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Boaty McBoatface Launch Saturday #1056790 12th Jul 2018 9:08am 12th Jul 2018 9:08am
Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 2,086 Oxton Gibbo OP Forum Addict
Gibbo OP Forum Addict Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 2,086 Oxton	Quote The newly assembled hull of the RRS Sir David Attenborough is now standing on the slipway of the Cammell Laird yard in Birkenhead, awaiting launch day. Weather and tide permitting, she should slide into the River Mersey on Saturday. The £200m vessel will replace the James Clark Ross and the Shackleton, which between them have almost 50 years' service in support of UK polar science. The Attenborough is the ship the public had wanted to call "Boaty McBoatface" in an online poll, before ministers stepped in to choose a more appropriate name. She represents the largest commercial ship built in Britain in three decades. The hull should make for quite a sight as her steelwork floats out into Liverpool's famous waters. Planned for around lunchtime Saturday. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44780708

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Re: Boaty McBoatface Launch Saturday [Re: Gibbo] #1056801 12th Jul 2018 12:02pm 12th Jul 2018 12:02pm
Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 1,341 Wirral Moonstar Forum Addict
Moonstar Forum Addict Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 1,341 Wirral	Boaty McBoatface is the name the mini-subs carried by this ship will be known. So all is not lost - I just love that name.

Re: Boaty McBoatface Launch Saturday [Re: Gibbo] #1056803 12th Jul 2018 12:54pm 12th Jul 2018 12:54pm
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granny Wiki Master Joined: Jun 2011 Posts: 16,336 Wirral	I could never understand why the person who came up with the ridiculous name did just that ,or how it connects in any way . It sounds like something out of kids comic. Anyway, it will be something very special . Thanks Gibbo Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle

Re: Boaty McBoatface Launch Saturday [Re: Gibbo] #1056806 12th Jul 2018 1:13pm 12th Jul 2018 1:13pm
Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 12,532 Birkenhead diggingdeeper Wiki Master
diggingdeeper Wiki Master Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 12,532 Birkenhead	The name was by public proposals and online poll, it was James Hand that originally proposed it as a joke but it caught on. In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell We should judge our economy by the absence of poverty, not the number of billionaires - Jeremy Corbyn

Re: Boaty McBoatface Launch Saturday [Re: Gibbo] #1056811 12th Jul 2018 3:33pm 12th Jul 2018 3:33pm
Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 530 Cheshire Y yoller Smartchild
yoller Smartchild Y Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 530 Cheshire	The BBC report quoted here has got Cammell Laird in Birkenhead, but I bet on Saturday some media outlets will be saying the ship was built in Liverpool. Earlier this year, the Natural Environment Research Council, which commissioned the vessel, said on its website that it was being built in Liverpool. I contacted them and they finally made a correction after a couple of months. But on their website right now, there’s no mention of Birkenhead – it just says the ship will be launched into the Mersey.

Re: Boaty McBoatface Launch Saturday [Re: Gibbo] #1056892 14th Jul 2018 10:33am 14th Jul 2018 10:33am
Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 12,532 Birkenhead diggingdeeper Wiki Master
diggingdeeper Wiki Master Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 12,532 Birkenhead	Live stream of launch ... In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell We should judge our economy by the absence of poverty, not the number of billionaires - Jeremy Corbyn

Re: Boaty McBoatface Launch Saturday [Re: Gibbo] #1056954 16th Jul 2018 7:23pm 16th Jul 2018 7:23pm
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fish5133 Forum Guardian F Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 3,947 Heswallish	Have heard the ship is unfinished and went straight back into wet dock. That crew were paid significant danger money with it not being finished and tested..

Re: Boaty McBoatface Launch Saturday [Re: Gibbo] #1056956 16th Jul 2018 7:44pm 16th Jul 2018 7:44pm
Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 530 Cheshire Y yoller Smartchild
yoller Smartchild Y Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 530 Cheshire	I'm no expert, but I think most ships are still unfinished when they're launched. For instance, here's the Mauretania after being launched at Laird's in 1938 - with still a lot of work to do, including the funnels. Attached Files

Re: Boaty McBoatface Launch Saturday [Re: Gibbo] #1056960 16th Jul 2018 8:30pm 16th Jul 2018 8:30pm
Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 12,532 Birkenhead diggingdeeper Wiki Master
diggingdeeper Wiki Master Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 12,532 Birkenhead	The old way of making ships, laying the complete hull first seems to have died out, in those ships it wasn't uncommon to launch them before the engines were fitted. This ship has been built in the modern modular method with the whole ship built in slices lengthwise, the hull sections get fastened together, it isn't complete the top superstructure has still to go on but it will be much more complete than the days of old. The main reason to launch them early is to free up space in the valuable construction sheds so other projects can get moving apart from which the sheds aren't usually tall enough to fit much above decks. Scheduled finsih date is October 2018. Last edited by diggingdeeper; 16th Jul 2018 8:35pm. Reason: added date In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell We should judge our economy by the absence of poverty, not the number of billionaires - Jeremy Corbyn

Re: Boaty McBoatface Launch Saturday [Re: Gibbo] #1056971 17th Jul 2018 11:18am 17th Jul 2018 11:18am
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Moonstar Forum Addict Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 1,341 Wirral	Launching is a bit like the difference between building a house, first fix then second fix. Good to make sure it's watertight before you put anything very special inside.