I’m off gallivanting around NYC and getting more Fleet Week photos, so I’m happy to put up some more of John Jedrlinic’s photos.
Let’s start with an unusual angle . . . it’s Smit Indusbank, built 1968 in the Netherlands.
photo date 22 APRIL 2016
Pelican II seems to have started life on the Vistula River, upstream from Gdansk, in 1993. Now it’s working in Barbados.
photo date 24 APRIL 2016
Uraga Maru, 2005, has always worked in Japan and is currently in the Tokyo area.
photo date 14 JAN 2008
St Lucaya, 1991, with that bow (visible better here) you’d never mistake her for a vessel built in North America or Europe… The same is true of Smit Tahiti, again, better visible here.
photo date 24 APRIL 2016
And finally, Midnight Chief is a small RORO that would be right at home in San Juan PR harbor, where Midnight Coast could be a twin.
photo date 28 APRIL 2016
Thanks to Jed, who always comes up with the unusual and obscure, for these photos.
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May 28, 2017 at 11:12 am
john jedrlinic
William,
Thank you, I’ll take that as a compliment
Jed
May 28, 2017 at 12:19 pm
tugster
Jed– It’s certainly intended as a compliment. . .
May 28, 2017 at 11:07 pm
George Schneider
Great to see JED is alive and well. I did a trip on a boat with him in Singapore, maybe 1983. I bet he’s an old coot now. I’m not.
Yes, interesting those vessels are so similar. They’re from two different yards, and one was built a decade after the other. I guess that just speaks for the endurance of a good design.
The present owners, rendered as E Z Shipping in the case of MIDNIGHT COAST, got that boat at auction in 2005, and picked up the name from one of her former names, probably still evident on her.
It’s apparently the same owners, now rendered as KIKX Property Holdings, that picked up the second boat in 2006. She had been a supply boat named CHIEF, but then had been selected by a speculation company for conversion into a “yacht tender” to be named ALLURE SHADOW. They apparently didn’t have the demand they anticipated, and sold her the same year. The new owners, presumably the same owners as those of the MIDNIGHT COAST, gave her the MIDNIGHT name and the same paint job, and both are now hauling containers in the Caribbean. -George.