VICTORIA HIGHWAY
18 / 75,162gt 7500 cars She operates on the K Line North Atlantic Shuttle Service
and was bound from Zeebrugge to Baltimore when she landed her deepsea pilot at
Brixham this evening.
7029 CLUN CASTLE
She was built in 1950 and was allocated to Newton Abbot Shed for the first 5 years.Today
she recreated 60 years ago 9/5/1964 when she took part in the Ian Allan IZ48 Railtour
and did the fastest time between Plymouth and Bristol with a top speed of 96 mph.Today
she was doing the run from Birmingham Snow Hill to Oxford to Bristol to Plymouth and
was going to be unassisted up the banks, she was going fairly slow by the time she topped
Dainton Bank.
MARAN DANAE
23 / 165,054gt 320,917 dwt She is managed by Maran Tanker Management inc,Greece.
She has just started a charter to Total Energies,France to ship oil from the US Gulf to
West Coast India.She was bound from Rotterdam to Corpus Christi when she landed
her deepsea pilot at Brixham this morning.
Picture taken from Berry Head.LE BOREAL
10 / 10,949gt 264 pass.She is owned by Ponant Cruises,France and arrived at Dartmouth from
Guernsey but had to wait for the fog to lift before she could enter port.She leaves for the Scilly
Isles tonight.This the 2nd Ponant ship to call this week and 2 more will be coming.
SIRENA
99 / 30,277gt 684 pass She was built as R FOUR and is now owned by Oceania Cruises,
USA and is on a 37 day one way cruise from Miami to Southampton.She called at Cobh
yesterday and is in Plymouth Sound today and left for Southampton this evening.
Picture taken from Mountbatten.