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    Funny how quick we can get off track! Started as a Health Help and now we are Loading and unloading LOL
    Going on to Steamers and all. Gosh !!!
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    If go along the tram lines of the subject in question and no offshoots , the people on site who have no or little nautical knowledge are going to be no wiser than what they were before they joined.. and part of the attraction of the site which is knowledge will have been lost. When some of them do leave the site let’s hope they just may be a bit wiser about the MN than a lot of those ashore still ignorant of what a ship is. Anyhow tomorrow is shopping day and will make sure I buy some zinc tablets and hopefully may do something for cramps and pains mainly in the legs. Worth a try , to hell with the expense . You can’t take it with you. Cheers JS
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    well its not done on purpose gentlemen of a certain age do get confused from time to time .....went out in a bit of a blizzard yesterday ...to get a large bag of kindling ,,,,,,,,got it in a garage a couple or so miles away .....paid for it ....drove back home in the blizzard only to find i hadnt put the kindling in my car boot......now a smart watch might have come in handy there ....mind i think that a heavy vehicle in the snow kept my mind on keeping on the road in those conditions....bouncing about like coble in a geordie northeaster .....cappy

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    [QUOTE=Keith at Tregenna;366598]

    She had a cargo of zinc concentrates which should not have been a hazardous cargo had it been loaded properly. The Lloyds Register surveyor at the port supervised the loading and he was satisfied enough to certify that the ship was correctly loaded.

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    Well anyone who assumes that a cargo of zinc concentrates is not a dangerous cargo is either a fool or has been misquoted, I suspect the latter. As explained by John zinc cargo settles due to a vessel working its hull in a seaway no matter how calm the apparent weather, add in the vibration from a motor engine or a thump thump from a steam engine you are sending vibrations to the cargo causing it to settle and the moisture content to rise to the surface, the ore may not absorb it again, so it becomes a free surface effect, any inclent weather, no matter how slight will cause it to rush from side to side causing the vessel to increase its roll period, alas in some case to excess and capsizing.

    There is a difference between 'correctly loaded' and 'not a dangerous cargo'

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    Quote Originally Posted by john gill View Post
    i'll zinc to that.��


    lol.

    K.

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    hi cappy#14
    the trouble you would have with the smart watch is, that it would only tell you what time you left the kindling behind,
    it would be better to wait until you got home and you wife would have told you the rest.
    tom

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    #15... Is that long back am trying to remember if we Peaked the cargo or flattened it. Would appear to me today that to peak it would be the more obvious choice , this was a bulk carrier and not an ore carrier , which are two distinctive different types of vessels , a bulk carrier having much more cubic capacity and could have left areas of tank top and access to the bilge for any overflow of water from the cargo. It was usual on ore carriers to try and peak heavy ores to try and raise the centre of gravity so the ship wasn’t too stiff. But as said an ore carrier is NOT the same as a bulk carrier and cubic wise is like comparing Andy Capps flat cap with a top hat. JS
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    Now Cappy why have you not got a suitable store of kindling. it is a long UK winter.
    I get all mine ready during the summer so no going out in the snow in winter.
    By the way what is snow, not seen it here?
    Happy daze John in Oz.

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    Just bought a jar of Garlic and Zinc tablets , a bargain they were half price at $7.50 as against $15.00 . If they don’t turn me from an old rooster to a spring chicken, maybe the garlic will keep me clear of the old witches ( not bitches)
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    Yes John, the Garlic will keep you away from all, maybe separate beds now?
    But at least Zinc does not rust.
    Happy daze John in Oz.

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