Merchant Ships: General Cargo Ships 2011

Merchant Ships: Coastal Freighters & General Cargo Vessels

Clyde 2011

General Cargo Ships

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With hundreds of merchant ship shots taken over the years, this page shows only a small number of examples from my collection. I now intend to cover individual vessels with their own entries as they are photographed. Meantime, I`ll try and work back and add a few images when time permits with the most recent first. Bulk Carriers and Containerships are listed separately.

Diamonde

Merlin

Apollo Lupus

Isartal

This is the coaster Isartal passing Erskine on the afternoon of Wednesday 4th May 2011 en route to Glasgow. A spell of fine weather was due to end with heavy rain forecast for the next few days. This vessel dates from 1989 and sails under the flag of Vanuatu. I don`t have any information as to her cargo on this occasion.

Randzel & Joy

Glasgow arrivals on 19 April 2011 included the Antigua registered coaster Joy carrying cement and the Turkish-flagged 194 metre-long bulk carrier Barbaros Kiran. Pictured above right is the Gibraltar-flagged coaster Randzel berthed at Shieldhall on 18 April.

Muros

A few shots taken on the afternoon of 6th April 2011 of the Spanish-flagged coaster Muros bound for the port of Seville in her native Spain. The Survey Vessel Newark was working once again off Newshot Island and gave Muros plenty of space as she continued downriver. Muros had arrived on the Clyde light the previous day from Bilbao and no doubt has her hold full of scrap metal after calling at the old Lobnitz yard at Renfrew.

Metsaborg

Tuesday 5th April 2011: Around 09:30 hrs this morning Anglegarth led the Netherlands-flagged Wagenborg-line ship Metsaborg past Erskine on her way to Glasgow`s KGV Dock. Ayton Cross was at the rear. The 135 metre-long cargo vessel had sailed from the Danish port of Esbjerg to deliver a sizeable load of wind-turbine components.

Metsaborg was built in 2002 by the Bijsma Shipyard, Lemmer, Netherlands and has a Gross Tonnage of 6,585 (9,150 DWT).

AB Liverpool

Pictured here passing under the Erskine Bridge on the morning of 31st March 2011 is the coaster AB Liverpool on her way to Glasgow. She had sailed from Drogheda in the Irish Republic. This ship sails under the Maltese flag and records her home port as Valetta. She was built in 1996 and has also been named Kertu and Saar Liverpool during her career following changes of ownership .

Jomi

The Bahamas-flagged Coaster Jomi is pictured here passing under the Erskine Bridge early on Monday 28th March 2011 on her way to Glasgow.

Later, around 0900 hrs, Serco`s SD Dependable with the dumb barge SD Oilman in tow also headed upriver. I took these shots from Park Quay at Erskine. A private motor launch, also Glasgow-bound, held back to give the tug space as it headed towards the thicker bank of mist around Clydebank.

Novatrans

On 25 March 2011, morning mist had begun to lift from the river by the time the coaster Novatrans appeared at Erskine. She was heading upriver to Glasgow having sailed from Ijmuiden. This vessel dates from 1991 and is a product of Niestern Sander Delfzul Shipyard in the Netherlands. Known as Helene until May 2008, she has a Gross Tonnage of 2,561 (3,284 DWT).

Suurhusen

Sunday 20th March 2011: German coaster Suurhusen was completed in late 1995 as Saar Roma before being given her current name in 1996. She was built by the Dutch builder Damen Shipyards at their Hoogezand, Foxhol yard for Reederei Bockstiegel, a German shipowner. Suurhusen is a 4,256-tonne deadweight coaster with an overall length of 89.77 metres.

A few Canada Geese had joined the large flock of Greylags on Newshot Island. This fox was patrolling the fields and headed off towards the riverbank when it saw me. The geese didn`t seem too worried by its presence - probably safety in numbers. They were more annoyed with passing of the ship! (to edit)*

Ternvik (below) left Rothesay Dock after an overnight stay shortly before Suurhusen appeared. The Danish-flagged Tanker, a frequent visitor to the Clyde, was bound for Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire. I caught her sailing under the Erskine Bridge then crossed over to Bowling Basin just in time for a rear-end shot.

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