A ship shipping ship shipping shipping ships - wow!

[Dave 123]

Who gets the job of lashing an almighty bungee around that lot, then pulling it tight?

 

[asterix]

At least they don't need to carry lifeboats.

 

[SteCenturion]

Are there any really poor ones that carry enormous quantities of poo around the world ??
We could then discuss $hit shipping $hit ships.

 

[asterix]

They used to have the 'Bovril Boats'

In 1878 the passenger steamer The Princess Alice sank in a collision with great loss of life. When the dead were later recovered by watermen, it was found that many had in fact not drowned, but had died from ingesting the poisoned waters of the toxic sludge filled river.

A Royal Commission of 1882 concluded that it was necessary to create a cleaner river by separating the sludge part from the liquid sewage and remove it via boat for disposal at sea. In 1887 the first ship of a long line of 'pump and dump' effluent tanker vessels was launched. These ships, later nicknamedBovril boats to describe their liquid cargo by those who crewed them, were very well maintained and specially designed for marine disposal.

When I sailed off E. Anglia they were a common sight. We tended to avoid the Black Deep where the stuff was dumped.

 

[Brains]

I think it was @Piemaster who published a link some time ago, detailing live ship movements. www.marinetraffic.com/ais/home which is a bit of fun.
Blue Marlin (lots of ships in that name!)
http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/306589000

The BLUE MARLIN we are referring to is the one with the IMO number of 9186338.
The IMO number is the unique unchanging number all ship have (in effect, a chassis number) and can be used to trace ships in a a number of publicly available databases such as Equasis.org and http://www.shipspotting.com/

The ship left Vigo in Portugal on the 17th of December and is currently doing 10.2k off Namibia on her way to Melbourne where her ETA is 7th of Feb

 

[Gravity Aided]

I love both marinetraffic. com and shipspotting.com, esp. since I am now landlocked. Lots of fun, and very informative.

 

[Piemaster]

There's a piece about the Dockwise Vanguard - the worlds biggest heavy lift ship here. It's been contracted to move the Costa Concordia.

Edit: the Vanguard is also the first ship to have approval for the Bridge on one side so that longer loads can go on it, where the lookouts have their view restricted by the load. Dunno how they see to Port though - maybe cameras.

 

[andytheflyer]

There's a piece about the Dockwise Vanguard - the worlds biggest heavy lift ship here. It's been contracted to move the Costa Concordia.

Edit: the Vanguard is also the first ship to have approval for the Bridge on one side so that longer loads can go on it, where the lookouts have their view restricted by the load. Dunno how they see to Port though - maybe cameras.

Thanks for this Piemaster. I used to work for Boskalis Westminster - fascinating company with lots of big floating toys to play with. Really enjoyed my years with them. Been downhill ever since

 

[asterix]

As a vintage ship enthusiast I have been following the fortunes of an old sailing clipper(amongst others) that for years was falling apart in Glasgow.

She has had an amazing change of fortune and is now well on her way to Australia.. It seems that the posher ancestors of many Australians actually went their of their own accord rather than in leg-irons and this ship carried a large number. Consequently, despite being built and run in the UK, she is seen as 'their heritage' so the 'City of Adelaide' built Sunderland 1864, has been saved at the last minute thanks to the Australians (not forgetting the valiant efforts of the Scottish Maritime Museum who saved her from demolition).

The operation to move her has been an epic one:

She is due to arrive in Australia later this month.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

As a vintage ship enthusiast I have been following the fortunes of an old sailing clipper(amongst others) that for years was falling apart in Glasgow.

She has had an amazing change of fortune and is now well on her way to Australia.. It seems that the posher ancestors of many Australians actually went their of their own accord rather than in leg-irons and this ship carried a large number. Consequently, despite being built and run in the UK, she is seen as 'their heritage' so the 'City of Adelaide' built Sunderland 1864, has been saved at the last minute thanks to the Australians (not forgetting the valiant efforts of the Scottish Maritime Museum who saved her from demolition).

She is due to arrive in Australia later this month.

I saw her leaving from the Thames. I hadn't realised quite how much work needs to be done on her. It really is a job and a half.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I have probably missed this bit, but how do they get the barges off??
It is all very well sinking the boat, but do the barges at the bottom also get submerged so that the one on the top can be taken off first?

Incidentally, if the boat really DOES sink, then they will have no shortage of lifeboats!!

 

[Keith Oates]

See post #33 and it gives you the correct answer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A ship shipping ship shipping shipping ships - wow!

 

[oldroadman]

Brilliant thread. So much to learn about a subject taht had never occurred to me. Thanks one and all for the information (and the off the wall stuff about ship shipping, bovril boats, etc).

 

[winjim]

I've been reminded of this thread by this crane craning crane craning craning cranes.


View: https://twitter.com/MachinePix/status/1317596127508692994?s=09

 

[snorri]

I've been reminded of this thread by this crane craning crane craning craning cranes.

Which in turn reminds me of.......https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OwNYIdJmlQ