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USS Swift HSV2 - IMO 9283928

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Photographer:
DIMITRIS MENTAKIS [ View profile ]
Captured:
Jan 21, 2018
Location:
Perama, Piraeus, Greece
Photo Category:
Casualties
Added:
Jan 21, 2018
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3,235
Image Resolution:
3,665 x 2,061

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AT SALAMIS

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Current name:
SWIFT

Former name(s):

 -  Hsv 2 Swift (Until 2014 Sep)

 -  Swift (Until 2013 Mar)

Callsign:
V7EI9
Build year:
2003
Class society:
Det Norske Veritas
Vessel Type:
Logistics Naval Vessel
Gross tonnage:
5,936 tons
Summer DWT:
700 tons

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Casualties - 9 photos

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Auxiliaries - 40 photos

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MattyBoy yes shi is ..probably she is there for her parts

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person
Any more news on this vessel? Is she still there?

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person
According to this site : http://www.ferry-site.dk/ferry.php?id=9283928&lang=en
the name would be HSC Swift 1. That makes a lot of names for a floating wreck.

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person
I would normally agree with that, rarcand. But she was renamed back in 3/2017, so at least a little less sure!

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person
So we can reasonably think the the present name is IFT (clearly visible on the MattyBoy picture http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2703667#). Usually this could mean an imminent scrapping.

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Yes, Steven, MSC-operated but leased from Bollinger/Incat USA, Lockport LA.
This is probably a reasonable summary:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSV-2_Swift

For the period after her return to Incat, Tasmania at the end of her charter to MSC, the correct names would appear to be:

7/2013-7/2015: SWIFT (US, later Marshall Islands, flag)
7/2015-3/2017: SWIFT 1 (UAE flag) from sale to National Marine Dredging Co (which could have been a front for other intersts)
from 3/2017: IFT (Cook Islands flag), from sale to Sea Speed Jet Nievo Ltd, Limassol (Sea Jets Maritime Co, Piraeus). The shortened name is just about visible on the side of the stern on this and the other photos in Greece

And from 7/2013 also a civilian vessel, presumably in HSV category (prior to "Casualty")

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Looking at the picture, it looks like the fire burned completely through from the bow (likely hit area) to stern on the cargo deck. I don't know if this kind of ship with aluminum (?) construction can be effectively and affordably repaired with this kind of damage, or would be better to scrap and seek another ship.

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I don't know if she was ever actually commissioned. I think she was more of a civilian crewed contact ship that was coordinated by the US Military Sealift Command US Army Transportation Command. I think she was used for intra theater support and to help develop the follow T-EPF concept.

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person
Is she now owned by Seajets ?

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The ship was part of the United States Navy from 2003 to 2013. The attack in which it became a casualty was in 2016 when it was under the ownership of the National Marine Dredging Company, an United Arab Emirates company. So, I wonder why it is still identified under an US Navy identity.

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