Another cruise ship mishap

[Tony Taylor]

cars on ferries held on handbrake only

I have used the N. Shields - Ijmuiden ferry quite a bit and am sure they lash down all vehicles. Big advantage to have a little heavy weather, queues for dinner buffet were much shorter ha ha!

[happy daze john in oz]

Can remember looking over the side of a UCL liner and seeing quite clearly the stabilisers sticking out from the ships side when in very clear water.

Have not seen any on any of the cruise ships we have been on. Yet the draught is about the same at around 8 meters.

[Doc Vernon]

On the UCL Ships i was on John we had no stabilisers,possibly on later ones they started!
Cheers

[happy daze john in oz]

On the UCL Ships i was on John we had no stabilisers,possibly on later ones they started!
Cheers

Certainly on the Windsor, saw them in the engine room on a couple of occasions, and no doubt the Transvaal.

[robpage]

Pendennis was the first, design changed at the Cayzer Irvine take over

[Keith Tindell]

We certainly never had them on the old Stirling Vernon lol, we never even had a decent fire detection system. As a bridge boy i had to check this large glass box on the bridge at certain times, which consisted of a series of marked tubes from different areas, in the event of fire the smoke was supposed to show coming through one of the tubes !!1, i kid you not. i think i had to get off of my little stool and check every 15 mins, apart from being gofor , and running messages. happy days, kt

[robpage]

was a Kiddie -Rich system . I expect

[John T Morgan]

It has been reported that the Carnival Sunshine had a failure with a stabiliser at the weekend.
Frightened passengers reported that the ship heeled over so far that items were falling from shelves and that they could not stand upright.
Carnival have stated that the ship had a problem with one of the stabiliser fins.
Some passengers have refused to continue the cruise and are being flown home.
Sounds like the fin has got locked in one position.
Vic

If my memory serves correctly stabilizer systems have a device on the bridge whereby the stabilizers can be used to induce rolling; this to test them while still in calm seas, such as leaving port. seems to me there was a screw up on this occasion.

[Graham Payne]

We certainly never had them on the old Stirling Vernon lol, we never even had a decent fire detection system. As a bridge boy i had to check this large glass box on the bridge at certain times, which consisted of a series of marked tubes from different areas, in the event of fire the smoke was supposed to show coming through one of the tubes !!1, i kid you not. i think i had to get off of my little stool and check every 15 mins, apart from being gofor , and running messages. happy days, kt

Hi Keith
That glass box you mentioned worked really well on the "Oronsay". In the mid 60's it went off one Sunday afternoon, No 5 hatch was on fire a mail bag hatch, seems a docker in Yokohama did not put his cigarette out properly. Next day docking at Kowloon ( Hong Kong ) Fire engines all along the dock, it destroyed most of the mail and other bits of cargo
(Transistor Radios etc) plus smoke damaged lots of passenger cabins on E Deck.

[robpage]

I actually thought they had a smoke detector on the top so if there's any smoke in any tube it ranking alarm the ones I was on dated back pre 1950