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Still going around in circles off the scrappy, still running at 2 knots, looks like HMS Plymouth is not liking what's going to happen to it.

HMS Plymouth is now being towed in to the scrappy by two tugs, Amber II tug is making it's way into the bay at 5knots ,I presume to refuel and head to Malta, their goes another bit of our history, sad.

Ais has Amber II anchored off Aliaga town in the bay and a tug Pantodynamos towing at 0.8knots from the last AmberII position as she was one of the two tugs, it seems HMS Plymouth is now gone or will soon be.

Davew3,I have watched this journey with great interest, and thank you for keeping us updated.

I think we have a twist, can't prove it but I believe she is on tow at 8knots and is going to Braila in Romania as above two tugs picked her up from AmberII and I thought that was the end I checked out the tugs names on the AIS and one was a small tug and the other was a seagoing tug, sort of left it at that and when I came back the track of the seagoing tug instead of going to the scrappy, had turned out to sea, the AIS has it showing restricted manoeuvrability doing 8 knots and her destination is Romania.

I missed out the smaller tug buzzed off at 12knots

http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/7038642/vessel:PANTODYNAMOS

This tug is now doing 11knots and now not showing restricted manoeuvrability but under way, it's tracking at Aliaga is also wierd but then I couldn't find Amber II until I went and used the link I have been on all week, still think HMS Plymouth is under tow by the Pantodynamos, I can only think different captains, different idea's

The tug is still doing 11 knots and is half way down the sea of Mamara.

Tug anchored off Istanbul along with about 30 other ships, must be a one way system into the Black sea.

Thanks for keeping a watch on this sad trip. No doubt we'll be seeing her again - in the form of cheapo Chinese razor blades!

Keeps reminding me of that painting of an old sailing ship going the breakers, very sad, but no painting our history going this time, the only sight we have is that lovely picture further up the commentary of it being towed in the Med.

The tug, left it's anchorage about 2am our time and entered the Black sea a few hours later,the Ais hasn't reported for about two hours which means she must be cutting across, had a look on Google maps of her destination lots of shipping laid up but mostly large river barges, as I can't prove she's towing the Plymouth I feel a bit of a fraud, but it's route into the Turkish scrappy and the route the AmberII match and the ais did report is was towing, trying another way to get info, have asked one of the guys from the Radio officers association to ask his mafia have they seen the Plymouth, might work.

This one?

Turner

That's the one Gibbo, beautifly sad, if their such a word.

The tug is halfway to the river she will use to get to her destination still doing 11knots

The tug is about 50 miles from the Danube and where it does a bit of left hand down a bit and goes to Braila, doing about 8knots where it's due at 6:00am UTC tomorrow.

The oil Painting is entitled The Fighting Temeraire

The tug I'm following is moving along the waterways, between Ukraine and Rumania the waterway is the International border,as I will be out all day, I won't be able to watch the Ais route to see if I could work out if it was towing HMS Plymouth.

Bye HMS Plymouth, interesting journey, it shows how it's possible to move banned materials around the world, just wonder if the permission to move the ship was given for scrapping in Turkey, we will never know.