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Old 7th September 2020, 10:22
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Originally Posted by Howard View Post
P&O Southern Ferries ‘Eagle’ had all the port engine room pumps connected to the starboard side of the switchboard and vice versa. It was very important to think before stopping or starting something. We used to come down to one engine if early for arrival. On the odd occasion we had both engines stopped when the wrong lube oil pump was switched to ‘slow speed’.
Ah! I thought we were unique - has a ship where the usual way to sight the generators was 1-2 3 left to right but when you stood at the switchboard it was the other way round
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