Vessel of Interest | наблюдаемое судно

October 31, 2015

RFS Fotiy Krylov and RV Marshal Gelovani visit Shanghai, China

To recap, ships from the Russian Navy Pacific Fleet, RFS Fotiy Krylov and RV Marshal Gelovani, have traveled from Vladivostok, to Nicaragua, did some stuff while they were there... and are on their way back to their home port. To my surprise they stopped in the port of Shanghai! Luckily Shanghai has some excellent shipspotters that really go the extra mile.
Thank you for the pictures Justin Zhu!

See previous posts here and here for more details about their trip.

2015.11.01 Update:
They have left, going to Vladivostok (I think)
Они оставили , идя до Владивостока ( я думаю)

RV Marshal Gelovani / Маршал Геловани

October 29, 2015 - Shanghai, China

Photo Credit: Justin Zhu Twitter: @justin86zy

RV Marshal Gelovani / Маршал Геловани

October 29, 2015 - Shanghai, China

Photo Credit: Justin Zhu Twitter: @justin86zy

RFS Fotiy Krylov / Фотий Крылов

October 29, 2015 - Shanghai, China

Photo Credit: Justin Zhu Twitter: @justin86zy

RFS Fotiy Krylov / Фотий Крылов

October 29, 2015 - Shanghai, China

Photo Credit: Justin Zhu Twitter: @justin86zy

Russian supertug Fotiy Krylov and the Russian Research Vessel Marshal Gelovani pic.twitter.com/ZLg5SKCwLy
— justin zhu (@justin86zy) October 30, 2015

Last recorded position:

Berth where she docked:

Trevor Paglen - You should know his name.

Trevor Paglen
Photo Credit: Paris Match - May 2014

Trevor Paglen "gets it". With all the secrecy that's going on, there is mountain of information out there - and it can't all be hidden. Some things are hidden in plain sight, you just need to know where and how to look. I admire his ability to see things in a different light, and pursue them.

Full biography here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Paglen

Full list of his written works on Amazon here:
http://www.amazon.com/s/?field-keywords=trevor+paglen

Trevor Paglen is also frequently featured on Vice.com
http://www.vice.com/tag/trevor%20paglen
http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/tag/Trevor+Paglen

Three of my favourite videos of him are below:

September 27, 2015

DND CANADA - GENERATOR SET - GASOLINE ENGINE [ PU-5025/U ]

I made a new acquisition that I can't find a lot of information about. It seems like it's a 1970s 28 Volt, DC, 17.9 Amp, 500W generator powered by a 1 cylinder, two stroke, gas engine, with a rip-cord pull start (not recoil!). This seems very similar to the US Department of Defense MEP-024A, but you can see from the diagrams it's slightly different. Searching for all variations of the part numbers on the label has yielded surprisingly little. YouTube video has found some videos of similar, but not identical, rigs.

Since this only puts out 28 VDC @ 17.9 AMPS (0.5 KW), and from what related equipment I found with it's NSN, I'm pretty sure this rig would have been used to power auxiliary equipment like signals / communications gear. I believe it would be called a "tactical" generator set, as it's portable.

DND CANADA

GENERATOR SET - GASOLINE ENGINE

NSN: 6115-21-872-5718 | PU-5025/U

SER.NO.:

MFR: AIRCRAFT APPLIANCES & EQPT. LTD | MOD: MG 0528

CONTR.NO.: 2PF76-00010

KW: 0.5 | RPM: 3600

VOLTS: 28 VDC | AMPS: 17.9

ENG: MOTOSACOCHE | MOD: 1006-SRBX9

LG: 22 1/2 | WIDTH: 15 1/2 | HEIGHT: 18 1/2 | WT: 95LBS

September 20, 2015

RV Yantar (Янтарь) arrives at the Port of Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles

I can take no credit for these spectacular pictures (CLICK THEM!), all credit goes to Cees Bustraan, who is an avid Ship Spotter for shipspotting.com with over 10,000 pictures to his credit (WOW!). I dropped him a line; he'd been monitoring the RV Yantar's progress towards Willemstad, and took pictures of it as in came in to port today, just in the nick of time since it was almost a full day ahead of schedule according to the port authority. Original resolution versions are available at ShipSpotting.com, and you can almost make out the faces of the crew coming into harbour, snapping pictures with their cameras - I bet they're happy to see land!

RV Yantar is currently docked at the West Wharf in Willemstad, Curaçao (12.109974, -68.933039)

My previous post about the RV Yantar (Янтарь), an Auxiliary General Oceanographic Research AGOR (that may have some AGI-like hobbies), along with some background info, can be found here.

Photo Credit: Cees Bustraan / ShipSpotting.com - September 20th, 2015

September 10, 2015

Credits and References

Recently I've been reminded that I have a lot of help from the "Twiterverse", "Blogosphere", and whatever other catchy names I can think of to describe the international community that I tap into online, to glean information about current and past events. The following is is limited number of twitter accounts and blogs you might want to follow if you're interested in similar topics.

Consider it my catch-up for past missed "Follow Fridays"! #FF

http://campingcdn.blogspot.ca/p/credits.html