Nostalgia In
the Nostalgia section of this issue of Wavelength, we will continue our virtual journey in the past through the magical sea borne voyages of both current and previous fleet vessels. While the land personnel’s work environment is the stable workplace of an office, the officers and crew on board experience a different adventure every day with new ports, sea passages and ever-changing conditions such as the weather making their working environment a little more interesting!
In a previous installment of Nostalgia, as you may recall, we saw the fascinating photos of M/T Leni navigated by Captain Michail Michail passing through the Panama Straits! Navigating in restricted waterways and canals was even more difficult back in those days before the evolution that technology brought to navigation through the use of GPS, ECDIS etc. Below we can see the original M/T Georgios S. back in November 2002 conducting a ship-to-ship lightering operation to discharge part of the cargo on board. She needs to lighter some cargo in order to meet the air draft restriction in place, due to navigating under a bridge, and reach her discharge port in the US.
The Georgios S. was the company's second newbuilding project and first suezmax ever ordered. She was built by DSME (Daewoo Heavy Industries at that time) to a very high specification and was delivered in June 2001, flying the Greek flag as can be seen in the photo. Her deadweight was 159,885 MT and she was operated in the spot market with the Company until 2007. The vessel was named in honour of the company's first Technical Manager and Director, George Stavrakis, who had served the Company since its inception in the 1970s and until his passing in December 1999. His nephew Nikos Stavrakis joined the Company in 2001 and is presently in the Chartering Dept., fittingly responsible for fixing the suezmaxes. George Stavrakis
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Issue 74-December 2020
