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Ah sorry. I missed that.
I used to work on the Ton class sweepers based at HMS Lochinvar. Port Edgar, and they had wooden hulls

My dad used to work at Yarrow's when IIRC these were being built, he was an R&D engineer specialising on the radar design. Not bad for a wee guy from a Clydebank scheme who went to night school to improve his prospects.
 
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Is it? .... It's the pointy end ...

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Edit: I get it ... it's the "new" stern (y) ?
I've just come across this thread, and there does seem to be rather a lot of it missing! I hope somebody got a stern rebuke.?
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IIRC, the Turks arrested the skipper of the tanker that cut it in half?

At the risk if a colregs row.. shirly the more manoeuvrable vessel bears some responsibility for getting too close to the sharp bit of a big ship?
 

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At the risk if a colregs row.. shirly the more manoeuvrable vessel bears some responsibility for getting too close to the sharp bit of a big ship?

I'd have thought this should cover it:
17 (b) When, from any cause, the vessel required to keep her course and speed finds herself so close that collision cannot be avoided by the action of the give-way vessel alone, she shall take such action as will best aid to avoid collision.

Off the top of my head, just about the only way I can see that I would be entirely innocent in a collision would be if I were at anchor in a sensible place, with the appropriate mark and/or lights and someone drives into me
 

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I'd have thought this should cover it:
17 (b) When, from any cause, the vessel required to keep her course and speed finds herself so close that collision cannot be avoided by the action of the give-way vessel alone, she shall take such action as will best aid to avoid collision.

Off the top of my head, just about the only way I can see that I would be entirely innocent in a collision would be if I were at anchor in a sensible place, with the appropriate mark and/or lights and someone drives into me
Nope, because you're supposed to keep anchor watch. maybe there's an exception for small boats, but I don't think so.
 

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Nope, because you're supposed to keep anchor watch. maybe there's an exception for small boats, but I don't think so.
True, but calling on the radio and apart from firing off alarm flares, what could I do? It's going to take me a while to get the anchor up, and my understanding is that for a big ship, even with the engines on standby, or whatever the correct term is, it can take a few minutes to get them running and get the ship moving
 
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