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  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 20,863 Mod ✭✭✭✭inforfun




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,294 ✭✭✭LiamoSail


    Thats a rough ride for what I presume is an older clientele onboard.

    The report says the ship has four engines. What kind of problem would mean that it would lose all four together?

    Fuel would be my guess


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 14,786 Mod ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    LiamoSail wrote: »
    Fuel would be my guess

    Or an electrical issue. The engines will only be driving generators to power the electric motors that drive the propellers.


  • Registered Users Posts: 80,798 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn


    LiamoSail wrote: »
    Fuel would be my guess
    Or an electrical issue. The engines will only be driving generators to power the electric motors that drive the propellers.

    On the right track, apparently lack of oil, weather so bad caused disruption to supply of lubricating oil...
    A cruise ship caught in a storm off the Norwegian coast experienced engine problems due to low oil levels, according to Norwegian authorities.

    Lars Alvestad, head of the country's maritime agency, said sensors had detected the shortage and shut off engines to prevent a breakdown.

    Hundreds of people were rescued from the Viking Sky after it sent out a distress call on Saturday.

    The vessel later restarted three of its four engines and docked in Molde.

    Mr Alvestad told reporters that the amount of lubricating oil was "within set limits, however relatively low" as it reached Hustadvika - a shallow stretch of coastline known for shipwrecks.

    "The heavy seas in Hustadvika probably caused movements in the tanks so large that the supply to the lubricating oil pumps stopped," said Mr Alvestad.


    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47727267


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,740 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    pardon my ignorance of matters nautical engineering, but would the engines not be 'dry-sumped', and so oil 'level' isn't quite the issue ?

    I know in cars & bikes dry-sumped is common in arduous, rough of competition use, where a wet sump would be just sloshing around the place, and so oil suppy is constant.

    Just wondering.

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  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 14,786 Mod ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    galwaytt wrote: »
    pardon my ignorance of matters nautical engineering, but would the engines not be 'dry-sumped', and so oil 'level' isn't quite the issue ?

    Just wondering.

    The lack of oil might not have been in the engines themselves, but rather in the driven equipment, which is most likely generators that generate electricity for the electric motors that turn the props.

    Some ships have diesel engines, some have gas turbines, some steam turbines, but they mostly all have generators for providing power to the electric motors.

    Oil supply to the bearings in gas/steam turbines and of course generator bearings is critical for their running. Any interruptions to the bearing oil supply will immediately shut the machine down!

    I mainly deal with land based power generation from gas/steam turbines, but we also have a lot of ship based gas/steam turbines that we deal with. (I know some lucky sods that got a few weeks of cruising in the Caribbean, just to baby sit the gas turbines on the ship as they'd been acting up).


  • Registered Users Posts: 920 ✭✭✭Ron Burgundy II


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_36HTsTHEM

    Time lapse of the refloating of the Norwegian warship that sunk a few months ago.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    The Cobh - Glenbrook cross river ferry service.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,722 ✭✭✭Mefistofelino


    ^^^^^
    I've been taking that ferry on-and-off for decades and never really realised is was so "tapery" at the ends.
    For something like that which doesn't have a single,distinct direction of travel, are both ends regarded as bows?


    As an aside - a distressing number of half-wits on that with still-frozen rear windows and partly obscured front windscreens (Or a roof-full of snow waiting to slide forward under braking)


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Cedrus


    ^^^^^
    As an aside - a distressing number of half-wits on that with still-frozen rear windows and partly obscured front windscreens (Or a roof-full of snow waiting to slide forward under braking)

    Typically Irish gob****ery, the number of times I've been snowballed on the dual carriageway by these lazyarses, they will kill somebody, but they will never know or care. Just like the apes who turn of their lights as soon as they can see regardless of the fact that they are driving a silver car, the sun is still perched on the horizon and they are all but invisible.

    Aside from the rant, I love the cross river ferry. I usually only get it when the tunnel is goosed, but Friday afternoons when I get away early enough but too late to bother suffering the mahon tailback, it really is a joy to be chugging across smelling the saltwater and diesel.


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    F/V Kirkella, the largest white fish trawler in the British fleet is on London today for her naming ceremony.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,712 ✭✭✭roundymac


    Tabnabs wrote: »
    F/V Kirkella, the largest white fish trawler in the British fleet is on London today for her naming ceremony.

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    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D418cKQWwAAw3Fb.jpg
    She better not come into Irish Waters after Brexit.:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 80,798 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn


    I suppose if Brexit happens and the UK can set their own quota's in their own waters this whitefish boat and many more like it have a future especially with the large stocks they have. The UK pelagic fleet on the other hand not so much.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,131 ✭✭✭Widdensushi


    I suppose if Brexit happens and the UK can set their own quota's in their own waters this whitefish boat and many more like it have a future especially with the large stocks they have. The UK pelagic fleet on the other hand not so much.

    mackerel give more time in UK waters than anywhere else at a time when their oil content is high and their value highest, I cannot see where you see their pelagic fleet disadvantaged ?


  • Registered Users Posts: 80,798 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn


    mackerel give more time in UK waters than anywhere else at a time when their oil content is high and their value highest, I cannot see where you see their pelagic fleet disadvantaged ?


    Yes they potentially have the most productive period where the fish are off their shores but they can't then follow them off the Irish coast or initially off the Faroes and Norway. I suppose if they can do deals with Norway and the Faroes it might work out well but could mean 3 months fishing a year. Additionally landings of these fish to EU ports would be restricted.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,131 ✭✭✭Widdensushi


    Yes they potentially have the most productive period where the fish are off their shores but they can't then follow them off the Irish coast or initially off the Faroes and Norway. I suppose if they can do deals with Norway and the Faroes it might work out well but could mean 3 months fishing a year. Additionally landings of these fish to EU ports would be restricted.

    they catch very little off the Irish coast and if they weren't able to catch them in February it would just mean catching more at the end of the year off their own coast. I doubt any of the British pelagic vessels other than the factory ship fish for more than three months a year


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    Fire aboard ship. The aftermath of the devastating fire aboard the Maersk Hanam.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 20,026 ✭✭✭✭neris


    New enough ship aswell. Guess alot of people were disappointed they didnt get deliveries of cheap chinese tat & teles


  • Registered Users Posts: 14,905 ✭✭✭✭CJhaughey


    neris wrote: »
    New enough ship aswell. Guess alot of people were disappointed they didnt get deliveries of cheap chinese tat & teles

    The five dead seamen and their families wouldn't care what they were carrying.


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  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 14,786 Mod ✭✭✭✭AndyBoBandy


    Apologies if already posted, but what an overhaul/upgrade... :eek::eek:



  • Registered Users Posts: 28,668 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Apologies if already posted, but what an overhaul/upgrade... :eek::eek:


    :eek:


  • Registered Users Posts: 420 ✭✭nokiatom


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    :eek:
    the person before you posted it


  • Registered Users Posts: 713 ✭✭✭islanderre


    Took these in Hong Kong recently; The Queen Victoria was proving quite the attraction.

    [IMG][/img]46896853585_715b0b876f_c.jpgIMG_20190318_110351 by P C, on Flickr

    [IMG][/img]46896853675_f70d92c0e4_c.jpgIMG_20190318_173554 by P C, on Flickr

    [IMG][/img]47813254611_5d17803b59_c.jpgIMG_20190318_110305 by P C, on Flickr

    [IMG][/img]40846868243_0dfcb6d7f0_c.jpgIMG_20190319_210239 by P C, on Flickr


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,843 ✭✭✭dball


    Saw this in Dublin yesterday


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭AngryHippie


    [IMG][/img]18848738989_487ef8ecf3_k.jpgUSS George Washington by jaysee82, on Flickr


  • Registered Users Posts: 179 ✭✭Flipperdipper


    dball wrote: »
    Saw this in Dublin yesterday

    The next time you're photographing my yacht call round and I'll show you the inside. :D


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    Brand new hybrid ferry arriving in London, powered with Azimuth thrusters.



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    It's dark enough at sea to see moonbow's.

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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,676 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    QM2 Grand Lobby

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