Ship    Registered            From     To       arrived  Sailed       Crew      Cargo

           Flag  /Owners                                                                             loaded

Valentin Pikul Valletta  New Ross Lovissa  16.1.08 22.01.08 Russian  2500 tons

Built 1994       Malta                                                                             Brick Clay  

                       Russian   

Graf Uko       St Johns  Ellesmere Castellon 23.1.08  25.1.08  Russian 2500 tons

Built 1991   Antigua &    Port                                                             Ball Clay

Former Names Barbuda

Wannsee (3)    German

Medeur Terzo

Zelo

 Intermodial Malta

MFMalta

Nordstrand

Vasiliy Shukshin Valletta  Glasson Dock Kunda 14.2.08   TBA  Russian   2500 tons

Built 1995           Malta                           (Estonia)                                 Brick Clay

                           Russian

Arco Dart at Appledore . 22.1.08 27.1.08 28.1.08 10.2.08 12.2.08

Oldenburg has ceased passenger runs to Lundy vessel presently slipped at Appledore

Trinity House buoy tender  Mair alongside quay 12.2.08

Bristol Channel Observations

26.1.08 at 12.30 hrs vehicle carrier Boheme 22619 tons d.w. Owners Wallenius Wilhelmsen  Norway & Sweden outward bound from Portbury having sailed at 09.44 hrs

26.1.08 at 16.35 hrs container ship MSC Katherine Ann 15000 tons d.w. Owners Katherine Ann Naviera on charter to Mediterranean Shipping Switzerland outward bound from Portbury having sailed at 13.20 hrs

27.1.08 at 12.35 hrs coaster Eva Maria Mueller tons d.w. unknown And coaster Terschelling  tons d.w. Unknown Terschelling Shipping C.V Netherlands  inward bound for Sharpness and Cardiff respectively

27.1.08 at 15.30 hrs bulk carrier Nordpol  77195 tons d.w. Owners Norden Copenhagen Denmark outward bound from Portbury having sailed at 12.00 hrs

28.1.08 at 11.35 hrs RNLI lifeboat  1401 proceeding at full speed from Barry to Newlyn

28.108 at 13.45 hrs the new Trinity House light buoy tender Galatea working in Bideford Bay

1.2.08 at 08.45 hrs two vessels outward bound from Newport the first vessel was the cement carrier  Cemluna  tons d.w. Owners Cemluna Schiffahrtsces MBH Germany  and the second vessel was the bulk carrier Tara Kaptanoglu  tons d.w. Owners Kaptanoglu Denizcilk of Turkey

1.2.08 at 12.15 vehicle carrier Autobank tons d.w. 9000 tons Owners United European Car Carrier Norway inward bound for Port bury (Spotted by David Hammond of Yelland)

2.2.08 at 08.00 hrs the container ship Gracechurch Crown approx  8000 tons d.w. Owners JMS Deneb J of Germany  inward bound for Cardiff 

2.2.08. At 11.10 hrs bulk carrier Arctic Voyager tons d.w.unknown  Owners NB Three Shipping SA Panama outward bound from Portbury having sailed at 06.55 hrs

12.2.08 at 14.35 hrs vehicle carrier Green Dale 15846 tons d.w. Owners LMS Shipmanagement Inc Mobile USA outward bound from Portbury having sailed at approx 1100 hrs steaming at approx 21.00 knots according  to AIS log

For anybody interested in ships and shipping on Saturday 12 th April between 1000 am and 16.30 pm the South West Ship Show is being held at Parish Wharf Leisure Centre Portishead  everything from books, photographs, postcards, collectables etc also High Water at Avonmouth before 1200 hrs so hopefully a few of the ships which I mention in my reports could be seen passing Battery Point.