Cyprus-flagged, homeport Limassol, IMO 9516399, MMSI 209677000 and call sign 5BHF5. Vanuatu-flagged 2009-2019. Owner/manager Safe Bulkers Management Ltd, Limassol, Cyprus. Built by Shin Kasado Dockyard Co. Ltd, Kudamatsu, Japan in 2009
An item reported that the Qantas flying-boat air service between Sydney, Australia and Noumea (French New Caledonia), New Hebrides (nowdays Republic of Vanatua) and Fiji was stopped on 1 June 1955. The service was taken over by two separate services. One while using Skymaster land-based aircraft started on 8 June with a fortnightly line to Noumea and another line every four weeks with as destination Nandi, Fiji. Within some months were airstrips at Vila and Espiritu Santo completed and the present service would be extended.(1)
Note
1. Qantas operated flying boats since the late 1930s first with Empire flying boats later Catalinas until the Second World War and after the war again.
Source
Website Royal Australian Navy, Sea Power Centre.
St. Vincent&Grenadines-flagged, IMO 8764119, MMSI 377405000 and call sign J8B6076. As GSF Galaxy III Vanatua-flagged. Built by Keppel Fels, Singapore in 1999. Built of connecting two rigs (one was the Garbus) and creating a construction maintenance vessel on behalf of Petrodec. Renamed by Damen Shiprepair Rotterdam, Netherlands on 21 May 2025. Self-elevating heavy lift jack-up. Proces conversion started in 2021 when Petrodec solved the problem of decommissioning complex offshore stations positioned in the UK North Sea. On 13 December were the three parts including a new mid section docked in drydock 7 to be connected.
Schelde off Vlissingen, Netherlands 19-3-2026
France-flagged, IMO 9178410, MMSI 228442700 and call sign FMVL. Built by Loland Verft, Leirvik I Sogn, Norway in 1999. Owner/manager Les Abeilles, Le Havre, France. Vanatua-flagged 2004-2005, Norway-flagged 2005-2016, Bahamas-flagged 2016, Belgium-flagged 2016-2020, Bahamas-flagged 2020, Belgium-flagged 2020-2022, Bahamas-flagged 2022 and France-flagged 2022.
Amsterdam, Netherlands 31 August 2024
Vanatua-flagged, IMO 6924844, MMSI 577930000 and call sign YJWP4. Built at Schiffswerft Egar Andre, Magdeburg, East Germany in 1957 as the tug Stanislaw, converted into a sailing passenger ship in 1993 and 2023 into a sailing cargo ship. Schooner rigged.
Vanatua-flagged, MMSI 576054000 and call sign YJS7206. Built at Montrose, Scotland as a steam powered herring drifter in 1920, minesweeper between 1939-1945. After the war used as sand dredger and coastal cargo vessel.
Vanatua-flagged, MMSI 57781000 and call sign YJXL4. Built as the coastal freighter Harle Tief at the Bodewes shipyard, Martenshoek, Netherlands in 1912. Sailing cargo vessel since 4 May 2024. In the 1980s converted into a sail training vessel, around 2022 by shipyard Talsma, Franeker, Netherlands converted into a sailing cargo ship. Schoeneraak.
Urk, Netherlands 28 May 2022
As VMI Love Vanatua-flagged, MMSI 577452000 and call sign YJWU4. Of TBworkboats. In March 2023 of Vessel Managers International LLC, USA.
Vanatua-flagged, homeport Port Vila, IMO 6819697, MMSI 576909000 and call sign YJRA7.Gross tonnage 274 tons, summer deadweight 155 tons and as dimensions 32,62 (overall) x 9,2 (extreme) x 3,69 metres. Built by Béliard-Murdoch, Oostende for account of the SA de Remorquage à Hélice, Antwerp, Belgium in 1969. She was stationed at Zeebrugge, Belgium. Sold in 1996 towards Portugal and renamed Leopardo. Ex-Wielingen renamed 1997 and Leopardo renamed October 2004. Owner Leopard Shipping Ltd., Gdynia, Poland and manager Westcoasting Offshore Services BV, IJmuiden, Netherlands.
Vlissingen, Netherlands 19-11-2023
Vanatua-flagged, Funafuti, IMO 9158692, MMSI 572591220 and call sign T2EX5. As MCS Ailsa, United Kingdom owned and managed, Cyprus-flagged, homeport Limassol, MMSSI 209071000 and call sign 5BDK3. As DCS Adventurer Dutch property. Built by State Shipbuilding Enterprises, Baltya, Lithuania and completed by Scheepswerf Baars, Sliedrecht, Netherlands in 1995.
An item reported that on 5 August a Japanese submarine at Vila Harbor, Efate Islands, New Hebrides [Anglo-French condominium, nowadaysVanutua] was sunk.
Source
Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 242 dated 9 August 1942
Vanatua-flagged, homeport Port Vila, IMO 6911861, MMSI 576259000 and call sign YJVW2. Ex-Venus renamed 984, Flamingo II renamed September 2004, Flamingo renamed February 2008 and Flamingo I renamed June 2009. Built by Scheepswerven De Grave, Zeebrugge, Belgium in 1968. Chartered by Rederij Groen B.V., Scheveningen, Netherlands.
Valletta, Malta 13 October 2022
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Panama-flagged, IMO 9620384, MMSI 374888000 and call sign H3FQ. Registered owner and manager Toei Reefer Line Ltd. or register owner Panama TRL SA, Panama City. Earlier Vanatua and Liberia? Built by Kurinoura Dockyard&Shipbuilding, Yawatahama, Japn in 2011.
Valletta, Malta 15 October 2022 
Valletta, Malta 18 October 2022. Behind her the Lady Tuna
Panama-flagged, IMO 9666481, MMSI 370599000 and call sign 3ELC8. Built in 2013. Registered owner Shinko Kaiun, Tokyo, Japan or Star Navigation S.A., Panama and managed by Shinko Kaiun Co. Ltd., in 2013 Vanatua-flagged. Laid down with hull number 507 by Kyokuyo Shipbuilding&Iron Works, Shimonoseki, Japan on 20 August 2012, launched on 7 October 2012 and completed on 17 January 2013.
Vanatua-flagged, homeport Port Vila, IMO 8941808, MMSI 576988000 and call sign YJRJ3. Built by Scheepswerf Boot Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands in 1922. (ex-Jakoba renamed February 1928, Anna Martha renamed January 1962, Minde renamed 1971, Klaus D renamed August 1985 and Enno Doedens Star renamed 1995. Owned by Oceanwide Expeditions, Vlissingen.
Vanatua-flagged, homeport Port Vila, IMO 9015448, MMSI 577511000 and call sign YJB9. As Pilsum since 2002 Antigua&Barbuda-flagged, homeport Saint John’s, call sign V2AH9 and registered owner Roland Coastal Marine GmbH&Co. KG and managed by Reederei Erwin Strahlmann GmbH&Co. KG, both at Brunsbuettel, Germany. Built by RSW Rosslauer Schiffswerft, Rosslau, Germany in 1993. Ex-Pilsum 1993, Saar Rotterdam March 1993-December 1996, Pilsum December 1996-January 1998, Heiko B January 1998-July 2002, Pilsum 2002-2020. Other sources claiming Panama-flagged, call sign 3FCJ2 and registered owner Vulin Inc. And managed by We Ships Denizcilik ve Ticaret A.S., Turkey.
Vanatua-flagged, homeport Port Vila, IMO 6819697, MMSI 576909000 and call sign YJRA7.Gross tonnage 274 tons, summer deadweight 155 tons and as dimensions 32,62 (overall) x 9,2 (extreme) x 3,69 metres. Built by Béliard-Murdoch, Oostende for account of the SA de Remoquage à Hélice, Antwerp, Belgium in 1969. She was stationed at Zeebrugge, Belgium. Sold in 1996 towards Portugal and renamed Leopardo. Ex-Wielingen renamed 1997 and Leopardo renamed October 2004.
