Paul's photo shows the Dona Ana making her way over to the Western Docks with her replacement, the Clipper Brunello, coming the other way. The Dona Ana had been renamed whilst alongside on the Eastern Arm. She was previously the Clipper Bordeaux and has been refuelling P&O ships in Dover for a long time, together with the Coralwater. Dona Ana is now registered in Valparaiso and has since departed, presumably for Chile.
The port has been inundated with bunkering tankers and we have been making jokes about the Eastern Docks tanker haven. In addition to the Dona Ana, Clipper Brunello and Coralwater, a coastal tanker named the Pembroke Fisher has been laid up on the Eastern Arm presumably awaiting sale as the Fisher name on the funnel has been painted out. Meanwhile another bunkering tanker named the LS Christine has been over in the Western Docks refuelling the cruise ships. She also bunkers the three DFDS ferries during their saturday night layover in Dunkerque West.
Dona Ana on the Eastern Arm
Clipper Brunello and Coralwater on the South Jetty
Dona Ana and Pembroke Fisher on the Eastern Arm with Clipper Brunello and Coralwater on the South Jetty
LS Christine refuelling Ocean Princess with the DHB dredger David Church passing