Picture of the Day
Thumbing through my records I found the Normand Ivan on its way into Aberdeen. This is a splendid traditional anchor-handler designed by VikSandvik, three of which were built in the first couple f years of the new century. Despite ints age it is still out there in Norwegian waters it seems after some years in the Far east. It has two Wartsila diesels developing a collective 20,000 bhp, giving it a 240 tons bollard pull.
Here is the Santos Sailor, operated by one of the Edison Chouest subsidiaries in Brazil. It is in the Roncador Field and the FPSO P54 can be seen in the background. I have not featured ECO ships often on this site, for no other reason than they often don't have any portholes. This ship might have a total of four portholes, so that is slightly better than none. It seems to me that not to provide crews with a bit of daylight when they are in the accommodation infringes on their human rights. They have windows in prisons in most countries of the world. But that's a whole different subject.
Here is the FarCenturion pictured working out in Brazil in 2005. I am minded to post it because just the other day the wreck of the sister ship, then named Ramco Crusader, was recovered, having caught fire and sunk in 2013. These two ship are just a bit historic. They were the second and third ME303s built in Korea for Seaforth and entered service in 1983. The first of the class to be constructed had been rejected by its Norwegian buyers and entered service as the Star Orion. Star having bought it for a bargain price. These vessels were not without problems but were still the super ships of their day.