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LADY SANDRA - IMO 8335449

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Emmanuel.L [ View profile ]
Captured:
Mar 27, 2020
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Mar 29, 2020
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Small tanker reg. in Togo built in 1975.
Split in two in very bad weather 13 nautical miles ENE off Malta on 26 March 2020. The AFM sent a helicopter and the MELITA 1 and rescued the 3 crew.
She was in ballast. This part stayed afloat because being much lighter than the aft part. The aft part comprising the engine being heavier later sunk.
pic. tks to the AFM

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Hi Maan, the aft part of LADY SANDRA was reported as sunk ! You don't mean the fore part? Please post the photo of the part still floating, very interesting?
regards
keep safe
Emmanuel.L.(Malta)

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Aft part seen floating today 20th of May 2020 near north coast of Tunisia. If need I can attache photo

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Thanks Timsen, she is danger to shipping and if she has not sunk now, she should be taken care of, maybe towed to the coast and beached.
Thanks my friend
Keep safe
Emmanuel.L.(Malta)

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Here are some more photos of the foreship on March 28: http://www.maltashipphotos.com/productfile.asp?ProductID1=17077&PRODUCTCAT1=Yachts

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Thanks David, very interesting history of this unfortunate vessel.
Great info from our mentor David.
So I can put up her Imo. number.
Thanks once again David, keep safe and healthy.
regards
Emmanuel.L.(Malta)

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LADY SANDRA was given IMO 8335449 (8xx numbers for new allocations which are not newbuildings) at some time while she was in Romania.

8/2015 ROM flag, MMSI 264900305
owner Malta Towage Ltd, Marsaskala - they are owners of a mixed bunch of service vessels, including the previous Maltese-flag LADY SANDRA (dredger, IMO 8229743, now Palau flag, went to Egypt in 2017)

1/2019 sold to Panafric Ocean & Energy Ltd, Ikeja, Nigeria (they bought Maltese bunkering tanker BUNKERTANK 1, IMO 8513235)

12/2019 GBR flag, c/s MGQQ3, MMSI 232025973
sold to Malta Islands Sea Cruises Ltd, Hamrun (same address as Captain Omar Cruises Ltd - the tug CAPTAIN OMAR connected with Britannia Shipping International Ltd, and often tied up with dredger LADY SANDRA)

1/2020 TGO flag, c/s 5VHU3, MMSI 671236100
I suppose intended change to Maltese flag after delivery and inspection.
Ship was classed 1/2020 with Maritime Bureau of Africa, Cape Town

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I have seen the fleetmon link where it says that she was a product tanker which she was not, and also that she was UK ? I am very sceptical of she being UK registered. Togo registration makes more sense to me,she being that old.
Thanks and regards and stay healthy.
Emmanuel.L.(Malta)

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Stupid and insensitive. Lucky for crew to be saved.

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It was dangerous sailing this small vessel built for river navigation for her crew, and what about the crew of the rescue boat and the helicopter having to venture out in this weather. The owners endangered these persons plus the crew .
The Mediterranean could be equally rough and dangerous like all seas in Winter.
As if the AFM has not enough problems to tackle at the moment.
Keep safe and stay healthy.
regards
Emmanuel.L.(Malta)

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Hi Timsen ,her aft part was reported as sunk. but no further news re her forepart, if it is still afloat it is a danger to shipping and must be disposed off.
keep safe and healthy.
regards
Emmanuel.L.(Malta)

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A crew of three and sending an inland barge across the high sea without assistance is careless (to put it mildly). And it would have still been dangerous even if she had tug assistance. But it's common practice, see my comments here:
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=3071512#comments

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She transmitted her name (Lady Sandra) and flag (UK) for the first time via AIS on November 29th, 2019.

So I still believe that for the last five years she was laid up somewhere in Romania, found a new owner with Britannia Shipping in the end of 2019, was renamed and reflagged and finally set sail for Malta in January...

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Any information regarding the fate of the foreship?

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Hi Jens, the AFM who rescued her crew quoted that her crew was made up of just 3, seems even though she was a small vessel,that was a small number to sail her across the Mediterranean in Winter.
Her crew was made up of a Romanian captain and 2 Egyptians as crew.
Keep safe stay healthy.
regards
Emmanuel.L.(Malta)

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And this would also explain why you have never seen her around the island, she just hadn't arrived yet :-)

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Jens ,the first news locally was that she was UK registered, maybe somehow someone saw that her owners (??) are ,or were Brittania Shipping Ltd and assumed she was reg, in the UK.
Keep safe, stay healthy
Emmanuel .L.(Malta)

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My assumption based on the data is that she was sold to Malta in the end of 2014 and sailed to Romania. For whatever reason (financial problems e.g.) her new owner failed to bring her to Malta and for the next 5 years she idled in Romania.
By the end of 2019 a new owner (said Britannia Shipping?) finally decided to bring her to Malta and in January she set sail for her last voyage...

Remember that in June 2015 she was still seen in Braila, Romania. I guess the first deal to sell her to Malta back in 2014 fell through...

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Sorry , I typed "Romania to Malta" in my previous comment ,I don't know how it ended Roma Malta.
sorry for any inconvenience.
Emmanuel.L.(Malta)

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Hi Jens, you quoted as reading that she was sold to Maltese interests in 2014 then towed to Malta in from Roma Malta. Something fishy here, has never seen here in Malta.
Keep safe
Regards
Emmanuel.L.(Malta)

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Her port history on Fleetmon.com says she left Sulina, Romania, on January 27th, 2020. She arrived at Istanbul on February 6th and departed on February 7th with destination Valletta.

Seems the delivery voyage to her new owner was a bit delayed. And if it's true that she was underway from Istanbul someone had obviously had decided that though being an inland vessel she could nevertheless make the trip on her own...

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According to a comment made on the German website Binnenschifferforum she was sold to Maltese interest around October 2014 as a bunker tanker for cruise ships. It seems she sailed to Konstanta, Romania, and then was towed from Konstanta to Malta.

No idea when she arrived as she was still seen in Braila in June 2015. Last owner according to De Binnenvaart was Britannia Shipping Ltd. (J. O'Connor) in Marsascala.

The area where she sank was named as "Bunkerzone 3" by De Binnenvaart...

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No Axel , up to my knowledge the LADY SANDRA never operated in Malta, Yes very odd to see an inland tanker on the high seas.She Must have departed from a North African port, destination also not known.
Keep safe ,keep healthy my friend
Hoping for better times.
Regards
Emmanuel.L.(Malta)

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Did she operate at Malta as a bunker barge? Odd to see a former inland tanker in rough seas fading.

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Thanks for the info re the LADY SANDRA. At least no lives were lost.
regards.Keep safe ,stay healthy my friend.
Emmanuel.L.(Malta)

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The former ZAANSTROOM, an inland tanker.
ENI no.:02007287
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1013019
best regards, Frank

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