Arrival Draught

[Keith at Tregenna]

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.

[happy daze john in oz]

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!

[j.sabourn]

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