Ocean tug "SMIT SINGAPORE" History SMIT SVITZER SMITWIJS Legend.

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

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.

Helaas veel te vroeg gesloopt.

I had the occasion to work with both the London and the Rotterdam. Really powerful and impressive ships.

The difference between Salvage Tugs and others is, Salvage Tugs are built to face the worst weather and seas and still do their job.

One of my all-time favorite vessels...

nice and powerful ocean tug.had opportunity to see her

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!

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.

Beautiful vessel 😀🇱🇺 and crew 👍

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

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

Nice and useful video thanks for sharing

Heb met Gerrit verschor gewerkt heeft mijn bak opgpikt in Nigeria met de Banckerd was een aardig avontuur.

Smit Singapore should imo have been turned into a museum ship, moored in Maassluis for example. Pity she was demolished

A beautiful ship.

She is so powerful

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.