Ship    Registered            From     To       arrived  Sailed       Crew      Cargo

           Flag  /Owners                                                                             loaded

Vasiliy Shukshin Valletta  Glasson  Kunda 14.2.08  19.2.08 Russian   2640 tons

Built 1995           Malta     Dock       (Estonia)                                       Ball Clay

                           Russian

No other loading at Bideford

Arco Dart at Appledore 23.2.08 No other observations noted

Oldenburg left slipway at Appledore now alongside Bideford  quay. Sorry for the mistaken impression last month that vessel had ceased voyages.

Bristol Channel Observations

16.2.08 at 16.25 hrs coaster Eva Maria Mueller  tons d.w owners unknown inward bound for Sharpness

23.2.08 at 12.50 hrs container ship MSC Katherine Ann 15000 tons d.w. Owners Katherine Ann Naviera  on charter to Mediterranean Shipping Switzerland inward bound for Portbury

26.2.08 at 09.00 hrs vehicle carrier Asian Chorus 21505 tons d.w. Owners Eukor Carriers Inc South Korea inward bound for Portbury

27.2.08 at 17.50 hrs cargo vessel Barizo 4000tons d.w ownersAtlantico Shipping Spain inward bound for Cardiff

28.2.08 at 08.15 hrs cargo vessel Liamare 5842 tons d.w owners Liamare Shipping B.V. Holland inward bound for Avonmouth.

3.3.08 at 08.30 hrs bulk carrier Bela Mondo 68087  tons d.w Owners TLF Investment Panama inward bound for Portbury

9.3.08 at 07.35 hrs container  ship MSC Katherine Ann 15000 tons d.w Owners Katherine Ann on charter to Mediterranean Shipping  Switzerland inward bound for Portbury

13.3.08 at 16.15 hrs Reefer  vessel Snow Drift tons d.w Owners Salut Shipping Bermuda  outward bound from Avonmouth having sailed at 13.59 hrs

Readers may have heard via the national news that the sand dredger Severn Sands breaking away from her moorings at Fremington Quay on Monday 10^th in heavy gales and was drifting in the River Taw toward’s the new Barnstaple Bridge. The facts proved this incorrect and the vessel finished up aground on the river bank approx 150 metres from her berth. She has been made safe to await the next high water when she will be refloated and returning to Fremington Quay .