Chums off Singapore

Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Mon 31 Oct 2016 23:37
Chums who Passed Us or
Overtook Us and some at Anchor off Singapore on Our Journey to Puteri
Marina
![]() Once we
had crossed the Straits of SIngapore and settled into a rhythm outside the
Singapore Port Limit line, we could enjoy the chums we passed, those overtook
us, came the other way and then through the anchored
girls until we turned up the river toward Johor and Puteri Marina. Sadly,
too many to mention them all so here are a selected few.... and I had to have a
few working girls at the end........ of course
you did, too important to miss out.
![]() Our first chum was under an
interesting sky was called Darya Shree, bulk
carrier, length 225 metres, width 32.3 metres, draught 12.4 metres, maximum
speed 8.0 knots, average speed 7.0 knots, deadweight tonnage 74,823, built 2003,
flag Panama, home port Hong Kong.
![]() Frontier
Unity, bulk carrier, length 292 metres, width 45 metres, draught 9.6
metres, maximum speed 8.7 knots, average speed 7.6 knots, deadweight tonnage
181,415, built 2012, flag Panama as is her home port Panama.
![]() Guayaquil Bridge, container ship Hazard A Cargo,
length 209 metres, width 30 metres, draught 7.5 metres, maximum speed 11.6
knots, average speed 9.1 knots, deadweight tonnage 34,194, built 2010, flag Hong
Kong.
![]() Josco Runzhou, bulk carrier, length 197 metres, width 32.26 metres, draught 6.9 metres,
maximum speed 12.0 knots, average speed 8.0 knots, deadweight tonnage 58,722,
built 2011, flag Hong Kong as is her home
port.
![]() ![]() JPO Canopus,
container ship carrying Hazard A Cargo and seen ‘doing wheelies’..........,
length 264 metres, width 32.25 metres, draught 6.3 metres, maximum speed 10.5
knots, average speed 10.1 knots, deadweight tonnage 52,786, built 2005, flag Comoros, home port Monrovia.
![]() Sasebo Glory, bulk carrier, length 229 metres, width
38 metres, draught 13.9 metres, maximum speed 13.6, average speed 13, deadweight
tonnage 85,020, built 2016, flag Cyprus, home port
Limassol. She was being bunkered by.....
Kintek 1, oil products tanker, length 90.6 metres,
width 17.5 metres, draught 6.6 metres, maximum speed 7.4 knots, average speed
6.9 knots, deadweight tonnage 4,999, built 2007,
flag Singapore – she looked tiny compared to Sasebo
Glory.
![]() Oxalis Peony, oil products tanker, length 116.3
metres, width 19.4 metres, draught 7.1 metres, maximum speed 10.9 knots, average
speed 9.7 knots, deadweight tonnage 8,609, built
2013, flag Singapore.
![]() Yasa Canary, bulk carrier, length 188 metres, width
32.26 metres, draught 7.9 metres, maximum speed 13.7 knots, average speed 12.8
knots, deadweight tonnage 55,446, built
2013, flag Marshall Islands.
![]() Hyundai Platinum, container ship, length 255.4 metres,
width 37.43 metres, draught 9.9 metres, maximum speed 13.2 knots, average speed
12.2 knots, deadweight tonnage 63,010, built 2013,
flag Liberia, home port Monrovia.
![]() ![]() Overseas Sakura, crude oil tanker, length 332.95
metres, width 60 metres, draught 11 metres, maximum speed 14.2 knots, average
speed 12.8 knots, deadweight tonnage 298,641, built
2001, flag Marshall Islands.
![]() Ken Yu, bulk carrier, length 154.35 metres, width 26
metres, draught 8.9 metres, maximum speed 13.4 knots, average speed 13 knots,
deadweight tonnage 24,115, built 1999, flag
Panama.
![]() Chipol Donghai, general cargo, length 188.34
metres, width 27 metres, draught 7.7 metres, maximum speed 16.3 knots, average
speed 15 knots, deadweight tonnage 36,974, built 2016, flag Hong Kong as is her
home port.
![]() Global Mercator, bulk carrier, length 292 metres,
width 45 metres, draught 9.3 metres, maximum speed 13.6 knots, average speed
12.7 knots, deadweight tonnage 182,205, built 2011, flag
Panama
![]() Bigroll Barentsz, deck cargo ship, length 173 metres,
width 42 metres, draught 5.1 metres, maximum speed 8.7 knots, average speed 6.9
knots, deadweight tonnage 22,500, built
2016, flag Netherlands
![]() Sun Energy, completely failed to
find any data on this girl, but we liked the look of her, so here she
is.
![]() Hai Soon (who gave way to us),
bunkering tanker, length 88.88 metres, width 15.8 metres, draught 5.0 metres,
maximum speed 8.6 knots, average speed 6.8 knots, deadweight tonnage 4,243,
built 2011, flag
Singapore.
![]() Magellan Spirit, tanker, length 285 metres, width 43.4
metres, draught 9.2 metres, maximum speed 9.9 knots, average speed 7.8 knots,
deadweight tonnage 82,265, built 2008, flag Denmark.
![]() Samail,
tanker, length 330 metres, width 60.04 metres, draught 10.6 metres, maximum
speed 9.8 knots, average speed 8.1 knots, deadweight tonnage 302,845, built 2011, flag
Panama.
![]() Black Marlin, deck cargo ship, length 217.5 metres,
width 42.04 metres, draught 8.2 metres, maximum speed 11.7 knots, average speed
11.2 knots, deadweight tonnage 57,021, flag Curacao.
![]() Orion 2001, tug, length 28 metres,
width 9 metres, draught metres, maximum speed 5.8 knots, average speed 5.4
knots, deadweight tonnage , built, flag Singapore
![]() Ocean Dragon, tanker, length 119.98 metres, width 19
metres, draught 5.5 metres, maximum speed 7.3 knots, average speed 6.8 knots,
deadweight tonnage 12,122, built 1994, flag Singapore.
Sea Sardine, tug, length 32 metres, width 12.2 metres,
draught 4.5 metres, maximum speed 9.9 knots, average speed 7.9 knots, deadweight
tonnage 204, built 2012,
flag Singapore.
![]() Eng Hup Herald, tug, length 32.25 metres, width 9.15
metres, draught 3.5 metres, maximum speed 10 knots, average speed 6.9 knots,
deadweight tonnage 266, built 2016, flag Singapore.
![]() Sea Salmon, tug, length 32 metres, width 12.2 metres,
draught 5.7 metres, maximum speed 9.8 knots, average speed 7.6 knots, deadweight
tonnage 200, built 2012,
flag Singapore
![]() Simple put, chum spotter
heaven.
![]() A note for the current
biggest chum. CSCL Globe
(currently in the Med en route to Egypt) is
a container
ship owned
and operated by China Shipping Container
Lines (CSCL).
The first of a class of five ships intended for Asia-Europe trade
routes, she was the largest
container ship in the world at
the time of her launch in November 2014, with a maximum capacity of 19,100 twenty-foot
containers. Her length 400 metres, width 59 metres, draught 16 metres,
maximum speed 22 knots, average speed 20.5 knots, deadweight tonnage 184,605,
built 2014, flag Hong Kong. To all purists, do you
really think we would have right of way under sail – even IF she could see us
??? They would be barmy to
try.
![]() ![]() CSCL Globe took ‘the biggest’
crown from McKinney Moller, a Triple E Class chum.
The name "Triple E" is derived from the class's three
design principles: "Economy of scale, Energy efficient and Environmentally
improved". These ships are expected to be not only the world's longest
ships in
service, but also the most efficient container ships per twenty-foot equivalent
unit (TEU) of
cargo.
Fun statistics: Triple E class chums contain as much steel as eight Eiffel Towers.
If those containers were placed in Times Square in New York, they would rise
above billboards, streetlights and some buildings. Or, to put it another way,
they would fill more than 30 trains, each a mile long and stacked two containers
high.
Inside those containers, you could fit 36,000 cars or 863 million tins of baked beans. ALL IN ALL WHAT A GLEEFUL
BUNCH
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