Ship Spotter Steve
  • Home
  • Bulk Carriers
  • Cement Carriers
  • Container Ships
  • Crude Oil Tankers
  • Cruise Ships
  • Dredgers
  • Ferries
  • Fishing Vessels
  • General Cargo Ships
  • Military & Law Enforcement
  • Off Shore Supply/Safety/Support
  • Pilot Vessels
  • Research Ships
  • Sailing Ships
  • Tankers
  • Tugs
  • Vehicle Carriers
  • Misc
  • Funnels
  • Work Boats
  • Pleasure Boats & Yachts
  • Tenders & Launches
  • Prints, Postcards & Paintings
  • Buildings, Monuments & Places
  • Yearly Statistics
  • Ship List
  • Links
  • Blog
  • Blog Index
Contact me

HTMS CHIK (842)

27/9/2016

0 Comments

 
Picture
Long range photograph of HTMS Chik (842) taken as I walked along the beach in Hua Hin on 21 July 2016. She was one of a number of naval ships moored just off the coast.

The ships are on guard/ protection duty to the nearby royal residences which also includes an exclusion zone along the seafront to all maritime vessels including jet skies and small boats.

From reading articles on the internet the naval presence is semi-permanent and ships in the Thai Navy operate on three month rotational basis. Around 300 naval personnel are involved and up to six warships. They are provisioned by local suppliers and may also be visited by refueling vessels returning to base at Sattahip (Chonburi Province) for any maintenance.

REG - TH
Chuang Class Water Ship
Built - Mahidol Adulyadej Naval Yard
L 33m W 6m
GT - 180
Year - 1966
Hua Hin, 21 July 2016
0 Comments

SCORPIO TANKERS

23/9/2016

0 Comments

 
Picture
Funnel of STI Bronx (IMO 9706841, 29735, 2015), photographed at Fawley on 24 October 2015.

She is part of the Scorpio Tankers fleet.

They operate within the petroleum products supply chain distributing products like gasoline, heating oil, and fuel oil from refineries to end users. 

Scorpio Tankers Inc. is incorporated in the Republic of The Marshall Islands and has principal executive offices in Monaco and New York.
0 Comments

THE LODGE, WIGAN - 1840

23/9/2016

0 Comments

 
Picture
​This is the entrance to Haigh Hall in Wigan photographed during a walk after work on 3 April 2016.

Formerly known as the lodge it comprises an entrance archway and two lodges with linking railings and gates. It was built in about 1840 and is constructed from sandstone and the lodges have slate roofs, the railings and gates are made from cast iron.

Built in a classical style it has a tall round-headed archway Linking the archway to the lodge on each side is a short section of matching railings with a pedestrian gate in the centre. The lodges are square on plan and single storey.

Each has a low pyramidal roof with central chimney. In the front and rear wall of each is a rectangular recess with set-in Tuscan columns framing a doorway.​
0 Comments

USNS Zeus (T-ARC 7)

21/9/2016

0 Comments

 
Picture
USNS Zeus photographed in Portsmouth naval base on 27 October 2015.

She was the first cable ship designed and built by the U.S. Navy.

Her role is the installation and maintenance of submarine cable systems. 
 
She is fitted with a wide array of cable handling equipment and can lay up to 1,000 miles of cable in depths of up to 9,000 feet without resupply and is also equipped with both single-beam and multi-beam sonars for bottom profiling and can deploy towed sidescan sonars and camera sleds.

Built by National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., San Diego, CA she is 157m long and has a 24m beam. Propulsion is diesel electric, twin shafts (10,200 shp) giving a speed of 15 knots. Displacement is 14,563.34 tons. She can carry upto 86 personnel.

MMSI - 367212000
REG - US
IMO -  7932408
Call Sign - NVTM
Cable Ship
Built -  National Steel & Shipbuilding Co, San Diego, US
Yard No.418
L 157m x W 24m
GT - 14563
Year - 1984
Portsmouth - 27 October 2015
0 Comments

    Author

    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.

    Archives

    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    December 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.