Saturday, 27 September 2025

 LAKE TAUPO

06 / 47,168gt 4900 ceu Ex Morning Miracle-17.She is owned by Eastern 

Pacific Shipping, Singapore and was bound from Davisville to Emden when

she boarded her deep sea pilot at Brixham this afternoon.


 
                                                   Pictures taken from Berry Head.

 TOURMALINE ACE

25 / 78,000gt 7192ceu.She was bound from Hambantota,Sri Lanka to Tyne when she

boarded her deep sea pilot at Brixham this afternoon.


 

                                                   Pictures taken from Berry Head.

 

Tuesday, 23 September 2025

 CELESTE ACE 

24 / 73,132gt 7050 ceu.She was bound from Antwerp to Portbury when she 

landed her deep sea pilot at Brixham this afternoon. 


 

                                                        Pictures taken from Berry Head.

Sunday, 21 September 2025

 2 SHIPS AWAITING ORDERS IN BABBACOMBE BAY

ARKLOW RAIDER from Teignmouth.

 

SPANACO LOYALTY from Portbury.


 Pictures taken from Babbacombe Downs.


Saturday, 20 September 2025

 EAGLE VENTURA

23 / 156,186 gt 299,407 dwt owned by AET Tanker Holding,Singapore.

She was bound from Rotterdam to Brixham where she landed her deep

 sea pilot this evening. 


 

                                                   Pictures taken from Berry Head.

 D35 HMS DRAGON 

Anchored in Torbay.

                                                Picture taken from Berry Head.
 

Thursday, 18 September 2025

 P283 HMS MERSEY

03 / 1677tonnes River Class Patrol Vessel at anchor in Torbay.

                                                Picture taken from Preston Seafront.
 

Tuesday, 16 September 2025

 EVER AEON

24 / /236,680gt 24,004 teu.She is the largest containership to call at Brixham .She was bound

from Rotterdam to Colombo on the China-Europe-Med Service when she landed her deep sea

 pilot at sunset yesterday evening.


 

                                                Pictures taken from Berry Head 15/9/25.

Saturday, 13 September 2025

 FREESIA LEADER

23 / 71,646gt 7000 ceu.She is one of NYK's Sail Green Series that are LNG BATTERY

 HYBRIDS.She was bound from Bremerhaven to Manzanillo when she landed her deep

 sea pilot at Brixham this afternoon.


 

                                                      Pictures taken from Berry Head.

 SEA MELODY 

02 / 2545gt managed by EMS Shipmanagement,Germany.She had come from Drogheda

and was leaving the Cattewater for Belfast.

                                                       Picture taken from Rusty Anchor 12/9/25.
 

 F262 ERFURT

13 / 1840 tonnes.She is a German Braunschweig Class Corvette and has been on FOST

 for 1week.She is leaving the Sound and proceeding up to Devonport.


 
                                                      Pictures taken from Rusty Anchor 12/9/25.

 F223 NORDRHEIN WESTFALEN

20 / 7200 tonnes.She is a German Baden Wuattemberg F125 Class Frigate.She was

 returning to Devonport after her FOST Training.




 



                                                    Pictures taken from Rusty Anchor 12/9/25

Monday, 8 September 2025

 0NE HENRY HUDSON

08 / 98,747gt 8212 teu,She operates on the FP1 Service and was bound from 

Singapore to Rotterdam when she boarded her deep sea pilot at Brixham 

this afternoon.


 
                                                   Pictures taken from Berry Head.

Friday, 5 September 2025

 HEBRIDEAN PRINCESS

64 / 2112gt.She was converted from the ferry Columba into a cruise ship in 1989

and is owned by Hebridean Internationl Cruises,UK.On her way from Portland to

 Dartmouth she anchored in Torbay yesterday afternoon.She can accomodate

 48 pass and 38 crew.

                                               Picture taken from Battery Gardens 4/9/25.
 

                                                 At 1630 yesterday she boarded 

                                                    a pilot to enter the River Dart


 

 ARCADIA

05 / 83,781gt 2556pass.She came from Southampton and anchored in Lyme Bay

this morning.

                                                        Picture taken from Berry Head 4/9/25.
 

 ATHENIAN STAR

25 / 62,930gt managed by Atlas Maritime Ltd,Greece and is only 3 months old.She was bound from Milford Haven to Rotterdam when she boarded her deepsea pilot at Brixham yesterday morning.

Shooting into the sun doesn't really show she has a bright red hull.

 

                                                  Picture taken from Berry Head 4/9/25.
 

Tuesday, 2 September 2025

 CSCL VENUS 

11 / 150,851gt 14,074 teu.She operates on the NE7 Service and was bound from Felixstowe

 to Port Klang when she landed her deepsea pilot at Brixham this morning.

                                                  
                                                        

                                                    Pictures taken from Berry Head.

 MARINA 

11 / 66,084gt 1260 pass owned by Oceania Cruises,USA.She is on a 10 day Round Britain

Cruise from Southampton and called at Cobh yesterday Torquay today and left for

 Southampton. 

 


                                                   Pictures taken from Daddyhole Plain.