Ex:1975 SEA HUSKY, 1980 CHAMBON ALIZE, 1982 REDOUBTABLE, 1990 BRITOIL 3, 1995 GERONIMO TWO, 2002 THESEUS, 2004 JUPITER 6
Operator: "Jupiter Shipmanagement Inc" at Mumbai
Type: Tug/Supply/AHT
Registered: IMO 7391745 /(GBR)ON 363690 /(FRA)ON 532994S
299 GRT, 85 NRT
L39,93m(32,19), B10,14m, D4,611m(5,31)
- fifi, salv.
Macinery: 2 4bl. cpp +dir.nozzle, bowthr. 300bhp, 2x diesel 4tew V16cyl B&W ALPHA type 16V23LU, 4690bhp total, Speed: 13,5kn
Bollard Pull: 80t

SEA HUSKY
1975: Built by "Brodogradiliste Tito" at Mitrovica (YUG) (YN 925)
1975 -xx/05: delivered to "Royal Bank Leasing Co" at Edinburgh, mng "Skaingate Ltd" at London (GBR)
(owned by Oscar Bugge at Tønsberg (NOR))(GBR flag, ON 363690, c/s GURR)
1975 -xx/07: restyled to "R.B. Leasing Co" at Edinburgh (GBR)
1980: To "Cie Chambon Soc.Gén. De Remorquage et de Travaux Maritimes" at Marseille (FRA), renamed CHAMBON ALIZE(FRA flag, ON 532994S, c/s FPQV)
1982: To "ATCL - Alexandra Marine Transportation Ltd" at Liverpool (GBR), renamed REDOUBTABLE(GBR flag, ON 363690, c/s GURR, 311 GRT, 86 NRT)
1990: To "Britoil Offshore Services Pte Ltd" at Singapore (SGP), renamed BRITOIL 3
1995: To "Transpacific Towage Inc" at Manila (PHL) (447 GRT, 134 NRT), renamed GERONIMO TWO (PHL flag, ON 000583, c/s DUA2441)
2000: To "Keppel Smit Transpacific Inc"
2002: To "Coloured Fin Ltd" at Chaguaramas, Trinidad (TTO), renamed THESEUS(TTO flag, c/s 9YFE)
2004: To "Jupiter Shipmanagement Inc" at Mumbai (IND), renamed JUPITER 6(VCT flag, c/s J8B3049) (damaged, caused by a fire which affected all areas of the accommodation and bridge)
2005 -06/09: reported missing having left Walvis Bay, Namibia with a ship for the breakers yard in India. The bulk carrier ('Satsang') in tow was later found drifting at about 220 miles off Port Elizabeth but there is no sign of the tug or crew. Last reported position of tow was 35 52S / 23 25.9E on 05/09/2005.
2005 -xx/10: There is mounting speculation that the tug Jupiter 6, at first thought to have sunk with the loss of all 13 crew, is under the control of pirates or mutineers. All crew believed safe.


Only the next weekend, the tug's emergency beacon finally began signalling and the Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Bellville sent an SA Air Force long-range aircraft to search the sea around the position signalled by the beacon. The aircraft crew saw only a patch of oil and a piece of wreckage, but no survivors or other signs of the vessel. Even the wreckage and the oil could not officially be linked to the tug. Salvors who boarded the Satsang reported that the tow rope attached to her bow had been snapped and that two emergency towing rigs assumed to have been set up by the Jupiter 6 crew had also failed. Such evidence indicated that the Jupiter 6's crew had a terrible battle to try to reconnect their tow twice during bad weather.
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