Hansa Marburg photographed entering the port of Livorno, Italy on 31 May 2012.

She was built by Guangzhou Wenchong in Guangzhou China in 2007 as yard number 326 and is 175m long with a 27m beam and  9.5m maximum draught.

TEU = 1,740.

DWT = 23,400 and GT 18,327

Powered by a B&W 6S60MC engine (12,240 kW) she has a maximum speed of 20.5 knots.

She is operated by the Leonhardt & Blumberg shipping company which was founded in Hamburg in 1903 by partners Adolf Leonhardt and Arthur Blumberg. The Leonhardt family have continued in the management of the company since Arthur Blumberg's death in 1922. 

The company has managed over 180 vessels, in the past these were mostly general cargo ships and bulk carriers, the current fleet comprises mainly modern container vessels which are trading worldwide under time charter contracts with various shipping lines.

The company is headquartered on the shore of the River Elbe in Hamburg.

MMSI - 636091218
REG - LR, Monrovia
IMO - 9334818
Call Sign - A8KV6
Container Ship
Built - Guangzhou Wenchong, Guangzhou, CN
Yard No. - 326
L 175m W 27m
GT 18327
Year - 2007
Livorno 31 May 2012

The ship list has now been updated and posted on my site.

This has taken a while, not in the actual update which I try to do as soon as possible but in software issues associated with trying to upload documents / links / files -  All sorted now though

It now includes the 327 new ships I have seen this year both in the UK, France and in the Far East.

In total this means I have seen 3526 vessels with a total GT of 68,097,324. If you put the ships end to end they would stretch 305.27 miles.

Container Ship Westerland photographed in Barcelona on 29 May 2014, she was named Westerland in 2005 having previously been called Marcliff

She was built by the Jinlin Shipyard in Nanjing China as Yard Number
jtz98-0102 in 2000.

Overall she is 100.51m long with a 18.5m beam and 6.47m draught.

Total TEU capacity = 460.
 
Propulsion is provided by a MAK 9M32 diesel engine (3960kW).

I believe that she is currently operating as a feeder vessel for EMES Feedering SAM, a company which provides feeder transportation to the Container Shipping Companies. They operate throughout the Mediterranean and Black Sea ports.
 
MMSI - 304011002
REG - AG, St John
IMO -  9206669
Call Sign - V2AT2 
Container Ship
Built - Jinling SY, Nanjing, CN
Yard No. -  jtz98-0102
L 100.51m W 18.5m
GT 5085
Year - 2000
Barcelona 29 May 2012

We visited the bridge over the River Kwai on a very hot 18 August 2014. 

When constructed the bridge actually spanned the Mae Klong river, the name of the river was changed in the 1960's to match the book written by Pierre Boulle which was subsequently turned into the famous film - It seems Pierre got it wrong, the fact he never apparently visited the real bridge probably didn't help!

The bridge was constructed by allied prisoners of war and civilians at a place called Tha Ma Kham which is about 5km from Kanchanaburi.

Originally there were two bridges, a wooden bridge which was completed in February 1943 and the steel / concrete bridge seen today which was completed a few months later in June.

The curved steel bridge spans are original, and were brought from Java by the Japanese.  The two straight-sided spans come from Japan, and were installed after the war to replace spans destroyed by allied bombing in 1945.

The two bridges were successfully bombed on 13 February 1945 by the Royal Air Force. Repairs were carried out by the prisoners of war and by April the wooden trestle bridge was back in operation. On 3 April 1945 a second raid by Liberator bombers of the U.S. Army Air Forces damaged the wooden bridge once again. Repair work continued and both bridges were operational again by the end of May. A second raid by the RAF. on 24 June 1945 put the railway out of action for the rest of the war. 

We walked the full length of the bridge to the opposite bank and back.

Makers plate on the steelwork.

View from the bridge looking downstream

One of two historic preserved steam locomotive located a short walk from the bridge. 

2-6-0 Locomotive 719 was built in 1936 by Kishu Seizo Kaisha in Japan as works number 1352.

4-6-2 locomotive 804 (real number I believe is 810) was built in 1919 by North
British as works number NBL 22509 to a Kitson design at Queens Park Works. It
was brought to Thailand in World War 2  by the Japanese

A truck mounted on rails, this was located  near the steam locomotives.

Photograph of the wing of our A380 somewhere between Manchester and Dubai - The plane has a 79.75m geometric wingspan.

13 August 2014.

Oriental Princess photographed on 17 September 2014 from the Pattaya to Koh Larn ferry.

She is now a floating restaurant although she look to me to be a converted Ro-Ro ferry, I have seen very similar vessels in Penang.

The vessel hosts a sea food restaurant with entertainment.

I have looked on the internet for any other details about her but at the moment cannot find anything.

Fishing vessels photographed from the pier at Koh Larn on 22 August 2014.

I took the pictures about mid-morning just after we had arrived on the ferry from Pattaya.

The beach in the background is where I went snorkeling with my daughter,
visibility was not great but we did see some fish around a few rocks on
the seabed.

Albaquila photographed in the Albert Dock, Liverpool on 16 September 2014. I spotted her whilst I was doing a lap of the Albert Dock basin during my lunch break and took her picture from my phone.

She is a twin screw motor yacht built in 1947 by Osbourne William of Littlehampton.
 
Of timber construction she is 14.34m long with a 3.35m beam and 1.67m draught.

Over the last few years I believe she has undergone extensive renovation.

Container ship Jost photographed in Laem Chabang on 13 April 2013, she was one of a number of ships I photographed during our overnight stay in the port.

She  was built by Jiangsu Yangzijiang in Jiangyin, China in 2010 as Yard Number 2006-753c and is 161.30m long with a 25m beam and 9.50m draught

Powered by a B&W 8S50MCC (12,640kW) engine she has a maximum speed
of 20 Knots.

Maximum TEU capacity =  1338.

MMSI - 636091690
REG - LR, Monrovia
IMO - 9477347
Call Sign - A8RO9
Container Ship
Built - Jiangsu Yangzijiang, Jiangyin, CN
Yard No. -2006-753c
L 161.3m W 26m
GT 16137
Year - 2010
Laem Chabang, 13 April 2011

On the 18 August 2014 we visited Kanchanaburi and spent some time at the war cemetery for allied soldiers who died during the construction of the notorious 424 Km long Burma- Siam railway. This project by the Imperial Japanese Army  resulted in the deaths of approximately 13,000 prisoners of war and up to 100,000 civilians.

The town of Kanchanaburi is about 129 kilometres North-West of Bangkok, Kanchanaburi War Cemetery is located on the Saeng Chuto Road which is
the main road running through the town.

The cemetery is located only a short distance from the site of the former 'Kanburi', the prisoner of war camp through which most of the prisoners passed on their way to other camps. It was created by the Army Graves Service who transferred to it all graves along the Southern section of railway, from Bangkok to Nieke.

There are now 5,084 Commonwealth casualties of the Second World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery, there are also 1,896 Dutch war graves.

Some 300 men who died (most from a Cholera epidemic in May/June 1943) at Nieke camp were cremated and their ashes now lie in two graves in the
cemetery, the names of these men are inscribed on a panel.

Within the entrance building to the cemetery is another memorial recording the names of 11 men of the army of undivided India buried in Muslim cemeteries in
Thailand.