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Click here to see previous sets sent along by Jed. This set I’m arranging by year of build. 1972. A little info more, she’s 98′ x 30.’
photo date 5 SEPT 2012
1977. She’s a bit larger, 115′ x 33.’
photo date 11 SEPT 2012
1978. Husky has been renamed Maro, and she’s massive, 197′ x 50′ and moved by 12,000 hp.
photo date 11 SEPT 2012
1998. 115′ x 36′ Here was a post I did about an incident of near capsize with FairPlay 21. FairPlay 22 did capsize with loss of life.
photo date 11 SEPT 2012
2001 and identical dimensions to FairPlay 23.
photo date 11 SEPT 2012
2009, and 92′ x 35.’
photo date 8 SEPT 2012
2009 and 105′ x 43.’
photo date 11 SEPT 2012
2010 and 95′ x 39.’
photo date 11 SEPT 2012
2011 and 105′ x 39.’
photo date 8 SEPT 2012
Many thanks to Jed, aka John Jedrlinic, for these photos, and for being patient while they collected in my inbox. Here are some of the many Dutch tugs appearing here previously.
So here was 1 and in it I said I would answer a question in a few days and now a few weeks have passed. The question pertained to the device mounted on the stern of vessel
Husky. Congrats to Seth Tane, who guessed correctly. Here’s what Xtian writes: “It’s a plough. In French we talk about “nivelage” [leveling], which means after dredging the bottom of the sea is like a field that has just passed a plow. This tool cuts the bump to fill the gap. It’s also used in the rivers where the “alluvium” or the mud stays in always same places because of the current and built like “bottom hill” there. And it happens also in some harbour (like ferries’ harbour) as because the ferries always doing the same maneuver and raise the mud that still lay at the same place.
With the plough used at the right time, ebb tide for example, the mud is raised and leaves the harbour with tidal current. In some places the plough is used to feed the hopper dredger – when the dredger is too large, the plough is used to remove a “bottom hill” when they are close to the bank to give the mud at the place where the hopper dredge is working. The plough is not only used with mud but also with sand or pebble. Google with words : Dredge – Plough.
About Husky, the day I took this picture she was working closely with the dredge Rijndelta at the entrance of Maasvlakte harbor. I add a picture of her below.”
More of Xtian’s photos follow, like this closeup of the captain of Smit Cheetah,
Fairplay 24 and 21,
Union 11 passing the Mammoet headquarters,
Smit Schelde,
SD Rebel,
Multratug 31,
Osprey Fearless,
Pieter (?) towing Matador 2,
and finally the recently completed Noordstroom.
Many thanks to Xtian for these photos of another watershed.
Xtian has been sharing photos here for some time. Now it turns out he and I were in the tiny dorp of Maassluis within days of each other earlier this month, as evidenced by his photo of Furie, which was in the same spot the day I visited here (and scroll).
I would never have guessed RPA 14 is 31 years old! Xtian certainly caught the light right here.
Smit Ebro has been on this blog before, as in this post.
Equipment on Husky?Make your guesses and on Monday or so, I’ll explain.
Smit Cheetah and SD Seal . . . doing fire equipment training?
FairPlay 21 … in between Smit Panther
and FairPlay 24 with still more Smit tugs in the foreground.
Here’s part of the Kotug fleet. From left, it’s unidentified, RT Evolution, SD Rebel, and RT Adiaan. Click on each of the three links previous to see how different those three tugs are.
Smit Hudson has been around since 2008.
Click here for the entire FairPlay list.
Many thanks to Xtian for these photos.
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