Time lapse video of lengthening cruise ship Balmoral by 30 metres
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capnsensible
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Thanks, I like these time lapse big engineering things. Fascinating!
Thistle
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As capnsensible says, "Fascinating!" but I'm left unsure about exactly which ship(s) were involved: Norwegian Crown, Balmoral and Braemar all seem to feature.
peteK
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Norwegian crown became the Balmoral when Fred Olsen bought and extended her.
Thistle
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Thank you.
veshengro
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I imagine that internally all the services, ie: electrical wiring, water pipes, air con trunking etc must all have two joints in as a result of the new section. I can't believe that an electrical wire run fore and aft would be replaced. The same with say, a fresh water line, I suppose a new joint each side of the new section is made. Lot's of unseen work to do, apart from glueing the new section in place...
wonkywinch
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capnsensible
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As its a Boeing, which bits did they miss out?
wonkywinch
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As its a Boeing, which bits did they miss out?
S04
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That explains the Norwegian Crown/Balmoral connection but the Braemar is a different ship altogether although she too was lengthened. The video appears to be a mixture of both vessels being stretched. Still absolutely fascinating to watch.
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Tradewinds
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On a smaller scale, a cut & shut. Turning a 65m steel barge into a 55m one.
Norman_E
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Lengthening ships is not that uncommon. About 40 years ago a customer of the bank I worked for had a cargo vessel lengthened to give quite a big percentage increase in carrying capacity and tonnage. No changes were made to propulsion and on sea trial afterwards the ship was faster than it had been when new.
blush2
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When I started working for Research Vessel Services some 25 years ago my boss lent me a video of the RRS Discovery (previous vessel) being lengthened by 10 metres. It got a bit exciting when it nearly fell over as the two sections were moved apart.