TheBoatman
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We see these types of boats on the Medway and as far as I know the bridge actually descends into the ship so that it can pass under bridges on various European canals!!
Peter.
Peter.
Ships going backwards
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stephenmartin
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This looks like a sinking ship....it floods the ballast and allows large oil rig parts to be loaded onboard and then pumps out the bllast and sails away
chrisc
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Built for the wider european canals,they often push another barge in front,if this barge is loaded they need to raise the steering position to see forward.
Dyflin
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This looks like a sinking ship....it floods the ballast and allows large oil rig parts to be loaded onboard and then pumps out the bllast and sails away
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Large parts nothing, it lift the whole thing in one go!
This looks like a sinking ship....it floods the ballast and allows large oil rig parts to be loaded onboard and then pumps out the bllast and sails away
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Large parts nothing, it lift the whole thing in one go!
AliM
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We saw them in the Netherlands in the North Sea canal. I got very confused when one was leaving an alongside berth, and I couldn't work out whether she would go up or down the canal.
Signed Out
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The Spruce is a LASH (Lighter Aboard SHip (?)) boat, that does indeed ballast itself down to load LASH barges full of whatever, designed to be used in places without cranes etc. More popular in the US I believe. She used to be regular at Fxt.
As for the heavy lift boat (Blue Marlin) in Dyflin's reply; a colleague of mine worked previously on what I guess is that- he's been telling me about how it has both the records for single heaviest cargo (the semi pictured I guess), and the ightest cargo (likewise the Blimp/Airship)- being a negative weight!
Jem.
p.s. If you want to see something really odd, head up to Norway, and take a look at this...
http://bourbon-online.com/Bourbon-Orca,459
As for the heavy lift boat (Blue Marlin) in Dyflin's reply; a colleague of mine worked previously on what I guess is that- he's been telling me about how it has both the records for single heaviest cargo (the semi pictured I guess), and the ightest cargo (likewise the Blimp/Airship)- being a negative weight!
Jem.
p.s. If you want to see something really odd, head up to Norway, and take a look at this...
http://bourbon-online.com/Bourbon-Orca,459