There was another shipment to be loaded for Castellon , but  did not materialise due to shortage of tonnage.

Arco Dart at Appledore   19.5. & 22.5. There may have been other shipments , not  sighted, which  is explained later  on this page .

Oldenburg has resumed her sailings from Bideford and Ilfracombe.

Kathleen & May returned to Clarence Wharf ,after maintenance work at Appledore

Have  been informed that  a vessel is due at the shipyard about the 2nd July with material for the building of the bow section of the two new aircraft carriers  being built at Rosyth. It will be interesting to see how they are transported to Scotland , either  by barge or by the specialised ships . which sink down and the barge floated on board in the bay. Article in Gazette dated 4th June also reported the work

Bristol Channel Observations

19.5.08 at 0830 hrs coaster 'Carola 'tons d.w.unknown, Owners  Carola ,Germany, inward bound for Newport.

 11.30 hrs vehicle carrier 'Grande Anversa '12353 tons ,d.w. Owners ,Grimaldi Line of Italy, outward bound from Portbury having  left   at 08.57 hrs

21.5.08 at 12.00 hrs vehicle carrier 'Talia '21021 tons d.w ,Owners Talia Maritime ,,Isle of Man , inward bound for Portbury.

29.5.08 at 1930 hrs vehicle carrier 'Autobank' tons d.w unknown ,,owners United European Car Carriers Norway ,outward bound from Portbury having sailed at 16.42 hrs

3.6.08 at 1510 hrs cement carrier 'Cemsol', 4529 tons d.w ,owners Brise Bereederlung GMBH & Co ,Germany outward bound from Newport.

7.6.08 at 14.06 hrs self discharging bulk carrier 'Yeoman Bank '43728 tons d.w , owners Aggregate Carriers, inward bound for Portbury

12.6.08  at 0645 hrs bulk carrier' Zarechensk' '25897 tons d.w owners, Koma Shipping Malta ,outward bound from Newport

0755 hrs cargo vessel ,'Kalliope' 6900 tons d.w owners Osterreichiscilr Shipping Germany inward bound from  Avonmouth

14.6.08 at 22.00 hrs cargo vessel 'Clara'  7600 tons d.w owners Diehl P Germany ,outward bound from Newport

15.5.08 at 12.15 hrs tug 'North' with Barge' Terra Marique' Outward from Barry ,bound for Rotterdam

Most of the information I have been able to give you over the past few years  has been  obtained from the  AIS system (Automatic Identification System) .However ,just after putting the June edition to bed , I suddenly found this was no longer free and is now run by Lloyds of London and to subscribe costs about  £850  The other system I used also suddenly ceased, and only returned on Saturday 14th June  and hopefully this will remain for sometime. I apologise for the lack of sightings this month , but will do better next month . Thanks to Edward Nightingale at Lynton ,for filling in a lot of information, whilst these AIS were not available.

Norman