Svendborg Bugser A/S of Svendborg, Denmark, has sold its coastal and deepsea tug Eurosund. Originally built by Richard Dunston at Hessle in 1979 as the Formidable, it is a 35m twin screw vessel, powered by two Ruston 8RK main engines of 3,520 bhp (total) to achieve a bollard pull of 55 tonnes. Svenborg purchased the tug in 2001, increased its fuel capacity and has undertaken many significant deepsea tows with the vessel, including a number of tran-Atlantic voyages. Eurosund has been sold to the Kieve Shipping & Trading Corporation of the Marshall Islands and renamed Mignon.
Guido Perla & Associates, Inc Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, with headquarters in Seattle, USA, has appointed Baldo Dielen as general manager of the Brazilian branch, Guido Perla do Brasil Ltda. Baldo Dielen, a naval architect with over 20 years of extensive experience in the international maritime business, has worked in over 40 countries and spent the past nine years in Brazil. Previous experience in Brazil includes maritime consultancy and working as Partner at EDDY Tugs on a radical new concept. Dielen also held various management positions with Smit.
The third and final vessel of a series of identical high performance rescue tugs to be built by STX OSV Braatvaag in Norway has completed its maiden voyage to its home port in Algeria. El Moussanid, pennant number 703, is an 86m vessel based on the Rolls-Royce UT515 design and fully equipped for towage, salvage, pollution control and patrol duties. Powered by four MaK 8M32C main engines providing a total of 21,736 bhp and driving two controllable pitch propellers via twin input/single output gearboxes, the tugs have a bollard pull of 200 tonnes and maximum speed of 20 knots. After carrying out trials and training, with the cooperation of the Royal Navy in the Clyde and in the western approaches to the UK, El Moussanid took on stores and left Falmouth at the end of October.
Two redundant tugs from Svitzer’s UK fleet left Britain on 6 November en-route to new owners in the Black Sea. Yarm Cross a 28.9m tractor tug was built in 1979 by Richard Dunston and equipped with Ruston 6RK main engines of 2,640 bhp (total) and Schottel propulsion units for a bollard pull of 35.6 tonnes. The second tug, Yewgarth, was an ASD vessel constructed by McTay Marine at Bromborough and has Ruston 6RK engines of 4,000 bhp (total) and a 50 tonne bollard pull. Both tugs worked in various ports around the UK, with Yewgarth spending a period overseas. The pair was purchased by Black Sea Services Srl of Constanta and will be renamed BV Scotia and BV Islander respectively. They were towed away by the ocean going tug Pantodynamos.
