Rogue waves

[Doc Vernon]

Wasn't it the Whauirta can't remember the name, that sunk off the south African coast after hitting a big wave?
Des

1909 The steamship SS Waratah disappears without trace with over 200 people on board off the coast of South Africa – a swathe of sea now known for its high incidence of rogue waves.

Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article...#ixzz7MKmL2ZW6

[j.sabourn]

#39 Ballast lines in wing tanks on bulk carriers you would find if went down these tanks which did all the time especially after carrying Grain in them , stretches of pipeline had an inverted U in its length this was there
also for expansion or stretching of the pipeline to help to avoid breaking of same. If there was no flexibility in the steelwork of a ship , there would be even more disappearing without trace . Cheers JS

[Julian Norman]

I joined a North Sea shuttle tanker ( Maersk Buchan)off Aberdeen and spent 6 weeks slow steaming of NE Coast of Scotland waiting for weather to moderate so we could load at Buchan Alpha loading buoy. It never did and I left the ship after 6 weeks having gone nowhere and loaded nothing. No wonder they eventually built a pipeline connecting to Forties Field.