Topic: Ship Quiz (Read 1607637 times)

CaptainMike1 · « **Reply #300 on:** April 01, 2009, 09:50:52 »

Quote from: saltydog on April 01, 2009, 06:09:38

Which cruise ship is this..?

Hint: she was the first of several ships in a popular (German) tv-serie..

Vistafjord

Quote from: saltydog on April 01, 2009, 08:49:50

Couldn't find mine eh..?

Diamant prefers his own, unanswerable questions!!

saltydog · « **Reply #301 on:** April 01, 2009, 10:00:31 »

Correct Mike, the first ship in "Das Traumschiff"..The German version of the Love Boat..
Diamant's question still rides for a small hour..

saltydog · « **Reply #302 on:** April 01, 2009, 10:48:35 »

Anyone to go next..
A slight change in rule: you can't question twice in a row..

saltydog · « **Reply #303 on:** April 01, 2009, 11:31:00 »

What is the name of this ferry..?

Traddles · « **Reply #304 on:** April 01, 2009, 11:32:50 »

Hi saltydog,
The "Vistafjord" was chartered by British Leyland to present the Metro car to their dealers. She came into Gladstone dock in Liverpool and I watched them loading a number of cars, all wrapped up in sheets so that one could not see them. She then sailed out into the Irish sea for a day for the presentation. I was a lecturer at the radar school at the time, just beside where she was moored.

Angus.

BTW the ship I posted last was indeed the S.S."Craftsman".

saltydog · « **Reply #305 on:** April 01, 2009, 11:37:33 »

Thanks for that Traddles, she looks like she was a very nice ship..
I bet you enjoyed that moment..

Traddles · « **Reply #306 on:** April 01, 2009, 11:41:59 »

I think the fast ferry at Martha's Vinyard is the "Millennium" or the "Seastreak".

saltydog · « **Reply #307 on:** April 01, 2009, 11:43:43 »

You got it right first time..it's the Millennium..

Your go...

CaptainMike1 · « **Reply #308 on:** April 01, 2009, 15:54:30 »

I understood that Saltydog started this thread on the SS Forum for the benefit of all members and not just a few!!

Nathan|C · « **Reply #309 on:** April 01, 2009, 18:02:13 »

Right, new question.

What happened here?

(http://img4.imageshack.us/my.php?image=europeanendeavour.jpg)

(And yep, she is touching that pier...)

IRI5HJ4CK · « **Reply #310 on:** April 01, 2009, 18:06:43 »

Didn't her mooring lines snap, and she went downstream with the tide? And then she hit the wall which had the VTS center just in front?

Jack

Nathan|C · « **Reply #311 on:** April 01, 2009, 18:17:15 »

I'm thinking you remember that from when I told you about 20 seconds ago.

Yep, European Endeavour was caught in bad weather, broke from her moorings, scraped along the pier in Dovers eastern docks then rammed head first into the VTS centre before a tug came to the rescue.

(http://img4.imageshack.us/my.php?image=europeanendeavour023.jpg)

(http://img4.imageshack.us/my.php?image=europeanendeavour069.jpg)

matt5674 · « **Reply #312 on:** April 02, 2009, 03:57:15 »

I hope they fix whatever broke on her

The Ferry Man · « **Reply #313 on:** April 02, 2009, 10:38:40 »

That incident was some time ago now, and she is back in service. =

However, they still haven't fixed the Calais Berth where the endeavour decided to do a 'Aquitaine' later on! She was berthed in Calais and was just about to depart, when she had engine problems and hit the berth. Coincidentally, it was the same berth (Calais 7) which the Aquitaine hit a few years back. Well this incident happened August 29th 2008. I was over in Calais on Tuesday, and low and behold...

matt5674 · « **Reply #314 on:** April 02, 2009, 19:49:40 »

Calais 7 was replaced by Calais 6 or is C7 closed for good, or something.

Mad_Fred · « **Reply #315 on:** April 02, 2009, 20:29:24 »

My guess would be they're dredging and the forces involved in the scooping of the mud are powerfull enough to pull the barge partially under?

Hmm..on the other hand.. could be sinking.. this isn't exactly the dredging type of crane.. is it? $:-\$

Mad_Fred · « **Reply #316 on:** April 02, 2009, 20:32:22 »

edited my last post.. sinking?

saltydog · « **Reply #317 on:** April 02, 2009, 22:03:41 »

Possibly allready partly sunk and deserted, in trying to retrieve a broken off spud of dredger Aquarius in the Sethusamudram project..

Dredger damage delays Sethusamudram project
News - February 1, 2007
LR-Fairplay reports that work on Indiaâ€™s US$435 million flagship Sethusamudram Ship Canal Project has stalled after a dredger was damaged.
"Worse, a floating crane sent to retrieve the spud that broke off cutter suction dredger Aquarius last week, while the vessel was trying to cut through the 29km Adams Bridge in the Palk Strait, has also broken and part sunk, according to officials involved in the project," said the report.
A second and larger 200-tonne capacity crane is being deployed from Vishakapatnam to retrieve both the sunken crane and the spud. But the project will be delayed by at least two weeks â€“ and that could be optimistic, depending on how long it takes to repair the dredger.

saltydog · « **Reply #318 on:** April 02, 2009, 22:15:49 »

For some reason the original article wouldn't copy, it kept skipping to the latest news..
Not to worry, I have copied it another way (see edit..)

saltydog · « **Reply #319 on:** April 02, 2009, 22:22:16 »

Then I was wrong, and you have allready answered your own question..

Anyone to go next..

saltydog · « **Reply #320 on:** April 03, 2009, 00:04:09 »

Ok, which grand ocean liner is this..?

Mad_Fred · « **Reply #321 on:** April 03, 2009, 00:52:31 »

SS Normandie, I reckon..

saltydog · « **Reply #322 on:** April 03, 2009, 00:54:02 »

Yep, an easy one..

Mad_Fred · « **Reply #323 on:** April 03, 2009, 00:55:10 »

Yeah, it was..

How about this one:

saltydog · « **Reply #324 on:** April 03, 2009, 02:49:22 »

A bit harder than mine..

My guess is the Royal yacht "Victoria & Albert"...

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