WesterShip News No. 41, March 2012

Board Visit of 26 engine cadets of Wärtsilä Land & Sea Academy /Subic Bay, Philippines On board of MV WESTEREMS – please see pages 6/7

Reederei Hans Peterson & Söhne GmbH & Co. KG

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A new riddle

In WSN 40 we were asking about this “lady, called

“Lucy”

Elephant to starboard

The outer islands of the Southern Jersey coast are romantically entwined with legends of pirate chieftains fighting battles to the death on sandy beaches, of buried treasure beneath every dune, of whalers rushing for boats when the cry of "Thar' She Blows" echoed from lookout stations. Mysterious cargoes landed in the dead of night and were quickly gathered by horsemen who disappeared in the deep shadows of the pines, according to legend. Pages of the past are so cluttered with this type of adventure that even dedicated historians are hard put to separate fact from fiction. However, no legend of the colourful Southern Jersey seashore history matches the sight of a 65-foot high wooden elephant astride the beach looking out into the mists of the sea, a spectacle that according to historians made many coastwise seamen of the tramp ships from the West Indies swear off their rum rations for days. There is the story of one young seaman on his first voyage who had the early evening watch as his ship made it up the coast on its way to New York harbour. After first reporting "All's well" he suddenly yelled "Elephant!” The captain thinking the seaman had gone berserk rushed to the deck. Lifting his long glass to the shoreline he also exclaimed: "Elephant!", wiped off his glass and after a second look confirmed the fact that there was a giant beast standing among the dunes and eel grass of lower Absecon Island. The captain's report at anchoring in New York

harbour brought a score of news people and the curious southward into New Jersey to investigate. After a long, dusty ride from the upper part of Absecon Island to what was then called South Atlantic City, the investigators found that the elephant was no mirage. Here it stood in full majesty, king of all it surveyed. Metropolitan newspapers the next day were telling the story of a wooden elephant, which later would become known as "Lucy", much to the delight of land speculator James V. Lafferty, Jr., who was responsible for the designing and building of the strange pachyderm.

If you are interested in reading more about Lucy, the elephant, please visit her homepage: www.lucytheelephant.org Here’s a new riddle for you:

Who knows the name of this traditional food and where can you find it?

If you know the answer, kindly revert to Mrs. Böckmann.

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Seafaring cooks!

Chief cook Mr. Redentor D. RALLOS

Birthday cake Cake ground ingredients: 4 eggs 4 big spoons water 150 g sugar 80 g flour 80 g starch (mondamin if avaiable) 2 small spoon baking powder Beat 4 egg whites and 4 big spoons of water until stiff. Slowly add 150 g sugar, 4 egg yolks, 80 g flour, 80 g starch and 2 small spoons baking powder. Mix constantly until you have a homogenous mass. Cover cake form with baking paper (do not grease cake form edges). Fill dough into the cake form. Bake at 170° C abt. 35 min.

Chocolate cream, ingredients: 800 ml cream 300 g milk chocolate Break chocolate into small pices. Heat up cream together with chocolate very slowly, constantly stirring. Boil just a short moment. Then store away in the refrigerator for one night. The next day, cut the cake ground in three equal discs. Whip chocolate cream until stiff and fill cream inbetween each cake layer. Give your fancy full scope for the cake topping! Bon appetit!

CONGRATULATIONS

TEN YEARS SEA SERVICE

Captain Reinhard Meier completed 10 years of sea service with the company. Captain Meier joined the company in March 2002 as Master on board of MV Thailand Star 1. Chief Mate Igor Kukanov completed 10 years of sea service with the company. Mr. Kukanov joined the company in January 2002 as 2nd Mate. In 2005, Mr. Kukanov was promoted to Chief Mate. II. Ing. Oleg Morgun completed 10 years of sea service within the company. Mr. Morgun joined the company March 2002 as 2nd Engineer.

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Christmas Eve on MV WESTERLAND

Whilst Easter is just around the corner, here are some Christmas impressions from the celebration on MV WESTERLAND:

Waiting for Santa Claus…

Electrical officer Alingasa

singing a Christmas song

Singing all together!

AB Japos with Christmas Dance

Apprentice Müller telling a poem

Chief Mate Bobkov

telling a Christmas story

Eng. Cadet Bustamante receiving a gift

/Captain Kramp

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Wärtsilä Training Academy -26 engine-cadets on boardvisit on MV WESTEREMS

As some of you might have heard already, our company has launched an engine cadet program together with the other principals of the Hanseatic Training Institute (HTI) at the Wärtsilä Training Academy in Subic Bay, Philippines. During a visit to Manila, Mr. Jebsen took the opportunity to visit the impressive facilities of the Training Academy together with Mr. Ioannis Zanos, training manager at HTI in Manila.

On November 15th , 2011, an entire class of 26 engine cadets visited MV WESTEREMS together with their trainers during her berthing in Manila in order to get a first impression of their future work environment.

Captain Markov explained the basic safety matters for visitors on board and presented a personal familiarization booklet about the vessel. Then, everybody proceeded to the engine control room, where Chief Engineer Strohschein explained the main structure of the engine department and machinery equipment on board, purpose of main engine, auxiliary engines and related aggregates to and around them and gave a tour of the engine compartments.

Sales Manager Mr. H. Balinas, Dorm Master Mr. O. Genilo, Ch. Eng. D. Strohschein

As future new faces onboard, the cadets were able to receive familiarization routines on the bridge, which is considered the centre of navigation of the vessel. Captain Markov gave an interesting introduction and 2nd Mate Mr. Calzada was available for detailed discussion, explanation and demonstration of all the navigation and radio equipments onboard.

Sales Manager Mr. H.Balinas & Instructor Mr. R. Langilao from Wärtsilä Land & Sea Academy

Since safety is everybody’s concern, the cadets were also introduced to the different life saving appliances and fire fighting equipments on board.

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The cadets assembled at the muster station and 3rd Mate Mr. Balwit Jr. explained about lifeboat, rescue boat & liferaft, the proper procedure of launching as well as their equipments.

Group picture in the ship’s office

During lunch break, the cadets were invited to the crew messroom to taste and enjoy our meal on board, with full respects to ship’s Chief Cook Mr. Medina. At the end of the visit, Captain Markov, Chief Engineer Strohschein and Mr. Ioannis Tzanos wished the cadets the good luck for their education process and engineering career.

Mr. Ioannis Tzanos & Captain Aleksej Markov

We are very happy to report that three of these cadet are going to join our fleet shortly.

SHELL luboil seminar at the HTI office Manila End of November 2011, Messrs. SHELL held a seminar at the HTI premises.

It was very constructive and the crew got a lot of information from the representative Mr. Capistrano.

16 officers and 2 instructors for the engine simulator participated in the seminar and will each receive a certificate.

Thanks to everybody involved!

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Farewell

On February 10th 2012, Mrs. Karla Kwauka, had her last day in the office. She has been working with the company since 1984 and became to be the “pearl” of our accounting department.

Mrs. Kwauka and Mrs. Wulf-Pohlmann have been working side by side for more than 12 years.

Mrs. Kwauka and Captain Manthe, who was already with the company when she started. They sure shared “good and tough times”!

Stow away… “Stowaway”

In our last issue we were reporting about a “stowaway” on MV Westermoor, also known as purple heron (“Purpurreiher”) as Captain Kramp knew. Apperently there are more curiosities to be seen, lately another “stowaway” on MV Westerhamm:

This picture was taken from Chief Mate Kukanov, whilst checking the draft marks in Kingston/Jamaica, on February 10th, 2012. The dog was sitting on the bulbuous bow and “disembarked” only after the vessel turned and departed – rescued by a tug boat.

This big fish was caught on MV Westertal!