Who’s at sea and where do you work?

[heisthegaffer]

Slowboathome said:

Not me, but my nephew. Engineer on some kind of cargo boat that the MoD keeps using to transport stuff to hotspots.

Pic is when they lost power in a North Sea storm.

God, losing power. How would that happen?

[Slowboathome]

Dunno.

Nephew said the crew were taking turns to phone their families to say goodbye.

[hidetheelephants]

Slowboathome said:

Dunno.

Nephew said the crew were taking turns to phone their families to say goodbye.

One of these presumably.

[Slowboathome]

hidetheelephants said:

One of these presumably.

Yes.

[heisthegaffer]

Slowboathome said:

Dunno.

Nephew said the crew were taking turns to phone their families to say goodbye.

Wow, glad he's OK.

[Slowboathome]

heisthegaffer said:

Wow, glad he's OK.

Thank you.

[normalbloke]

Slowboathome said:

Not me, but my nephew. Engineer on some kind of cargo boat that the MoD keeps using to transport stuff to hotspots.

Pic is when they lost power in a North Sea storm.

Which runway were they looking for there?

[Gaspowered]

Gaspowered said:

LNG tankers for me. Currently bobbing of Singapore waiting for our next port. I’m on 3 months on and 3 off so not too bad when it comes to time spent at home. I’m not sure I could do a 9 to 5 job now.

If anyone still cares, I’m still bobbing off Singapore

[paralla]

I’m just home from a few days on one of the biggest container ships (in my best Clarkson voice) in the World.

MSC Loreto, 24,000 TEU (20 foot containers). If they were all lined up end to end they would stretch for 93 miles.

She’s 400m long and 63m wide.

[shirt]

Jebel Ali?

[paralla]

shirt said:

Jebel Ali?

Close. Felixstowe.

[shirt]

Lol. I was going by the cranes but then I guess they’re pretty standard globally.

[hidetheelephants]

They all look the same and equally depressing.

[Stick Legs]

Oh so true.

[Alickadoo]

paralla said:

I’m just home from a few days on one of the biggest container ships (in my best Clarkson voice) in the World.

MSC Loreto, 24,000 TEU (20 foot containers). If they were all lined up end to end they would stretch for 93 miles.

She’s 400m long and 63m wide.

My calculator says 90.91 miles.

These things are important.

Where would you line them up?

[dontlookdown]

paralla said:

I’m just home from a few days on one of the biggest container ships (in my best Clarkson voice) in the World.

MSC Loreto, 24,000 TEU (20 foot containers). If they were all lined up end to end they would stretch for 93 miles.

She’s 400m long and 63m wide.

Was walking on the Shotley peninsula at the weekend, looking over the river(s) at those cranes. The bigger container ships are gigantic.

[DJFish]

Alickadoo said:

Where would you line them up?

The M20 when the French are on strike.

[paralla]

Alickadoo said:

paralla said:

I’m just home from a few days on one of the biggest container ships (in my best Clarkson voice) in the World.

MSC Loreto, 24,000 TEU (20 foot containers). If they were all lined up end to end they would stretch for 93 miles.

She’s 400m long and 63m wide.

My calculator says 90.91 miles.

These things are important.

Where would you line them up?

These things are not important at all.

The lack of importance is why I rounded the number of containers down to 24K. It's actually 24,346 containers which is 92.219697 miles if you really care

[shirt]

How long does that take to load / unload ?

Also is it someone onboard or dockside who does the weights/balancing?

[dukeboy749r]

Also, for a land person fascinated by such behemoths, should something occur at the bow, how do you a) know and b) get there?