Marine Engineers

Post by **Stanley** » 18 Nov 2020, 05:30

See THIS Reuter's report on shipping rates to the US. I'll bet the seamen's wages don't go up!

Post by **Invernahaille** » 18 Nov 2020, 10:25

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.

Post by **Invernahaille** » 21 Nov 2020, 17:55

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpspr ... lspark.jpg

The original Vital Spark. Puffer.

Post by **Stanley** » 22 Nov 2020, 02:48

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.

Post by **Invernahaille** » 26 Nov 2020, 08:33

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.

Post by **Stanley** » 27 Nov 2020, 04:35

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.

Post by **Invernahaille** » 29 Nov 2020, 10:53

Stanley,
Needs must when the Devil drives. Necessity is the mother of invention.

Post by **Tizer** » 10 Jan 2021, 10:02

Whatever next?...
`Can onboard rollercoasters save the cruise industry?' BBC

Post by **Invernahaille** » 10 Jan 2021, 10:09

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.

Post by **Tizer** » 10 Jan 2021, 10:58

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.

Post by **Stanley** » 11 Jan 2021, 04:48

But remember that Covid on a cruise ship was almost like an incubation cell!

Post by **Invernahaille** » 11 Jan 2021, 05:25

Stanley,
I had exactly the same thought when I read the post.

Post by **Stanley** » 11 Jan 2021, 06:12

Post by **Tizer** » 02 Mar 2021, 11:21

`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..'.

Post by **Invernahaille** » 02 Mar 2021, 11:32

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!

Post by **Stanley** » 03 Mar 2021, 04:51

No sentiment Robert when you are dealing with an embarrassing heap of contaminants. I'm afraid that's how the owners regard them.

Post by **Invernahaille** » 03 Mar 2021, 05:45

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.

Post by **Stanley** » 03 Mar 2021, 05:56

My mate Daniel went to the ship breaking beaches and made a lot of pictures. Most of the work is hand breaking.....

Post by **Invernahaille** » 03 Mar 2021, 06:06

Yes. Just a few oxy acetylene torches and a couple of hundred men with sledge hammers and crowbars.

Whyperion · Post by **Whyperion** » 09 Aug 2021, 21:45

An answer to Climate pollution and CO2 excesses ? Wind powered shipping

Post by **PanBiker** » 10 Aug 2021, 08:27

Full circle.

Post by **Invernahaille** » 09 Sep 2021, 13:33

Nothing changes. Officers in chatge of millions of pounds worth of ship and cargo.

Post by **Invernahaille** » 11 Sep 2021, 10:37

Well twenty years ago today. 9/11/2001. Twin towers in New York.

Post by **Stanley** » 12 Sep 2021, 03:11

I was in Northfield, MN.

Whyperion · Post by **Whyperion** » 06 Jan 2022, 20:02

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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