Future Container Ships?

We have her berthing "a.m. 25th", allegedly, though I would not count on that either, by the time Rotterdam have finished messing about with her.

Subject to actual time of arrival, do you fancy a pint?
 
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Thanks for all those answers - Did not realise the 2nd office did the navigating - bit like the RN... may I just ask a couple more please -

What hours do the watch keeping officers do? I assume they are on watch with one OS on the bridge in normal weather?
How long is each tour of duty?


Michael
 
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This applies to a big ship; smaller ships will lose the 4/e and smaller ones still will lose the 3/O and 3/E and may have no El/O

Watches:

12-4 - 2/O

4-8 -Mate

8-12 - 3/O

Master - paperwork and carrying the can

Mate responsible for cargo and stability

2/O responsible for navigation

3/O responsible for safety equipment

Engineers no longer stand watches except on passenger ships. Anything else (except antiques) has "UMS" (unmanned machinery space) equipment fitted.

C/E - paperwork and carrying the can

2/E - main engine, spares and stores

3/E - generators and electrickery

4/E - fuelling and fuel treatment

El/O (electronics officer - no radio offiers these days) - electronics and IT.

Tours of duty vary with the company, typically the leave ratio is 2:1. In my outfit a tour is six months on, then three months leave.
 
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Thanks for that... Hard work - always suspected it was a hard life too - 6 months away is a long time and standing 4 on 8 off is quite hard too although I expect there are cooks, cleaners and bed makers amongst the seamen/women.

I have had really good experiences with large merchant ships prepared to make quite large alterations in course to go round me in bumpy conditions - not being able to see me on radar and responding to a ch16 call - Of course there are the long night watches with Fing and Blinding going on for hours as the whiskey flows but then it takes all sorts and ultimatly standing watch hour after hour with nothing to see and the radar alarm set must be so boring and hard to keep awake.

Again thanks for sharing your knowlage - been really interesting.

Michael
 
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In fact she has not sunk; that report was in error. But she seems to be on fire from midships aft; there will not be a lot left of her, so the chances are that she will be a total loss, as will much of her cargo. The cause has been confirmed as an explosion in a container; applying the IMDG Code rules for stowage of hazardous cargoes leads one to guess that the cargo in that container may have been misdeclared, and was travelling as harmless goods when in fact it was dangerous goods. This often happens, alas.

Luckily, no-one was killed, but the 3/O has been badly burned.
 
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