Would you just look at that!

[rhumlady]

The bridge looks as if it is further forward so the visibility should be better with less of an area forward out of sight. There is a name for it but my old brain is not working well tonight:-( Blind spot that would be then!

 

[Dyflin]

Pfft, nice little boats, but not as impressive as the big boys that have been happily ploughing up and down the Channel for many years now.

Eg Berge Stahl - Loa 342.08 m, Beam 63.5 m and draft of 23m.

 

[capnsensible]

Just when I thought that 400 was bigger than 342.08. Silly me.

 

[Dyflin]

Luckily not everyone's as obsessed with length. Girth, depth and weight are what separates the men from the boys...

 

[Fantasie 19]

Fantasie would they be RAM,why? Sheer size? Jerry

That was the jest... and just imagine how big the diamonds and balls would have to be......

 

[CharlesSwallow]

Just think of the...

...ransom the Somalis will be getting for one of those!

Chas

 

[andrewfollett]

I love how the Mail has described it as being, at 1300feet long... 6 times the length of the QE2, the equivilant of 4 jumbo jets!

Dont believe everything you read in the daily mail - They said the same about John prescott!

 

[Pasarell]

Container Ships

These will be 18000 teu (twenty foot equivalent units) compared with the Emma Maersk 12000 teu. so a lot more boxes. Designed for the China - Europe route with the only UK port as Felixstowe. Too big for Suez so unlikely to see many Somali pirates unless they start plundering a lot further south!
Will travel a lot slower than Emma Maersk and other new container ships. Operational speed is 19 knots compared to 24 or 25 as the recent trend but that will translate into a lot of fuel saved. Engines will run at 80 rpm apparently.

 

[Lady Campanula]

These will be 18000 teu (twenty foot equivalent units) compared with the Emma Maersk 12000 teu. so a lot more boxes. Designed for the China - Europe route with the only UK port as Felixstowe.

Half as much again, if my sums are korrect.

It'll be interesting to watch a couple of them squeezing through the Dover Straits TSS, dodging the fast ferries and the swimmers...

 

[Boreades]

It looks like trade is picking up, and they're going for Volume not Velocity. Not long old high-speed container ships were being laid up

Great story on For Argyll on the last to leave Loch Striven

http://forargyll.com/2010/07/and-th...-bentonville-and-brooklyn-leave-loch-striven/