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4th June 2020, 08:48 AM
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Going round in circles
If it was April I would have thought this was a joke, but?
Leave it up to you all to decide.
Rgds
J.A.
https://news.sky.com/story/amp/a-mar...rcles-11999049
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4th June 2020, 09:11 AM
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Re: Going round in circles
Definitely not written by a seafarer, but by someone who fits the bill of 'a little knowledge is a dangerous thing' any observant OOW on noticing his/her vessel was going round in circles would be able to switch off the autopilot and revert to manual operation, and the writer talks as if the gyro compass was a new addition.
It is not the first report of outside influences affecting ships navigation equipment, but ship's staff can surely over ride such systems, as surely you cannot influence the gyro compass with outside sources, but in this electronic world who knows what can occur.
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4th June 2020, 09:41 AM
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Re: Going round in circles
Reminds me of the time i was on the wheel on a United Baltic boat, and dozed off on the wheel for aa couple of minutes, she was swinging right round, and gave the 3rd mate palpitations when he came out of the chart room. the steering system was port and starboard buttons, not the traditional wheel, and my hand was obviously on the button, was only seconds into a nap, but thank god we were not in the shipping lanes, lucky not to get logged, memories eh, kt
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4th June 2020, 10:48 AM
#4
Re: Going round in circles
Maybe they had a gyro compass similar to this. No moving parts and requires a input from a satellite system.
Rgds
J.A.
https://www.kongsberg.com/maritime/p...-speed-crafts/
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4th June 2020, 12:35 PM
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Re: Going round in circles
#4 We live and learn John, must have seemed a good idea at the time, no moving parts, how we would have loved that.
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4th June 2020, 09:02 PM
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Re: Going round in circles
#3 which ubc ships were you on, I was on the Clipper, Comet, and Vanguard early and mid 60s regards (R)
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4th June 2020, 09:09 PM
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Re: Going round in circles
Hi I was 15 months on the Baltic Trader 1961, and baltic exporter 1962, the Baltic trader was on the Med run, home port for my duration was Hamburg, the Exporter was the normal Finland run, kt
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4th June 2020, 09:24 PM
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Re: Going round in circles
Thanks Kt , Clipper 62 dock st hull finland, Comet 62 like you home port Hamburg meddy mostly German crew great lads. it was the bar and button steering that brought back memories especially banging through the ice in finland with the large bow light. my mate John Hands was on the Merchant running to Russia. Regards (R)
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4th June 2020, 10:23 PM
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4th June 2020, 11:28 PM
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Re: Going round in circles
Some of the converted trawlers in the North Sea had them Chris .in the first year I was there I finally got round to the mate and asked him where the gyro was as the magnetic compass was just via a telescope from, the monkey island. His remarks that we didn’t have one rather shocked me as at the time I hadn’t yet learned to oresume nothing. However that particular ship had no trouble with, other ships had nothing no gyro no automatic , so for one trip got away with hand steering for 12 hours a day , the mate doing the other 12. Although usually one of the seamen would come up for a couple of hours to give us a break. So if in transit it was just 10 hours a day. JS
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