Submersible missing

[John Cassels]

good friend of mine was mate on one of the sisterships, cant recall the name now, but he said they were regularly having it welded it up. Was frame 69 or something? Did you ever run across Terry Wright?

I know the one he is talking about as i worked for Cast at the time. It was at frame 65 ( cofferdam ) .

[James Curry]

Not exactly the builders finest hour, 6 built two sank. The first of the class was the Furness Bridge and the only one built to the original design she was in service for 21 years being scrapped in 1992.
Strange how the two vessels built for Bibby Line both sank and the newest one was the first to sink.
English Bridge renamed Worcestershire and at the time of her sinking/grounding she was the Kowloon Bridge in 1986.
Liverpool Bridge later named Derbyshire.

[J Gowers]

Should have said earlier the sister ship I was on was the Sir John Hunter, later renamed the Cast Kittiwake and then Kona. I was on it with the three different names. While I was on it as the Kona a few guys joined after being told it was a new ship to the company only to find out it was the renamed SJH which they had been on before. The ship was not that bad but being a large OBO hardly any runs up the road, apart from 4 weeks in Ulsan drydock which was goood fun.

[john mc dermott]

Rest in Peace All.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi John.
Moping oil on the deck was used a lot on some ships I was on, plus the long handled scraper, beat chipping hands down. The Mates never had to worry when we were greasing the blocks or oiling the runners,as the more that went on the deck the better they liked it.
Des

[happy daze john in oz]

Latest news, some of the wreckage from 40,000 feet down has been recovered by the Canadian navy.
From that they hope to establish what happened.
There are also what they think may be human remains as well.

[James Curry]

John 40,000 feet !!! that would be over 3 times deeper than the Titanic rests

[j.sabourn]

#76. Certainly out of the realms of the patent sounding machine John. Boyle’s law not applicable in this case . Shame though as the makers of glass tubes and the suppliers of yellow chromate stood to make a fortune . JS .

[happy daze john in oz]

That should read James as about 4 kilometers or around 13200 feet imperial.
Got the original from a news item.

[James Curry]

It is all this metric malarkey John, enough to confuse those who never grew up with SI units someone made a reference to 10,000 metres the other day. Somethings do sound better when you mention centre metres when comparing things to inches.

I remember sailing on a few ships that had Sulzer engines. They had certain parts on those engines that used imperial threaded bolts but mostly they were Metric threads.
If in the wrong hands sometimes could prove to be very dangerous.
I was on a Bibby LPG carrier that had a Doxford engine. Some one had fitted a main engine relief valve using a whitworth stud into the engine casing but used a metric nut to tighten the valve in place. The valve was blown off the engine and embbeded in the main switch board. This valve weighed probably 10kgs, so 22lbs or a stone and a 1/2 in old money. It just missed the chief engineer, mind you he was heavy handed on the Air and fuel when trying to start the engine. Best guy on the sticks was usually the 3rd. I could start a Doxford on a whisper of air as long as it was an ahead movement, going astern was a different matter.