PEEWEE II

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JANE

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VOE VANGUARD – IMO 9809693

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KEN MACKENZIE

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Post #1000: New picture of MT BATTLEAXE (?) – IMO 7636913

On the 24th of November in 2008, now more than 13 years ago this site was started by myself by posting the first Ugly Vessel. A lot has happened since then, not only on here but also in my life, and in the world.

And this very post is number 1000, quite a milestone…….Wow!

I didn’t know or expect it would go on for this long.

I have no idea how many vessels have been posted in all this time, it must be many more as a lot of posts contained more than one vessel.
If someone wants to count: please feel free to do so! But do please share the result.

The (and I quote from that first post) “very first Official Ugly Ship, the one that started this all” was the tug Battleaxe, see that post (later updated a bit) here.

And I thought I’d do a bit of an update on the Battleaxe so I’ve been looking all over the interwebs and the most recent picture I found was on Marinetraffic:

Picture by Rutger Hofma via http://www.marinetraffic.com

This one is from 08-07-2019, now almost three years ago….

The vessel actually still exist, which is quite an accomplishment these days, especially since it’s build in 1978, now 44 years ago. According to Marinetraffic.com it’s still floating around somewhere in Lagos. And looking at the above picture the vessel doesn’t look in a too bad condition.

Is there anyone that can provide me/us with a more up to date picture?

After all the Battleaxe and this site are kinda connected………

Thanks for all your attention, clicks, tips, encouragement and all the other ways you’ve interacted with me, that’s enough babbling for now, let’s get started with the next 1000!

Ume Maru – part 2

When I posted the first post about the Ume Maru (clickerdeclick) I didn’t realise that the tug looked like this from above:

Dunno Source via the Interwebs

More info/pics/movies here (on a RC-group forum).

NOON WEDNESDAY – IMO 7528855

 

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Thanks to mr A.Nonymous for the tip!

RT Borkum

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Little Truck cabin tug

Picture via https://www.hamnen.se/

The original article (in Swedish) is HERE (or click on the pic) translated to english via Google HERE and the for sale advert with more pics HERE.

Many thanks to Henrik L for the find & the tip!

TONY MacKAY – IMO 7227786

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Ume Maru

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Thanks to Vladimir T for the tip!

FINLANDIA – IMO 9146522

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Unknown cute US Navy tuggie

Found on the Interwebs

OLIVE L. MOORE

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Jason Dua – IMO 9606261

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Many thanks to Hans F for the tip.