The Tuffs Cove power station is able to produce power using with natural gas or Bunker C Oil, and maintains a supply of Oil. the power plant is visited by a tanker usually around once a year to top up the tanks.
Larvik sailed from Houston, and arrived March 2. the ship was built in 2006 by Sumitomo Heavy Industries Marine & Engineering in Yokosuka Japan. its commercial operations are run out of Norway, but the ship is manged from Singapore.
Lake Shirasagi is the 3rd of 10 new ships to be built in China for Eastern Pacific Shipping. These vessels run on LNG (Liquefied natural gas) as its primary fuel. The ship is also able to connect to shore power where available, as denoted by the giant plug painted on her side.
Lake Shirasagi moved to autoport after discharging heavy equipment at pier 9.
The ships namesake is the lake in Japan created by the Ishitegawa Dam in 1973, and serves as the water reservoir for Matsuyama City.
On Feb 15, the container ship MSC Baltic III, Montreal for Cornerbrook, was sailing off the coast of Newfoundland when it lost power and drifted onto the shore. The 20 crew were rescued by an RCAF Cormorant out of Gander.
T&T marine salvage have been hired by MSC, and the coast guard is standing by, however work is being hampered by weather
View our Initial report:
And Latest update.
Crews are currently evaluating the situation. No pollution has been detected, however several containers have been damaged. and the hull is showing signs of stress.
Yesterday a flight from St John’s to Halifax suffered a landing gear collapse. There are reports that debris was found on the runway in Newfoundland.
At the beginning of last week I drove to Ontario, and on the way back was able to stop in Morrisburg to take a look at the grounded bulk carrier Tim S. Dool.
The Tim S. Dool, loaded grain in Thunder Bay, sailing November 17 for Quebec. Passing through Morrisburg, it left the channel and wedged the bow on Chrysler shoal November 23. Several attempts to pull the ship off failed, and crews began removing cargo late last week , and successfully unstuck the ship earlier today, and is currently at anchor.
The Tim S Dool was built in 1967, and is owned and operated by Algoma Central.
The Heavy lift ship White Marlin arrived at anchor today with what i suspect is a transformer platform for an offshore wind farm.
Boskalis has been transporting components for various US based windfarms, and seems to be doing crew changes and supply stops in Halifax.
White marlin was built in 2015, to the same design as the Blue Marlin and Black Marlin, which were built in 1999/2000.
USS Nantucket, LCS-27 arrived in Halifax for a port visit, while on her delivery trip from the builders in Wisconsin.
To date, only LCS-19, USS St. Louis has skipped Halifax, Due to her delivery trip occurring during the Pandemic. There remain 2 more Freedom class LCS’s to be delivered, USS Beloit and USS Cleveland (LCS-31)
Previous ships of the class to stop ave included:
USS Freedom – Nov 2008
USS Fort Worth – Aug 2012
USS Milwaukee – Dec 2015
USS Detroit – Nov 2016
USS Little Rock – April 2018
USS Billings – July 2019
USS Sioux City – Nov 2019 (missed this one)
USS Witchita – Nov 2019
USS Indianapolis – Nov 2019 (Missed this one too)
USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul – June 2022
USS Marinette – Stopped in Oct 2023. (missed it)
USS Cooperstown – November 2022.
Photo to follow.
SailGP has confirmed the acquisition of the Canada SailGP Team by Canadian biotech entrepreneur, Dr. Greg Bailey. In a move set to send shockwaves through the global racing championship, double Olympic Gold medalist Giles Scott has been signed as driver for the Canadian team. Giles Scott previously drove for Emirates GBR, and was the winner of the Sail GP Canada event this summer. Scott was born in Canada and Has citizenship.
Dr. Greg Bailey is co-founder and executive chairman of Juvenescence and chairman of Max Insurance, a Canadian property and casualty insurance company.
In addition to Scott, the Canada SailGP Team announces the retention of top talent, including flight controller Billy Gooderham, wing trimmer Paul Campbell-James, as well as grinders Tim Hornsby, Jareese Finch, Cooper Dressler and Tom Ramshaw. Strategist Annie Haeger will also continue and be joined by Georgia Lewin-LaFrance, who returns to the roster following on from her 2024 Olympic campaign. Joe Glanfield also returns to the team as Lead Coach.
SailGP also confirms the return of a Canadian SailGP event next season in 2026. A sellout success, SailGP’s Canadian debut in Halifax was named ‘favourite racetrack’ in the Season 4 fan-voted awards. More than 50,000 spectators turned out to cheer on the action, along the Halifax shoreline.
The famous Heavy lift Semi Submersible vessel Mighty Servant made a very brief stop in Halifax yesterday to swap some crew. the ship entered port, and was met by a Dominion diving vessel off Ives Knoll to perform the swap.
The ship then turned and headed out of the harbour, with the total stay in port of less then 5 minutes. The ship sailed from Cadiz Spain, bound for the US East Coast, with wind farm components. The ship will likely begin transporting towers from staging in Newfoundland, to the installation site, as other Boskallis vessels have been perfroming this work.
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