"EDT Hercules" leaves the shipyard

"La Naval" from Sestao (Spain) last ship 

Time elapses very quickly, more than we usually realize. Yesterday we saw the departure of "La Naval" shipyard's last ship, built there and named "EDT Hercules", and she is the last because there is no one behind to build ... until they get new contracts. This situation is similar to that which occurred about 8 years ago, when this historic shipyard, "La Naval", changed ownership from public Izar to private Construcciones Naval del Norte (CNN).

By that date, October 2006, the LNG gas carrier "Bilbao Knutsen" was launched,  and I put in my other blog a brief post on the launching, with a beautiful night photograph taken by my daughter Natalia. She was the last Izar ship but it was not the last "La Naval" ship, that continued building many ships, some very important.

Yesterday we saw the departure of "La Naval" last ship and what we all hope is that this be just a relative last, and that the shipyard gets new ship contracts and we can continue watching them passing below our beloved Bizkaia bridge. We are hearing in different places, also what authorities say, that they are negotiating the construction of new ships, so we want to be optimistic and hope that "La Naval" will continue building ships.

The vessel we are speaking was launched on and is a twin of "EDT Jane", about which I also wrote a note in my blog when she was delivered a few months ago. Her main particulars can be seen here and I will not repeat them.

This is a video of the ship exiting after passing the hanging bridge. It called my attention to see the vessel alone, without the fore and aft tugs that I allways used to see scorting any vessel leaving "La Naval".