I never cease to be amazed at the size of those yokes when you see them on land!
Granuaile still there and bouy still on the beach.
Edit: Taken back to the mothership yesteday afternoon.
Just one of dozens of fishing vessels currently of the SW coast
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:353383/zoom:8
So many in fact that they have their own hospital ship on site!
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:167927/zoom:8
German replenishment ship off Howth
Headed into Dublin Port for a courtesy visit.
The lads doing drills off Lambay Island today
Is this one of our naval ships? Seen off Greystones this morning. Marine traffic says all our ships are tied up in Cork.
Ex US Coast Guard Cutter now operated by the Sea Shepard anti whaling bunch.
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:254207/mmsi:341224001/imo:8027406/vessel:JOHN_PAUL_DE_JORIA
Wouldn't be the first German replenishment ship seen off Howth😜
This old girl has been anchored off Lambay Island this last few days… possibly waiting for the Old Gaffers regatta this weekend in Poolbeg
she was moored on the Liffey last week:
Was there last summer too for about a week.
This is in Dun Laoghaire after a time in Cork
This fella in the Baltic Sea last Friday..
Is that one of the new German Class 212A fuel-cell submarines?
I honestly don't know. That pic was taken at max zoom on the iPhone!, but we were in German waters
A quick google of the 212A and they look fairly similar, so maybe..
Jack up barge in Dun Laoghaire. Bizarre looking thing
https://afloat.ie/port-news/dun-laoghaire-news/item/68645-giant-danish-jack-up-platform-arrives-in-dun-laoghaire-harbour
Someone rowing across the irish sea
This Dutch vessel was in Dublin during the week. Marine Traffic was identifying it as "NATO Warship" at the time though it's now being listed as "Johan de Witt". Weird looking yoke with the high windowless sides.
This fella, at anchor off Portmarnock!
Departed at 10am this morning.
Also a German Naval vessel in over the weekend - due to leave shortly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_frigate_Hamburg
Ulysses doing circles off the Welsh coast for the afternoon
2 British navy ships in close to the coast. More then likely looking for the missing crew member off a naval support ship
Serious amount of UK military vessels off North West Mayo.
It appears there were 4 drones out there the other night trying to crash Zelenskyy's plane, and then spy on the LÉ William Butler Yeats
https://www.thejournal.ie/drones-dublin-ireland-hybrid-warfare-russia-6893104-Dec2025/?utm_source=thejournal&utm_content=top-stories
A decision was made not to shoot down the drones, and there was no ability onboard the naval vessel to disable them. It is understood an Irish Air Corps aircraft was also patrolling at the time but did not get involved.
Why not I wonder? Risk of ordnance ending up in residential areas? It would have been a good training exercise to measure our actual capabilities.
maybe shots being fired/drones being downed as Zelenskyy's plane was still taxiing to a stand might have been something they wanted to avoid!! and it seems like we don't have any Electronic Warfare kit to bring them down..
Dutch cargo ship on its way from Belfast to Dublin taking shelter between Irelands eye & portmarnock
A couple of dodgy customers off the west coast, one coming from Russian and the other from Israel, destination; 'for orders'. One flying the Ghanaian flag, the other one the Cameroon flag. Both well known flags of convenience…
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:9284235/zoom:8
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:711963/zoom:8
They have to be up to something…
Would ship to ship oil transfer be feasible out there? and could they 'ghost' their AIS data to show them being somewhere else (I guess 2 Rib's carrying the active AIS units could do that?)
