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While looking up the Great Bitter Lake I came across a rather enjoyable short read about the Great Bitter Lake Association, which was formed by the captains of 14 cargo ships that were forced to anchor there when the Six Day War broke out. The ships were subsequently stranded there for quite a while, with the sailors unable to leave (and later replaced by new recruits who were basically paid to look after the ships and their cargo until such time they were allowed to sail again). The crews of those ships naturally became well acquanited with each other, resulting in much partying, drinking etc. An extract:
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Great Bitter Lake Association - 99% Invisible
When Eric Carlson retired, he dove headfirst into an old hobby… philately. Philately is the study of postage stamps, and it’s a tragically underappreciated field of study. A stamp can give you a perfect snapshot of the past on a single square inch of paper. Carlson finds his stamps where every...
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I have to say that with no dependants and all my family in Spain, if I happened to lose my job and break up with my partner at the same time, I would sooo choose a job on a cargo ship over taking any given manual or clerical job for a similar pay and live in a rental flat. For a few years at least.
I’m under no illusions it’d be a cosy job or I’d live the life of a modern day Jack Sparrow having great adventures at every port of call, but provided it would not be too physically demanding, far more appealing IMO than an equivalent work on a building site on dry land. Or behind the counter in a shop, or in a office doing full clerical work for that matter.
I’m under no illusions it’d be a cosy job or I’d live the life of a modern day Jack Sparrow having great adventures at every port of call, but provided it would not be too physically demanding, far more appealing IMO than an equivalent work on a building site on dry land. Or behind the counter in a shop, or in a office doing full clerical work for that matter.
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Another threat to the National Elf Service.Tragic real world consequences of the Suez incident.
Gnome limits: UK garden centres run out after Suez blockage
Lack of raw materials and booming sales over lockdown have led to shortage of garden ornamentswww.theguardian.com
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
My grandfather travelled to Australia by cargo ship in his 70s - he saved a lot of money!
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Likewise, now I'm too old for the French Foreign Legion my 'escape a life gone to total shit' plan would be something similar; a job on a ship or in a remote area, time off somewhere beautiful every so often, and then when too old for work retire to a small cottage to read and walk in the country. Sounds a bit appealing now tbh….
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From the other side of the coin, let's raise a glass to this bloke who is finally allowed to go home after spending four years stranded on the ship he worked on against his wishes in legal limbo 
Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years
Mohammed Aisha had been living on a ship marooned off Egypt's Red Sea coast for four years.
www.bbc.co.uk
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
This is an interesting explanation of possible causes of big ship getting stuck.
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Books, not bombs
Sorry, not ships, but a question; does anyone know the fuel consumption of the Thames Clipped and how effecient they are? I found this and that's about it MBNA Thames Clippers Hunt Class Catamarans - Shipping Today & Yesterday Magazine
petee
no gods, no malarkey
we're getting our very own visit from an Evergreen size thing. maybe it'll get stuck in the Narrows.
www.google.com
Report: Biggest vessel to dock on East Coast to pass by Staten Island next week
The CNA CGM Marco Polo is about 1,300 feet long.
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
I hope the skipper / pilot and the fleet of tugs know exactly what they are doing (and exactly where they are !)size of that sumbitch
[There's a very mobile sand bank in the narrows at the entrance to Whitby harbour, not only does it re-locate - it changes size depending on tide and what silt has been dumped by the river recently. Very rarely, one or other of the local crabbers / trip fishing boats will touch bottom. Cue a lot of amusement from other skippers. Once, coming back in after a trip on the MAHepworth - she draws very little - we ended up giving one of the "crabbers" a quick tow to shift their boat off "the lump" (wages - half a dozen fresh mackerel) and our passengers a quick lesson in boat handling, It appeared that not only was "the lump" a bit bigger than usual, but the tide had dropped further / more quickly than the skipper had expected and he had tried to pass another, outgoing boat in the narrow area. Our tow saved him about and hour's wait for the tide to lift him enough to slide off. Unfortunately, I was too busy to take snaps]
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Will it clear the bridge? Hope it doesn't get wedged against it (I do really).size of that sumbitch
petee
no gods, no malarkey
if i have the angle correctly it's already come under the bridge and is in the upper harbor.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
I had fond mental images of the ship dragging the wreckage of the bridge behind it into the Atlantic.
petee
no gods, no malarkey
I had fond mental images of the ship dragging the wreckage of the bridge behind it into the Atlantic.
consistent with "likes gulls."
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Come on, you have to admit it would be funny. And it's reasonable to expect you have competent authorities over there who would have closed the bridge to traffic before the inevitable collision.
unforgiving piece of sea that
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Books, not bombs
Something rather leftfield but hey
"The interiors of most Norfolk churches contain much pre-Reformation graffiti, unless they have been heavily limewashed or resurfaced. The churches of the Glaven ports in general, and Blakeney in particular, conform to this pattern. St Nicholas has an extensive array of prayers, merchant's marks and other symbols, but is notable for the large number of depictions of ships, at least 30, heavily concentrated in the nave towards the eastern end of the south aisle. There is a side altar there of unknown dedication, and an empty niche that would have once held the image of a saint. The pillars were painted red in the Middle Ages, and ship images scratched into the soft, chalky stone would have been much more conspicuous than they are now. It is likely that the images, mostly of smaller ships, were created as votive offerings by the seafaring inhabitants of the port.[47] The carving of ship graffiti in religious buildings is a tradition in ports going back to the Bronze Age,[49] and has been found across Europe" St Nicholas, Blakeney - Wikipedia
"The interiors of most Norfolk churches contain much pre-Reformation graffiti, unless they have been heavily limewashed or resurfaced. The churches of the Glaven ports in general, and Blakeney in particular, conform to this pattern. St Nicholas has an extensive array of prayers, merchant's marks and other symbols, but is notable for the large number of depictions of ships, at least 30, heavily concentrated in the nave towards the eastern end of the south aisle. There is a side altar there of unknown dedication, and an empty niche that would have once held the image of a saint. The pillars were painted red in the Middle Ages, and ship images scratched into the soft, chalky stone would have been much more conspicuous than they are now. It is likely that the images, mostly of smaller ships, were created as votive offerings by the seafaring inhabitants of the port.[47] The carving of ship graffiti in religious buildings is a tradition in ports going back to the Bronze Age,[49] and has been found across Europe" St Nicholas, Blakeney - Wikipedia
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
Looks like it cleared easily - pics here:
Marco Polo, the largest ship to dock on East Coast, passes by Staten Island
The ship exited the Strait of Gibraltar Tuesday night to drop off goods at the Elizabeth-Port Authority Marine — passing under the Verrazzano-Narrows and Bayonne bridges.
I have a vague memory that the Queen Mary 2 is the ship that has the most regular clearance issues and you get the odd one-off visitor that needs to take special measures to get under it!
Big boat in Gravesend Bay can’t fit under Verrazano-Narrows bridge • Brooklyn Paper
Talk about a tall ship!
www.brooklynpaper.com
TopCat
Putin fanboy
I’m glad. My missus was talking about ironic gnomes.Tragic real world consequences of the Suez incident.
Gnome limits: UK garden centres run out after Suez blockage
Lack of raw materials and booming sales over lockdown have led to shortage of garden ornaments
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
Is that really a picture of the famous Whitby Harbour Bridge?
ETA: On a more serious note, last year I was involved in looking at potential unsafe port issues when a very large ship ran aground. In that case, the position of the navigation buoys was checked by GPS every week, and the channel had a bathymetric survey every 3 months.
The pilots would general have this "local knowledge" even of the main navigation charts are not updated all that frequently.
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pogofish
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Or the still to maybe happen Aberdeen Harbour Bridge - Yes, this is still a “live“ project, since 1952 but I think the residents of Fittie might be unhappy about the northern approach road!
emuseum.aberdeencity.gov.uk
Sketch - Visualisation of New Bridge at Harbour Mouth
emuseum.aberdeencity.gov.uk
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Bayonne Bridge in New York, this one...
Was raised recently to accommodate larger ships, cost over £1bn to do it, £'s not $'s!
Was raised recently to accommodate larger ships, cost over £1bn to do it, £'s not $'s!
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
A ship moving through shallow water will increase in draught due to the Bernoulli's effect of the water accelerating under the hull. It's called "swat". For a big ship it can easily be more than a metre. A ship captain friend claims that for one bridge on the US Pacific coast he always went through at full speed to avoid a clash.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
They wasted all that money and just think of all the entertainment that now won't happen.
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
nope.
ref your ETA.
I recall being told that somewhere up in the Scottish Islands (and now I can't remember which passage I mean, but possibly it was the Orkneys)
apparently, something fairly large in the oil tanker line bumped something in an area that should have had plenty of depth, result was a detailed sonar scanning session. They found a few sea-mounts and wrecks ... and fully revised the charts.
Some of that area was still relying on hand thrown deep sea lead lines used for surveying pre-20th century ...
A regular visitor to one of my previous employers once told me this story. One of the very minor harbours some where on the west coast / islands of Scotland had a notorious "lump" in the approaches, finally the "new" harbour master lost patience with fetching visiting (and his own port's) vessels off the lump [extra low spring tides were especially annoying]. So he arranged for a big bang, to break the rock up. Problem solved ! ( I think "they" might have blamed a stray WW2 mine )
pseudonarcissus
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There are areas of poorly charted seabed. I've never verified to see if it's true, but there is a story that the charts around the Heights of Abraham in Quebec are based on James Cook's leadline surveys of 1700 and whatever when he landed General Wolff to climb the cliffs (surveys done at night with muffled oars).
The most famous case I'm aware of was MIGHTY SERVANT 2 that ran aground off Luanda.
There is a little inset on an Admiralty chart that shows when the surveys were done. Anything pre-GPS has to be slightly suspect. Sometimes weather routing services suggest courses along the West African coast in shallow water to avoid counter currents...very dodgy.
A colleague who used to lecture on navigation pointed out that for thousands of years ships ran aground because they didn't know where they were. Now they know exactly where they are, they've just forgotten where they shouldn't be.
The most famous case I'm aware of was MIGHTY SERVANT 2 that ran aground off Luanda.
There is a little inset on an Admiralty chart that shows when the surveys were done. Anything pre-GPS has to be slightly suspect. Sometimes weather routing services suggest courses along the West African coast in shallow water to avoid counter currents...very dodgy.
A colleague who used to lecture on navigation pointed out that for thousands of years ships ran aground because they didn't know where they were. Now they know exactly where they are, they've just forgotten where they shouldn't be.
