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SPUDNIK - IMO 8974025

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Photographer:
andrecas [ View profile ]
Captured:
Dec 26, 2018
Title:
Spudnik
Photo Category:
Wrecks & Relics
Added:
Feb 13, 2019
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3,396 x 2,049

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Abandoned/tied up on the banks of the Fraser River adjacent Amix Marine-Surrey facility.

Given poor weather conditions (wet/foggy/windy) that's the best I could do to "clean up" photo.

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Current name:
SPUDNIK

Former name(s):

 -  Arctic Transport (Until 2008 Nov)

Current flag:
U.S.A.
Home port:
Seattle Wa

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Kyle Stubbs

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andrecas

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Rarcand, thank you for the link. After further rummaging around various on-line sources I notice SPUDNIK made the news several times in 2014. One such story appeared November 12, 2014 on Global News when they reported Spudnik broke free from its moorings. Following is extract from their report....
"VANCOUVER – The Coast Guard is now towing the derelict vessel ‘Spudnick’ to New Westminster after it broke away from its moorings earlier today.

The 59.7-metre long vessel is a former U.S. Navy transport freighter, which is usually anchored at Nexen Beach in Howe Sound. Coast Guard spokesperson, Dan Bate, says since the boat was moored there in March they have been receiving calls from locals concerned about the fuel on board the rusting ship.
There is 5,000 litres of diesel and 1,500 litres of lubricating oil on board and locals were concerned about it leaking into the sound.
By the end of September the Coast Guard issued an order for the owner to take action to mitigate the release of the fuel, but Bate says the owner was in the process of doing so, but hadn’t completed the task.
At 7 a.m. on Wednesday they were informed the vessel had broken from its moorings and was adrift.
They sent out the tugboat ‘Cutlass’ and it now has the vessel under tow. It is set to arrive at Amix Marine Services’ facility in New Westminster at some point tonight.
Bate says the fuel will then be removed, possibly at the owner’s expense."

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person
Some info at http://www.esys.org/news/sos_1411.html (in german) explaining the reason of its arriving at New Westminster from Squamish.

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person
Kyle, thank you for identifying subject vessel. Interesting bio included with your June 17, 2014 upload.

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This is the SPUDNIK (IMO 8974025), which went through an infamous bout of abandonment at Squamish, BC back in 2014.
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=2057914

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Thanks racand. I checked the banks of the Fraser River using Google Earth and came up with usual barges and log booms along the river banks. Will keep digging around on-line. Might be something (somewhere), layered in among the different sites...…?

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Found it on Google Earth and it is been around since 2014. What appeared to be some kind of old icebreaker was tied alongside in july 2018. Still do not know what it is.

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