Ship blown over in Edinburgh

[veshengro]

Crikey! Looking at that photo I think I can see some props suspended 'ween ship and shore up by her bow and still attached by the shipboard lanyards, and perhaps some hanging down the dock wall by the net. I hope nobody was on that gangway when it fell.

 

[boomerangben]

Certainly not flat bottomed - looks like she has a keel running full length. Looks a bit out of the ordinary to me (but I’m no expert) and perhaps more challenging than usual to dry dock. I’m sure thought that would have been known and engineered. It will be interesting to find out why it happened.

 

[Biggles Wader]

Just bad journalism; the drydock has had a load of different vessels in and out of it as drydocks do. Petrel has been laid up in Leith since before the plague; either she was due a 5 year survey or was going back into service, so was drydocked in the normal manner.

From this photo it looks as if she has been repainted and the anodes done so is probably just about to be refloated and taken out of the dock. I wonder if some of the supports/props had been removed in preparation for this. Just a thought?

 

[fisherman]

In re props and lanyards, where are the after ones in that pic? Did they really come and clear them up, needing a crane I imagine.

 

[veshengro]

Not sure Fisherman, but if you look at this link...https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65038617 in post number 8 of this thread, third photo down, you can clearly see a prop still hanging on it's lanyard 'tween ship and shore, so some props must have still been in place. I doubt any props further aft would have been cleared away immediately after the accident. Taboo to interfere with anything after an industrial accident until the Boffins say so, unless for safety reasons of course.

A shipmate of mine was killed on the Foremast Table when the Fore topmast fell on him during a lowering operation prior to going up the Manchester Ship Canal. (she was too high for a bridge) Only his body was removed, by the shoreside Fire Brigade, nothing else could be touched until the official ok.

 

[fisherman]

Yes I can see three in both pics, but no sign of any aft of midships. I am sure that there strict guidelines and it is unlikely they will have been set aside.

Has part of the keel separated?

 

[veshengro]

" Has part of the keel separated? "
I don't think so. As already noted she looks almost finished below the waterline, new anodes etc: I'm not sure if it's the sunlight and shadow effect but the star'bd 'Drive Leg' ? looks unpainted compared to the Portside one that looks black, and next to the fallen blue gangway is a big spill of what could be black paint. Maybe that was the last job, if that leg really did still needed painting.
I feel sorry for the poor blokes injured, standing on a box painting a Deckhead would be bad enough when she suddenly went over let alone in a tight spot next to a big piece of unbolted machinery down below.

 

[fisherman]

I see, it's the lower keel smaller section, upper is tapered aft.

 

[C08]

I did not realise that boats with swivelling drives did not have a rudder?
I hope the injured are recovering

 

[penberth3]

One issue that they'll have is that the ship has toppled over onto its stbd side. The ship operated out of the stbd side, where the ROV's were launched from, with one being operated from a hangar that has a door through which the ROV is operated. Any damage to that area will be significant, and take a lot of repairing. If there was an ROV onboard, I hope that it was tied down, as it'd suffer potentially some very expensive damage.
It was a very nice ship, and great to work from.

I'm sure you didn't mean to sound like a complete twit, but people have been injured. Damage to a ROV really doesn't matter, however expensive it might be.

 

[Sandy]

Interesting YouTube thing here. Best ignore the usual begging for new viewers.