Sir, you certainly, surpass any nautical knowledge that i may ever be party to.
I value your knowledge and appreciate any help you can give.
K.
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Sir, you certainly, surpass any nautical knowledge that i may ever be party to.
I value your knowledge and appreciate any help you can give.
K.
Have vauge memory of hearing about a ship loaded with bulk rice and the cargo getting wet and expanding. Wouls have done a fair bit of damage to the hull I would have thought!
Ref. Bulk rice, believe came under the Grain Regulations and loaded as such. The US and Canadian regulations were very strict re stability. Nowadays loading such grain cargos is a piece of P...ss (on a bulk carrier) to what it was on a conventional cargo ship,shifting boards, Feeder Boxes, and sometimes bulkheads had to be built, usually by the ships personell. It was a job for all hands and the Cook so to speak. Cotton was a very difficult and dangerous cargo, as had to be loaded for special ventilation, as is quite liable to spontaneous combustion. Any of the old cargo ship men would I believe have a far greater knowledge than the people today running around in big self trimming and sometimes idiot proof bulk carriers. Cheers John Sabourn