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Roddie. She might well have been. I tried to extrapolate from MCR (29 MW) to unit contribution as I do not remember the legs.
Except for the one that cracked. Normally a crack is announced relatively discretely (differential pressure across the jacket water cooling (a la Gotaverkens), gassing where gassing should not happen, water in the Cc oil, etc.
Not with this Grande Motori. There was a loud and then repeated 'BLAT' accompanied by a sheet of flame a metre in length lancing across the top plates. Dante could have inspected the inside of the pot through the gap, illuminated every time it fired. Fabulous. Ugly? but you have a sense of humour! But fabulous anyway. (I think we had two Ex DSM GMTs on the Eilat run with Stonehaven, Ex Warwick Fort & Fort St Catherine?).
I did some computerising of PM for the Fins but never saw one. Tom Isbister was OM for the ride I hitched (or rather the one Atul Puri hitched for me) on Burmpac Bahamas.
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David V
Lord Finchley tried to mend the electric light
Himself. It struck him dead and serve him right
It is the duty of the wealthy man
To give employment to the artisan
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