 | | RIVER FAL LAY-UPS (5 images) 
Former UECC car Carriers Autoline and Autotransporter now being converted to livestock carriers and renamed
AL MAHMOUD EXPRESS & AL MAHMOUD ORIENT both under the cambodian flag.
AL MAHMOUD ORIENT left Falmouth on 10/11/09 to an unknown destination after being layed up since January 09
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 | | ROTTERDAM 2009 (26 images) |
 | | MSC VICEROY AT ELLESMERE PORT (6 images)
1975 / 137gt
BUILT BY JAMES.W.COOK & Co.
AND OPERATED BY CARMET TUGS
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 | | Mt ELLINIS arrives at Tranmere 1/4/09 (8 images)
IMO number : 9322267
Call Sign : SYDB
Gross tonnage : 157844
Type of ship : Crude Oil Tanker
Year of build : 2008
Flag : Greece
ELLINIS ENE Greece
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 | | INGRID GORTHON ARRIVES ON THE MERSEY 29/3/2009 (5 images)
SIDE LOADER VESSEL
Class: Lloyd's Reg. *100 A1 Ice class 1A. Official No: IMO 7524213
Delivered 1977 by Korea Shipbuilding and Engineering Corp, Pusan,
Rebuilt to Side Loader 1990 by Blohm & Voss AG, Hamburg, Germany
Transatlantic shipping. SE
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 | | MARCH 2009 (31 images) |
 | | SMIT TRAFALGAR Renamed SKY 501 (8 images)
The former mersey based tug Trafalgar was recently craned aboard the SAL Heavy Lift Ship REGINE at the JC Meijers yard at Rotterdam for transport to Taipei (Taiwan) for service at the recently opened container terminal.
Trafalgar will be renamed to "SKY 501"
Trafalgar was Built by McTay Marine, Bromborough, Wirral in 1998 hull number 119.
Sold to Smit Towage in 2007 and renamed SMIT TRAFALGAR.
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 | | BRO GAZELLE make first visit to Liverpool (4 images)
The 4,200gt 7,600 dwt product tanker BRO GAZELLE was delivered from the Dutch
shipyard Ferus Smit on the 6th Feb 2009.
The vessel is the ninth Broström vessels in a series of ten being built in partnership with Erik Thun AB.
The BRO GAZELLE and her sister vessels are specifically designed for the North European short sea tanker service. BRO GAZELLE is built as an ice class 1A vessel.
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 | | FEB 2009 (43 images)
SEASONG - - NORBY MAERSK - - AMETYSTH
ATALANDI - - NEPTUN - - AUSTRALIAN SPIRIT
GRACECHURCH JUPITER - - MAERSK PRODUCER - - KARIN
STOLT GUILLEMOT - - DORIS T - - STOLT AVOCET - - - STOLT PELICAN - - CHEM VEGA - - BRO GOTHIA
SPRINGWOOD - - OCEAN LADY - - BIBBY SAPPHIRE
CLIPPER CULLIN - ESTELSE
NAVION AKARITA - - NORDEROOG - - CLANSMAN - - OVERSEAS FRAN - - NIKAR G - - MSC TOGO - - Navkios
RFA BAYLEAF - - ATLANTIC CONCERT - - SENIORITY - - ABAI
EGMONDGRACHT - - NIRINT SPIRIT
STOLT SHEREWATER - - GUSTAVO U
HENTY PIONEER - - BEATRICE
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 | | Stena Caledonia arrives at Cammell Lairds 27/1/09 (5 images)
Stena Caledonia ex St david
IMO: 7910917
Built at Harland and Wolff 1981
12,619gt
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 | | VLCC BW BAUHINIA (13 images)
BW Bauhinia
Flag [HK] IMO: 9315070 Callsign: VRCK9
Type: Tanker Haz C (83) Details: Crude Oil Tanker
Size: 332m x 58m x 12m Tonnage: 158569gt, 301019dwt
Built: 2007
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 | | Clyde Fisher at Birkenhead (7 images)
Clyde Fisher [BS]
IMO: 9298416
Callsign: C6TZ4
Details: Chemical / Oil Products Tanker
Size: 127m x 20m x 5.6m
Tonnage: 8446gt, 12800dwt
Built: 2005
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 | | RFA FORT ROSALIE (8 images)
Fort Rosalie moves to West Float Dock from Camel Lairds 10/1/09
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 | | January 2009 (44 images)
FORT GEORGE - RUSICH - JONNI RITSCHER
CLIPPER BARDOLINO - BURHAN DIZMAN
KRISTIN KNUTSEN - FORT GEORGE - SEA EXPRESS
ARKLOW RIVAL - ANNA D - BASAT - LIQUID ERA
LADY HILDE - AGLAIA - VULCANO M
VISCARA - STOLT RAZORBILL - VENOM
FORT ROSALIE - VINGATANK - Sichem Edinbugh
STEN TOR - VICTORIABORG - STOLT PETREL
CLIPPER TOBAGO - CUMBRIAN FISHER - FURE STAR
RHODOS CEMENT - SEA RUBY
KAPITONAS STULPINAS - LYGRA - MARY C
IRAN SAEIDI - CLYDE FISHER - GLEN - ACAVUS
SCAN ATLANTIC - ARKLOW RAIDER - JACOBUS BROERS
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 | | Baco Liner 3 (4 images)
Baco Liner 3 arrives from West Africa 27/12/2008
Baco-Liner 3 is one of several of the specialist ships to call at Liverpool with a delivery of Ghana's cocoa season. The 25 metre barges are towed out of the bow section for discharge before returning to Seaforth Dock to load with south-bound general cargo.
Baco-Liner operates a regular fortnightly service from Ghana and Nigeria to the UK, carrying both the 25 metre long barges and containers.
IMO: 8203696
Details: Barge Carrier
Size: 204m x 28m x 6.5m
Tonnage: 22528gt, 21771dwt
Built: 1984
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 | | HAPPY ROVER ARRIVES AT EASTHAM (5 images)
Spliethoff owned heavy lift ship HAPPY ROVER inbound for Eastham on 14/12/06 photographed by George Carr and also seen at Ellesmere Port 15/12.08
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 | | Mersey Shipping Dec 2008 (37 images) |
 | | Mersey Movements 14/11/2008 (9 images) |
 | | Mv TUMOLA at West Float Dock (3 images)
Bulk carrier Mv Tumola arrived at West float dock on 8/11/2008.
Tumola is owned by Koma Shiping in Murmansk Russia.
Ex name Solta in 2000
IMO 8123731
18,259gt / 29,789dwt
190 LOA
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 | | RFA BAYLEAF ARRIVES ON THE MERSEY (6 images) |
 | | Liverpool Collection November 2008 (43 images) |
 | | OCTOBER 2008 COLLECTION (36 images)
HMS LANCASTER - CITY OF GLASGOW - STOLT RAZORBILL
MERCY WISDOM - CENTURY ACE - Mv RANA - MERIWA
BRO JUNO - AGLAIA - SEA RAINBOW - CITY OF GLASGOW
NEPTUN - ARKLOW FORTUNE - SWANLAND - LEDA
ELEOUSA TRIKOUKIOTISA - KAPITONAS STULPINAS
MARMOBULK - OVERSEAS JOSEFA CAMEJO
AUTEUIL - WHITASK - INDEPENDANT VENTURE
ARKLOW RAVEN - MORNING CALM - BREGEN - WHITASK
TARNSJO - MSC BALEARES - SPRINGWOOD
FEDERAL MATTAWA - STELLA ORION - CSCL FUZHOU
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 | | MERSEY MOVEMENTS 3/10/2008 (14 images)
QE2 ARRIVES AT LIVERPOOL FOR THE FINAL TIME
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 | | South Coast Shipping (47 images) |
 | | NUUK MAERSK at Eastham (3 images)
Nuuk Maersk IMO 9323819
Flag Denmark
Build 2008 at Jiangnan Shipyard, China
12,105 gross tonnes
Type 105 capable of carrying oil and chemicals
LOA 144 Mtrs
Radio Callsign OXHP2
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 | | ROTTERDAM - JUNE 2008 (95 images)
Further visit to Rotterdam in June, here is a small selection of 98 images taken during the trip
|
 | | ROTTERDAM 2008 (24 images)
Various images from Hull and Rotterdam taken in 2005
|
 | | SMITT CANADA / WELLINGTON (9 images)
During the early part of 2008, Smitt Canada departed Liverpool for a new life working for the Port of Gibraltar, before she left she still carried out operations under her new name Wellington
|
 | | Mersey River Cruise 2008 (23 images)
The Mersey river cruise took place on the 21/6/08. Unlike other years the weather was terrible with wind, rain, mist. It was very quiet in the dock system with only two bulkers and the the rest bieng the regular small vessels. Inward vessels was the tanker Torv Knutsen and Keewhit.
At Pier Head Cruise Terminal was the American merchant traning ship USTS Empire State, photos of this can be seen on the previous collection.
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 | | U.S.T.S EMPIRE STATE VISITS LIVERPOOL (6 images)
EMPIRE STATE was built at Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Virginia USA in 1962 as the SS OREGON for the States Steamship Company. The steam turbine produces a speed of 22 knots.
IMO number : 5264510
Call Sign : KKFW
Gross tonnage : 14,557
Type of ship : Training Ship
Year of build : 1962
Flag : U.S.A.
Seen at Pier Head Liverpool during the annual Mersey River Cruise 21/6/08
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 | | Rotterdam - May 2008 (77 images) |
 | | MTS VENGEANCE and TERRA MARIQUE (9 images)
MTS Vengeance IMO 8616269 (Ex:Fairplay X)
2,050 HP, Coastal Tug, Built 1988
Terra Marique, Semi-submersible barge, 2,211dwt
heavy load transport, ro-ro float in float out
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 | | STX MUMBAI makes her first port of call to Liverpool (8 images)
The Newbuilding STX MUMBAI [built as KING ANTON by Aker-MTW Schiffswerft GmbH Germany as Yard-Nr. 152/ Typ "Aker CS 2700"). Delivery was on the 29.04.2008 to King Anton Schiffahrts GmbH. (Mgrs.: Schiffsbeteiligungsgesellschaft König & Cie. GmbH. & Co. KG., Hamburg)
Registered in Panama
She is the seventh in a series of eight container ships of the type Aker CS 2700 ordered by the Hamburg based fund initiator König & Cie. GmbH & Co. KG. was named on Monday, 21 April. Yard number 152 got the name STX MUMBAI by Bae Dan, spouse of Kang Duk Soo, Chairman of STX Group. Delivery of the vessel to König & Cie. is scheduled for end of April. And then to be operated by STX Pan Ocean.
König & Cie. ordered a total of eight vessels of the type Aker CS 2700 and four vessels of the type Aker CS 1700 in 2005 for delivery in 2007 and 2008.
Vessel Type: Aker CS 2700, container ship
Yard: Aker Yards Germany
Length 221.6 m
Tonnage 37,570 dwt
Containers: 2,741 TEU
Engine 21,770 kW
speed: 22 knots
IMO No: 9357812
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 | | May 2008 (36 images)
AMARANTHA ANNA D
LADO PERTINI
INFINATE WISDOM ORANGELEAF
APOLLO HAWK Resit Atasoy
FLETUM VELAZQUEZ
MvARACRITY HEINRICH G
VINGATANK AGLAIA
BRO JUNO WILSON HOOK
WELLINGTON SEA RAINBOW
ESHIPS QUEST VIKING
STOLT PUFFIN VINGA HELENA
ARKLOW RIVER NAVION AKARITA IMO 9000948
SPRINGWOOD PRINCESS NAOMI
STOLT TERN ABAI
SOLWAY FISHER ARIANTA
JOH GORTHON CLYDE FISHER
Resit Atasoy JAN DLUGOSZ
ARKLOW RAVEN RUBIA
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 | | THV PATRICIA (5 images)
Trinity House vessel Patricia on the Mersey 21/4/08 to replace navigational bouys in the river.
Built in 1986 owned by Trinity House and operated around the UK
undertaking navigational work. She is capable of accomodating
12 passengers and also has a helecopter landing pad.
Length 86.3m
Beam 13.8m
Draught 4.45m
Design Speed 14 knots
Propulsion Diesel Electric
Gross Tonnage 2500
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 | | April 2008 (42 images) |
 | | ROTTERDAM / HULL 2007 (39 images) |
 | | Heavy Lift ship "Mv Maria" Arrives At Liverpool (5 images)
Mv MARIA - IMO: 9266566
Flag: Antigua and Barbuda
Callsign: V2ON1
Port: ST. JOHN'S
Owner: HLL Heavy Lift + Load MARIA GmbH & Co. KG
GT: 8,383
DWT: 9,600
Built at Yard: J.J. Sietas KG Schiffswerft GmbH & Co.(107210)
Build: 2004
Type: 301 - General Cargo (single deck)
Carrying a pair of Gottwald Cranes [Germany]
for a new deep sea port at Andhra Pradesh on the eastern coast of India.
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 | | RIVERDANCE BEACHED AT BLACKPOOL (20 images)
Riverdance IMO 7635361
Flag Bahamas Ro-Ro
1977, 6041gt
Built at Rickmers Werft, Bremerhaven
1988 HALLA
1993 SALLY EUROBRIDGE
1994 EUROBRIDGE
1995 SALLY EUROBRIDGE
1996 RIVERDANCE
Currently Beached at North Shore between Blackpool and Fleetwood
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 | | DIMAN 2 DOES A U TURN (3 images)
Gusting winds preventing Mv Diman II entering Gladstone Lock on the 26/1/2008, Smit Donau and Smit Liverpool were unable to guide the containership and so she headded back out to sea until the late tide.
Name: Diman II
MMSI: 538001822 [MH]
IMO: 8204468
Callsign: V7EK4
Type: Cargo (70)
Details: Container Ship
Size: 210m x 32m x 10.7m
Tonnage: 35084gt, 30124dwt
Built:1984
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 | | Feb 2008 (29 images)
THIS MONTHS PHOTOS INCLUDE
VINGA HELENA
CHEMICAL TRADER
EST --- STOLT DIPPER
JANA --- CHILTERN
ATLANTIC CONVEYOR
PANDION
MERSEY VIKING AND BEN MY CHREE PASSING IN THE CHANNEL
BIT OKTANIA --- CHALLENGE
PENELOPE --- RIVER BLYTH
VELAZQUEZ --- TRANS MARMARA
SEA EAGLE --- CLYDE FISHER
Tai An Hai --- CHALLENGE
CUMBRIAN FISHER --- BRO DESIGNER
RANOSEN --- NORDERAU
STEMNISTA --- STOLT EGRET
SMIT BEVER --- INDEPENDANT VENTURE
POETDOWLAIS D --- STORM
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 | | January 2008 (28 images)
AFRICAN ZEBRA - BEN-MY-CHREE - RANA
SEA EXPRESS 1 (NOW SNAEFELL)
STOLT DIPPER - Mv EIDER - MT EVI KNUTSEN
CHARTSMAN - ROPAX 1 - IZZET REIS
CLIPPER MARIANNE - Mt NANNY
MORNES - Sichem Edinbugh
BEN VARREY - BERIT - ARKLOW VENTURE
YONG XING - Malm Link - Ropax 1
HC IDA - ARKLOW RIVAL - YELLOWKNIFE
CARRIER - KEEWHIT - SUPERIORITY
Mv DORIS T - Arklow Raven
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 | | December 2007 (37 images)
HANSEATIC TRADER - Daisy Doardo
ARKLOW VENTURE - THARINEE NAREE
FITZCARRALDO - DOGGERSBANK
CSCL FOS - NORDSEE
EVI KNUTSEN - VALDIVIA -NORJAN
WILSON HUMBER - BRO DESIGNER -LEJIN
PLANET - PETREL - ARKLOW VENTURE
THARINEE NAREE - SNOWDROP - STOLT PUFFIN
ARKLOW RIVAL - BRO DESIGNER -RANOSEN
TRI STAR - SMERALDO - MSC BULGARIA
Mv NORJAN - ARKLOW FAME - POET
PRINCESS NAOMI - STENA ADVENTURER
MARYBELLE - BITFLOWER - ESHIPS QUEST
HC GESA - Mv MERIWA - KLAMPENBORG
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 | | November 2007 (33 images) |
 | | ACL's ATLANTIC COMPASS ARRIVES AT LIVERPOOL (10 images) |
 | | SMIT BARBADOS AND SMIT DONAU (20 images) |
 | | STATENGRACHT ARRIVES AT BIRKENHEAD (10 images)
Dutch cargo ship "Statengracht" arrived at Birkenhead west float dock on the 15th Oct 07 to unload cargo of paper. Statengracht was assisted by tugs Smit Liverpool and Collingwood
Name: Statengracht
MMSI: 244584000 [NL]
IMO: 9288045
Callsign: PHAQ
Details: General Cargo Ship
Class: Ice class S2
Size: 172m x 25m x 7.6m
Tonnage: 16676gt, 19200dwt
Built: 2004
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 | | STEAM TUG KERNE (3 images)
The preserved steam tug "Kerne" operated by the North Western Steamship Company.
Kerne, No. 241 (ex Terrier),
"Dog" class steam tug, built in 1913
Seen here leaving the QE2 dock at Eastham on 15/10/07
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 | | LUBECK LINK BECOMES ROPAX 2 (5 images)
Lubeck Link curently at Cammel Lairds West Float dock Birkenhead for conversion to ro-ro has now changed name to Ropax 2 joining her sister vessel Ropax 1. Picture shows modification to the bow doors and also undergoing a repaint. 14/10/2007
It does seem to be now registered in London, noted on 10/11/2007
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 | | Mersey River Cruise 2007 (33 images) |
 | | QE2 AT LIVERPOOL 21st SEPT 2007 (15 images)
Mv Queen Elizabeth 2 on her 40th birthday tour of the Uk made a visit to the port of Liverpool on the 21/9/07.
She arrived at the new Liverpool cruise terminal at around 7am. and later on that morning the official opening of the landing stage took place.
Her official visit ended with a firework display at 10.40pm, she left liverpool at 3.30am.
During the later part of 2008 she will be converted to a floating hotel in Dubi. She was bought by her new owners for 50 million UK pounds
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 | | September 2007 (30 images)
ATLANTIC CASTLE ------- DS SPLENDOUR.
SIGASEARL --------------- PHANTOM.
SILVER -------------------- PERTINI.
OCEAN CRYSTAL --------- BIT OKTANIA.
GREAT BRIGHT ---------- ATLAS_AMELIA.
Mv NEPHELI ------------- Mt_FRANK
Mt COBALT WATER ---- ATLANTIC_CASTLE
MSC JORDAN ----------- BEN_VARREY.
GENCO MARINE ------- WD_SEVEN.
HUMMEL --------------- ARKLOW SURF.
FS CHARLOTTE ------- Mt ALAATTIN BEY.
AASLI ------------------ NASSAUBORG.
ATLANTIC COMPANION ------DELIA
KEEWHIT ----- VENOM ----- QE2.
Jacobus Broere ----- STELLA POLLUX.
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 | | RFA DILIGENCE (17 images)
RFA Diligence [UK] IMO: 7814448 Callsign: GCPC 20:00 Type: Military Ops (35) Navy repair ship A132 Size: 112m x 20m x 5.6m Tonnage: 8084dwt, 4941gt Built: 1981
RFA Diligence (A132) is a fleet repair ship for the Royal Fleet Auxillary. She was built by Oesundsvarvet AB Landskrona in Sweden in 1981 as Stena Inspector, a oil rig support ship. She first saw service for the RFA during the Falklands War.
She is designed to provide forward repair and maintenance facilities to ships and submarines operating away from their home ports.
Diligence is the Royal Navy's primary battle damage repair unit, and is on short notice to react to developing situations worldwide.
She is also fitted with a decompression chamber and has a helicopter deck has been fitted on the roof of her bridge that is large enough to support a large helicopter.
Diligence is receiveing a £16m overhaul to extend her lifespan, taking her out of action for the next 12 months. Northwestern Shiprepairers and Shipbuilders in Birkenhead won the contract to overhaul the ship. This refit will see RFA Diligence equipped for service through to the middle of the next decade.
She is seen here leaving Cammel Lairds 1/9/2007 and going to Bidson dock to complete her refit
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 | | August 2007 (32 images)
ARKLOW RULER -- YEOMAN BANK -- Mv NORDIC PEARL
DUNLIN -- OAKGARTH -- MSC BULGARIA -- Malmo Link
BBC ARTIC -- TARNVIK -- EBRO -- STOLT FULMAR
SALVADORA -- DUBLIN VIKING -- NAVION TORNITA
GRANUAILE -- Mv STADIONGRACHT -- STOLT CORMORANT
INDEPENDENT PERSUIT -- ARKLOW RIVER -- GOLDEN GLORY
WILSON TEES -- STOLT TERN -- OCEAN GLORY
MSC SABRINA -- ARKLOW FAME -- RATHROWAN
CAPE ESMERALDA -- Mv STADIONGRACHT
ATLANTIC SWAN -- LARGAN VIKING -- ATLANTIC CONCERT
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 | | Southampton 2007 (49 images)
ASIAN CHORUS - ASUKU 2 - AUTOLINE - APL IRELAND - ALTAMIRA EXPRESS - AUTOTRANSPORTER - BLADE RUNNER TWO - CAPE BENAT - BENTLEY - CAPE CHARLES - CHEMICAL VOYERGER - CMA CGM CARMEN - CMA CGM DEBUSSEY - COSTANZA WONSILD - COTSWOLD - EDDYSTONE - EMDEN - FALSTAFF - GAS ZAEL - GRANDE SCANDINAVIA - GRANDE SPAGNA - HUMBER ENERGY - LAURA H - LEO LEADER - Mv SLOTERGRACHT - NAVION CLIPPER - NEVSKIY PROSPECT - OOCL MONTREAL - PEMBROKE FISHER - PLATINUM RAY - PRORTUNUS - PROTECTOR - QE2 - RATHROWAN - RED FALCON - RED OSPREY - SARAH EMILY HARROP - SINGAPORE STAR - SLOTERGRACHT - TENAX - TEXAS - TORM EMILIE - VICTORIABORG - WASHINGTON EXPRESS
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 | | May 2007 (38 images)
ALLATTIN BAY, ARKLOW RIVAL, ARKLOW SURF, BALTIC EAGER, ATLANTIC OSPREY, BIBBY SAPPHIRE, BSLE ENERGY, CANUM, CELTIC FREEDOM, CELTIC SUN, CLYDENES, COBALT WATER, ELISABETH BOLTEN, EVE, INDEPENDENT VENTURE, KAPITAN TSIRUL, LEJIN, LT LLOYDANIA, MARIETJE BENITA, MORNING CHAMPION, MSC SABRINA, NEPHELI, OAKGARTH, OSIOS DAVID II, OVERSEAS CATHY, PRINCESS NAOMI, SAGA MOON, SICHEM SINGAPORE, SORMOVSKIY 3056, STOLK KITE, STORRINGTON, THULE, UNO, VENOM, WEST SAILOR, WINNER, YOUNG LADY
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 | | SMIT TOWAGE (16 images)
After the sale of Adsteam operations on the Mersey to Smit Towage, Smit Liverpool is seen here on the River Heading passed Seacombe Ferry. unconfirmed reports say that tugs Canada, Collingwood and Gladstone will be replaced. The Adsteam logo on Waterloos funnel has been removed ready for the new blue paint.
Two new Smit tugs will appear soon, Smit Donau will arrive on 2nd June.
The brand new tug Smit Barbados will come to Liverpool ,
this tug is an Damen ASD 2810 build in Romania.
LOA 28,6mtrs
535 tons
Smit Donau is en route from Poland.
NOK Hochdonn 28.05.07/Ship manager & Registered owner: SMIT HARBOUR TOWAGE CO 85, Waalhaven Oostzijde, Rotterdam NETHERLANDS/IMO number : 9389473/call Sign : PHIT/Gross tonnage : 294
/Year of build : 2007
Flag : GB
Pictures of SMIT Barbados at the Polish shipyard. and images of what Smit tugs will be like on the Mersey.
Thanks to Harry Vandenberg and Alf Turner
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 | | April 2007 (28 images)
Arklow River, Christy M, CSCL Fos, Emeraude France, Forth Fisher, Fortune Clover, Frank, Hummel, Kent Mariner, Marianne K, Marne, MSC Jordan, Bro Anton, Chembulk Huston, Anageia, Arklow Fame, Bekau, Maria H, Morning Champion, Wilke, Orcana, RFA Orangleaf, Sea Eagle, Sichem Copenhagen, Speciality, Stolt Hikawa, Trans Alnia, Whitask.
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 | | March 2007 (26 images)
Ara Zeebrugge, Arklow Resolve, Arklow Rock, Atlantic Osprey, Bit Oktania, Brave Merchant, Brovig Fjord, Bro Anton, Calliroe Patronic, Celtic Star, Clipper Karen, Coastal Wave, Gas Zael, Gemma, Hatice N, Hemel, Laurits Kosan, Le Cong, Merwelta, Nordsee, Smeraldo, Spar Jade, Stella Pollux, Storrington, Vanda Naree
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 | | HROSSEY ARRIVES AT CAMMEL LAIRDS (6 images)
Mv Hrossey arrived 25/2/07 on the afternoon tide for fitting of an additional accomodation section at Cammel Lairds.
Name: Hrossey
MMSI: 235448000 [UK]
IMO: 9244960
Callsign: VSTY6
Type: Passenger (60)
Details: Passenger / Ro-Ro Cargo Ship
Size: 125m x 19m x 5.3m
Tonnage: 11486gt, 1563dwt
Built: Sep 2002 at Aker Yard Finland.
125 metre drive-through passenger/ro-ro ship operate out of Aberdeen to Orkney and Shetland
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 | | ALASKA RAINBOW (1 images)
Mv Alaska Rainbow finally entered Birkenhead Dock on the night of the 5th Feb.
On the 3rd of Feb she was involved in a collision with the Isle of Mann ferry Sea Express 1 in thick fog, the Alaska Rainbow aborted attempts to enter the dock and started to make its way back out to the Bar when the collision happened.
Sea Express 1 sustained damage with flooding of the starboard engine / turbine room and broken windows and damage to the starboard bridge. Tugs assisting the Alaska Rainbow quickly went the the assistance of the Sea Express 1 to prevent the craft from sinking further and moved it over to the Pier Head.
Sea Express 1 was moved to North Western Ship Repairs on Monday 5th Feb.
click here for BBC news pictures of Sea Express
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 | | Svitzer Bidston (6 images)
Svitzer Tug "Bidston" assists Nordic Pearl into Alfred Lock Birkenhead.
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 | | Feb 2007 (20 images)
Bibby Sapphire, Canada, Chemical Sprinter, CSCL Foss, Dutch Engineer, Ebro, Fanara, Gracechurch Comet, Hatice N, Havelstern, Henty Pioneer, Johanna C, Multitank Britannia, Ross, Gemma, Oinoussian Sky, Polar Wind, RR Triumph, Scan Bothnia
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 | | January 2007 (18 images)
Alexander Grin, Arianta, Arklow Rose, BBC Gibralter, Canada, Clipper Legacy, Dependent, Deutschland, Fanara, Isle Of Mull, Le Cong, Liverpool Viking, Abai, Atlantic Sea. Yenisei, Sichem Copenhagen, Torill Knutsen
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 | | December 2006 (27 images)
STOLT SHEARWATER, ARKLOW SEA, ARKLOW RAINBOW, KAPITONAS KAMINSKAS, HOLSTENTOR, KAPITONAS SIMKUS, NORDSTERN, SIERADZ, BETORA, RIGA, ARIANTA, ARKLOW ROSE, LE CONG, HELAS, BITFLOWER, DUTCH ENGINEER, NOBLESSE, DIAMAN II, STANISLAW KULCZYNSKI, STOLT FULMAR, STOLT PUFFIN, SUPER SEA CAT II, WHITASK, WD SEVERN
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 | | Rotterdam October 2006 (33 images) |
 | | November 2006 (25 images)
CELTIC STAR, HMS MERSEY, DOERTE, FEDERAL YOSHINO, LIBELLE, STOLT KITTIWATE, LADY STEPHINE, MED DIGNITY, MERSEY FISHER, MILADY, ABAI, AGILITY, LIPTON, RUDDERMAN, SCAN BOTHNIA, SMERALDO, YANNIS,TRANS ALREK, VIGDIS KNUTSEN,
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 | | October 2006 (25 images) |
 | | Merchant Shipping 2 (9 images) |
 | | Merchant Shipping 1 (18 images) |
 | | September 2006 (23 images) |
 | | TUGS OF THE MERSEY (20 images) |
 | | August 2006 (29 images) |
 | | CRYSTAL SERENITY visits Liverpool 15th July 06 - Updated 23/2/07 (8 images)
Crystal Serenity 68,000gt cruise ship visited liverpool on Saturday 15th for one day, Passenger shuttle was provided by the mersey ferries.
IMO Number: 9243667
Year built: 2002
Build price: US$ 350 million
Yard: Chantiers de l'Atlantique, St Nazaire, France
Gross Tonnage: 68,870
Length: 250.0 m (820.2 ft)
Beam: 32.2 m (111.5 ft)
Passengers (norm.): 1,096
Passengers (max): 1,140
Crew: 655
Service speed: 22.0 knots
Flag: Bahamas
The ship is owned by Crystal Cruises, Los Angeles, California.
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 | | Southampton May 2006 (32 images) |
 | | MERSEY RIVER CRUISE JUNE 2006 (46 images)
The 17th June saw the annual Friends of the ferries river cruise.
Boarding at Seacombe terminal at midday with stop offs at Woodside and Pier Head ferry terminals.
Then a 5 hour river cruise taking in the Mersey Docks tour and then sailing down the Eastham and Garstone channel.
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 | | June 2006 (22 images) |
 | | Rotterdam and Hull (31 images) |
 | | Svitzer Tugs ASHGARTH & AYTON CROSS (13 images) |
 | | April 2006 (18 images) |
 | | March 2006 (18 images) |
 | | HMS MANCHESTER VISITS LIVERPOOL (10 images)
HMS Manchester D96
Type 42 distroyer (batch 3)
9,500 gt
Built 1982
Speed 30knots
Powered by two Rolls Royce Olympus gas turbines developing over 60,000shp
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 | | Feb 2006 (24 images) |
 | | January 2006 (16 images) |
 | | December 2005 (12 images) |
 | | Passenger Vessels (7 images)
A couple of pictures taken at Southampton and Portsmouth July 2005.
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 | | November 2005 (12 images) |
 | | October 2005 (12 images) |
 | | August 2005 (24 images) |
 | | Hull, Immingham and Rotterdam (35 images) |
 | | June 2005 (19 images) |
 | | May 2005 (30 images) |
 | | MERSEY TUGS AT WORK (12 images) |
 | | QE2 and Queen Mary 2 at Southampton (17 images) |
 | | RFA Sir Tristram L3505 leaves the Mersey (7 images) |
 | | April 2005 (9 images) |
 | | Port Of Southampton - March 2005 (30 images) |
 | | March 2005 (15 images) |
 | | Feb 2005 (11 images) |
 | | January 2005 (18 images) |
 | | December 2004 (18 images) |
 | | November 2004 [2] (10 images) |
 | | November 2004 [1] (13 images) |
 | | The East Indiaman Goteborg (10 images)
Location Eriksberg, Goteborg, Sweden
Date October 2004
Loa= 58.5mtrs
beam= 10.94mtrs
weight= 1250tons
for more infomation on the East Indiaman and its venture to China
www.soic.se
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 | | Newcastle, Kristiansand & Gothenberg Oct 2004 (30 images) |
 | | October 2004 (19 images) |
 | | SIR GALAHAD ARRIVES ON THE MERSEY (8 images)
British Royal Navy Landing Ship Logistic RFA SIR GALAHAD arrived on the mersey on the 27th Sept 2004 headding for North Western Ship Repairs.
Loa = 140.6 mtrs
8,751gt
speed 17 knots
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 | | September 2004 (9 images) |
 | | Southampton 2004 (17 images) |
 | | Mv ANASTASIS visits Birkenhead June 2004 (6 images)
Some views taken on board Mv Anastasis during a guided tour of the vessel.
Built in 1953 she is fitted with two Fiat diesel engines and originally sailed between Italy and Hong Kong. She was sold for scrap value of 1 Million US Dollars in the early 1970's to Mercy Ships.
Mv Anastasis does a regular trip to the African continent and will be bound for Liberia in the next couple of months.
11,700 tons
IMO 5379729
Call sign 9HOZ
www.mercyships.org
Latest update as of the 21st July 2007 is that she is on route to Alang in India for scrapping and the funds to go to future work by Mercy Ships.
Web site for Mv ANASTATIS
http://www.mvanastasis.com
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 | | July 2004 (19 images) |
 | | The World visits Liverpool (4 images)
THE WORLD
Flag Bahamas
Built 2002
IMO 9219331
Call sign C6RW4
43,188gt
Owner Residensea, Norway
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 | | June 2004 (13 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 49 (11 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 48 (8 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 47 (10 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 46 (9 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 45 (10 images) |
 | | Goteborg Sweden 2003 (43 images)
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 | | Liverpool Shipping 44 (7 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 43 (10 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 42 (11 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 41 (13 images) |
 | | CAST PROSPECT (6 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 40 (9 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 39 (9 images) |
 | | Adsteams Tug Trafalgar (6 images)
A chance to look close at Adsteams Liverpool Tug Trafalgar
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 | | Liverpool Shipping 38 (21 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 37 (15 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 36 (19 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 34 (10 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 35 (20 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 33 (20 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 31 (10 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 30 (14 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 32 (11 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 29 (10 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 28 (10 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 27 (9 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 26 (10 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 25 (13 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 24 (9 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 23 (10 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 22 (9 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 21 (7 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 20 (12 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 19 (10 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 18 (10 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 17 (10 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 16 (9 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 15 (8 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 14 (9 images) |
 | | September 2003 (10 images) |
 | | September 2003 [2] (10 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 10 (10 images) |
 | | Liverpool Shipping 13 (10 images)
This collection of ship photographs were taken in August 2003
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 | | August 2003 [9] (12 images) |
 | | August 2003 [8] (6 images) |
 | | August 2003 [7] (10 images) |
 | | August 2003 [5] (10 images) |
 | | August 2003 [6] (8 images) |
 | | August 2003 [4] (10 images) |
 | | August 2003 [3] (10 images) |
 | | August 2003 [2] (9 images) |
 | | August 2003 (13 images) |
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