Clipper Legend becomes Harbour Legend (UPDATE)

1. Clipper Legend at anchor November 5.

The Bahamas flag tanker Clipper Legend has been renamed Harbour Legend while tied up in Halifax at pier 9c.

The ship arrived November 4, sat around at anchor for time, worked cargo at Imperial Oil , then sailed on November 9, but only went as far as the outer anchorages. It returned to port November 10 and sat out yesterday's storm at pier 9.

Its new name indicates to me that it will go into the harbour bunkering trade, and my guess is at Panama, but it is only a guess.

UPDATE:The ship sailed Sunday evening, November 13, giving New York as its destination.

More tanker activity

1. Algosea moves down the harbour toward Imperial Oil.

2. The handsome Histria Tiger awaits a berth at Imperial Oil.

3. Clipper Legend also waits at anchor for its turn.

The Imperial Oil refinery continues to be busy with a variety of chemical and product tankers shuttling in and out of berths to unload and load.

Today's activity included Algosea moving from anchor in Bedford Basin to the oil dock this afternoon. On the way is passed two tankers at anchor awaiting berths: Histria Tiger and Clipper Legend.

Algosea was built in 1998 at Alabama Shipyards in Mobile for Danish owners, Danneborg. It traded internationally for them until 2005 when Algoma Tankers acquired the ship and modified it for Canadian service. It is an ice class, double hulled vessel with phenolic epoxy coated tanks. It measures 11,290 gross tons and 16,775 deadweight.

Histria Tiger is owned in Romania, but registered in Liberia and is a chemical and oil products tanker measuring 25,864 gross tons and 40,416 deadweight. The ship was built in 2008. Romanian ships are very rare in Halifax, but the country has developed a shipbuilding industry, with major yards in Constanta and Galati. This ship was built at the former yard. [Istria refers to the first Greek colony in what is now Romania.]

Clipper Legend is sister to Clipper Lancer which was in earlier in the week. Measuring 6522 gross and 10,048 deadweight it is a chemical tanker, registered in the Bahamas, and owned by the Danish group Nordic Tankers. It was built in 2004 by the Yardimci Tersanesi A.S. in Tuzla, Turkey.

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Clipper Legend drops the hook

1. Clipper Legend comes to a stop in the anchorages. The harbour ferry crosses ahead and all is calm at HMC Dockyard.

The chemical and products tanker Clipper Legend anchored this afternoon awaiting a berth at the refinery. The ship was built in Turkey in 2004, 6,522 gross, 10,048 deadweight, and is a larger version of the bunkering tanker Algoma Dartmouth, built at the same yard in 2007.

Clipper is a large shipping operation with bulkers, project cargo ships (like Clipper Merlin - see previous postings) and is the largest shareholder in Nordic Tankers -operators of this ship. All told they have about 200 ships in their control at any one time.

Here is the Nordic Tankers web site: http://www.nordictankers.com/

and here is Clipper's: http://www.clipper-group.com/web/clipper.nsf/Start/$first?opendocument

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