Tuesday, January 31, 2012

CREOULA recebe nova vela




O Navio de Treino de Mar CREOULA recebeu no passado dia 27 de Janeiro uma nova vela Giba para substituição de anterior que se rasgou o ano passado.
A vela foi fabricada pela firma PIRES DE LIMA. Mais pormenores no Blogue do CREOULA.


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Monday, January 30, 2012

Corveta SÁ DA BANDEIRA na Cordoaria

Tempo de conhecer ou recordar a antiga corveta SÁ DA BANDEIRA, na Cordoaria, em Lisboa de 1 a 17 de Fevereiro.
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Sunday, January 29, 2012

L. F. Jardim e o encerramento da linha Funchal-Portimão


O Meu Amigo Luís Filipe Jardim publicou no blogue CRUZEIROS NA MADEIRA este texto, tão oportuno como sentido acerca da desistência da armadora canarina NAVIERA ARMAS de continuar a ligar o Funchal a Portimão com os seus modernos ferries de passageiros e carga:
"Obrigado Naviera Armas por estes anos de ligações ferry. Obrigado pela oportunidade dada aos madeirenses na Madeira, e aos madeirenses no continente de poderem viajar de e para a sua terra natal sem ser apenas de avião. Obrigado por nos teres dado navios modernos e operações adequadas aos tempos. Obrigado Armas, obrigado Canárias, obrigado Espanha. Infelizmente, não posso agradecer a um armador português, à minha ilha ou ao meu país. Portugal parou no tempo, também no sector dos transportes marítimos. Parou ou regrediu. Em 2008, a Armas oferecia à região e a Portugal o primeiro e único serviço ferry, passados 30 anos do fim das ligações marítimas de passageiros entre a Madeira e Lisboa. Portugal andou para trás no que o tornou na grande Nação que foi, o MAR! Infelizmente, tristemente, nem mesmo com mar à porta se sabemos aproveitar essa oportunidade natural. Nem saber receber quem nos dava a oportunidade de sermos menos "ilhéus", leia-se, menos isolados. 
A marinha mercante portuguesa, ou transportes marítimos, vive hoje apenas das carreiras da Madeira e dos Açores e algumas ligações para os arquipélagos africanos. A bandeira portuguesa flutua pelo mundo fora, sobretudo, ou exclusivamente, graças ao registo internacional de navios da Madeira. Que bem haja, sempre. De resto é ver a bandeira e o registo português em alguns porta-contentores. A evolução do transporte marítimo de carga convencional ficou-se por essas unidades que carregam caixas multi-colores. Nos anos 70, CTM e CNN, extintas na década seguinte para dar lugar à Transinsular e à Portline, respectivamente, passaram dos navios de carga geral para os porta-contentores e ficaram-se por aí. A experiência de navios roll on/roll off reduziu-se a um pouco sucedido Cidade de Funchal. Vá lá que recebeu o nome da capital madeirense... mas pouco tempo foi utilizado numa operação que morreu quase à nascença. Os armadores não quiseram saber de navios ferry no transporte de cargas rolantes, automóveis e passageiros, ao contrário da vizinha Espanha e dessa Europa fora. Madeira e Açores são as únicas ilhas dessa Europa apegada ao controle orçamental onde os seus cidadãos apenas podem viajar para o continente de avião. E ninguém em Portugal quis saber destas operações ferry que não são mais do que um prolongamento de uma auto-estrada. As auto-estradas marítimas das ilhas. Uma operação ferry é um serviço rápido para passageiros, automoveis e mercadorias. Um serviço limpo, verde, amigo do ambiente. Com poucas intervenções de trabalho portuário, rápido, de fácil acesso até ao destino final de pessoas e bens. Durante a operação da Armas, tivemos oportunidade de conhecer o que é esse serviço, tal como já tinhamos visto com os ferries da Porto Santo Line. A opção ferry deve voltar a bem da Madeira, a bem de um Portugal que deve voltar ao mar com uma nova estratégia. Os tempos da tradicional estiva acabaram. Os tempos da exclusividade dos contentores têm de acabar. Infelizmente, volto a ter vergonha de ter de dizer a europeus que querem visitar a Madeira que não podem chegar ao Funchal com o seu próprio carro. Infelizmente, perdemos a primeira e única linha ferry do Funchal para o continente. Por um conjunto de razões que o tempo dirá. Obrigado Armas. Que não sejam necessários mais 30 anos à espera de um navio de passageiros para o continente!" 
Luís Filipe Jardim é um jovem jornalista muito dedicado aos assuntos do mar. Fundador do Clube de Entusiasta de Navios, e seu primeiro Presidente, o Luís Filipe integra há anos os quadros da RTP e foi pioneiro em Portugal na realização dos primeiros programas televisivos sobre a temática dos cruzeiros e navios de passageiros. É actualmente Director da revista CRUZEIROS.

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Thursday, January 26, 2012

VOLCAN DE SAÍDA

Ferry espanhol VOLCAN DE TIJIRAFE saindo do porto do Funchal rumo a Portimão numa das suas escalas regulares semanais aos Sábados, uma rotina que terá agora chegado ao fim. 


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MADEIRA DESVULCANIZADA

O vulcão flutuante que vinha fazendo regularmente a ligação entre as Canárias, a Madeira e Portimão, isto é o navio VOLCAN DE TIJARAFE, da empresa Naviera Armas, está a efectuar a última viagem da carreira, deixando o Funchal pela última vez na próxima Segunda-feira no regresso a Tenerife.
A carreira, que em 2011 movimentou 22.000 passageiros e carga rodada por Portimão, era a única ligação marítima regular de passageiros entre a Região Autónoma da Madeira e o Continente, e a sua supressão marca um maior isolamento das ilhas e o fim de uma alternativa muito apreciada pela população, mas que se traduziu em concorrência acrescida para os operadores tradicionais portugueses de porta-contentores.  
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Navios em porto

Gosto de registar estes momentos em que os navios se cruzam e emprestam a sua imagem ao porto e à cidade de Lisboa, como aconteceu na manhã de 13 de Outubro de 2011 com o paquete grego de bandeira das Bahamas a passar ao lado do navio italiano COSTA LUMINOSA.
Dois conceitos de navios em contraste total, um de 1965 ou outro contemporâneo.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Cruzeiros ÓPERA 2012


Portugal e o Mar (em Peniche)


75 ANOS DA REVISTA DE MARINHA

A REVISTA DE MARINHA completa este mês 75 anos de publicação.
Com efeito, a REVISTA DE MARINHA lançou o seu número 1, cuja capa reproduzimos, em Janeiro de 1937, fundada e dirigida pelo ilustre jornalista Maurício de Oliveira.
São 75 anos a analisar e divulgar os Assuntos do Mar, o que num País como o nosso tão alheado destas matérias, não é proeza fácil.
Ao actual Director da RM, Sr. Vice-Almirante Alexandre Fonseca, as nossas saudações e votos sinceros de felicidades.
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Aviso NRP AFONSO DE ALBUQUERQUE

Aviso de 1ª classe NRP AFONSO DE ALBUQUERQUE, perdido na India em combate desigual com  esquadra da União Indiana em Dezembro de 1961.
Na imagem o navio apresenta a configuração final após modernização efectuada em 1956.
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Friday, January 20, 2012

OCEAN DREAM sold to Peace Boat

The cruise ship OCEAN DREAM has been sold by Pullmantur to interests associated to the Japanese organization PEACE BOAT.
OCEAN DREAM is operating out of Fortaleza on cruises to Fernando de Noronha in Brazil, until early April. Afterwards she will be delivered to the new owners in Panama.
With the purchase of OCEAN DREAM, the future of the classic steam turbine ocean liner THE OCEANIC looks bleak and probably she doing now her final world cruise.
The OCEANIC was one of the most magnificent liners built in Italy in the 1960s. She was delivered to Home Lines in 1965 and cruised out of New York for the next twenty years... Despite being now an old and costly ship, the OCEANIC has operated successfully for the last 47 years. I would not be surprised to see her go to Alang soon...
OCEAN DREAM photograph in Barcelona by Hans Hoffman.
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BOA ESPERANÇA no Museu de Marinha


Fragatas "Almirante Pereira da Silva"

Recordando as fragatas portuguesas da classe ALMIRANTE PEREIRA DA SILVA, reproduzimos um artigo de Ricardo Graça Matias publicado originalmente na Revista de Marinha nº 785, de Novembro de 1988. As três fragatas acabaram desmanteladas em Alhos Vedros no início doa anos 1990...


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Monday, January 16, 2012

More on COSTA CONCORDIA

Terry Hutson's Report (PORTS & SHIPS): The maritime professionals’ union Nautilus International says in a statement issued yesterday that Friday night’s grounding of the cruise ship COSTA CONCORDIA carrying 3200 passengers and a crew of about 1000, just two weeks into the Titanic centenary year, should serve as a wake-up call to the shipping industry and those who regulate it.
Nautilus – which represents 23,000 ship masters, officers, ratings and other shipping industry staff – says the incident involving the Italian-flagged cruise ship off the Italian coast is the latest in a series that have highlighted its long-standing concerns over safety.

By late Sunday five people were confirmed dead and another 15 remained missing. Earlier a honeymoon couple from South Korea were rescued from low down in the ship where they had been trapped and unable to make their way up onto the decks with other passengers. At least one other person remained on board waiting to be rescued. Search parties heard him yesterday calling for help but hadn’t yet managed to locate or identify the man.
Rescued passengers told of panic and chaos on board the ship, and claimed that regulation lifeboat drills had not bee carried out but were scheduled for the next morning.
“In this, the centenary of the loss of the Titanic, major nostalgia industry is already in full flow – but it is essential that everyone recognises that the Titanic offers lessons for today and that there are contemporary resonances that should not be lost,” said Nautilus’ general secretary Mark Dickinson.
In particular, Nautilus says it is concerned about the rapid recent increases in the size of passenger ships – with the average tonnage doubling over the past decade.
“Many ships are now effectively small towns at sea, and the sheer number of people onboard raises serious questions about evacuation,” Mr Dickinson pointed out.
“Nautilus is by no means alone in voicing concern at underlying safety issues arising from the new generation of ‘mega-ships’ – whether they be passenger vessels carrying the equivalent of a small town or containerships with more than 14,000 boxes onboard. Insurers and salvors have also spoken about the way in which the sheer size and scale of such ships presents massive challenges for emergency services, evacuation, rescue, and salvage - and we should not have to wait for a major disaster until these concerns are addressed.
“The growth in the size of such ships has also raised questions about their watertight integrity and fire-fighting protection,” Dickinson added. “In an address to a conference on the safety of large passenger ships in 2000, the then secretary-general of the International Maritime Organisation, William O’Neil, cited 12 passenger ship accidents in the previous six years and noted “…in retrospect we can see that it was to some extent a matter of luck – good weather, calm seas, and other ships in the vicinity, for example – that very few lives were lost.”
“We believe that more attention needs to be given to such issues as the adequacy of life-saving appliances, and the quality and quantity of crews and their training and experience in operating these vessels and dealing with emergency situations, including evacuation,” Mr Dickinson said.
According to Nautilus it is essential that inquiries into the Costa Concordia grounding examine reports of an electrical problem onboard – an issue on which the union raised concern following an explosion and loss of power onboard Cunard’s Queen Mary 2.
It is essential that ships are built for safety, with adequate redundancy rather than a prescriptive minimum, the Union argues.
It says the inquiries should also address human factor issues including seafarers’ working hours and adequate manning of bridge and engine room. Investigations also need to focus on crew competence and training issues.
The Union is calling for a thorough review of regulations governing the construction and operation of passenger vessels - in particular, standards of stability and watertight integrity. Attention needs to be paid to existing evacuation systems and more innovative systems for abandonment.
Yesterday the BBC reported experts as saying they are puzzled as to why such a modern and well-equipped vessel should have run aground in well-charted waters.
The report described the ship as having been in calm waters sailing along a familiar route. The mystery is why it diverted from its course by between 3 and 4 miles, and why the ship capsized so quickly. “This will be central for investigators trying to establish the cause of the accident.”
It says the investigation will focus on why a modern ship, “with the latest safety equipment, travelling on the same route it travels 52 times every year, seemingly veered off course and hit what the cruise company has described as ‘a big rock’.
“There are a large number of possibilities ranging from human error, to technical failure, to a combination of the two. “It is possible the crew simply made a mistake and steered off course. They may have been misled by faulty navigation equipment.” The ship’ master is reported to have said that the rock which the ship hit is not on any chart currently in use.
What is known is that the accident occurred while some passengers were still at dinner in the various restaurants. Others were being entertained at a magician’s show in the theatre up in front of the ship. When the collision occurred and the ship began to list, the magician disappeared and some passengers said they thought it was all part of the show.
Others would have been in their cabins or staterooms, or on deck. Passengers described a long rumbling grating noise coming from underneath the ship. It was later discovered that a 41m gash had opened part of the lower hull, admitting the sea and leading to the ship ultimately capsizing. The collision was followed by all electrical power being lost, which added to the chaos among passengers. About an hour later, with the ship’s list becoming pronounced, the order was given to abandon ship but by then the list was too great for lifeboats on one side to be lowered.
A number of passengers or crew jumped overboard amid some reports of panic among passengers. Later reports said the master of the ship had left the vessel before all his passengers were safely in lifeboats or had been lifted ashore.
The captain, Francesco Schettino, and first officer, Ciro Ambrosio, have meanwhile been arrested and could face multiple homicide charges and having abandoned the ship before the passengers were rescued, the Italian police and media reported.
Costa Cruises, the Carnival Corporation division that operates the Costa Concordia has begun to apportion the blame, saying “It seems that the commander made errors of judgement that had serious consequences,” while adding that he had not followed company procedures in his management of the emergency.
Carnival Corporation, the owner of Costa Cruises said in a statement that it was deeply saddened by the accident and was working to fully understand the cause of what happened.
It said that “on 13 January 2012, Costa Cruises’ vessel, the Costa Concordia, departed from Civitavecchia, Italy with approximately 3,200 passengers and 1,000 crew members on a seven-day voyage. At approximately 10:00pm CET, the vessel struck [a] rock off the coast of Isola del Giglio, Italy and sustained significant damage causing the ship to list severely. The order was given to abandon ship and deploy the lifeboats.”
One of the drawbacks of accident enquiries is that they are conducted by the flag state concerned – in this case Italy. With passenger ships such as Costa Concordia carrying a large number of people from other parts of the world it might be preferable if a neutral body was appointed by the IMO to look into such incidents and accidents. There is sometimes too much national pride involved for total confidence that all flag states will set about understanding and explain all the relevant facts.
An accident such as this one can take up to a year before the inquiry reports are completed, despite the existence of a so-called ‘blackbox’ which contains a large amount of technical and human information up to the moment of the collision and capsizing. This includes voice monitoring from the bridge. Source BBC, Nautlius, Paul Ridgway (London) and own source
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Some thoughts regarding the COSTA CONCORDIA

News here in merry ole' England is all but ablaze with the COSTA CONCORDIA story ... from being off course to the Captain leaving too soon and to emptying the ship's safe as a first priority ... Carnival Corp, which owns Costa Cruises as part of its 100-liner empire, has now had a 16% drop in stock value (in London, of course) and, while there are questons about the $650 million CONCORDIA, they forsee a minimum of $100 in claims, rescue, expensses, etc ... the 114,000-ton ship was insured, as of Friday, for $515 million ... and of course there has been an immediate drop in general bookings, and not only for the 14-ship Costa fleet, but all others ... vacationers momentarily loose faith, some quickly scuttling travel plans.
But aspects of the story are not entirely new: when the American liner EXCALIBUR left NY in June 1950, for example, she went off course, just off Brooklyn no less, rammed a freighter & soon flooded and all but sank herself. The Captain, it was said, in the later investigation, wanted to wave goodbye to his wife & so veered off course ... and when the big liner CONSTITUTION was arriving, again in NY harbor, in March 1959, she sliced a Norwegian tanker in two in foggy conditions. Seems the liner was going far too fast because the Captain wanted to make an 11am dentist appm't in Manhattan ... and when the cruise liner RIVIERA was burning & sinking off Cuba in April 1966, the Italian capt & his officers were in the first 2 lifeboats, with the ship's safe onboard no less and, it was said, the monies were already divided among them before even reaching shore. There are many other tales as well.
Today, I have been tracked down & asked to appear on a TV show in nearby Manchester (that's England too, of course) and a live radio show in London, and of course all regarding & commenting on the COSTA CONCORDIA tragedy.
Photo of COSTA CONCORDIA in Lisbon on her maiden cruise, July 2006.
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IN THE WAKE of the CONCORDIA DISASTER


Posted: 15 Jan 2012 11:20 AM PST 
by Anne Campbell 
It has taken me 24 hours to write about the Costa Concordia’s disastrous cruise from Rome which resulted in five deaths and the latest estimate of 17 missing passengers because I’ve been covering the cruise industry for almost two decades.   I know that Carnival Corporation, which owns Costa Cruises, is a leader  in terms of building vessels that meet the highest safety specifications.  (Photo:  Solaro/AFP/Getty Images)
It was astonishing to see photos of a five year old 115,000 -ton cruise ship lying on its side roughly 600 feet from shore, hearing the harrowing tales of passengers swimming to shore, the utter pandemonium and panic of abandoning a
 dark listing ship.   Not only is it the 100th anniversary of the sinking of Titanic but some of the details are scarily similar: a 950-foot gash in the ship’s hull that looks like someone tried to open it with a can opener coupled with people jumping in the water, the crew unable to launch many of the ship’s lifeboats and utter panic.
I attended this ship’s splashy Italian christening in 2006, toured half-built ships in dozens of visits to European shipyard,  spent a great deal of time over the years interviewing ship builders and cruise line execs about cruise ship safety.  I’ve written that the only threat to a modern cruise ship is fire.
So, how could this happen to cruise ship in the 21st century?
The answer is that we won’t know for sure until Costa Concordia’s little black box reveals moment-by-moment sequence of events that resulted in the 4,000-passenger vessel crashing on rocks of Isola del Giglio on the Italian Riviera.  At present the ship’s master, Captain Francesco Schettino, has been arrested, charged with multiple manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship.   In an interview, the visibly distraught Captain said the “rocks not detected” on the navigational chart. Three people trapped inside the ship have been rescued as the search for 17 missing people continues.
The Details
On January 13, Costa Concordia had set sail from Civitavecchia (port of Rome) on a seven day cruise at 4:00 p.m. with scheduled port calls in Savonna, Marseille, Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca, Cagliari and Palermo. Seas were calm and the Italian officers certainly knew this itinerary well since Concordia sails on this fixed itinerary each week.   On board the vessels were 3200 passengers and a crew of 1000.  International maritime laws stipulate that a mandatory lifeboat drill must take place within 24 hours of departing the port of embarkation and, as is quite common in this industry, Concordia’s was scheduled the following morning.
Shortly before 10:00 p.m. there was a sudden “boom and crash” followed by loss of electricity as water began spilling into the ship.  Costa Concordia immediately started to list and passengers in the main dining room report that dishes and glasses crashed to the floor.  An announcement from the bridge told passengers not to panic, that everything was under control.
But passengers and crew did panic   There are reports of people being shoved down stairways as people raced to their staterooms to don life jackets.  After 45 minutes the order to abandon ship created more chaos since passengers didn’t know where to go.  In an interview one passenger said he was unable to board a lifeboat and swam to shore while a video taken on board a lifeboat illustrates how terrified its passengers were.   Because the ship was listing many lifeboats couldn’t be launched.
While it may be true that the only real threat to a cruise ship is fire, there are clearly two other factors which can turn a cruise into a disaster:  technical problems and human error.  An example of the first is Carnival Splendor, which lost power in 2010 off the coast of Mexico.   While the ship sat in the ocean for days there was nothing remotely frightening or dangerous about the experience.   As for human error, we’ve seen that since the first human went to sea.
Again, nobody knows what caused this terrible accident.  But several maritime experts interviewed about Costa Concordia expressed the a concern — ships carrying thousands of people have become too large to evacuate everyone safely.
For further information……….
BBC has the most comprehensive information and video interviews.
I was very dismayed to read that ships in Costa Cruises (headquartered in Rome) fleet have had a larger than normal number of mishaps.   See the report in the Daily Mirror (UK)


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Saturday, January 14, 2012

COSTA CONCORDIA stranded and half sunk

Shocking news on the tragic accident suffered by COSTA CONCORDIA last night in the Mediterranean.
First a photograph of the ship when new, taken in Lisbon on her inaugural cruise and mainden call to Lisbon in July 2006, and below how she is now...
All very sad and there are victims who lost their lives...
Second and third photos taken from the internet. Photo one copyright LMC. On the third photo the damage to the underwater part of the hull is clearly seen. After a disaster like this we are going to have SOLAS 2013 and new rules ahead...
See more COSTA CONCORDIA related posts and photos...
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Tragédia do COSTA CONCORDIA

Trata-se do mais grave acidente ocorrido com um navio de cruzeiros da actual geração: o COSTA CONCORDIA, de 114.000 GT sofreu um rombo de 70 metros na zona da popa e começou a afundar ontem à noite, junto à ilha italiana de Grigio. 
Tudo indica que o navio está perdido, pois encontra-se adornado por estibordo, deitado no fundo baixo junto a um banco de areia. Tudo aconteceu cerca das 22H00 locais, 21H00 em Portugal, e o navio havia largado horas antes de Civitavecchia, o porto de cruzeiros próximo de Roma, num cruzeiros de 7 dias. Hoje devia estar em Savona, o porto base da Costa onde grande parte dos passageiros ia desembarcar. Dos cerca de mais de 4000 passageiros e tripulantes a bordo, há a registar pelo menos 6 mortos, dezenas de feridos, alguns graves, e muito possivelmente o paquete estará perdido.
Não há ainda informação para as causas desta tragédia que incluiu cenas de pânico a bordo e muitas dificuldades para localizar e salvar passageiros idosos e com mobilidade reduzida. Não me espanta que haja erro humano associado ao desastre. A proximidade de terra facilitou a assistência aos náufragos mas tudo indica que as dificuldades foram muitas. Aguardemos por mais notícias.
Estive no COSTA CONCORDIA no cruzeiro inaugural deste belo navio de passageiros em 2006. Era um grande paquete...
Fotografias retiradas do site italiano PAZZO PER IL MARE da autoria de Laura Montanaro. 
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COSTA CONCORDIA: Sexta-feira 13...

O grande navio de cruzeiros italiano COSTA CONCORDIA sofreu esta noite um acidente grave no Mediterraneo e encalhou junto à ilha de Giglio, quando navegava de Civitavecchia para Savona, com 4320 passageiros e tripulantes a bordo. Segundo notícias, o navio foi evacuado havendo a registar a perda de diversas vidas não sendo as notícias muito seguras em termos de números, de 2 a 6....
Caso para referir ser uma Sexta-feira 13 para a Costa Crociere e o paquete COSTA CONCORDIA...
O COSTA CONCORDIA é um navio ultra moderno, construído em Itália em 2006. Ver mais informações e imagens relativas a este navio aqui... Fotografia retirada da internet referindo que o navio se estava a afundar, com uma inclinação de 20 graus...
Italian cruise ship COSTA CONCORDIA damaged and running aground in the Mediterranean with 3200 passengers and 1100 crew members onboard, in the evening of 13 January 2012, while on a cruise from Civitavecchia to Palermo in the Western Mediterranean.
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Lancha ESGUELHA

A ESGUELHA é uma pequena lancha baseada em Setúbal, e utilizada principalmente para passar cabos de grandes navios para terra durante as manobras de atracação.
Há anos estas lanchas contavam-se por algumas dezenas e eram muito utilizadas no transporte de tripulações de e para os navios fundeados nos portos, o que vai acontecendo cada vez menos. Em Lisboa utilizei muito as lanchas dos Catraeiros, do Julio da Cruz e da Tinita para fotografa os navios, nomeadamente à chega quando eram novos e se faziam fotografias expressamente para os armadores...

Fotografias obtidas em Setúbal a 1 de Janeiro de 2012.
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PENEDA+THOR BRONCO+PONTA DO OUTÃO

Este ano novo troquei o Funchal por Setúbal e em vez dos paquetes disparei sobre cargueiros e rebocadores, um estaleiro e velhos ferries há espera de nada. Tudo em Setubal na manhã de 1 de Janeiro de 2012.
Um dos cargueiros foi o THOR BRONCO, da companhia THORCO SHIPPING, da Dinamarca, que entrou no porto e atracou assistido pelos rebocadores PENEDA e PONTA DO OUTÃO, da empresa Rebosado.
O n/m THOR BRONCO (IMO 9488633) foi construído em 2008 com o nome FCC PIONEER, e chamou-se depois BBC TASMANIA (2008-2010) antes de integrar a frota da THORCO SHIPPING em 2010.

Características principais do n/m THOR BRONCO: Navio de carga geral e contentores. 6.569 GT, 8.091 TDW. Operador: Thorco Shipping A/S, Svendborg, Denmark. Proprietário: Pioneer GmbH & G KG. Bandeira de Antigua e Barbuda. 

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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Ex-JOÃO BELOs em Montevideo

Imagens das antigas fragatas portuguesas da classe COMANDANTE JOÃO BELO a fragata uruguaia CTE PEDRO CAMPBELL (ROU 2) ex-COMANDANTE SACADURA CABRAL, e a fragata URUGUAY (ROU 1) ex COMAMDANTE JOÃO BELO atracadas no porto de Montevideo, Uruguay, a 27 de Novembro de 2011.
Fotografias tiradas expressamente para o BNM por um representante oficial do Blogue dos Navios e do Mar, Rogério Freitas, um nosso Amigo de longa data e entusiasta de navios, que se encontrava embarcado no paquete holandês VEENDAM.
Estas antigas fragatas portuguesas substituíram unidades da mesma classe adquiridas anteriormente pela Marinha do Uruguay à França. Um desses navios pode ainda ser visto atracado numa das imagens, possivelmente a ex-ROU 3 MONTEVIDEO.

As fragatas URUGUAY e CTE PEDRO CAMPBELL foram adquiridas a Portugal em 2008 e transferidas para o Uruguay no Alfeite a 8 de Abril desse ano, tendo deixado Lisboa no final de Abril. 
Mais imagens destes navios aqui, aqui, e mais aqui...





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