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Have you encountered 'The Bruce' on these board yet? he is a living breathing, pissing contest.
This is what happens when you fail to compensate for prop walk
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^^^Whoops,
"a shock discovery revealed that more than 100,000 pieces of WWII ammunition filled with anti-tank mines and artillery rounds were resting on the seabed below. Within a year, the hotel had closed"
"a shock discovery revealed that more than 100,000 pieces of WWII ammunition filled with anti-tank mines and artillery rounds were resting on the seabed below. Within a year, the hotel had closed"
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Sail4beer
Starboard!
Hell, if cargo ships were too cozy for Greta, then I’m not going near one. I’m gonna hit up a fancy catamaran for a free ride.
Bump-n-Grind
Get off my lawn.
never a dull moment on the deck at SMYC LOL
PaulK
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One passenger was apparently injured while being evacuated from the area. Sounds like they may have tripped on a rug. Schedules of neither ship are affected.
Bristol-Cruiser
Super Anarchist
I wonder how they fix the damage when these ships reach their destination at 7 am and leave again at 3 pm. No way they are going to cancel a cruise or three to do a proper job of repair. It would cost hundreds of thousands for each cruise.
Marcjsmith
Super Anarchist
On glory it looks like it took out the corner of the main dining area on both levels if I were to hazard a guess.... looks the buffet and pay for play special restaurants are going to be exra busy now...
2airishuman
The Loyal Opposition
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I realize that, Zonk, but it has been said more than once on SA that it is not possible to fit thrusters that are powerful enough to overcome all conditions.
I think that would still hold true for cruise ships. The surfeit of electrical power available is more than made up for by the ridiculous amount of windage. There is also the hazard posed by wash from the thrusters, to consider.
charisma94
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In my experience, the use of tugs was the Pilots call anyway.
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A little shrink wrap, a few pieces of steel, lock the inside doors and put a couple of potted plants in front of them. No one's the wiser and she's good to go.
https://www.cruiseindustrynews.com/cruise-news/22121-after-all-nighter-carnival-glory-patched-and-cruising.html
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Amati
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I was going to say they probably have first generation Martec folding 2 bladed props, and changing to Flexofolds would fix things, but then I learned about thrusters?!
Cheaters, plain and simple......
Cheaters, plain and simple......
Sail4beer
Starboard!
Is that the SS United States?Back when there were ocean liners, not cruise ships, and they were beautiful.
I crossed from LeHavre, France to New York City in 1963, it took 4 days. It was October and the North Atlantic was a bit 'bumpy'.
It is indeed. We sailed over from New York City on the Italian Lines Cristoforo Colombo to Naples and it took 8 days.
When I flew out of Philadelphia on my way back to Europe a few years ago we flew right over the SS United States. I had driven past it a couple times when I was in the area, on other visits and I was pretty sure I might get to see it from the plane. It's sad that such a beautiful ship is rotting away.
My mother would return to Rome to see her family occasionally and she took my twin brother when we were 3 years old and my older sister to Italy in 1958. She didn't want to travel with 2 little boys, so I stayed with my father and my grandmother. They sailed on the SS Independence, also from the United States Lines. I have a copy of the passenger list from the port officials in NYC, that I found on the internet, with their names on it. I was in Hawaii in the early 1990s and I saw the Independence which was in use cruising around the Hawaiian Islands at that time.
My mother had booked tickets on a trip back from Italy in 1956 on the Andrea Doria but she changed her plans and went on a different ship later. Had she kept her original booking she would have been on the fateful trip when the Andrea Doria collided with the Stockholm.
A couple of years ago I was sitting at a coffee shop with a friend in Potsdam, next to Berlin. I looked up on the wall and there was this painting. It was made by a local artist and it was for sale. I had to have it especially since it was just a random coffee shop in a city full of coffee shops. So I bought the painting and it's hanging in my living room now. The artist painted it from, a current photo, in it's dilapidated condition. I got his phone number and I told him I had the painting and I had sailed on the SS United States when I was young. He said he was in Hamburg as a boy and his mother took him to the harbor to see the ship while it was in port, and he always loved it after that. When he made the painting, I doubt he ever thought that an American that had actually sailed on the ship would buy the painting. The world is strange like that sometimes. I like when things like that happen.
Merry Christmas!
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RobbieB
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Well yeah, cruise ships bang into docks and other ships pretty often nowadays. They even occasionally run boats over and that was a relatively small Viking Cruises river cruise ship, that hit and sank a small boat with around 28 Korean tourists on board in Budapest not long ago. The Koreans all died.
