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The image shows her under power. Otherwise, she sure as hell wouldn't be going much of anywhere with her sails aback!


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Coast Guard Begins Probe Into Tall Ship's Fatal Sinking
by Scott Neuman


A U.S. Coast Guard hearing opens Tuesday to investigate the October sinking of the replica ship HMS Bounty off Cape Hatteras and the deaths of her captain and a crew member as the vessel fought unsuccessfully to outmaneuver Hurricane Sandy.

At issue in the hearings are the actions of the ship's captain, Robin Walbridge, who chose to head out to sea despite the approach of Sandy, one of the largest storms in decades to hit the U.S. East Coast.

The reproduction HMS Bounty was built for the 1962 filming of Mutiny on the Bounty, the story of the seizure in 1789 of the British ship from Captain William Bligh in the South Pacific.

The Bounty was taking on water when it went down in 30-foot waves and hurricane-force winds about 90 miles off Cape Hatteras on October 29. Fourteen people were saved in a dramatic Coast Guard rescue. The body of crew member Claudene Christian, 42, was picked up later; Walbridge, 63, was never found and is presumed to have drowned.

Gurnal Scott of member station WUNC reports that Tuesday "will begin eight days of hearing testimony to find out why the ship sank. Testimony will come from surviving crew members and those at the port where the Bounty departed from as well as Coast Guard rescuers."

In a just-published article, Outside magazine reports that there are questions about the thoroughness of the ship's refits, including one that was completed just days before the sinking. Among other things, the panel is expected to look into the quality of the ship's last refit and why the vessel took on so much water during the storm.

Scott reports that the goal of the Portsmouth, Va., investigation is "not to assign blame but to get to the heart of the deadly incident," although if wrongdoing is established, the findings could be handed over to federal prosecutors.

While the Coast Guard panel may not be in a hurry to assign blame, at least two tall ship captains have expressed disbelief that Walbridge chose to challenge the storm even though plenty of weather information and warnings about Sandy's size and strength were available before the ship departed New London, Conn., en route for St. Petersburg, Fla.

A day after the sinking, Dan Moreland, captain of the tall ship Picton Castle, expressed shock that Walbridge had decided to go to sea, calling the situation "black and white" with "no nuances."

In an open letter posted on Facebook a few weeks after the incident, another captain, Jan Cameron Miles of Pride of Baltimore II, a replica of a 19th-century schooner, described Walbridge's actions as reckless.

"I would not have continued to proceed as you did," he wrote. "Frankly, I do not know anyone with a lot of experience in large ... [who] would have considered heading toward a hurricane like you did with Sandy."




http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way...ard-begins-probe-into-fatal-tall-ship-sinking
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http://io9.com/5983698/a-map-showing-pollution-caused-by-ships

For many years now, scientists have used satellites to chronicle "ship tracks" — bright and easily visible atmosphere-bound emissions similar to the vapor trails produced by airplanes. But ships also emit a less obvious signature, one that's not so easy to see. As data from the Dutch and Finnish-built Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA's Aura satellite now shows, ships are leaving long tracks of elevated nitrogen dioxide (NO2) along certain shipping routes. And alarmingly, a bi-product of NO2 — what's called NOx — often leads to cardiovascular and respiratory problems in humans.
OMI has been tracking these highly-reactive oxides of nitrogen since 2005, allowing researchers to put together this high-resolution bird's eye view of the Earth's hot zones. The researchers believe that shipping accounts for 15 to 30 percent of global NOx emissions — but they're not entirely sure. The team is hoping that their data — and their new map — will reduce the uncertainty associated with this potentially escalating problem
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NASA explains the map:

The map above is based on OMI measurements acquired between 2005 and 2012. The NO2 signal is most prominent in an Indian Ocean shipping lane between Sri Lanka and Singapore, appearing as a distinct orange line against (lighter) background levels of NO2. Other shipping lanes that run through the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea also show elevated NO2 levels, as do routes from Singapore to points in China. These aren't the only busy shipping lanes in the world, but they are the most apparent because ship traffic is concentrated along narrow, well-established lanes.

The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans also have heavy ship traffic, but OMI doesn't pick up NO2 pollution tracks because the shipping routes are less consistent. The shapes of landmasses force ships into narrow paths in the Indian Ocean, while ships in the Atlantic and Pacific tend to spread out over a broad areas as they navigate around storms.

In addition, the air over the northeastern Indian Ocean is relatively pristine. Heavy NO2 pollution (dark red in the map) from cities and off-shore drilling activity along the coasts of China, Europe, and the United States obscures the ship tracks that might otherwise be visible to OMI. In the map, the Arctic is gray because the lack of light during the winter and frequent cloudiness during the summer prevented OMI from collecting usable data in the area
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have a feeling, that it will not be the last time we see something odd happen with that. *shakes head*
 


The "Largest single-masted yacht ever built."


http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2013/02/25/51317129-sailboat-mirabella-rocks_wide-d0c9f2261908864d367a2e77f953c0cd3268039b-s51.jpg
Mirabella V http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/flags/UK.gif


  • More than twice the length of the massive J-class yachts of the 1930s, she is large enough for a double-decker bus to drive inside the hull without protruding out the top.


  • Her mast extends 88.5 metres (292 ft) above the waterline, almost twice the height of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, London. The compression load at the base of the mast is over 440 tonnes.


  • She exceeds Nelson's 104-gun flagship HMS Victory in length (75.2m / 294 ft 8 in vs. 69.34m / 227 ft 6 in) and draft (10.09 m / 32 ft 10 in vs. 8.76 m / 28 ft 9 in) but is somewhat narrower in beam (14.82 m / 48 ft 7 in vs. 15.80 m / 51 ft 10 in) and considerably lighter in displacement (740 tonnes / 816 tons vs. 3,556 tonnes / 3,500 tons), and also has a smaller sail area (3,380 m² / 36,490 sq ft vs. 5,440 m² / 58,590 sq ft).


  • With her keel fully lowered, Mirabella V's draught of 10 m (32 ft 10 in) is a few inches more than the 70,000 tonne ocean liner QE2.


  • With a beam of 14.80 metres, Mirabella V is wider than a Royal Navy Type 42 destroyer.


  • She cannot pass under any bridge she can navigate to (there are bridges high enough e.g. Royal Gorge Bridge, Colorado, but these are over rivers or over land), which includes the Centennial Bridge over the Panama Canal (80 m).


  • Her UPS (Genoa) is the largest sail in the world (1,833 m² / 19,730 sq ft), excluding spinnakers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirabella_V
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http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/showallphotos.aspx?imo=8979374#top_photo

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Heavy Lift Ship in Seward to pick up the Noble Discoverer and deliver her to Korea.

Big pic
 
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Greypowerful said:
A frikkin' Monitor!!:D

Like the fictitious "HMS Saracen", in Reeman's novel, of same name? :cool:
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Yes, but - HMS Roberts was a WW2 monitor completed 1941, more seaworthy and faster than the WW1 monitor that was supposed to be HMS Saracen.

HMS Roberts is actually closer to the fictional HMS Saracen than the WW1 monitors, some of which couldn't make enough headway to steer against a strong tide. Some of the WW1 monitors had a notional top speed of 6 knots but rarely achieved that even in perfect conditions.

Quote from Jane's Fighting Ships of WW1: These monitors are extremely slow and unwieldy - in fact against a strong head wind and sea they can only make 1 or 2 knots. (HMS General Crawford and HMS Sir John Moore)

HMS Marshal Ney and HMS Marshal Soult had experimental Diesel engines which were so unreliable that Ney was moored in Dover as a stationary guard ship. Even when the engines worked they were slower than Crawford and Moore...

But HMS Roberts was very useful on and immediately after D-Day, bombarding German positions and tank formations.
 
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Just for your interest as a nautical fellow...three years ago..somewhat belatedly but never the less most kindly, having been on two aborted due to losses and injuries.... Malta Convoy's in 83-84 sailing from Alexandria ....I, [and those few who survived]... received the Malta Silver George Cross Medal...for the islands defense ...quite a surprise..and quite unexpected. You might have read... somewhere about Admiral Vian and the Malta Convoy's exploits.
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What do you make of this correspondence?

Could the author have intended '43-44 instead of 83-84 ?


 
trysail said:


What do you make of this correspondence?

Could the author have intended '43-44 instead of 83-84 ?
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I would think so.

The Island of Malta was awarded the George Cross for its defiance of the Axis forces. The resupply of Malta was critical because they were running out of food, fuel and ammunition. At one point the Governor was contemplating surrender because he couldn't feed the population even on minimal rations if resupply didn't happen within 10 days.

Those involved with the defence and supply of Malta were belatedly awarded a campaign medal which references, but is NOT, the George Cross.

The most famous incident was the arrival of the damaged tanker Ohio. Its fuel was essential to maintaining the aircraft and naval patrols from Malta that were crippling Rommel's Africa Corps.
 
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