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Shipping News and information / Re: Cruise ship sorties
« on: March 31, 2020, 08:52:35 AM »
Britannia is doing the same now.
I suppose that when all the 'guests' are disembarked, the generation of 'grey water' is much reduced. Surprised that some enterprising operator of a small tanker does not see a business opportunity here, to do it for them.
Holedriller

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Shipping News and information / Cruise ship sorties
« on: March 30, 2020, 09:16:11 AM »
Can anyone explain why Queen Victoria and Ventura left Southampton yesterday morning and raced down the Channel as far as Devon, before returning this morning and mooring up again in Southampton? The liner equivalent of taking your dog for a walk.
Holedriller

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I must congratulate the crew on a very neat 'parking' job. A few feet either way would probably have resulted in damage to the bottom plating.
Holedriller

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From the look of the Marine Traffic plot she just went straight on at the river bend. Does this indicate yet another power failure at a critical juncture. There is too much of this 'fail safe' rubbish about, that turns everything off when there is an abnormal  (and perhaps erroneous) indication. Also the two anchors are shown hanging down, is that as far as they got, or have they been largely recovered?
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Sounds to me that one of them had their time zone clocks different to the other.
Also I cannot see that the navy ship was an invisible radar target. From the pictures it is by no means a stealth design.
Holedriller

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Would she have her original Abis crew on, or would it be a new squad who would not be familiar with
the vessel?
Holedriller

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Shipping News and information / Re: Ship stuck on sands off Norfolk
« on: December 04, 2016, 03:28:57 PM »
What is tug RT Adriaan trying to do? It seems to be moving in an arc of constant radius centred on the bow of Muros, and facing away from the ship, which I interpret as being attached by a tow rope, and trying to pull the bow sideways to the SW into deeper water. But it is now low water, so if Muros did not move at high water, what is the point of pulling now? Perhaps it is just a convenient way to keep attached and wait for the next high.
Holedriller

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Shipping News and information / Re: Saga Sky in tTrouble off Dover
« on: November 20, 2016, 03:42:43 PM »
What has been the role of the tanker Coastalwater which appears to have drifted aimlessly in the same area as Saga Sky, at one time getting within a couple of lengths of her. Now some miles away but not proceeding anywhere. Hardly providing assistance as the French rescue tug and one or two RNLI lifeboats are looking after that? And what about the stone barge, where is that? Is it  powered barge?
Holedriller

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Shipping News and information / Wes Carina V Prawle Point
« on: June 30, 2016, 10:09:03 AM »
Looking at the track of Wes Carina on Marine Traffic, it looks as if she was within 2km of alliding with Prawle Point at 0800 this morning. Or is this a normal Costa Concordia type drive by, I realise how picturesque the scenery is? I was brought up mucking about in small boats there, and know how hard the rocks are.
Holedriller

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Shipping News and information / Interceptor 43
« on: May 26, 2016, 03:04:43 PM »
I read with fascination that the new Vittoria Shipyard Interceptor 43 patrol craft has four Mercury outboards, the performance of which is 'independent of altitude'!
Holedriller

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Shipping News and information / Re: CSCL Indian Ocean aground on Elbe
« on: February 06, 2016, 04:18:28 PM »
It looks to me that on first seeing Empire approaching on her STARBOARD bow, CSCL initiated a hard turn to PORT, to pass wrong side, but the more manouverable Empire did an even more violent turn to her starboard. If the Ship-plotter moving map can be scaled, Empire cleared CSCL bow by just a length, thus regaining the side of the channel where she should have been to start with, but the lumbering CSCL could not, despite a visible effort, turn back before leaving the channel to port and running aground. It was dark, but I have no idea what visibility was at the time.
Or am I reading too much into the moving map?
Holedriller

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Shipping News and information / Re: Verity in trouble
« on: January 30, 2016, 11:27:50 AM »
If you look at the track of Verity yesterday afternoon on Marine Traffic, which I am not clever enough to post a link to, it seems that she was within two miles of the rocks at Hartland Point and drifting towards them at nearly 2 knots. Too close for comfort. Still shown as trudging towards Swansea at less than 4.
Holedriller

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Is there a 'driver' on the ferry/pod, or is it controlled from an office on the shore?
Holedriller

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Help and Advice / Re: How do you find out the cargo of a ship?
« on: August 23, 2015, 11:11:38 AM »
Everything you could ever want to know about Bideford and Yelland movements and cargoes here. Thank you Roger Hoad, harbour master, I wish we had more like you.

http://www.torridge.gov.uk/harbour_latest.

Holedriller

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It has all gone very quiet on the dismantling of CC, the web cam seems to no longer show a view of the ship. Is anything happening?
Holedriller

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