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The inland tanker Therese Straub arrives in Brest towed by the salvage tug Abeille Bourbon.
Originally towed from the Netherlands to Ivory Coast by the Moldavian flagged tug Arion, it broke in two parts in the Northwest of Ushant island.
Having not seen anything, the tug went on.
It was the container ship Saphir that reported the half-ship drifting at the French MRCC Corsen, thus making it possible to stop a danger to navigation.
The tug Arion continued South.
This ship is not assigned to any other category.
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Apparently the tug "Arion" which was supposed to tow Therese Straub to Dakar was on her last voyage herself.
"Arion" left Dakar with Therese Straub's forward section and headed for Aliaga, Turkey, where both were scrapped by Bereket Gemi Sökum shipbreaking yard, beached on January 3rd, 2020...
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I erroneously assumed the forward part had sunk, but it did not. It arrived at Dakar on October 29th.
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And considering the year of construction of this houseboat (1970), it seems consistent.
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But selling them to Nigeria and other West African countries is an easy way for European owners to dispose of these monohull vessels. And as rd77 pointed out quite a number of them doesn't survive the towing.
These vessels should be scrapped in Europe and not pollute the sea!
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I think rather that this inland tanker was sent there to be used again, otherwise why protect the windows with wooden panels.
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