Here were the previous posts in this series.
The photos in today’s post all come from the Marinetraffic site, and in cases where the photographer’s name is mentioned, I’ve kept that info. I’m sure the photographers appreciate that their work is shared with their name attached. My question is this: what do they have in common?
Danum 93, built 2009, registered in Malaysia, 115′ x 36′
SL Tiger, 2012, registered in Cyprus, 108′ x 43′
Theresa, 1978, registered Mongolia, 131′ x 32′
Jawar Basra, 2015, registered St. Vincent/Grenadines, 105′ x 43′
and finally, Al Muthanna, 2014, Iraq, 121′ x 36.’
And the common thread is that as of last evening, all were located at the “top” or NW end of the Persian Gulf, all west of a line drawn between Ahmadi Kuwait and Al Faw Iraq. I was just curious what tugboats one would see in that area. The photo of Al Muthanna may have been taken in Umm Qasr, a port near which I spent over three months back in late 1990. I tell a story about that here, an account that needs to be refocused and possibly shortened.
This reminds me of a project I did back in 2008, which resulted in my tracking down photos for Osen-Hunter of a hijacked tugboat used as a mothership by pirates off Somalia. More about that story is here.
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February 4, 2017 at 12:10 pm
ws
Al Muthanna, 2014, Iraq, 121′ x 36.’:
Looks a lot like the FDNY’s 343
February 4, 2017 at 12:23 pm
tugster
Robert Allan Ltd. designed the 343, as well as many types of vessels all over the world. I can’t find evidence that they designed Al Muthanna, but I see the influence: http://ral.ca/designs/tugboats/
February 6, 2017 at 4:54 am
Rembert
Cyprus, St. Vincent etc. ok. German tax consultants are as, eh, creative as there colleagues all over the world and flag Rhine – ships out to Malta, which would get rather seasick in the Mediterranean .
But I also would look like this, watching Theresa ploughing through Mongolias grassland ttps://i.ytimg.com/vi/d9AsTnMJaOg/maxresdefault.jpg. Googling for Nepals fleet.