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Friday, 6 December 2024

Solvik






 MV Solvik is a cement carrier with a deadweight of 4,254.80 MT. She is seen here at KGV dock Glasgow.

MV Solvik is co-owned by CSL and SMT as part of the Eureka Shipping joint venture.


 

HMS Somerset


 HMS Somerset is a Type 23 frigate of the Royal Navy. She is the eleventh ship of the class to join the fleet since 1989. She was built by Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd on the River Clyde, in Scotland and was launched in June 1994.

Thursday, 5 December 2024

Wednesday, 4 December 2024

CMS Wrestler




 CMS Wrestler tug at work on a ship berthed at Hunterson.

Monday, 2 December 2024

Sound of Shuna


 Western Ferry Sound of Shuna at  Garvel drydock Greenock.

Sunday, 1 December 2024

HMS Battleaxe (D118)


 Battleaxe was one of 19 Weapon-class destroyers ordered as part of the Royal Navy's 1943 War Programme. The Weapons were intended to be built in shipyards where the larger Battle class could not be built, but still mounting the heavy anti-aircraft armament and modern fire-control which war experience had shown to be necessary. As designed, the Weapons were to be armed by six 4-in guns in three twin turrets, two forward and one aft, with radar direction, with a close-in anti-aircraft armament of six 40-mm Bofors guns. Ten 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes were carried in two quintuple mounts, while up to 150 depth charges could be carried.


Battleaxe was laid down at Yarrows Scotstoun shipyard in Glasgow on 22 April 1944, and was launched on 12 June 1945. The end of the Second World War meant that most of the class were cancelled, with the remaining four ships, including Battleaxe having their armament fit revised to improve their anti-submarine capability. One of the ships' four inch mounts (in Battleaxe's case the superimposed forward B-mount, leaving one turret forward and another aft) was removed to allow the fitting of two Squid anti-submarine mortars, while the conventional depth charge armament was also removed. Battleaxe commissioned on 23 October 1947, the first of the four Weapon class to be completed



Information courtesy of Wikipedia

Saturday, 30 November 2024

MV GLEN SANNOX


















 MV Glen Sannox at Fairlie Pier, she has been berthing at Fairlie while on sea trials.