Ship Spotters and Maritime Image Thread

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Alex



Halki



Marguerite

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MG Lorenzo



Milano

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In real time it has been less than an hour since my first photos of Omega Livestock and we are definitely up wind.



Now for the real treat. A trio of windsurfers cutting across the straight.

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red



and yellow



and then an action shot of deck work feeding the livestock

[ombugge]

Is this the semi-submersible vessel "Xiang Yun Kou", and if so, what are they doing seemingly close to the rock side ? (Hence the vessels shadow)

It does look like that doesn't??? Well, reality is different though:

She is actually anchored in a fairly wide bay just outside Nagasaki Harbour.

The cargo is a grab dredger going to South Africa.
I'll be back with some more on this operation when time permits.

PS> The ship's name is Xiang Rui Kou. She is fairly new and this is only the third cargo.
A much bigger "sister" to the Tai An Kou and Kang Sheng Kou that has been shown several times before on CVF.

[pilotdane]

Last of the photos from Istanbul. Here is Comet, the last commercial ship I could get a clear photo of as we enter the Marmara and things get too hazy.

[Sterkoder]

Small local fuelboat "Grip Tank", fully loaded today...

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Now we're in the Aegean Sea with the odd Greek island in the background.

Antwerp



Clipper Neptun



Cypryt

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Haci Emine Ana





Kula



MSC Ukraine

[Sterkoder]

Got interested in "Cypryt" in post #2628, as I seem to remember seeing it while driving home from work yesterday.
Went out in the woods near the Frei Church to get a better view over the anchor place today. (Now officially called: Freifjorden 1 Anchorage).
Of course it was not "Cypryt", but I'm pretty sure it is a vessel from the same company, as the funnels are similar on the port side.

Pictured here this afternoon, here's "Sormovskiy" for you.


Hunting for motifs ment walking through a small forest today.
Here's "Noorderlicht" anchored near "Sormovskiy"


Well, coming out from the trees, the payment is always a better view

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Sea Anemos



I can not recall if the ship on the left is the ferry Cuneyt Solakoglu that I posted in the ferry section.



I assume this one just started an engine or generator.

[ombugge]

Training Ship Tei Sei Maru seen berthing at Nagasaki, Japan, which is her home port:

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Today we are solidly in the Adriatic heading north and just like every other day it is very hazy.



Vulano M





Yordan Lutibrodski

[janihudi]

''stena contest''

[Speedbird]

Fjordlast to the right and her replacement "Junior" to the left. Junior was actually replaced by Fjordlast a few years ago. She then spent a few years in the Mediterranean before she was arested by the French Navy outside Africa with over 3 tons of cocaine in her holds. Bought back to Bodø from the Fr. Navy last fall.

[Sterkoder]

From Orsetra I spotted the Freifjorden 1 Anchorage, and saw that the two smaller vessels from yesterday had gone company by a larger one, the Limasol registered "Irina F".

(On this image, you can see the church to the right, where my pictures from yesterday were taken, and behind the threes there, the bridge of "Noorderlicht" is barely visible)

[Ralf__]

Training Ship Tei Sei Maru is a beauty!

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After two days at sea I was overtaken with excitement and woke up well before the sun as we approached Slovenia.



It was too hazy to catch her name but I caught this guy sneaking out of port without giving me the chance to take better pictures.

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Burgas

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Just a view of the anchorage outside Koper's harbor.



Darja