Makran 1

Picture by Ruud Zegwaard via http://merchantshipsphoto.blogspot.com/

KINO – IMO 8600894

Picture by Marcel Giroux via http://www.shipspotting.com

La Boudeuse – IMO 9303338

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ARTEMIS – IMO 9613795

Picture by Jan 1939 via http://www.shipspotting.com

Arca – IMO 8429446

Picture by Andreas Spörri via http://www.shipspotting.com

Kategats

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Kategats

IMO : 8416530

Build : 1984 by Neptun Stahlbau GmbH – Rostock in Germany, nr 106 as Ivan Bakhvalov

I’m going to be honest here: If I look at the above picture (and the same thing happened when I saw it for the first time) I go: What is that?

Lough Foyle

Lough Foyle

IMO: 7823310

Build: 1979 by Van Goor Werf – Monnickendam in The Netherlands, nr 668 as Saeftinge

More often than not the variety of offshore working vessels featured here are very far towards the top on the scale of hideousness.

Ursa

 

Ursa

IMO: 8418875

Build: 1986 by Orenstein & Koppel – Lubeck in Germany, nr ??? as Bilberg I

Argue some may that she’s beautiful in her own right because she’s good at doing her job, “Nay!” says I!

Cristobal Colon

Cristobal Colon

IMO : 9429572

Build : 2009 by Construcciones Navales del Norte, Sestao in Spain, nr ??

This apparently is the biggest trailer suction hopper dredger in the whole wide

McFarland

McFarland

IMO : 7739856

Build : 1967 by Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard, Sparrow’s Point in the U.S.A., nr 4608

From the front the accommodation looks like a grand old

Usedom

Usedom

IMO :9030163

Build : 1990 by VEB Schiffswerft Neptun, Rostock in Germany, nr 118 as Leningrad

A bucket ladder dredger: I didn’t know that these things still existed, thought that

Breydel

Breydel

IMO : 9382384

Build : 2008 by IHC Holland N.V. Dredgers, Kinderdijk, the Netherlands, nr 1.247

Just one question:

Scelveringhe

Dunno source via http://langssluizenenhavens.web-log.nl

Dunno source via http://langssluizenenhavens.web-log.nl

Scelveringhe

IMO : 9285366

Build : 2004 by K. Damen, Hardinxveld-Giessendam, The Netherlands, nr 743

The Scelveringhe is a hopper dredger but not a ordinary run of

Leonardo da Vinci

Picture by Seabart

Picture by Seabart

Leonardo da Vinci

IMO : 8411592

Build : 1986 by IHC Smit, Kinderdijk, the Netherlands, nr ??

The Leonardo da Vinci, one of the vessels I’ve had the “honor” of working on. She is a