jimbob: Fair comment, but don't give me the facts - I've made up my mind !! ha.ha.
I saw an advert in the paper at the weekend for a cruise marking the forthcoming 100th aniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. I might give that a miss !!
Anyone remeber the old Liverpool landing stage for liners which was about a mile long (went all the way along the outside of Princes Dock) and all the ships which used to tie up along there?
Anyone remeber the old Liverpool landing stage for liners which was about a mile long (went all the way along the outside of Princes Dock) and all the ships which used to tie up along there?
And the massive bank of tug boats that used to be parked (moored) up 4 deep. I am still looking for pictures with the massive amount of tugs.
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On a rough day with a good tide running, you could stand at the south end of the stage (near where the Salvor or Vigilant used to tie up) and look along the stage. The whole thing was "rippling" up and down with the swell. I stand to be corrected, but I think it was the longest floating structure in the world. That was of course before it was replaced by a "modern" one that quickly sank, which was replaced by one that sank again, which was replaced by a .............
The old landing stage. In the early 50s I went down under the deck of the landing stage. The reason you could see a rippling effect as you looked along its length was that the construction of the stage was a series of individual pontoons with gaps inbetween them. The gaps where close enougth for you to step from one ponton to the next. The one warning I was given as i decended the ladder through a manhole in the upper wooden deck was dont miss your step as you cross from one pontoon to the the next because due to the rush of water between the pontoons it means you will be washed away before anybody can grab you. {the warning was given by the foreman shipwright who was my father}
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These slab-sided floating boxes are (IMHO) hideous ! Nothing like a "cruise liner" !. They appear to be inherantly unstable. The draught they draw is completely insufficient for the weight/height/area above the waterline.
A real Force 12 sea running in some foreign pond or other, plus the windage...... over she goes ! Maybe a thousand or so folk heading for Davy Jones's Locker whilst trying to get out of their rip-off priced, upside down, pitch black "luxury" coffins/cabins.
No - I'm not a naval architect. I just have a bit of commonsense and an appreciation of basic physics.
One day baby, one day !!! Mark my words. Maybe not this floating block of flats, but a similar buoyant hideousity.You heard it first on wikiwirral ! It would be handy for future historians if Cunard changed its name back to the White Star Line. (Titanic - geddit?) NB. It's being so cheerful that keep me going ! Now, where dem pills ?
Cunard was never White star. Cunard in fact took over White star after the Titanic disaster. If those container ships don't fall over with all those containers stacked on top then I doubt one of these will. I agree they don't look nice though.
These slab-sided floating boxes are (IMHO) hideous ! Nothing like a "cruise liner" !. They appear to be inherantly unstable. The draught they draw is completely insufficient for the weight/height/area above the waterline.
A real Force 12 sea running in some foreign pond or other, plus the windage...... over she goes ! Maybe a thousand or so folk heading for Davy Jones's Locker whilst trying to get out of their rip-off priced, upside down, pitch black "luxury" coffins/cabins.
No - I'm not a naval architect. I just have a bit of commonsense and an appreciation of basic physics.
One day baby, one day !!! Mark my words. Maybe not this floating block of flats, but a similar buoyant hideousity.You heard it first on wikiwirral ! It would be handy for future historians if Cunard changed its name back to the White Star Line. (Titanic - geddit?) NB. It's being so cheerful that keep me going ! Now, where dem pills ?
Cunard was never White star. Cunard in fact took over White star after the Titanic disaster. If those container ships don't fall over with all those containers stacked on top then I doubt one of these will. I agree they don't look nice though.
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