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So should this fit in a canal?

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Grounded ‘Mega Ship’ Blocking Suez Canal in Both Directions

The term Suezmax is used for the largest ship that can pass through the Suez Canal. A typical Suezmax vessel has a capacity of 120,000 to 200,000 DWT with maximum 20.1 draft with beam no wider than 50.0 m (164.0 ft) or 12.2 m (40 ft) of draught for ships with maximum allowed beam of 77.5 m.
Happy anniversary to this legend.
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Not exactly porn but what a story :eek:
From 1991...
I'll have to check, but I think a friend was involved in monitoring this disaster. He was a marine radio officer who was at sea for 40 years, and has definitely been involved directly and indirectly with monitoring and/or coordinating rescues.
 
The battleship Knyaz' Suvorov, the last Russian flagship to be sunk by enemy action prior to the Moskva, sunk at the 1905 Battle of Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese War:

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The cruiser Svetlana, the last Russian cruiser to be sunk by enemy action prior to the Moskva, sunk at the 1905 Battle of Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese War:

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Yes, please do, it sounds almost unbelievable!
This is, in its entirety, his reply

"We were anchored outside Durban that night and we were rolling about like a pig in shit and we were on the edge of the storm. The Oceanus was closer to the center.

The main engine sea water cooling inlet broke and after that there was not much that could be done.

The Radio Officer was still on duty about midnight because he sent out a distress call in morse on 500Khz (the distress frequency).

I replied to him so I know it was not a guitar player.

The only communications device the guitar player might have been able to use is the bridge VHF set with a range of about 60 miles.

If he was doing that he might have been able to contact a nearby ship. Luckily for him they were in a fairly busy seaway.

If the lifeboats were stowed properly the bowsing-in gear should have been coupled up and that would have held the boats steadily against the side no matter how badly she was rolling. Once you release that you have to let the boat fall quickly or else it will bang itself to pieces against the ships side.

You do not need a motor to lower the lifeboats they are a gravity system. You just have to release the brake.

I don't remember any lifeboat needing a key to start the motor. You use a crank handle. More modern boats may have a starter but the Oceanus was too old to have any boats with starters.

The South African air force did a brilliant job of rescue that night. Their base was out of range of the distress position so they flew their helicopters to a deserted beach close to the position with lots of drums of fuel on board then refueled and set up a relay to the ship and to the base with survivors.

Like they say no one died that night."
 
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