Ships past and present.

[John Albert Evans]

Last night there were two programs on TV.

1. BBC 4. 10pm. 'The Golden age of Liners'. It was all about the elegance the Great Liners of the world starting in the early 1900's.

2. Quest TV. Discovery.10pm. 'Mighty Ships'. Some of these ships was like looking at something out of Star Trek with what hey can do.

If you have Catch up TV and you have a couple of hours to spare, they are both well worth watching, It's like watching before and after over 100 years of shipping.

John

[vic mcclymont]

I watched quite a few series of Mighty Ships, always a near disaster happens, which is usually over exaggerated.
Also they can't tell the tankers from the bulkers.
Despite that not to bad a program.
Vic

[Ivan Cloherty]

I watched quite a few series of Mighty Ships, always a near disaster happens, which is usually over exaggerated.
Also they can't tell the tankers from the bulkers.
Despite that not to bad a program.
Vic

Was going to make exactly the same comments Vic, amazing how every ship becomes a tanker with a near miss, why don't these people do their research properly, they must spend a fortune making these programmes, for gawds sake get a nautical advisor, and every ship depicted 'is the only ship that can do this' even when similar ships are anchored nearby, or in Mighty Ships parlance 'parked nearbye grrrrrrrh

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Ivan.
I have watched some of those programs, always some emergency in the engine room, and in an in a space a rat couldn't get in. I was on a few Doxford
engine ships that broke down but it was usually just the pistons or something needing changing, god knows how they find anything with everything being electronically run. As for the Liners I shudder to think what would happen in a storm such as the one that just hit Fiji, winds estimated at 300 kilometers an hour, we just had a cruise ship where the passengers complained about the weather, blaming the Captain and the Company.
Cheers Des

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[happy daze john in oz]

We have had some of them here on Oz TV but not the full show as far as I can tell. Had promos for a few that have not been shown.

[j.sabourn]

Apart from looking like the regular sheep boats that run into Fremantle, they must act like a big sail. I suppose these days applying leeway to the courses steered is also done electronically. JS

[John Arton]

JAE
Re your#1. I have that episode on download from BBC I player (along with two episodes of Sea Cities about Southampton but I am struggling to find a free video converter program that allows me to convert BBC Iplayer programs into a format that I can then upload them with to UTUBE to make them available to all. Any suggestions from our computer experts would be welcome.
rgds
JA

[John Blaney]

Modern cruise ships appear to me as not designed for going too far offshore, like big canal boats, not able to
take a pounding, puts me off going on a cruise, glad you guys brought this up, it's always interesting to hear
your opinion. The comments in an earlier thread re: modern electronic navigation were a real education.
cheers,

John B.

[happy daze john in oz]

Been in some rough seas on cruise ships and found that they ride the sea quite well. Tend to pitch quite alot but very little roll with them. The thrtee queens were built for sailing on any seas though som eof the others are often only used in certian times of the year in some seas.

[John Blaney]

#9 my problem is the forward accommodation seems to go almost to the bow, hard to imagine taking a big sea
when into weather, but you would know better than me, having done it, and I respect the opinion of another seaman,
thanks J S
cheers
John B