Tzarevetz

Name: Tzarevetz
Heading: North/Black Sea
Type: Carrier
Flag: Malta
Date: 31 Oct 2017
Weather: fall evening

Dobrynya Nikitich

The fall lighting is amazing: evening reds and yellow and oranges,
The weather has chilled considerably, but maintained a decent no-rain for 2 days now
Look carefully at the tree - lower left - and you should see a large bird watching the waters below.


Name: Dobrynya Nikitich
Heading: North/Black Sea
Type:  Cargo
Flag: Moldova
Date: 31 Oct 2017
Weather: crisp fall evening

A582

There is virtually no observable action on deck, no flag at the rear.
Appears to be a submarine rescue ship of the Turkish Navy

If the link below doesnt resolve, that's because Wikipedia is still blocked over here (adding a 0 in front of wiki... solves the problem for us, but we dont know what it does on your end)



Name: A 582
Heading: North/Black Sea
Type: Navy
Flag: Turkey
Date: 27 Oct 2017
Weather: clearing after rain

Sea Melody

Sea Melody I is heading south (as is all traffic at the hour of the photo)
Weather is changing - cold and rainy currently



Name: Sea Melody
Heading: South / Marmara
Type:  Cargo
Flag: Marshall Islands
Date: 26 Oct 2017
Weather: clearing after rain

YM Increment

We frequently wonder how the sites (to the right) such as vesselfinder.com manage to stay online. (Put us aside: small operation, virtually no overhead, low cost)

That said, we are finding that one of our old mainstays - vesselfinder.com isn't producing or working as it should. More and more we are relying on marinetraffic to come up with our limited data. Sorry to say.

YM vessels come by from time to time: we've already noted YM Hazar.



Name: YM Increment
Heading: North/Black Sea
Type:  Cargo
Flag: Liberia
Date: 20 Oct 2017
Weather: clearing after rain

CMA CGA URAL

We have seen several others of the CMA flag, but this thing is massive: check out the load above decks! Can hardly count the number of containers. See MSC ilona, Celine and more ...


Name: CMA CGA Ural
Heading: South/Marmara
Type: Container
Flag:   Malta
Date:15 Oct 2017
Weather: very pleasant evening

Navin Vulture

In some ways, the name fits - in that vultures feed off... whatever.
It may be the evening fall lighting, but she certainly looks in need of a paint job, and the rust adds to the <vulture> moniker.


Name: Navin Vulture
Heading: North/Black Sea
Type:  Cargo
Flag:  Marshall Islands
Date: 13 Oct 2017
Weather: clearing after rain

MSC Celine

Notice the smokey fire on the Asian side back behind the ship in the first shot above.


Name: MSC Celine
Heading: North/Black Sea
Type:  Container
Flag:   Panama
Date: 1 Oct 2017
Weather: clearing after rain

Kerem

Kerem would appear to be a rather Turkish name, so one question might be : why the Maltese registration?

Name: Kerem
Heading: North/Black Sea
Type:  Cargo
Flag:   Malta
Date: 11 Oct 2017
Weather: pleasant evening

A579

There were actually 3 of these things that came by back-to-back but it took us a little while to focus, go and get the camera and take a few shots.
Initially, we said ..." Turkish . Look at the flag. " Proudly displayed.
She appears to be  Turkish Navy TCG Cezayirli Gazi Hasanpaşa

Name: A579
Heading: North/Black Sea
Type:  navy
Flag:   Turkish
Date: 02 Oct 2017
Weather: clearing after rain