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New Mon 30 Dec 13 01:16 
 Container ship in danger of sinking... - Manatee
...off Newfoundland.

Has a crack in it. I expected it to be decades old, but it was only built in 2007.

gcaptain.com/msc-monterey-containership-sinking-canada/
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New Mon 30 Dec 13 07:59 
 Container ship in danger of sinking... - Zero
big cargo ships cracking up is pretty common, and has been since the war

this one broke in two

gcaptain.com/mol-comfort-incident-photos/


The big oil tanker built in Tyneside, and seen nearly completed in the film Get Carter, had a life of 13 years because it cracked up.
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New Mon 30 Dec 13 17:16 
 Container ship in danger of sinking... - BiggerBadderDave
The Liberty Ships used to crack and sink, mind you, they were built from keel to launch in a few days. My old man talks about them so I'll ask him if he ever served on one. That's all he ever talks about.

"Happy New year dad"

"Happy New year son. When I was in the navy..."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah dad, put me mam on the phone"
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New Mon 30 Dec 13 17:32 
 Container ship in danger of sinking... - Armel Coussine
A fully loaded very large bulk carrier is really a wobbly sausage supported throughout its length by the water. They are flimsy in relation to their mass, like grossly obese people or animals.

Seems to me they can be vulnerable in the truly enormous seas that can occur here and there in the oceans. They can break if supported from either end or from the middle.

They also have phenomenal inertia and take miles and miles to stop or turn. Driving them must take an evolved style of seamanship. Not for the faint-hearted one would think.
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New Mon 30 Dec 13 18:06 
 Container ship in danger of sinking... - Westpig
>> That's all he ever talks about.
>>
>> "Happy New year dad"
>>
>> "Happy New year son. When I was in the navy..."

Is he called Albert?
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New Mon 30 Dec 13 18:08 
 Container ship in danger of sinking... - Runfer D'Hills
>>Is he called Albert?

...and does he live in Fife?
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New Mon 30 Dec 13 18:35 
 Container ship in danger of sinking... - Old Navy
>> ...and does he live in Fife?
>>

:-)))) :-P
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New Mon 30 Dec 13 19:11 
 Container ship in danger of sinking... - BiggerBadderDave
I'm going to start calling Old Navy 'Dad'. A great bloke and enjoy his banter but we never agree...
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New Mon 30 Dec 13 19:14 
 Container ship in danger of sinking... - Runfer D'Hills
Dunno if you should go quite that far Dave, but I shall now always think of him as "Uncle Albert" !

;-)
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New Mon 30 Dec 13 19:49 
 Container ship in danger of sinking... - Old Navy
I do have a faded beard. :-)
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New Mon 30 Dec 13 20:49 
 Container ship in danger of sinking... - Old Navy
There you go, sorted. :-)
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New Mon 30 Dec 13 20:59 
 Container ship in danger of sinking... - Armel Coussine
What do you think of my wobbly sausage/enormous Southern Ocean seas theory UA? Something in it or rubbish?

Welcome to the forum by the way. There are far too many whippersnappers here, some of them hardly 50... You will bring welcome gravitas you depraved old matelot you...
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New Mon 30 Dec 13 21:05 
 Container ship in danger of sinking... - Old Navy
There is a grain of truth in your theory, ships are flexible like all big structures, some ships have expansion joints in their superstructures to accommodate hull bending.

Me depraved? I will have you know that I have woken up in some high class gutters in my younger days. :-)
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New Mon 30 Dec 13 21:41 
 Container ship in danger of sinking... - Runfer D'Hills
>> There you go, sorted. :-)


Splendid !
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New Mon 30 Dec 13 21:54 
 Container ship in danger of sinking... - Ted

Hull bending ??? Another depraved East Coast fetish ?.......better tell Dutchie !

HO
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New Tue 31 Dec 13 08:49 
 Container ship in danger of sinking... - Old Navy
I vaguely remember, probably from a documentary, that the stern of the Titanic broke off at an expansion joint as this was a weak point and the superstructure was not supporting the hull at that location as the stern came out of the water.
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New Tue 31 Dec 13 09:16 
 Container ship in danger of sinking... - Duncan
>> There you go, sorted. :-)
>>

Welcome to the forum.

How would you like to be addressed?

Uncle?

Nunc?

Abert?

Bertie? (Cring)

Or perhaps UA?

As long as you don't keep on telling us stories of when you were at sea - or rather, under it!
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New Tue 31 Dec 13 10:44 
 Container ship in danger of sinking... - Old Navy
Definitely not UA, in the days of the rum ration UA was the designation for Under Age (20), as in not entitled.

UA is fine, I will take it as a compliment, or an indication of forum members poor eyesight. :-)
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New Tue 31 Dec 13 10:55 
 Container ship in danger of sinking... - Duncan
>> Definitely not UA, in the days of the rum ration UA was the designation for
>> Under Age (20), as in not entitled.
>>
>> UA is fine, I will take it as a compliment, or an indication of forum
>> members poor eyesight. :-)
>>

Eh? Make your mind up!

By the way, as a new boy, you will eventually find out that the other posters write a load of tosh. To save you time, ignore them and just read my posts.
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New Tue 31 Dec 13 11:00 
 Container ship in danger of sinking... - Old Navy
All posters write a load of tosh, I sussed that by reading some of ONs posts.

I missed the EDIT, It should read "UA!!!!!!!!!!! In the days of..........
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New Tue 31 Dec 13 12:20 
 Container ship in danger of sinking... - Roger.
....I remember the intoxicating smell of pusser's rum.
Doing a bit of bootneck sea-time training we were taken to the rum store to witness the rum issue.
We were excluded from sippers!
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New Tue 31 Dec 13 12:28 
 Container ship in danger of sinking... - Old Navy
>> We were excluded from sippers!
>>

And so you should have been, Royals were never known for handling their drink. :-)
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New Tue 31 Dec 13 12:44 
 Container ship in danger of sinking... - Duncan
>>Royals were never known for handling their drink. :-)
>>

You never sailed with Princess Margaret then!

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New Tue 31 Dec 13 21:01 
 Container ship in danger of sinking... - Roger.
I was paid £17.00 per month when I joined in 1954.
Mess bills were about a tenner a month, so not a lot left over for pop when on a run a shore! Mind you a pint of scrumpy and a tiddy-oggy could be had for less than a a bob.
A hoses neck, afloat, was about 8d - 2d for the brandy and 6d for the dry ginger.
Seniors Service a shilling for 20!
My father, a lifetime RN plumber, used to roll tickler from half-pound tins. Hardly ever bought tailor made.
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