Robin Pemberton & Napoli

Re: Robin Middleton & Napoli - all that dangerous cargo!

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I'm far more interested in the 'barrels of wine' that the BBC are reporting - now that's what I call salvage ....

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Here they are
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Re: Robin Pemberton & Napoli

Surely there is more holding the containers than lashings ? Are they not mechanically fixed to each other ? I presume they will replace weight removed by sea water pumped in ?
Ken
 
Re: Robin Pemberton & Napoli

AFAIK containers are held down mainly by twistlocks on each corner, and gravity. Wires and bottlescrews would be added to the whole stack, but I guess that's why the deck cargo is being washed off so easily, and, being the lightest consists of a higher proportion of floatable containers.
 
Re: Middleton!

Sorry for the fred-drift but the (incorrect) name reminded me of a story about Robin Leigh-Pemberton, then Governor of the Bank of England, and the demise of Barings Bank.

It seems that the administrators had taken everyone off leave to staff the phones at Barings whilst they tried to stabilise the ship so that there was something left to sell. Everyone from the post room crew upwards was answering the many, many incoming calls.

A young lad took a call and with one hand over the mouthpiece called out: "There's some geezer called Lee Pemberton wants to speak to whoever is in charge. Shall I tell him to call back?

Said young lad was somewhat perplexed as a dozen senior partners made a dive for the phone to explain the position to the Governor.
 
Re: Robin Middleton & Napoli - all that dangerous cargo!

Google Earth will take a year or two, but watching it on AIS live is interesting.

The anchor-handler Anglian Princesss has been up with the Napoli for some time, but the MTS Valour has just moved in close as well. She's only small though - about 23m with a 22 ton bollard pull.

No sign of a vessel standing nearby to take off the oil.
 
Re: Robin Middleton & Napoli - all that dangerous cargo!

ooh! Now the Abeille Liberte is up with her - 80m and a 200 ton bollard pull. That's a serious tug. And the Argonaute - another serious French salvage and oil recovery vessel. 130 ton bollard pull and 1,500m3 oil recovery capacity.

Looks like they may be emptying the main tanks tonight.

MTS Valour and the Anglian Princess still on station.
 
Re: Robin Middleton & Napoli - all that dangerous cargo!

They said it could take a week to get all the fuel and oil off her. Haas the Abeille Liberte joined the Abeille Bourbon or replaced her?
 
Re: Robin Middleton & Napoli - all that dangerous cargo!

Didn't see the Bourbon on AIS but both other French vessels switched their AIS transmitters off when they were up with her. Liberte has gone now and is heading back SE.
 
Re: Robin Middleton & Napoli - all that dangerous cargo!

I could use those at my YC - our pontoon uses 100's of them!!!

Peter.
 
Re: Robin Pemberton & Napoli

I'm at the end of my knowledge here, so I can't be certain - jump in any ex box boat officers - but I thought that the twist locks were on the trailers that carry them whilst ashore and the boxes have "pegs" on their topsides to locate the next box above.

Judging by the speed that they are unloaded, I can't believe that some decky has to run round unlocking all 4 corners of every box - and besides how the hell does he climb the stacks?

Peter.
 
Re: How to stack containers on a ship

Peter,

There was a very detailed MAIB Report about the loss of containers from P&O Nedlloyd Genoa (fell off in the Atlantic almost exactly a year ago). Good technical description of how the containers are loaded, both how to plan the distribution of the load and how the containers are fixed together. Might answer some of your questions.

John
 
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