WTF is that?

[ValleyForge]

Didn't they use something like that to bring a certain RN warship back from the Antipodes following it's close encounter with a charted rock?

Was on holiday at Lord Howe Island shortly before ...
Lovely place, very dramatic.
http://www.professionalmariner.com/...royer-hits-rock-nearly-sinks-off-New-Zealand/

 

[aslabend]

If I recall that sinking caused absolute chaos, happened as signatures where signed during a company take over. It happened during discharge rather than loading, I remember following the story as I watched it load the rig "Aleutian Key?". In Trinidad she sank of Angola?

Not certain this was a stability issue or a ballast control issue? Mariner might know more but as he says scary ships how do you work out where the Center of Gravity of the load is??? Will they tell the truth?

said it was a faulty valve here http://gcaptain.com/mighty-servant-3-sinks/