Silver Case

Moored at Sembawang Shipyard

OOCL Kaohsiung is on its final leg to Singapore, from Sri Lanka. As such, it’s out of range of AIS network probably until it hits the Straits of Malacca.

I was snooping around Singapore and looked up at Sembawang Shipyard, where I sometimes kayak. Some US Navy ships there (Water Diehl, which once machine-gunned some Iranian speedboats). But another, more mysterious, ship, the Tippicanoe, too.

It says its destination is “Groundhog Day”. Googling it doesn’t give much either, although the purported photo looks like an oiler. My neighbor works for the USN, so maybe he’d know.

uh running at 22 knots while moored will only work till the rope runs out of slack.

Princess returned to view overnight. She’s berthed in Colombo. Unloading in Singapore on Sunday. My treasure is delivered on Tuesday.

I thought that AIS Ship Tracking was satellite based. Nope, it’s VHF. The most powerful transmitters broadcast at 12W only. And the AIS protocol doesn’t seem to do any kind of message passing ship-to-ship-to-ship….-to-ground.

So I presume it’ll show up tomorrow in Colombo when it’s back in range of the AIS receivers.

I sure hope OOCL Kaohsiung didn’t strike the pirate lottery….

PS: This is the end of MacJournal for me — there is no way to edit/add raw html to an article inside MacJournal. Zzzzzt.

North of Somalia; South of Yemen. Gulp.

I hope a Russian Pirate-Hunting Trawler is nearby.

I must say, tracking this ship as it relatively speeds around the globe in such an efficient way makes me curious to take a freighter cruise sometime. I think it would be a lot more fun than a Carnival Key Party Cruise.

OOCL Kaohsiung is already finished with its dropoff and now it’s headed to Portsaid — the northern end of the Suez Canal. Move it, baby!

move it!

….now She is running along the coast north of Skikda, Algeria.

OOCL has entered the Med on it’s pay to an interim port in Cagliari

The OOCL Kaohsiung (last spotted three days ago?!) is off Halifax arriving in Singapore on September 19.

Avoid disputed waters, please.

I should clarify… this is the ship carrying my container full of tools and books from the USA. I suppose Mom would refer to it as a Treasure Galleon. Lord knows it was hard to convince her to properly submit the paperwork so that it could be sent on its Final Journey.