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Originally Posted by Makko
Double bottom tanker or bulker. Incredible amount of "bottom growth"!
Rgds.
Dave
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Dave, if you think that amount of growth to be incredible, you should have seen the bottoms of any of the tankers that completed 6 months or more as lightening (actually top-up) vessels at Bonny during the 1960s/'70s. They appeared more like the tropical coral reefs that David Attenborough is fond of presenting on TV, complete with waving fronds and huge lumps of shellfish.
Don't know if it was true, but I was told that the '
San Florentino', normally capable of 15 knots on passage, could not manage more than 11 knots on her homeward passage after being relieved at Bonny. Certainly when I joined her in Cammell Lairds her hull resembled a rock garden, with the growth several inches thick.