World's OFFSHORE VESSELS

[Seagull]

Second image in post#520 ! I love it! And also the “well known view” of Skandi Acergy.
You are doing us proud with your wet weather photography, Sterkoder.

[Sterkoder]

You are doing us proud with your wet weather photography, Sterkoder.

Thank you so much!
It's always a challange to get pictures worthy of public view in rainy weather.
In addition to only getting blury pictures, it's also some kind of challange to get positioned so that the lense don't fill up with raindrops

[Sterkoder]

Got this one just as I parked my car at work early this beautiful Thursday morning. I had to retrieve my camera in a hurry, because she was just passing in the view between two floodlight masts at Vestbase

The 15 months old "Edda Frende" in the fantastic morning light we have in Kristiansund when the sun is shining


EDIT: I have not edited colour saturation..., if anyone wonders

[pakarang]

What a great day to start a Thursday! Nice work S.

[pilotdane]

With the morning sun Edda Frende is really glowing!

[Tom McNikon]

Now when the darkness is coming back it will open for more harbour shots again for the next half year

Strilborg at Tollbodkaien


Volstad Princess


Bourbon Surf


Far Saga


Vågen harbour

[Tom McNikon]

Polarcus Naila have been back to Bergen again

[pakarang]

Awesome evening images, totally awesome....

What kind of vessel is Polarcus, she looks like some kind of cable layer/ underwater support?

[Tom McNikon]

Thanx Packie

Naila is a seismic vessel and they have some operations in the North sea.
Not sure what they are doing, but their searching for something there

[pakarang]

Naila is a seismic vessel and they have some operations in the North sea. Not sure what they are doing, but their searching for something there

Thanks Tom... could be gold, old submarines or even oil...

[Sterkoder]

Finally, there they are those magnificent images from Bergen!!!
I've already seen them on the norwegian forum, where I frequently visit as a guest, and I could almost not wait until you posted at CV to tell you what beautiful work you are doing!!
May we look forward to more pictures taken in darkness as the winter approaches??

[ombugge]

Spooling streamers onto the Naila by the look of things.

[ombugge]

AHTS Pasifik Viper, Lumut, West Malaysia, 02. Sept. 2010.


AHTS Setia Rentas, Lumut, West Malaysia, 02. Sept. 2010

[Fjordtroll]

"Normand Skarven" is fully loaded

[Jack Mulder]

Troms Fjord and Base Express in Den Helder.


Jack Mulder

[Sterkoder]

Oh..., look at that beautiful logo on the funnel of "Pacific Viper"!!!
(Same logo is on my left uniform chest).

Thanks for pictures, guys...!

[ombugge]

Oh..., look at that beautiful logo on the funnel of "Pacific Viper"!!!
(Same logo is on my left uniform chest).

Thanks for pictures, guys...!

I thought you would have some comments there.

By the way, the name was not mispelled, she has just changed flag from Singapore to Malaysia. Home port is now Port Klang. (As of 13. Aug. 2010)

The name is now Pasifik Viper, as spelled in Bahasa Malayu.
Everything else remain the same, including the logo, which is sheared with all other Swire companies in the world, incl. HSBC, Cathay Pacific, China Navigation, Taikoo, just to name some of the major ones.

If anybody is interested, here is a link to a brief history of the Swire Group and its founder; http://www.swire.com/eng/about/history.htm

[Sterkoder]

Thank you, 'ombugge'!
As I already know the story and history of my employer, it was still very intyeresting to read again
Interesting to learn also about the name of the vessel and way of writing. Thanks!!

[ombugge]

Thank you, 'ombugge'!
As I already know the story and history of my employer, it was still very intyeresting to read again
Interesting to learn also about the name of the vessel and way of writing. Thanks!!

I'm sure you knew, but maybe not everybody else does. A lot of people does associate the Swire logo only with HSBC, not with one of the original "Hongs" in China, even if they have read "Taipan". Even fewer associates "Taikoo Sugar" or Blue Funnel Line/Alfred Holt with Swire.

I notice that HSBC doesn't appear in the history, nor organization chart for John Swire & Sons or Swire Pacific?

[Sterkoder]

I notice that HSBC doesn't appear in the history, nor organization chart for John Swire & Sons or Swire Pacific?

Read the Swire history a couple of years ago, so I don't remember every word, but: I can't remember (right now) seeing HSBC in conjunction with Swire, and wasn't HSBC established by a scotsman, a Mr. Sutherland or something back in the 1860s??
Swire is a family company (yes, considered so also today) established and run by the Swire family from Liverpool.
I've studied the company chart of the hole Swire Group (took a while) and HSBC is absent also there....

But by all means, correct me if I'm wrong, because one of my rules of living is to try and learn at least one new thing each day