I remember going out of Seaforth on this old lady..Seaforth
(Not that pic though)
I remember going out of Seaforth on this old lady..
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Kite assisted cargo ships - the way forward?
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oneflewover said:A sister ship of the Atlantic Conveyor of Falklands War fame?
Typhoon-class submarine. The largest sub ever built, carrying 200 nuclear independently targeted warheads in 20 ICBMs, a single ship of this class could have devastated an entire Continent single-handedly.
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Ah, but were their identities swapped in mid Atlantic as part of an insurance swindle meaning it was actually the Olympic that was sunk by an iceberg, by Neil Armstrong who was an illuminati lizard? Wake up sheeple!I hope you posted that as RMS Olympic which it is and not RMS Titanic which it is not
A generation earlier, the early White Star Line steamers were handsome things, this one being the Britannic:
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I think that was to make use of the trade winds and hence free power when available, the engines were for harbour work and when travelling in adverse wind directions.
Ah, but were their identities swapped in mid Atlantic as part of an insurance swindle meaning it was actually the Olympic that was sunk by an iceberg, by Neil Armstrong who was an illuminati lizard? Wake up sheeple!
It certainly works. Back in the late 70s a British firm had this in service:
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AFAIK it showed a significant saving in fuel, but when oil prices went down again in the 80s it wasn't worth pursuing. For the same reason I doubt there are that many sail-assist projects under development atm, but there was certainly talk about them a few years ago when oil prices were peaking.
Like next gen steam locomotives and the new airship designs could they just be waiting their time ?
The RNLI design their own lifeboats in Poole.This is the Arun class which was quite innovative when it was introduced in 1971 and is what the current Severn and Trent boats are based on. It's now left service and been sold around the world from Canada to China:
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The P&O Strathnaver started life as a mail ship working the London - Brisbane route. She was requisitioned as a troop ship during WW2 and took part in the Anzio landings. Refitted after the war she went back to transporting migrants to and from the UK and Australia and points between, and in 1952 brought my dad to London from Bombay, through the Suez Canal, via Port Said and Marseille.