Toxic Ghost Fleet

From 2003 (Edited Link)

Did they arrive?

There was also talk of scrapping similar ships on the Mersey.

Anfield connection?

Remember the furore over a toxic ship shunned by the known world sailing into UK waters and being told she could drop her cargo here some time ago?

Can't recall if it was that one or not.

Been reading an old extract from the Chester local paper about plans to do such scrappage in the NW, but can't find the bugger.

Was thinking about the Great Eastern earlier when I read about the pushing and pulling involved in the Costa Cordia operation.

BBC quote 'pulling machine'.

Whatever one of those is.

SS Great Eastern was launched sideways (eventually) with the help of hydraulic jacks.

Weren't all the American liberty ships launched sideways. So I think were the German u-boats. Just let them go.

Chicken Pathé news

Bigger

The subs are launched sideways at Barrow, too. (EDIT 17/09/13- POSSIBLY NOT)

The Great Eastern launch was a complete disaster.

Launch

Great Eastern on 12 Nov 1857


Great Eastern before launch in 1858
Brunel had hoped to conduct the launch with a minimum of publicity but many thousands of spectators had heard of it and occupied vantage points all round the yard. He was also dismayed to discover that the Eastern Company's directors had sold 3,000 tickets for spectators to enter the shipyard.

As he was preparing for the launch some of the directors joined him on the rostrum with a list of names for the ship. On being asked which he preferred, Brunel replied "Call her Tom Thumb if you like". At 12:30 pm Henrietta (daughter of a major fundraiser for the ship, Henry Thomas Hope) christened the ship Leviathan much to everyone's surprise since she was commonly known as Great Eastern; her name subsequently changed back to Great Eastern in July 1858.

The launch, however, failed,[7] as the steam winches and manual capstans used to haul the ship towards the water were not up to the job. Brunel made another attempt on the 19th and again on the 28th, this time using hydraulic rams to move the ship, but these too proved inadequate. The ship was finally launched sideways at 1:42pm on 31 January 1858, using more powerful hydraulic rams supplied by the then-new Tangye company of Birmingham, the association with such a famous project giving a useful fillip to the fledgling company


Wiki

Broken up at Rock Ferry 1889

Looking for that dramatic pic of a launch at the Wigan boatyard.

Voila

Just noticed, first link was a wrong story.

Toxic Fleet

Wirral News 2006

2010

They tried to launch it backwards at first, but it smashed the stern in and it sank, so they fixed it and turned it around before re launching. It smashed the bow in and sank.....

I've got a blousy figurehead in me bonce now, you deviant.

Cutty Sark.

You would go out with her!

your fave one

"Cutty sark" is 18th-century Scots for "short chemise" or "short undergarment". Hyphenated, Cutty-sark was a nickname given to the witch Nannie Dee

knowledge is it!

I just happened to remember a smashing blouse coming into the equation.

The world is full of them, shame the filling lets them down a lot.

Oddly enough, I found myself admiring a blouse (and wearer), similar to this seafarer's, only the other day.

Filling seems in proportion there.
Oyl give it One!

She were a bonny un and her beam was just the right breadth.

September explanation.

Have at ye

The 'where can I find the Captain' line came to mind the other day on here.

I refrained from thinking aloud.

Sir Walter: Oh yes? And who will be your captain? Hmph! To my mind, there is only one seafarer with few enough marbles to attempt that journey.

Edmund: Ah yes, and who is that?

Sir Walter: Why, Rum, of course. Captain Redbeard Rum.

Edmund: Well done. Just testing. And where would I find him on a Tuesday?

Sir Walter: Well, if I remember his habits, he's usually up the Old Sea Dog.

I see, you old sea dog.

Goat thread.

Replied: 16th Sep 2013 at 19:13

I saw HMS Sovereign launched length ways not sideways at Barrow

I could of course be well wrong.

I think I may be, actually.

I'm sure I've seen something on the box launched sideways up there. I think the crowd got splashed.

It weren't this

Research continues.

Or this

Anyroad, there's a quote on google that says they were.

Currently 5 down. Hence me edit ^^^

I'm not the only one to err

Goat thread you type.....enlighten me.

The one about a bloke who had carnal knowledge of an goat.

Not the knowall from here?

No. The bloody thread about someone being done for doing a goat.

'Not in the North' or similar title.

Not the knowall from here?

No, it was definitely a goat.