Shanti Sagar 17 – IMO 9802451

Picture by Hannes van Rijn via http://www.shipspotting.com

Thanks to Thomas D for the tip!

ZHENG HE – IMO 9448982

Picture by fran-tgn via http://www.shipspotting.com

Mashhour – IMO 9111448

Picture by Foggy via http://www.shipspotting.com

And again many thanks to Denis for the monsterous tip!

Charles Dick

picture by unknown via http://www.boatnerd.com

Thanks to Jacob W for the tips!

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

Picture by Foggy via http://www.shipspotting.com

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

Picture by Skyfoto Maassluis via http://koopvaardij.web-log.nl

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