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Shipping News and information / In praise of old ships and of Chris Howell

« on: October 15, 2009, 02:14:54 PM »

I'm in total admiration with Chris Howell's recent portfolio depicting ships of the Port and Shaw Savill lines. I would like to thank him for sharing his unique collection with our community and to congratulate him for the quality of his scanning work. All of his files are in high resolution and they are HERE on this site!
Being a huge fan of old ships (I have quite a few of them as well in my persnal slide collection), I simply drool over the material that Chris posts here on a regular basis even if it takes me quite a long time to download the stuff into my folders.
His recent digital imagery often borders the spectacular as well. So thank you so much, Mr. Howell, for allowing us to have access to such unique ship images.

Cheers,

Marc Pich

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Shipping News and information / BC Ferries QUEEN OF THE NORTH sinks

« on: March 22, 2006, 01:21:26 PM »

BC Ferries ferry QUEEN OF THE NORTH sank this morning (01.00 hrs Pacific Time) some 70 miles south of Prince Rupert, BC, on her regular scheduled run. Rescue operations are still on going but it appears that there are no fatalities to report although some people were slightly injured. She had circa 100 passengers and crew aboard when the mishap occured and all were rescued by helicopters, five Canadian Coast Guard vessels and fishing boats in the area.
It appears QUEEN OF THE NORTH grounded and sank an hour later in rough weather (40-knot winds).
She was built in 1969 as STENA DANICA and went to BC Ferries in 1974 first as QUEEN OF SURREY and then as QUEEN OF THE NORTH in 1980.