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Filmed aboard TS Hamburg...
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Well we've got two ships put forward for Juggernaut. As far as I can tell from IMDB both suggestions are correct. The ship was in the process of being sold from Germany to the USSR when the film was made. It isn't clear about both names though on the 'Trivia' section of IMDB.
Quite an impressive cast, but apparently the film flopped at the box office.
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Location shots for Juggernaught were taken aboard TS Hamburg around a year after I took her anchored in Grassy Bay, Bermuda in 1971 as seen below. She was renamed Hanseatic 1973/74 before becoming Maxim Gorkiy in 1974, the same year Juggernaught was released. Therefore, as far as I am aware, she was not Maxim Gorkiy or indeed Hanseatic when the film was made.
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The film The Poseidon Adventure, (another passenger liner disaster story,) was on release when Brittany Ferries began sailings from Plymouth with a chartered Stena Line passenger only vessel.
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Also some may recall another ship disaster movie called 'The Last Voyage' for which if I remember rightly they partially sank an actual liner that was about to be scrapped anyway in order to get some of the deck scenes.
According to IMDB it was the French liner SS Ile de France which apparently horrified the former owners.
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I've always thought going to sea was a bit of a Mickey Mouse way to make a living ...
(OK OK, I know that's bad, I'll put the groanometer on myself .... )
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The film A Taste of Honey, the ships the Manchester Shipper and Manchester Pioneer. The following is a quote from the IMDb review of the movie.....
"When the Manchester Shipper and Manchester Pioneer were chosen to star in Shelagh Delaney's novel "A Taste of Honey", it was not known that part of the plot involved a drunken seaman taking his girlfriend on board, and also involving a drunken first officer! When the premiere took place, the company had to take space in the programme to point out that Manchester Liners neither approved nor allowed such conduct." I spent 6 months as a deck apprentice in the Shipper in 1967. Fantastic group of officers and a great crowd - learnt a lot about seamanship; steam winches, hatchboards and tarps, patching up holes in vents with chart paper and bandages, stripping down and sanding yards and yards of painted taffrails on the boat deck and the applying and re-applying oceans of varnish till you could see your own reflection. Great days. Cheers John Last edited by jmilcon; 2nd June 2017 at 09:01. |
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Uh huh......
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This one... Anybody name it?
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Getting back to 'Juggernaut', the name 'Maxim Gorky' comes to mind. Was that it after the Hamburg ?
The Last Voyage ship was actually going to the breakers somewhere I think, and they did actually put it down by the head. David + Last edited by David; 2nd June 2017 at 19:21. |
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Like I said in #39, she was still Hamburg when 'Juggernaut' was filmed on location. She was Hamburg from 1969 to 1973, Hanseatic from 1973 to 1974 for German Atlantic Line, then Maxim Gorkiy under several operators from Black Sea Shipping to Phoenix Reisen until 2009 when she was scrapped at Alang, India.
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It must be Manxman as she was still in service when the film was made, being withdrawn in 1982. Mona's Isle and Mona's Queen were taken out of service shortly before then.
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Moving on to another film: I liked 'The Wreck of the Mary Deare' starring Gary Cooper. I rather think this must have been a Walport video-cassette as it was a few years old when I saw it. As far as I remember the book version has the hero shovelling coal to get steam pressure, then running up to the wheelhouse to steer the ship; can't remember how that went in the film.
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The Wreck of the Mary Deare written by Hammond Innes who wrote quite a few in a nearly sixty year career. The fiction shelves at the library used to have a shelf more or less dedicated to him.
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Ok here's one for the Geordies. Michael Caine getting a bit cobby with George Sewell and Ian Hendry in 'Get Carter.'
Wallsend Ferry and Esso Hibernia in the background. https://www.getcarter.xyz/wp-content...h27m22s044.jpg
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There were two Whales used each 75ft long and were not an easy Tow for the Tug Crew, one broke free and after hours of searching was found aground in a Cove, the other was never seen again. Last edited by Chadburn; 4th June 2017 at 10:57. |
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On the smaller screen, The Tales of Para Handy (BBC series) featured the Clyde puffer, the
"Vital Spark" ... whose final resting place is a quay in Inveraray on Loch Fyne. |
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