Ever Given again? No, Ever Forward not going forward

Stemar said:
This vessel is why I'm always leery of standing on too enthusiastically, no matter what the colregs say. It's also why I've fitted AIS. Not long after I started sailing, I read a MAIB report of a similar boat. The officer of the watch was alone on the bridge with a bottle of whisky to keep him company. After a while he got bored, so he turned off the bridge alarm and went to his cabin to cuddle the bottle. The first anyone else knew was when she steamed up Dungeness beach.
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Not the first time drunk, sleeping or plain inattentive officers have parked a vessel in the wrong place.
 
We don’t know why yet.

We don’t know why, yet, but it could be for one of all sorts of reasons.

In my former company we had a particularly horrible East German open hatch ice class bulk carrier that everyone hated. She was a masterpiece of Communist engineering ; that is to say that she looked good, all the materials were ratshit, and she had been built without a thought of maintenance. We all hated her. One friend recalls spending several hours in her crank case hanging off a piston in a gale in the Taiwan Strait as she drifted towards the rocky shore of Taiwan, after which he had to shower in diesel. Another stuffed her into a quay at Livorno when the VP propeller failed. Another, who died recently, stuffed her into a lock rêvetment in Antwerp and for once it wasn’t the ship’s fault. She had tugs connected fore and aft when the Pilot had a heart attack. Olaf Overland was a very fine ships Master but his command of Flemish was no better than mine…
 
Talking about 'bridge coms' I was 3/0 on a tanker many many years ago. British deck officers - english first and only language , Spanish crew with español as first and only language - except for the bosun. We had mastered a very basic form of the malim sahib's español so we could communicate with the crew.

Departing Le Havre first helm order is given by french pilot in english.

The response was a simple '¿qué?'

From then on all instructions were given to the helmsman by the pilot in español with the master and I right out of the loop..
 
Kukri said:
... Olaf Overland was a very fine ships Master but his command of Flemish was no better than mine…
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That is a surname that seems contra-indicated for a ship's master! New Scientist has in the past published more appropriate ones for the owner's occupation that readers send in, but I cannot remember the term they use...

While looking for it, I found an item on a game for putting Evergreen ships aground. The article (which maybe non-subscribers cannot access) is the-site-that-lets-you-run-the-ever-given-aground-anywhere-you-fancy. The site concerned is evergiven-everywhere.glitch.me
 
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mjcoon said:
New Scientist has in the past published more appropriate ones for the owner's occupation that readers send in, but I cannot remember the term they use...
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It's nominative determination. Unfortunately, the NS site is subscription only, but here's one little gem

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And a few more from elsewhere
 
Kukri said:
We don’t know why yet.

We don’t know why, yet, but it could be for one of all sorts of reasons.

In my former company we had a particularly horrible East German open hatch ice class bulk carrier that everyone hated. She was a masterpiece of Communist engineering ; that is to say that she looked good, all the materials were ratshit, and she had been built without a thought of maintenance. We all hated her. One friend recalls spending several hours in her crank case hanging off a piston in a gale in the Taiwan Strait as she drifted towards the rocky shore of Taiwan, after which he had to shower in diesel. Another stuffed her into a quay at Livorno when the VP propeller failed. Another, who died recently, stuffed her into a lock rêvetment in Antwerp and for once it wasn’t the ship’s fault. She had tugs connected fore and aft when the Pilot had a heart attack. Olaf Overland was a very fine ships Master but his command of Flemish was no better than mine…
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I would be most surprised if Antwerp tug captains did not respond to English instructions in an emergency
 
In broad terms, containers are stowed on deck with “lights” and empties over “heavies”. So the first boxes to come off won’t change anything much. Reefer (refrigerated) boxes are very heavy and are usually stowed on the hatches, but taking those off means unplugging them and if they are not plugged in again within an hour or two their expensive contents will start to spoil, so the barges they are moved to will need generators.

Taking the hatch lids off can be done but getting under deck boxes held in cell guides out without damage requires the use of self aligning spreaders

All this must be done with due regard to the stresses on the hull. I know this is often said, but a one metre long scale model of the ship would be made of kitchen foil.

Meanwhile there are neither big tugs nor big dredgers in the US flag fleet of ships, and the Jones Act applies…

“Been there, done that thing”

… and this is my T shirt081773A9-D5B7-4CAB-BA7C-54D9E0518B17.jpeg
 
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Kukri said:
In broad terms, containers are stowed on deck with “lights” and empties over “heavies”. So the first boxes to come off won’t change anything much. Reefer (refrigerated) boxes are very heavy and are usually stowed on the hatches, but taking those off means unplugging them and if they are not plugged in again within an hour or two their expensive contents will start to spoil, so the barges they are moved to will need generators.

Taking the hatch lids off can be done but getting under deck boxes held in cell guides out without damage requires the use of self aligning spreaders

All this must be done with due regard to the stresses on the hull. I know this is often said, but a one metre long scale model of the ship would be made of kitchen foil.

Meanwhile there are neither big tugs nor big dredgers in the US flag fleet of ships, and the Jones Act applies…

“Been there, done that thing”

… and this is my T shirtView attachment 132808
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You could at least have put it in the washing machine.
 
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