual identity of scrapped sisters 45327 Sierra Leone
and on the cabside 45562 Alberta.The Royal Duchy from Slough to Par was
diesel from Slough to Bristol and back and steam from Bristol to Par and back.
Here she is nearing the top of Dainton bank.
19 USS MESA VERDE
07 / 25,300 tons.She is a San Antonio Class Amphibious Transport Dock ( LPD ).
On July 10th she left Norfolk as part of the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group
on an 8 month deployment with Bataan and Carter Hill and headed for the Med.
Today she arrived in Plymouth.SD Faithful is the bow tug, SD Powerful portside
escort and SD Deborah starboardside escort.On her flightdeck are 3 Bell-Boeing
MV-22 Osprey Tilt Rotor aircraft.
TODAY IT WAS OFF TO PLYMOUTH FOR THE AMERICAN WARSHIP
AND THE ADDED BONUS OF 2 TANKERS ON THE MOVE.
Pictures taken from Jennycliff.
THUN LIVERPOOL
19 / 11,826gt owned by Thun Tankers BV, Sweden.She had come from Milford
Haven to Plymouth and sailed for Pembroke.
IDE MIN
She was originally built in Germany in 1957 named Stanislaw and used as a harbour tug
at Gydnia. In 1991 she was rebuilt in the Netherlands as a schooner 103gt for Dutch owners
and renamed Ide Min.She arrived at midday in Torquay Harbour from Coruna,Spain.
SEVEN SEAS NAVIGATOR
99 / 28,803gt 542 pass 345 crew.She is operated by Regent Seven Seas Cruises,USA
and is on a 30 day one way cruise from New York to Southampton which called at the
east coast of Canada, Greenland,Iceland and British and Irish ports.She had come from
Waterford to Dartmouth but on arrival at the anchorage outside the port the captain
was not happy with conditions out there and they are going to get worse later on, so
she left and is heading down channel.Dartmouth was the penultimate port of the cruise
which finishes at Southampton tomorrow at 0530.
The ship at the anchorage and pilotboat
heading back to take off the pilot.
Minutes later she is leaving and heading South.
Pictures taken from Kingswear.
RFA STIRLING CASTLE
13 / 5840gt.She was formerly ISLAND CROWN and has been converted to
an offshore operating base deploying Mine Countermeasures Maritime Autonomous
System ( MEMMAS ) with drones and crewless systems to neutralise sea mines and
other seabed threats.She had been up in Lyme Bay and was now slow steaming 6 miles
south of Heybrook Bay waiting to enter Plymouth in the afternoon.
937 ANS SOUMAMM
19 / 5500 Tonnes Full Load.She is an Algerian Training Ship built in China,
a modified version of the Chinese Daxin Class and has 170 crew + 30 instructors
+ 200 trainees.She arrived in Plymouth on Wednesday 12/7 and left this morning
destination unknown, the last I saw her she was heading South.
Being escorted by SD Faithful starboard and
SD Careful port through the narrows
at Devils Point.
ONE INNOVATION
23 / 236,500gt 24,136 teu.She is the first of 6 megamax ships for ONE and is the
flagship of the fleet.Delivered 2/6/23 and is on her maiden voyage on the FE3 Service
and was bound from Singapore to Rotterdam when she boarded her deepsea pilot at
Brixham this morning.She is the 2nd largest containership in the world and the largest
to call at Brixham.If all her containers were put end to end they would be 91 miles long.
She is equipped with a bow windbreak and is the first ship to have 25 bays,the extra one
is on the bow mooring deck.
LNG SAKURA
18 / 181,927gt 137,227 cubic metres.She is managed by NYK Shipmanagement,Japan
and was bound from Cove Point,Maryland to Rotterdam when she came up and anchored
in the Deepwater Anchorage at 18.30 to await her berth.She is not due in Rotterdam until
Wednesday 19/7.
WILD ROSE LEADER
23 / 71,846gt 7010 cars ,She is the fourth LNG fuelled battery hybrid vehicle carrier
for NYK.All the LNG vessels are having Flower names.She is on her maiden voyage
and was bound from Emden to Cristobal when she landed her deepsea pilot at Brixham
this morning.
TARIFA
07 / 57,692gt 6700 cars.She is on charter from Ray Car Carriers and was bound
from Portbury to Zeebrugge when she came up this afternoon and anchored in
the Deepwater Anchorage to await her berth.She is not due in Zeebrugge until
Monday 12/7.She left Monday morning 0100.
