Saturday, 21 October 2023

2 SHIPS SHELTERING IN TORBAY

 MARANT 06 / 2462gt is bound from Antwerp to Rochefort.

THOR HEYERDAHL

1931/211gt She is a German topsail schooner used for sail training and was bound

from Dover to La Coruna when she anchored outside Brixham Harbour for 24 hrs.

                                            Pictures taken from Battery Gardens 25/10.



 SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

She sailed east last night but came back and is now anchored 15 miles out.

                                             Picture taken from Marine Drive 25/10.

 


Friday, 20 October 2023

 SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

21 / 15,609gt.Managed by the British Antarctic Survey.She was bound from Portsmouth

to Funchal Slow moving in the background 15 miles out is Hoegh Jeddah 14 / 58,531gt 

6500 cars bound from Antwerp to Santander.



 SNOW CRYSTAL

17 / 2990gt owned by Thun Tankers,Sweden and registered in the Faroe Islands

She was bound from Glomfjord,Norway to Bari and is sheltering in the Deepwater

 Anchorage.



 WARTHOG 06 / 6494gt A lack of information as she has just been renamed

and she had come from Ijmuiden. She is anchored 7 miles out.

NQ ACACIA 16 / 14034gt managed by Navquim Shipping,Holland

She was bound from Dordrecht to Ceuta.She was anchored 10 miles out.

CASSIOPEIA LEADER 99 / 57,484gt 5066 cars,she is bound from

Zeebrugge to Balboa and slow moving 14 miles out.



 TABEA

06 / 66,280gt 5527 teu Owned by Peter Dohle,Germany and chartered to Tailwind Shipping

Lines the shipping arm of Lidl's and operates on their Panda Express Service China to Europe.

She is bound from Rotterdam to Qingdao and is 8 miles out.She left Sat 25th in the evening.



 30 PLUS SHIPS HAVE BEEN SHELTERING IN LYME BAY 10 WERE VISIBLE

FROM MARINE DRIVE TODAY.

MAREMKA 96 / 1864gt owned by Boeckmans Shipping NV,Belgium and bound

from Dunkirk to Averio.

                                               In Babbacombe Bay