My uncle Jan (J) Kleyn passed away november 11th 2021, he was a captain on these big boys back in the Smit days, in 70's and 80's, i remember a lot of great stories of him. His retirement job was handing over one of these boats (Smit Houston) to greenpeace back in the days (1990), even that was a special story. May he rest in peace
I was a 17 yr old on the Smit Houston in 1984. My first Voyage. We came back from a journey that started in Salvador, Brazil. After trying to get a stranded US supplier boat of a beach we towed a vessel across the ocean to Pireaus Greece, then headed to Barcelona,Spain. There we received the orders to set sail to the Canary Isles. The Smit Singapore on it's maiden voyage towing a vessel had suffered an explosion in the machine room and needed to return to Rotterdam. We were asked to hold their tow meanwhile. I got to see it as we came along side. Spotted my classmate, sailor Hollemans, on the Singapore. Great memories on the giant ocean tugboats
Hello Bro .... Nice mite you.... I hope Samtime i can joint Salvage Job with you, God Bless You 🙏🙏🙏 Regard, PT.Tosan Rajawali Kemala Andre van Kempen Salvage Master.
I miss so much the beautiful Smit tugs, the m/v Rotterdam, the London and the Singapore. They all called in Galveston, Texas from 1998 til 2011. I had the pleasure of meeting Captain Gerrit Verschoor and Chief Engineer Jaap Bootsma while onboard on a few occasions. The Dutch are fine sailors and I know that they miss sailing on these lovely vessels and feeling their power under their feet. I surely wish for the old days when I could see them in the Port of Galveston and take the Polish and Flippo crew shopping to the Walmart. Fond memories which I will keep in my heart forever.
@@garlandremingtoniii1338 The Smit tugs were sold to Svitzer around 2000, and then sadly most of them were scrapped around 2012 or so. I am working on getting you a definitive answer and will post another comment when I have a better answer for you. Meanwhile there are newer ocean-going tugs with more bollard pull (+/- 300 tonne), but none are as beautiful as the Smit/Wjis ships. I was onboard all of them except the Smit Houston (and I was born in Houston), even the Smit New York before she was sold to China some time after 1998. South Africa has the Smit Amandla, formerly The Z tug John Ross, based in Cape Town. Hope this helps for now. Cheers
Svitzer was founded in Denmark as far back as 1833. Today the company is owned by APMøller/Mærsk of Copenhagen. Svitzer is based in 34 countries and has 440 ships. Oldest tug and rescueboat-company in the World.
All are ok here in Texas after hurricane Beryl came through here Monday, 6a.m. High winds, no flooding. Power (no air con) since Monday. No internet yet either. SMIT, ANY JOB, ANY SEA 🌊 Betty Junemann, near Galveston, Texas 11 July 2024
The long long storie of SMIT ROTERDAM and SMIT SINGAPORE, is the Best SALVAGE TUG and the world, thank you SMIT SALVAGE Singapore i Joint to you Company 1993 to 2005 at Indonesia Salvage Operation, thank you Mr.TanDionGe for good job, i hope Sam time Joint Work together again with you, Salvage is my life, Thank You All... God Bless You 🙏🙏🙏. Regard, PT.TOSAN RAJAWALI KEMALA Andre van Kempen Salvage
I was projectmanager structuur engineering of this good tug and involved a lot nieuws. According Smit she should bee same as the Rotterdam, but than much better!
Indeed. However, keeping a 75m ship afloat on the income of visitors and a few "liefhebbers" alone, is probably not viable. I guess we should be very happy with the Elbe! ruclips.net/video/3jdAAl8fuiU/видео.html
200 Tons Bollard pull, that is something. I know of situations where large sleek destroyers were towed to scrapyards by tugs in a stormy swell and the craft being towed went down the side of the swell faster than the tug. The journey was from Cape Verde Islands to Aliaga in Turkey where the tug had only a bollard pull of about 40 tons. Not an easy job this towing profession as one needs to know what is happening all the time and at no time must the pull act sideways to the tug!! All the best to those who work on such majestic tugs. Wonder what their range is without refuelling and with a load being towed.
I remember being in Rotterdam for the Tug tech meeting, trying to take pics of these babes. The only one who told me to go away was this guy. Horrible man.
+Fabian Moreno MUCHA VERDAD , YO TRABAJE' EN EL REMOLCADOR " CARIBBEAN SALVOR " CON BANDERA CUBANA Y REBAUTIZADO . ESTE ERA EL ANTIGUO " SMIT SALVOR " .
All scrapped in Alang/India unfortuntely, in 2013 or 2014. Smit Singapore, Smit London and Smit Rotterdam after a half year in Greek service (last/new name Singapore: Global Succes 1) . The Singapore was even used in Alang for a bit to pull other scrapships to beach (horrible end for such a beauty) Only the Smit Houston is scrapped in Holland in 2009 after a huge fire in engine room that spread to other part of the ship (to much damage to repair), after being used by Greenpeace (name: Solo -1990-1995) and last job as a Dutch Coastgaurd rescue ship (name: Waker - 1995-2009) in Holland. It is so very wrong to polute the beaches of 3rd world countries with old scrapboats in the firstplace, but the horrid situation is that the tug owners get paid for the scrap iron, and the indian scrapyard owners make a lot of money from the scrap over poor workers. In Europe the costs of scrapping a ship are too high with all our neat rules..... terrible. The Smit Houston was in government duty/property, so that is why they scrapped it neatly in Holland.
My uncle Jan (J) Kleyn passed away november 11th 2021, he was a captain on these big boys back in the Smit days, in 70's and 80's, i remember a lot of great stories of him. His retirement job was handing over one of these boats (Smit Houston) to greenpeace back in the days (1990), even that was a special story. May he rest in peace
I was a 17 yr old on the Smit Houston in 1984. My first Voyage.
We came back from a journey that started in Salvador, Brazil. After trying to get a stranded US supplier boat of a beach we towed a vessel across the ocean to Pireaus Greece, then headed to Barcelona,Spain.
There we received the orders to set sail to the Canary Isles. The Smit Singapore on it's maiden voyage towing a vessel had suffered an explosion in the machine room and needed to return to Rotterdam. We were asked to hold their tow meanwhile. I got to see it as we came along side. Spotted my classmate, sailor Hollemans, on the Singapore. Great memories on the giant ocean tugboats
Hello Bro .... Nice mite you.... I hope Samtime i can joint Salvage Job with you,
God Bless You 🙏🙏🙏
Regard,
PT.Tosan Rajawali Kemala
Andre van Kempen
Salvage Master.
I miss so much the beautiful Smit tugs, the m/v Rotterdam, the London and the Singapore. They all called in Galveston, Texas from 1998 til 2011. I had the pleasure of meeting Captain Gerrit Verschoor and Chief Engineer Jaap Bootsma while onboard on a few occasions. The Dutch are fine sailors and I know that they miss sailing on these lovely vessels and feeling their power under their feet. I surely wish for the old days when I could see them in the Port of Galveston and take the Polish and Flippo crew shopping to the Walmart. Fond memories which I will keep in my heart forever.
What happened to the,???
@@garlandremingtoniii1338 The Smit tugs were sold to Svitzer around 2000, and then sadly most of them were scrapped around 2012 or so. I am working on getting you a definitive answer and will post another comment when I have a better answer for you.
Meanwhile there are newer ocean-going tugs with more bollard pull (+/- 300 tonne), but none are as beautiful as the Smit/Wjis ships. I was onboard all of them except the Smit Houston (and I was born in Houston), even the Smit New York before she was sold to China some time after 1998. South Africa has the Smit Amandla, formerly The Z tug John Ross, based in Cape Town. Hope this helps for now. Cheers
Svitzer was founded in Denmark as far back as 1833. Today the company is owned by APMøller/Mærsk of Copenhagen. Svitzer is based in 34 countries and has 440 ships. Oldest tug and rescueboat-company in the World.
The difference between Salvage Tugs and others is, Salvage Tugs are built to face the worst weather and seas and still do their job.
I had the occasion to work with both the London and the Rotterdam. Really powerful and impressive ships.
Heb met Gerrit verschor gewerkt heeft mijn bak opgpikt in Nigeria met de Banckerd was een aardig avontuur.
Helaas veel te vroeg gesloopt.
All are ok here in Texas after hurricane Beryl came through here Monday, 6a.m. High winds, no flooding. Power (no air con) since Monday. No internet yet either.
SMIT, ANY JOB, ANY SEA 🌊 Betty Junemann, near Galveston, Texas
11 July 2024
The long long storie of SMIT ROTERDAM and SMIT SINGAPORE, is the Best SALVAGE TUG and the world, thank you SMIT SALVAGE Singapore i Joint to you Company 1993 to 2005 at Indonesia Salvage Operation, thank you Mr.TanDionGe for good job, i hope Sam time Joint Work together again with you, Salvage is my life, Thank You All... God Bless You 🙏🙏🙏.
Regard,
PT.TOSAN RAJAWALI KEMALA
Andre van Kempen
Salvage
I was projectmanager structuur engineering of this good tug and involved a lot nieuws. According Smit she should bee same as the Rotterdam, but than much better!
Smit Singapore should imo have been turned into a museum ship, moored in Maassluis for example. Pity she was demolished
Indeed. However, keeping a 75m ship afloat on the income of visitors and a few "liefhebbers" alone, is probably not viable. I guess we should be very happy with the Elbe! ruclips.net/video/3jdAAl8fuiU/видео.html
One of my all-time favorite vessels...
Gone, not with wind but with Oxy torch 😥😣
200 Tons Bollard pull, that is something. I know of situations where large sleek destroyers were towed to scrapyards by tugs in a stormy swell and the craft being towed went down the side of the swell faster than the tug. The journey was from Cape Verde Islands to Aliaga in Turkey where the tug had only a bollard pull of about 40 tons. Not an easy job this towing profession as one needs to know what is happening all the time and at no time must the pull act sideways to the tug!! All the best to those who work on such majestic tugs. Wonder what their range is without refuelling and with a load being towed.
the new ALP striker have over 300 tons BP :)
I remember being in Rotterdam for the Tug tech meeting, trying to take pics of these babes. The only one who told me to go away was this guy. Horrible man.
Ja omdat je over een bolder heen stond te pissen gek!
Beautiful vessel 😀🇱🇺 and crew 👍
Nothing like working on a tug. That’s where you separate the men from the boys.
Nice and useful video thanks for sharing
nice and powerful ocean tug.had opportunity to see her
what fucking wartsila diesels??? WERKSPOOR TM410's
Precies!!
Pitty she isn’t sailing under Smit flag anymore.
What happened to them??
@@garlandremingtoniii1338 its a pitty that she's been scrapped e few years ago
She is so powerful
Работал на Сингапуре-таких к сожалению больше не делают
A beautiful ship.
I Work in a ocean tug .is Real acción.peryl job.
+Fabian Moreno MUCHA VERDAD , YO TRABAJE' EN EL REMOLCADOR " CARIBBEAN SALVOR " CON BANDERA CUBANA Y REBAUTIZADO . ESTE ERA EL ANTIGUO " SMIT SALVOR " .
YO SOY OSVALDO RIVERO ( EL JIMAGUA) DE LA BRIGADA DE LOS BUZOS .
I like a good tug boat
Prachtig schip.
Very very strong, she pulled my fat wife off the beach.
The dry dock is an original German WWll U-Boot dock.
Not correct
A real ship. not like the ugly ones they build today
Last real job for real seamen
Smit Rotterdam launched in 1975 and Smit London in 1976... I think?
Jah, Singapore was een nakomertje ;)
Sailed on both vessels, also on the Smit Houston, 1984-1985
Fucking good ship!!!!
Freezing here. Over 24 hours with no power. Ice and snow on ground. Wish I was in a warmer place.
Can somebody tell me what happened to them??
All scrapped in Alang/India unfortuntely, in 2013 or 2014. Smit Singapore, Smit London and Smit Rotterdam after a half year in Greek service (last/new name Singapore: Global Succes 1) . The Singapore was even used in Alang for a bit to pull other scrapships to beach (horrible end for such a beauty)
Only the Smit Houston is scrapped in Holland in 2009 after a huge fire in engine room that spread to other part of the ship (to much damage to repair), after being used by Greenpeace (name: Solo -1990-1995) and last job as a Dutch Coastgaurd rescue ship (name: Waker - 1995-2009) in Holland.
It is so very wrong to polute the beaches of 3rd world countries with old scrapboats in the firstplace, but the horrid situation is that the tug owners get paid for the scrap iron, and the indian scrapyard owners make a lot of money from the scrap over poor workers.
In Europe the costs of scrapping a ship are too high with all our neat rules..... terrible.
The Smit Houston was in government duty/property, so that is why they scrapped it neatly in Holland.
*more environmentally friendly*
Standards arise
How would you know?! You do not..!!
great lkg ship
do they have hot dogs up in this bitch?
Made in Holland.
smit was the best now they have sold out to boskalis
What an awful narrative voice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!