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by Invernahaille
14 Mar 2024, 22:22
Forum: Miscellaneous History Topics
Topic: Marine Engineers
Replies: 484
Views: 201559

Re: Marine Engineers

Ships, don't sink very often, in fact only once.
Under normal circumstances.
by Invernahaille
14 Mar 2024, 13:57
Forum: Miscellaneous History Topics
Topic: Marine Engineers
Replies: 484
Views: 201559

Re: Marine Engineers

Never far away from the site Stanley.
by Invernahaille
12 Mar 2024, 17:54
Forum: Miscellaneous History Topics
Topic: Marine Engineers
Replies: 484
Views: 201559

Re: Marine Engineers

No such thing as a safe ship. Always expect the unexpected
by Invernahaille
11 Sep 2021, 10:37
Forum: Miscellaneous History Topics
Topic: Marine Engineers
Replies: 484
Views: 201559

Re: Marine Engineers

Well twenty years ago today. 9/11/2001. Twin towers in New York.
by Invernahaille
09 Sep 2021, 13:33
Forum: Miscellaneous History Topics
Topic: Marine Engineers
Replies: 484
Views: 201559

Re: Marine Engineers

Nothing changes. Officers in chatge of millions of pounds worth of ship and cargo.
by Invernahaille
03 Mar 2021, 06:06
Forum: Miscellaneous History Topics
Topic: Marine Engineers
Replies: 484
Views: 201559

Re: Marine Engineers

Yes. Just a few oxy acetylene torches and a couple of hundred men with sledge hammers and crowbars.
by Invernahaille
03 Mar 2021, 05:45
Forum: Miscellaneous History Topics
Topic: Marine Engineers
Replies: 484
Views: 201559

Re: Marine Engineers

Absolutely right Stanley.
The conditions that the breakers work under are horrendous.
No Health and safety there. When it comes to people being hurt the managers just pay off the investigators,
A sense of Luddites springs to mind.
by Invernahaille
02 Mar 2021, 11:32
Forum: Miscellaneous History Topics
Topic: Marine Engineers
Replies: 484
Views: 201559

Re: Marine Engineers

Yes, MV Marco Polo. These old ladies make money for their owners all of their seagoing life, and still make money for owners at their demise.
How does it go. Money makes the World Go Round!
by Invernahaille
11 Jan 2021, 05:25
Forum: Miscellaneous History Topics
Topic: Marine Engineers
Replies: 484
Views: 201559

Re: Marine Engineers

Stanley,
I had exactly the same thought when I read the post.
by Invernahaille
10 Jan 2021, 10:09
Forum: Miscellaneous History Topics
Topic: Marine Engineers
Replies: 484
Views: 201559

Re: Marine Engineers

I saw that today.
I don't think anything they come up with would entice me. A nice relaxing cruise with no worries, that's me.
by Invernahaille
29 Nov 2020, 10:53
Forum: Miscellaneous History Topics
Topic: Marine Engineers
Replies: 484
Views: 201559

Re: Marine Engineers

Stanley,
Needs must when the Devil drives. Necessity is the mother of invention.
by Invernahaille
26 Nov 2020, 08:33
Forum: Miscellaneous History Topics
Topic: Marine Engineers
Replies: 484
Views: 201559

Re: Marine Engineers

Stanley.
What, was it a small triple expansion engine. I know they didn't have condensers, and they exhausted directly up the funnel, which made a puffing sound. Hence puffers.
by Invernahaille
21 Nov 2020, 17:55
Forum: Miscellaneous History Topics
Topic: Marine Engineers
Replies: 484
Views: 201559

Re: Marine Engineers

by Invernahaille
18 Nov 2020, 10:25
Forum: Miscellaneous History Topics
Topic: Marine Engineers
Replies: 484
Views: 201559

Re: Marine Engineers

Stanley,
Whenever there is a world disaster, there is always an opportunity to gouge out something from it.
The song "Blame it on the Kellys" springs to mind.
by Invernahaille
13 Nov 2020, 09:50
Forum: Miscellaneous History Topics
Topic: Marine Engineers
Replies: 484
Views: 201559

Re: Marine Engineers

Stanley,
The same applied if you passed away at sea. However, they put you in one of the fridges and brought you home, as long as no crew member protested. Didn't want a body stored with the food.
by Invernahaille
13 Nov 2020, 07:32
Forum: Miscellaneous History Topics
Topic: Marine Engineers
Replies: 484
Views: 201559

Re: Marine Engineers

For those that go down to the sea in ships.
by Invernahaille
29 Oct 2020, 17:20
Forum: Miscellaneous History Topics
Topic: Marine Engineers
Replies: 484
Views: 201559

Re: Marine Engineers

Ships always carry an electrical engineer recognised by the green behind their braids.
by Invernahaille
27 Oct 2020, 08:13
Forum: Miscellaneous History Topics
Topic: Marine Engineers
Replies: 484
Views: 201559

Re: Marine Engineers

Stanley, I.S.O. protocols stipulate isolation procedures, I.S.O. Started in around the year 2000,With ISO 9000. Just taking fuses out became non compliant, and our friends at H.S.O. can now hand out hefty fines for non compliance. What you did was standard safety procedure at the time, and made comm...
by Invernahaille
27 Oct 2020, 07:42
Forum: Miscellaneous History Topics
Topic: Marine Engineers
Replies: 484
Views: 201559

Re: Marine Engineers

Stanley,
I understand what you say. You were taking the precaution of ensuring safety. These days with the I.S.O, Protocols in place the idea behind it, is so there are not any accidents.
by Invernahaille
27 Oct 2020, 07:11
Forum: Miscellaneous History Topics
Topic: Marine Engineers
Replies: 484
Views: 201559

Re: Marine Engineers

Chinatyke'
Like you say standard procedure.
by Invernahaille
26 Oct 2020, 07:13
Forum: Miscellaneous History Topics
Topic: Marine Engineers
Replies: 484
Views: 201559

Re: Marine Engineers

Stanley I don't understand people like that. Respect is something you have to give before you receive it. Wearing nice smart clothes doesn't make you a manager. When I was at sea, I always remembered that my world was the length of the ship I was on, and that everyone's life, onboard was in the hand...
by Invernahaille
25 Oct 2020, 08:26
Forum: Miscellaneous History Topics
Topic: Marine Engineers
Replies: 484
Views: 201559

Re: Marine Engineers

Stanley,
He looks like he is watching paint dry.
Like you say absolutely no idea of what you are attempting to do.
Oh well must be some Mothers son.
by Invernahaille
24 Oct 2020, 06:06
Forum: Miscellaneous History Topics
Topic: Marine Engineers
Replies: 484
Views: 201559

Re: Marine Engineers

Stanley, Been there, got the T shirt and seen the video. Lol. When I was doing Boiler and Compressed air tank, pre inspections, for Lloyds inspectors. In the back of my mind I always thought, what happens if something goes wrong whilst I am in there. All in a days work, I suppose, the not so glamoro...
by Invernahaille
23 Oct 2020, 11:58
Forum: Miscellaneous History Topics
Topic: Marine Engineers
Replies: 484
Views: 201559

Re: Marine Engineers

Stanley,
Gotcha. Still not a job for the faint hearted.
by Invernahaille
22 Oct 2020, 09:34
Forum: Miscellaneous History Topics
Topic: Marine Engineers
Replies: 484
Views: 201559

Re: Marine Engineers

Stanley,
Was the photograph taken in the boiler flue, or in the underground flue to the stack? Either way an unenviable task. Not a job, for a claustrophobic.

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