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Chilean Navy Barquentine Esmeralda due today. Built in 1954, she now serves as a training ship, but is reported to have been a floating prison and torture center for political prisoners of the Augusto Pinochet regime from 1973 to 1980.…
USS DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Due Wednesday Afternoon.
the much awaited aircraft carrier is Due this Wednesday, tentatively arriving in Anchorage 1 (Between Georges and Mcnabs) 1:30 ish This post will be updated with additional timing as updates become...
Read More »Port to Break 10,000TEU this week
The largest container ship Yet to the port of Halifax is Due Friday. The Zim Antwerp is rated at 10,064TEU, and bests the current record holder – CMA-CGM Tage (and fleet mates) by 700 TEU. Unlike CMA-CGM Tage, She is…
NATO Exercise Dynamic Mongoose Coming Up
The past few days has brought the arrival of a Dutch Submarine, and word of a Visit by the Eisenhower Carrier Group at the end of the month. NATO has also announced an exercise running in the North Atlantic in…
Dutch Sub HNLMS ZEELEEUW Comes and Goes and Comes.
Saturday Saw the brief arrival of the Dutch Submarine HNLMS ZEELEEUW. Diesel Powered she put in for a logistics stop, tieing up at the Dockyard. She Sailed Sunday, But returned to port this morning at 1030. She is scheduled to…
CFAV Quest and Preserver to be scrapped in Ontario.
Marine Recycling Corporation in Port Colborne Ont. has won the contract to dispose of the former HMCS Preserver and CFAV Quest. The contract is worth $12.6 million. The ships will be towed to Port Colborne to be scrapped. Preserver was…
Farley Mowat to be scrapped by feds.
Since sinking and being re-floated in June 2015, the Farley Mowat has languished at the pier in Shelburne. Court Orders to remove the vessel went unanswered, resulting in her Owner Tracy Dodds being imprisoned for contempt of court for...
Read More »Wylde Swan Due Tomorrow Morning
The Dutch two masted topsail schooner Wylde Swan will arrive at Tall Ships Quay (in front of the Nova Scotia Power Headquarters) tomorrow morning. She is scheduled to pick up her pilot at 0800. She sails on the...
Read More »Amerigo Vespucci
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Read More »US Navy Aircraft Carrier Due at the end of the Month.
I have heard a few rumblings that the US Navy is sending an Aircraft carrier to Halifax at the end of the month. The most Detailed claim i have heard is that it is the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, and…