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Forum: Life After The Sea 5th January 2022, 20:37
Replies: 50
Views: 58,348
Posted By Julian N
I didn't as much came ashore as reduced times at...

I didn't as much came ashore as reduced times at sea. Deep sea for 10 years 5months away at times. 10 years in North Sea 6 weeks on. Dredgers UK coast 2 weeks away then 1 week. Finally a Pilot home...
Forum: The Pig & Whistle 8th December 2021, 20:23
Replies: 529
Views: 139,861
Posted By Julian N
Xi was due to be used but WHO chickened out so as...

Xi was due to be used but WHO chickened out so as not to offend the despotic Chinese Leader.⅜
Forum: Container Vessels 25th March 2021, 21:44
Replies: 233
Views: 70,337
Posted By Julian N
If they do have to start to unload her then a...

If they do have to start to unload her then a trip around the Cape might be a way to go. At least you could have a good idea when ships would arrive. A transit for a ship this size is about $700,000...
Forum: Container Vessels 4th March 2021, 20:52
Replies: 1
Views: 1,586
Posted By Julian N
Certainly big ships but with many now carrying...

Certainly big ships but with many now carrying over 20000teu containers they have already been superceded.
Forum: Mess Deck 27th January 2021, 13:55
Replies: 3
Views: 2,498
Posted By Julian N
Container Costs

Interesting to read that due to a combination of factors, the cost of shipping goods via containers has skyrocketed to such an extent that shippers have started to ship their cargoes via breakbulk...
Forum: Mess Deck 25th November 2020, 17:10
Replies: 6
Views: 3,139
Posted By Julian N
Post Disaster waiting to happen.

I saw a BBC report this morning that a storage tanker the FSO Safer (360m long, 400000dwt) carrying over 1 million barrels of crude, has been moored but abandoned off Yemen in the Red Sea for over...
Forum: Say Hello 23rd November 2020, 18:54
Replies: 10
Views: 2,512
Posted By Julian N
Hi spotter185, thanks for the welcome. I won't...

Hi spotter185, thanks for the welcome. I won't hold being a jack against you (I'm from Cardiff!) You are probably remembering the pilot vessel Seamark, (yellow hull).She was finished by the time I...
Forum: Shipbuilding 1900 -1960 21st November 2020, 22:38
Replies: 25
Views: 23,706
Posted By Julian N
I was on the Welsh Piper, a self-discharging...

I was on the Welsh Piper, a self-discharging aggregates dredger, when we berthed in Appledore some 10 years after the ship had been built there. It was the first time the ship had returned and it...
Forum: Say Hello 20th November 2020, 18:09
Replies: 10
Views: 2,512
Posted By Julian N
Hello All.

Deck Apprentice (School of Maritime Studies Plymouth) and 3rd Mate with Cunard 1977-82, serving on Moss Tankers, Port Line, ACT, ACL, Brocklebank, passenger and reefer ships. Maersk UK 82-87 on bulk...
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