Ship Simulator
English forum => Small talk => The Chat Lounge => Topic started by: The Ferry Man on January 04, 2012, 20:59:22
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEwWEwRmihY&fb_source=message
There was a link to this video on Ferries of Northern Europe, it shows a bridge view of the beaching of the Norcape at Aliaga, Turkey
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Ouch! it seems the vessel that leaves the screen at 2:15 is moving with speed, Was this vessel under power?
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Yes
if you listen you hear the Pilot giving the person in control instructions for throttle and rudder :)
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I thought this ship only recently started on the Irish sea (again)??? Didn't last very long, did it,
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I know she grounded and had some damage to a winch I believe...
ended up just finishing the route from Troon completely too...
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Oh so they were just using up the last bit of useful life then.
Fair enough.
Hope soon there will be a video of rodin and berlioz at alang ;)
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I saw this on a Facebook.
It is a sad end to a ferry :(
Kyle
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People: You're born and then you die
Ships: Launched and then scrapped
Yes, it might be sad, but when you get older you will realise that they are just big piece of metal that's all. Unless you have a personal attachment to a ship, I would try and lose a little less sleep about it..
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from what ive heared the stena europe will get scraped in a copul of years time :(
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Very interesting video...it's not often you get to see the beaching from the bridge.
Jack.
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theres a few videos around on youtube of beachings, most of them are from cointaner vessels (normally owned by MSC) being beached at alang, which is COMPLETELY different to this video, the alang ones normally involve full throttle and midships :doh:
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Why is there a body hanging from the crane at the end of the video?
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Picture of her on the beach
http://www.marine-marchande.net/Jourlejour2/S/538-Norcape.jpg
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Let me get this straight, did they beach her intentionally? I know it's a stupid question :P But I have to ask. It looked like it was done intentionally.
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Dexter,
Norcape was beached intentionally, ships to be broken up are run aground on the beach under their own power, then gradually dismantled. As the weight of the ship lessens, it is dragged further onto the beach until completely scrapped. They are dragged onto the beach by a length of chain you see going through the ships bulbous bow in the photograph below.
(http://www.marine-marchande.net/Jourlejour2/S/538-Norcape.jpg)
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Looks still like a well maintained ship... :'(
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Why is the Norcape being scrapped? Doesn't she comply to the current safety (SOLAS) and environment regulations? Otherwise she could have been sold to other countries.
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Why is the Norcape being scrapped? Doesn't she comply to the current safety (SOLAS) and environment regulations? Otherwise she could have been sold to other countries.
She ran aground some time ago, so it was eventually decided to scrap her because repairs were too expensive.
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still she works
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still she works
She doesn't work anymore :doh:
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She doesn't work anymore :doh:
Oh, really??! ;D
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she was under her own power
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she was under her own power
But probally not able to sail her her duty. No valid certificates and insurances.
Does someone know or there are special rules somewhere, or certificates for these situation. When a ship is able to sail but not for her duty. Just curious? :D
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Despite a shortage of ships in recent years, look at the amount being chopped now.
Pride of Telemark for example- repairs all complete but just no one wanted to buy so- chopped.
The Herald of Free Enterprise- the costs of repair to what was then a young ship; the costa concordia will probably end up the same thing. Ships are expensive to repair, so cheaper to recycle them into coke cans and razor blades.
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But probally not able to sail her her duty. No valid certificates and insurances.
Does someone know or there are special rules somewhere, or certificates for these situation. When a ship is able to sail but not for her duty. Just curious? :D
Every merchant ship - from the time she is delivered by the shipyard and until she finally reaches the scrapyard - has to have all valid certificates. Things may be different if she has to be towed to a scrapyard and there is no one on board during the duration of the towage period. Classification societies have the powers to grant or cancel certificates as the case may be.
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Vin_sun, they have the right to issue restricted licences though- for example a ship lost one of its 2 props yet was allowed to operate- but only on a restricted licence of X tonnes cargo.
The same applies to ships going for breaking, does it not? The licence might restrict the number of crew onboard to just min bridge and engineering for example.
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You're right Stu. Class will do the needful in such cases but will issue it for a specified time.
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Me right??? Don't sound too surprised ;)
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Not much left of Norcape :(
http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1493759 (http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1493759)
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:o
Those scrappers are QUICK!
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Yep
Kyle
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Is now the wrong time for helen deeble, ceo of pee and ohno ferries to go along and tell them they got the wrong ship?
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She is also now the "president of the UK Chamber of Shipping"...
And I think it may be a bit late now... :doh:
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She is also now the "president of the UK Chamber of Shipping"...
And I think it may be a bit late now... :doh:
That's like making captain costa schinetto the president of the Italian chamber of shipping.
A more unsuitable person you can not find. She has presided over decline after decline of the once mighty P&O.
PS I'm sure that idiot jim on your other forum will probably have it that the Norcape is taking over on a new run to Bilbao... But shhhh don't tell anyone.
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That's like making captain costa schinetto the president of the Italian chamber of shipping.
Schettino, not Schinetto...
A more unsuitable person you can not find. She has presided over decline after decline of the once mighty P&O.
PS I'm sure that idiot jim on your other forum will probably have it that the Norcape is taking over on a new run to Bilbao... But shhhh don't tell anyone.
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What point are you making, you pointless pillock?
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What point are you making, you pointless pillock?
I think he may have corrected your spelling of the Captains name...
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I think he may have corrected your spelling of the Captains name...
No, Captain schettino is a real person and until his trial he remains innocent in law and thus for me to defame him by suggesting he would not be a good President of the Italian Chamber of Shipping would be incorrect.
Captain schinetto on the other hand is a generic name of a fictitious Captain; if anyone (Mr falco, for example) should infer that they are one and the same then that is his own opinion, not mine....