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See THIS Reuter's report on shipping rates to the US. I'll bet the seamen's wages don't go up!
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Stanley,
Whenever there is a world disaster, there is always an opportunity to gouge out something from it.
The song "Blame it on the Kellys" springs to mind.
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I once saw a compound engine in a field at a sawmill north of Prestwick and when I enquired it was the engine from Vital Spark, the man had bought it when she was converted to diesel.
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Stanley.
What, was it a small triple expansion engine. I know they didn't have condensers, and they exhausted directly up the funnel, which made a puffing sound. Hence puffers.
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If I remember rightly Robert it was a simple compound, a triple would have been too complicated.
The same man made pallets at his sawmill and his air compressor for running all the pneumatic equipment was an engine off a Sentinel steam wagon driven by an electric motor.
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Stanley,
Needs must when the Devil drives. Necessity is the mother of invention.
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Whatever next?...
`Can onboard rollercoasters save the cruise industry?' BBC
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I saw that today.
I don't think anything they come up with would entice me. A nice relaxing cruise with no worries, that's me.
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Perhaps instead of scrapping the old cruise ships we should convert them into hospital ships - not just for the covid outbreak but to make up for the shortage of hospital space we already had.
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But remember that Covid on a cruise ship was almost like an incubation cell!
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Stanley,
I had exactly the same thought when I read the post.
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`UK cruise ships scrapped in India's 'ship graveyard'' LINK
`Two UK cruise ships have been scrapped on an Indian beach despite assurances they would continue to be operated. Ships at the end of their lives are considered hazardous waste and it is illegal to send them to developing countries from the UK. But months after being sold at auction to buyers outside the UK they were then sold on as scrap for double the price. As they were set to be used for further trading when they left UK waters, their arrival in India does not break UK law. An investigation by the BBC's File on 4 programme found at least 13 other ships, mostly cargo ships, linked to the UK had arrived at the scrapping beaches of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh since the start of 2020..'.
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Yes, MV Marco Polo. These old ladies make money for their owners all of their seagoing life, and still make money for owners at their demise.
How does it go. Money makes the World Go Round!
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No sentiment Robert when you are dealing with an embarrassing heap of contaminants. I'm afraid that's how the owners regard them.
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Absolutely right Stanley.
The conditions that the breakers work under are horrendous.
No Health and safety there. When it comes to people being hurt the managers just pay off the investigators,
A sense of Luddites springs to mind.
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Image

My mate Daniel went to the ship breaking beaches and made a lot of pictures. Most of the work is hand breaking.....
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Yes. Just a few oxy acetylene torches and a couple of hundred men with sledge hammers and crowbars.
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An answer to Climate pollution and CO2 excesses ? Wind powered shipping
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Full circle. :extrawink:
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Nothing changes. Officers in chatge of millions of pounds worth of ship and cargo.
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Well twenty years ago today. 9/11/2001. Twin towers in New York.
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I was in Northfield, MN.
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MSN/ PA Agency News of Rolls-Royce Completing The Sale of its Norway based Bergen Marine Engines Division to Langley Holdings
Bergen Engines Sale

Interesting pictures that I dont think are a marine engine.

I presume the idea is that the funds for future R and D dont make sense for a long term financial return for Rolls Royce in this market.
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