FAREWELL AFL NEW ENGLAND

American Feeder Lines has apparently shot its bolt with the Halifax/Boston/Portland feeder service due to lack of traffic /interest in the service, this coming within days of the Province making a  half-million loan to the firm (not exercised ?). Not a surprise,the vessel plied the route almost empty over the past (part year) seldom showing a container above the main deck. A shame to see this fail as it was a worthwhile effort unfortunately the timing was probably not the best.Photo shot in the Basin this week.

HMS SCOTT

HMS SCOTT  paid another call at Halifax today 27 April 2012. File photo depicts her at Dockyard on  her earlier call on 26th June 2007.
Built 1997 Displacement:13,500 tons.
GRT: 9,489 tons.LOA 131.1 M,beam 21.5 M,draught 8.3 M. Machinery: 2 Krupp MaK 9M32 9cylinder diesels,single shaft C.P. Prop,17.5 knots.
Crew: 63.
Flag:United Kingdom,Royal Navy
Call Sign: GCUP

DUESSELDORF EXPRESS

Almost obscured by the fog which rolled in with her arrival at Halifax,the DUESSELDORF EXPRESS enters the Bedford Basin afternoon of April 17th 2012.She seems to have spent her career in the Pacific regions,not seen in these parts until now as far as this observer is aware.Can others enlighten?.

Built in 1998 by SAMSUNG SHIPBUILDING & HEAVY INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.,Koje,South Korea.

TONNAGE:GROSS TONNAGE 53,523 tons,NET TONNAGE 32,908 tons,DEADWEIGHT 66,525 tons.

DIMENSIONS:LENGTH OVERALL 293.97 m.,LENGTH BP 281.6 m, BREADTH MOULDED 32.25 m,DEPTH MOULDED 21.4 m,DRAUGHT 13.628 m.

MAIN ENGINE MODEL:9 K 90 MC, TYPE DIESEL ENGINE, TWO STROKE , ENGINE POWER 41,130 KWs. Service Speed 24 knots.
Owner/Manager: Hapag-Lloyd AG.Hamburg,Germany.

Flag: Germany

Call Sign:DGDD

MAIN ENGINE MODEL9 K 90 MCMAIN ENGINE TYPEDIESEL ENGINE, TWO STROKEMAIN ENGINE POWER41130 KW

NAVAL MATTERS REMEMBERED Chapter 2

Halifax Shipyards built Tribal Class destroyers alongside Jetty 5 HMC Dockyard,July 1962. The ships include HMCS Cayuga 218,Nootka 213,Athabaskan (ii) 219 and Micmac 214. All except Micmac served in Korea alongside the British built Haida 215, Huron 216 and Iroquois 217. The first Athabaskan was lost in action in off the coast of France in WW2. The sole remaining example of this class HMCS Haida is preserved in Ontario.Photo copyright K.Watson.

NAVAL MATTERS REMEMBERED Chpt 1

Summer of 1985,Bedford Basin during the R.C.N.s 75 Birthday Fleet Review.

HMS BRILLIANT F70:HMS Brilliant was the third of the new Type 22
frigates ordered by the Royal Navy and was built by Messrs Yarrow (Shipbuilders)
Ltd at Scotstoun Glasgow.Brilliant was launched in December 1978
and accepted into service on the 10th of April 1981.Decommissioned: 1996 Sold to Brazil 31 August 1996 and renamed Dodsworth (F47).

Specifications: Displacement (tons):3,500 Standard/4,400 Full Load.

Dimensions: (feet [metres])LOA 430 x Beam 48.5 [131.2m x 14.8m].

Machinery :2 R-R Olympus gas turbines54,400shp = 29+ knots2 R-R Tyne gas turbines8,200shp = 18 knots (cruising).

Armament:2 x 40mm AA guns2 x Sea Wolf systems (GWS 25)4 x MM.38 Exocet2 x triple ASW
torpedo tubes (STWS)Aircraft2 Lynx.

Crew: 250

AMERICA EXPRESS

Containership AMERICA EXPRESS outbound from the Fairview Cove terminal,Bedford Basin on April 2nd 2012.

The 2008 built vessel is on charter to Hapag-Lloyd on its Far East/Europe/North
American PAX Service. The vessel is owned and operated by Wan Hai Lines and
registered in Singapore.
Built by China Ship Building Corp.,Kaohsiung,Taiwan.
LOA 268.8m LPP 256.6m Beam 32.2m Depth 19.2m Draught
12.53m.
Gross Tonnage 42,894 tons with a DWT of 52,146 tons on a draught
of 12.53 meters.
Main engine Model 2SA8CY at 36,560KWs gives a service speed of
24.0 knots.
Container capacity 4,252 teu.
Flag: Singapore Call Sign: 9VJJ8
IMO No: 9326433