SPEEDWAY

2017 / 81,413gt 158,000 dwt She is managed by Nereus Shipping SA, Greece and was outbound from Teesport to Chile when she landed her deep sea pilot at Brixham 27/8/17. She is out at the
 deep draft pilot station 4 miles east of Berry Head in hazy conditions.

                                          Picture taken from Berry Head

HOEGH ANTWERP

2013 / 58,767gt 6700 cars owned by Ray Car Carriers and on charter. She was en route from Zeebrugge to Vigo when she landed her deep sea pilot at Brixham 26/8/17.

                                      Picture taken from Berry Head, Brixham

SANDERLING ACE

2007 / 58,600gt 6400 cars Owned by MOL, Japan and she landed her deep sea pilot at Brixham
25/8 en route from Zeebrugge to Koper,Slovenia.

IVORY ARROW

2004 / 57718gt 6700 cars.She is owned by Ray Car Carriers and is on charter to K Line.
She is bound from Emden to Port Elizabeth and landed her deep sea pilot at Brixham 25/8.

MTS SERVICED 3 VEHICLE CARRIERS TODAY AND THESE PICTURES WERE TAKEN FROM THE PILOT BOAT

GLOVIS SONIC
2017 / 72,269gt 7400 cars.Her maiden voyage was from Japan to East Africa and she continued
around  Africa leaving Dakar for N.Europe and boarded her deep sea pilot at Brixham 25/8
bound for Gothenberg. She also loaded provisions and did a crew change.

CLAN LINE

Today 20/8/2017 the Merchant Navy Class, Clan Line 35028 hualed the Torbay Express from
 Bristol to Kingswear. Here she is passing Waterside, Paignton on her way up to Churston.

MOL GRATITUDE

2012 / 59,307gt 5600 teu owned by the Schulte Group and chartered to MOL.Japan. She was bound from Bremerhaven to New York when she landed her deep sea pilot at Brixham 20/8/2017.

                                      Picture taken from Berry Head,Brixham

ARCTIC DISCOVERER

Whilst out on the pilot boat alongside NOCC Atlantic I got pictures of this one again, but
this time she only is 1.5 miles away. 12/8/2017.She left 17/8 for Skagen Anchorage and
arrived 20/8.

NOCC ATLANTIC

2009 / 60,868gt 6754 cars owned by Norwegian Car Carriers AS.She was inbound from
Charleston to Bremerhaven when she boarded her deep sea pilot at Brixham 12/8/2017.

                                    Picture taken from the pilot boat off Brixham.

MOL TRIUMPH

2017 / 210678gt 20,170 teu on her 2nd visit to N.Europe.It was hoped by local ship spotters that
she would board a deep sea pilot at Brixham today 4/8/2017 but it was a disappointment because
 she went straight through to Southampton.
This picture was taken from Berry Head, Brixham when she was nearest to there at 22 miles to the south at 12.30.

ARCTIC DISCOVERER

Another picture of her taken from Berry Head 4/8.The last time an LNG tanker with Moss
spherical tanks anchored here was AL HAMRA in Dec 1996.

ARCTIC DISCOVERER

2006 / 118,571gt 140,000 cubic metre LNG Tanker owned by K Line LNG Shipping UK Ltd
and on charter to Statoil for 20 years and is being used to ship gas out of  Hammerfest, Norway.
She left Thamesport for Hammerfest but at the Sunk pilot station turned and headed for
Brixham and dropped anchor 4 miles outside of Torbay 4/8/2017 She left 17/8 giving
Skagen as her destination.

                                      Picture taken from Berry Head, Brixham 4/8

GALAXY ACE

2012 / 59,583gt 6400 cars owned by Mitsui OSK Line, Japan.She was bound from
Bremerhaven to Baltimore when she landed her deep sea pilot at Brixham 4/8/2017.

                                     Picture taken from Berry Head, Brixham 4/8.