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LIVERPOOL NOTES - 6 JaNUARY 2015

12/1/2015

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Tuesday last week was my first trip to Liverpool this year and resulted in a single new vessel being added to the list. This was the bulk carrier Golden Glory (IMO 9700885, GT34810, 2014), she was loading scrap metal and left port a few days later bound for Gibraltar. There were a few other vessels in port but at the time I was driving past in the morning and on my way home it was dark and the Seaforth Dockside was so full of vehicles and equipment I could not see a thing.

They have also erected  a line of prefabricated offices along the fenceline which unfortunately also removes another good photography vantage point. I hope this is a temporary arrangement but somehow I doubt this will be the case.

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 NEW STATISTICS PAGE ADDED

8/1/2015

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I have added a new statistics page to my site showing what type of vessels I have seen on a year by year basis in addition to where they were registered, where seen and built.

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WAPPING DOCK & WAREHOUSE

7/1/2015

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Wapping Dock with the warehouse behind photographed on my visit to Liverpool on 18 November 2014.

Wapping Dock was opened  in 1852 to principally connect Salthouse Dock and other Docks to the North with Kings Dock to the South. Both the warehouse and dock were undertaken by the Dock Engineer Jesse Hartley with the dock being progressed in his Cyclopean style and named after the road that runs alongside.

The warehouse was built in 1856 and is similar to those around the Albert Dock. it  is constructed in brick, iron and slate with small paned iron casement windows.

The building was originally 232 feet long and had forty bays divided into fire proof sections but was badly damaged during the May blitz of 1941 resulting in the Southern end of the building not being rebuilt. The columns that originally supported the demolished end of the building can be seen in my picture.

The building was converted to residential apartments in 1988.
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AEGEAN POWER

6/1/2015

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Aframax Crude Oil Tanker Aegean Power leaving Tranmere on 24 July 2013.

She was built by Samsung in Koje, KR in 2007 as Yard Number 1609 and is 248.96m long with a 43.8m beam.

GT = 61473, NT = 35396 and DWT = 115.753.7

She has 12 tanks and 2 slop tanks with capacities of 123,581m3 (98%) and 3,865m3 (95%) respectively.

Her main engine consists of a B&W 6S60 MC-C (16,580bhp at 101.4 rpm) diesel engine.
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Owned by Worldbridge Shipping Inc. the vessel is operated by the Arcadia Ship Management Co Ltd which was founded in 1998.

She is one of 4 Suemax and 10 Aframax tankers in their fleet all of which were built in South Korean yards.

MMSI - 240594000
REG - GR, Athens
IMO - 9660360
Call Sign - SXQH
Crude Oil Tanker
Built - Samsung, Koje, KR
Yard No. 1609
L 248.96m x W 43.8m
GT - 61473
Year - 2007
Liverpool, 24 July 2013
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AEGEAN BREEZE I

5/1/2015

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Today is my first day in after the holidays, as it is only 3 degrees outside and still dark I thought I would start the New Year with a tanker I saw in Greece on a very warm day in Summer 2012.

Tanker Aegean Breeze I photographed in Piraeus on 5 June 2012 from my balcony on the Serenade of the Seas. I took the photograph shortly after we had returned to the ship after a full day ashore exploring Athens in a taxi we picked up just outside the docks.


She was built by Leqing Orient in Wenzhou, China as Yard Number ds0206 in 2004 and is 81.53m long with a 12.70m beam and 6.3m draught.

Tank capacity is 2,850m3. 

Powered by a Dalian DY8300ZC (980kW) diesel engine she has a top speed of 11.5 knots.

DWT = 2,747 & GT = 1,823.

She has had a number of names including Hui Long (2004) and Aegean Breeze (2004 - 2006).

She is operated by Aegean Marine Petroleum Network which is an international marine fuel logistics company that markets and physically supplies refined marine fuel and lubricants to ships in port and at sea.  

MMSI - 240871000
REG - GR, Athens
IMO - 9314466
Call Sign - SVAE8
Chemical / Oil Products Tanker
Built - Leqing Orient, Wenzhou, CN
Yard No. - ds0206
L 81.53m W 12.7m
GT -1823
Year - 2004
Piraeus 5 June 2012
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100 TODAY

1/1/2015

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My Grandad is 100 today, his telegram from the queen is above
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My Grandad was an able bodied seaman his entire life at sea, here he is with his crewmates on an unknown vessel probably in the 1930's / 1940's. For some reason he has an asterix over his head,
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One of his own photographs from a merchant vessel on convoy duty during World War 2. This is probably a ship from the  Manchester Liner fleet.
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    My interest in ships and the sea started back in 2006 when I worked for a couple of years  on the banks of the River Mersey. I have since been on a couple of cruises around the Med and in the Far East and have started to take more interest in researching and photographing some of the ships and other vessels seen on my travels.

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