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Monday November 13
CROSSING the Bay heading westwards in the afternoon
was the Lithuanian flagged bulk carrier Kapitonas A Lucka. Owned by
Lietuvos Jura Laivininkyte, Akaine Bendrove of Klaipeda, Lithuania, she
was built in 1980 with a gross tonnage of 9,965 and a deadweight of
14,550 tons. She is 146 metres in length with a beam of 21 metres and a
draft of 9.4 metres. Capable of carrying 13,730 cubic metres of cargo
her 6,700bhp engine gives her a speed of 13.5 knots. Following her was
the British flagged cargo vessel Celtic Carrier.
Owned by Charles
Willie & Co, of Cardiff, she was built in 1984 and is 79 metres in
length with a beam of 13 metres and a draft of 5.1 metres. Gross
tonnage is 1,892, deadweight is 2,887 tons and she is capable of
carrying 3,530 cubic metres of grain or 94 containers with her 1,020bhp
engine giving her a speed of 10 knots. Shortly afterwards the first of
two car carriers was seen heading the same way. The Australian Highway,
owned by Taiyo Nippon Kisen of Kobe, Japan and registered under the
Panamanian flag was built in 1981 with a gross tonnage of 23,850 and a
deadweight of 9,147 tons. She is 154 metres in length with a beam of 28
metres and a draft of 7.8 metres. Her 9,300bhp engine gives her a speed
of 17.5 knots.
The second car carrier was the Norwegian flagged
Autostar, owned by United European Car Carriers of Grimstad, Norway.
Built in 2000 she is 140 metres in length with a beam of 23 metres and
a draft of 6.5 metres. Capable of carrying 1,400 vehicles her 2,854bhp
engine gives her a speed of 21 knots.
The local crabber Intuition (TO
40) was slipped at Newlyn to carry out stern gear repairs.
Tuesday
November 14
IN THE morning the Liberian registered crude oil tanker
Genmar Defiance was seen heading westwards. Owned by General Maritime
Corporation of New York, USA, she was built in 2002 with a gross
tonnage of 56,225 and a deadweight of 105,538 tons. She is 239 metres
in length with a beam of 42 metres and a draft of 12.2 metres. Capable
of carrying 117,400 cubic metres of crude oil, her 16,314bhp engine
gives her a speed of 15.2 knots.
Following closely astern was the
Turkish flagged bulk carrier Ali Ekinci built in 1982 with a gross
tonnage of 23,436 and a deadweight of 37,415 tons. She is 186 metres in
length with a beam of 28 metres and a draft of 11.3 metres. Capable of
carrying 46,939 cubic metres of grain her 11,500bhp engine gives her a
speed of 15.25 knots.
Heading eastwards was the Cypriot registered
reefer vessel Amer Choapa owned by Amer Shipping of Nicosia, Cyprus and
built in 1987 with a gross tonnage of 13,312 and a deadweight of 12,848
tons. Capable of carrying either 19,093 cubic metres of refrigerated
cargo or 306 containers her 9,700bhp engine gives her a speed of 18.2
knots. I
n the afternoon, the product tanker Chartsman headed westwards.
Registered under the Liberian flag and owned by James Fisher (Shipping
Services), of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, she was built in 1993 and is
101 metres in length with a beam of 18 metres and a draft of 6.9
metres. Gross tonnage is 4,842, deadweight is 6,417 tons and she is
capable of carrying 8,332 cubic metres of liquid products with her
3,500bhp engine giving her a speed of 12.5 knots.
Passing her heading
east was another of the company's vessels. The Humber Fisher was built
in 1998 with a gross tonnage of 2,760 and a deadweight of 4,765 tons.
She is 91 metres in length with a beam of 16 metres and a draft of six
metres. Her 3,127bhp engine gives her a speed of 12 knots and she can
carry 5,028 cubic metres of liquid products.
Wednesday
November 15
THE ETV Anglian Princess weighed anchor and proceeded to
Falmouth in the morning. Heading westwards was the Dutch registered
cargo vessel Willeke owned by Wagenborg Shipping of Delfzijl, Holland
and built in 1983 with a gross tonnage of 999 and a deadweight of 1,474
tons. She is 80 metres in length with a beam of 10 metres and a draft
of 3.2 metres. Capable of carrying 2,073 cubic metres of grain her
2,073bhp engine gives her a speed of 10 knots. In the late afternoon
the Morlaix registered French crabber Sokalique called in Newlyn to
shelter from the forecast storms.
Thursday November 16
CALLING
at Newlyn in order that a crew member could be repatriated to attend
his brother's funeral was the Le Guilvinec registered French trawler
Eridan. She was fishing alongside the Bugaled Breizh when she
mysteriously sank off The Lizard in January 2004, and the skipper
informed me that the investigation is still ongoing with the evidence
pointing towards a submarine causing the sinking.
Heading westwards in
the morning was the Antiguan flagged cargo vessel A B Amsterdam. Owned
by Reederei Bockstiegel, of Emden, Germany, she was built in 1996 with
a gross tonnage of 2,844 and a deadweight of 4,250 tons. She is 89
metres in length with a beam of 13 metres and a draft of 5.7 metres.
Capable of carrying either 5,718 cubic metres of grain or 233
containers of which 12 can be refrigerated, her operational speed is
11.5 knots.
Also heading westwards was the Dutch flagged cargo vessel
Crown Alizee owned by Tradewind Investments of Rotterdam, Holland.
Built in 1991 she is 81 metres in length with a beam of 12 metres and a
draft of five metres. gross tonnage is 1,999, deadweight is 3,030 tons
and she can carry either 4,238 cubic metres of grain or 128 containers
with her 1,801bhp engine giving her a speed of 12 knots.
Following
astern was the German flagged cargo vessel Maike owned by ARP-Thordsen
of Husum, Germany and built in 1989 with a gross tonnage of 1,599 and a
deadweight of 2,339 tons. She is 82 metres in length with a beam of 11
metres and a draft of 4.2 metres. Capable of carrying 2,904 cubic
metres of grain her 815bhp engine gives her a speed of 10 knots.
Heading eastwards was the car carrier Autostar and the Norwegian
flagged chemical tanker Bow Saturn. Owned by Salhus Shipping of
Karmsund, Norway, she was built in 1976 with a gross tonnage of 17,561
and a deadweight of 28,085 tons. She is 170 metres in length with a
beam of 25 metres and a draft of 11.1 metres. Capable of carrying
37,926 cubic metres of liquid chemical, her 17,400bhp engine gives her
a speed of 17 knots.
Friday November 17
HEADING westwards in the
morning was the Liberian flagged bulk carrier Ziemia Gornoslaska owned
by Polska Zegluga Morska of Szczecin, Poland and built in 1990 with a
gross tonnage of 17,247 and a deadweight of 26,209 tons. She is 180
metres in length with a beam of 23 metres and a draft of 9.9 metres.
Capable of carrying 34,954 cubic metres of grain her 7,460bhp engine
gives her a speed of 14 knots.
Following astern was the Norwegian
flagged cargo vessel Star Gran built in 1986 with a gross tonnage of
27,192 and a deadweight of 43,759 tons. Owned by Grieg International of
Oslo, Norway, she is 198 metres in length with a beam of 29 metres and
a draft of 11.7 metres. Capable of carrying either 47,645 cubic metres
of grain or 1,532 containers her 10,122bhp engine gives her a speed of
15 knots.
In the evening the Swedish flagged chemical/oil carrier Nanny
headed westwards. Owned by Reederei Tanker Line of Donso, Sweden, she
was built in 1993 with a gross tonnage of 6,544 and a deadweight of
9,176 tons. She is 117 metres in length with a beam of 19 metres and a
draft of 7.8 metres. Capable of carrying 10,495 cubic metres of liquid
chemicals or oil her 5,503bhp engine her a speed of 14 knots.
Following
astern was the Gibraltarian flagged chemical/oil carrier Stenstraum.
Owned by Rederiet Stenersen of Bergen, Norway, she was built in 2001
with a gross tonnage of 8,882 and a deadweight of 13,677 tons. She is
145 metres in length with a beam of 21 metres and a draft of 8.5
metres. Capable of carrying 16,262 cubic metres of liquid chemicals or
oil her operational speed is 14.5 knots.
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