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The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has extended discounts concerning dry bulk vessels operating between American and Asian ports after considering “new changes in the global shipping market and the world economy”."SCA pays more attention to its users best interest…
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The International Defence Exhibition (IDEX) 2019 kicked off in Abu Dhabi on Sunday with more than 1,300 companies from a wide range of defence and military related industries taking part.
Russia's state-owned Rostec defence conglomerate showcased its Pantsir-ME shipborne combined missile and gun point defence system abroad for the first time. The Pantsir-ME is reportedly capable of simultaneously attacking four targets within a 90 degrees' sector and protecting ships within a range of 20 kilometres (12.4 miles) against all existing air threats including cruise missiles, bombs and UAVs.
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The world’s first LNG-fueled icebreaker, Polaris, received liquefied natural gas (LNG) fuel in January from the Pori LNG import terminal and in February from the Manga LNG terminal located in the Röyttä Harbor in Tornio, Finland. The commercial use of the Tornio import terminal begins this year…
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The troubled South Korean shipbuilder Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Co said that it has reached an agreement with Philippine banks on debt-rescheduling for its Philippine affiliate HHIC-Phil, Southeast Asia’s largest shipyard by area…
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The Netherlands-based Value Maritime has received the International Air Pollution Prevention (IAPP) certificate from Lloyds for its scrubber system.A press release from the engineering and ship financing company said that most of the tests required…
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South Korea’s shipbuilding giant Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) has secured an order for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier from Greece-based shipowner.According to Yonhap News Agency the South Korean shipbuilder received an order to build an LNG carrier for Maran Gas Maritime…
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Diana Shipping announced that it has signed, through two separate wholly-owned subsidiaries, two Memoranda of Agreement to sell to two affiliated parties, the m/v Danae and m/v Dione, each a 2001-built dry bulk vessel, for US$7.2 million each.The…
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Japanese manufacturer Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) delivered the Shinshu Maru, a 177,000 m3 capacity liquefied natural gas (LNG) transport vessel for use by Trans Pacific Shipping 7 Limited.Trans Pacific Shipping 7 is a joint venture between JERA Co., Inc.
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On the night of February 16, 1942, an attack was conducted by Nazi submarines, led by U-156, at oil installations on the (Allied) Dutch island of Aruba. Their torpedoes struck ships lying off the coast and in the harbor. Several of these tankers were hit and sunk; the number of victims was considerable. Some Arubans, not yet aware of the importance of a black-out during a bombardment at dark, switched on their lights at home and even took their cars and headed for the coast, their headlights switched on, hoping to catch a glimpse of the submarine(s). Because the main German goal of the attack was to destroy the oil refinery and storage tank facilities, U-156 Commander Hartenstein steamed further around Aruba. There, his men were ordered to use the 105mm deck gun to bombard the refinery. The crew forgot to remove the water cap from the barrel, so when Hartenstein ordered them to fire, the gun blew up in the faces of the two gunners (one lost his foot, one was killed). Hartenstein then ordered the 37 mm flak gun to be used to continue the attack. Sixteen rounds from the 37mm AA gun were fired, but only two hits were found by the Allies: a dent in an oil storage tank and a hole in a house.
Other subs in the wolfpack attacked and sank more merchant vessels during the morning. A day later, a torpedo that had missed its target was found on the beach, near the refinery. An attempt to disarm it failed, killing four Dutch Marines. From that point on in the war, tankers transporting oil to and from Aruba had to proceed very carefully: they only sailed in convoys, escorted by marine vessels and patrol aircraft.
AP reporter Herbert White was on the island during the attack along with an inspection party under Lt. General Frank Andrews. Both men witnessed the attack. The United States military, with the approval of the Dutch government, had just sent a security force to assess the requirements needed to guard the islands and oil refineries from Axis attacks. As this now proved to be needed, the force remained, although Aruba was never bombarded again during the war.
Footnote: (no pun intended) An American staff member at Lago, after the war, decided to spend his leave of a few months in Europe. As was the habit at that time, he took his own car along. So while driving an American car with Aruba license plates on the roads of Germany, he turned into a gas station to fill up and was assisted by a German who walked with great difficulty. When this gentleman saw the Aruban license plate on the car he exclaimed: "Ah, that's where I lost my leg!" And that's how the story of the exploded cannon came to be known.
