CARDIFF - Mon 22nd Aug 2011

A few arrivals since the last post: - on 16th UKD Orca arrived from Mostyn.  On the 17th, tanker Bro Designer arrived from Milford Haven and coaster Luhnau arrived from Inverkeithing with a cargo of scrap metals, sailing on 19th bound for Sharpness.  On 18th container ship Judith Borchard arrived from Leixoes and sailed for Dublin on 19th.

Name                                   Flag                 Year      Tonnage       LOA       Beam
SUDERAU                            Antigua           2005         3670dwt      88           13

Suderau

 Suderau had arrived on 20th with a cargo of scrap metals from Barking - seen here discharging on Ryans Wharf.  Better picture below......

Departing Cardiff bound for Londonderry.   Photo 5th Feb 2017

SEAMARK                           UK                 1959           216gt           30           7

PV Seamark

Ex Swansea Pilot Vessel Seamark (under tow from UKD Sealion) leaves Cardiff bound for her home port of Swansea.  She was withdrawn from service in 2001 and had been in the Roath Basin for about ten years, for the first six or seven of those she had been the headquarters of the Cardiff Sea Scouts.
Last year she was up for sale, and was reported to have been bought for conversion to a liveaboard to be moored on the Thames. I now read on the internet that she is being taken to Swansea where a group has been formed to preserve and get her back into full working order, and possibly running trips out of Swansea.