An ad on Craigslist might say “used tanker needs work +700 feet.” How much do you suppose you’d pay for a used tanker, say 10 years old? It’s over 750 feet long and 100 wide (242 x 32 meters if you do metric)? Came off the ways at the Zaliv Shipyard in Kertch, one of the main cities of Crimea, Ukraine. Want a photo? Here’s one I took in New York harbor the first week of April 2007. For out-of-towners, this was taken from the Brooklyn side toward Staten Island, in the background.
Click here for a shot in Amsterdam and another in Denmark. Actually the sale took place in 2005. After the tanker was purchased, it needed $2 million in repairs and upgrades to ready it for service. Below is a close-up of the superstructure, for funnel aficianados.
The “E” stands for Estoril Navigation of Greece, the owner company. Now Estoril, I believe, is a city in Portugal. This gets complicated.
Oh, the price . . . $19.75 million. Check the article here; scroll down and see the right side.
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April 10, 2007 at 1:59 am
suburbanlife
My husband got a good look at Varg Star -she is quite the tanker, we agreed. He thinks she needs to be hauled out and painted, work which would entail major amounts of money and labour. we both enjoy your site – my husband because he loves ships and me because the container ships in our harbour provide me with daydreams of sometime travelling the world on a commercial vessel. This may never come to be, but provides much possibility for pleasurable conjecture!
April 10, 2007 at 2:49 pm
enockss
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1929-Tugboat-65-Foot-Tug-Boat-Ernest-Borgnine-Movie_W0QQitemZ220100140222QQihZ012QQcategoryZ26434QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Here is a link to a tug on sale on e-Bay, plus it was the star of a movie with Ernest Borgnine !!