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[happy daze john in oz]

Again we come back to who made the report?
A journalist of course.
Thye are not the brightest on this planet, and I am a bit surprised they even know what a tug is!!!!!

[j.sabourn]

It’s what you do when you touch your forelock John. ? JS

[corrientes]

Again we come back to who made the report?
A journalist of course.
Thye are not the brightest on this planet, and I am a bit surprised they even know what a tug is!!!!!

Surprised they didn't call the tug a "tanker"

[Bryan Portwig]

the is a long and detailed article somewhere in my files of how the are going to sink her

[Bryan Portwig]

after years and years of speculation the big u " sailed " from her long suffering pier - on the first leg to her water grave - its estimated she will arrive in mid march and a " clean up " to rid her of any hazardous material - which could take 12 months or more - before she is finally sunk



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[Tony Taylor]

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Took this with my cheapo little box camera, we were heading inbound when she was outbound.

[happy daze john in oz]

From some angels the funnels look very large and overpowering, not looking as if they belong!!

[Bryan Portwig]

they are huge

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[Ivan Cloherty]

In the old days the larger the funnels the greater the apparent prestige for publicity, practicality had nothing to do with it, on some vessels a third or fourth funnel wasn't even connected to the engineroom, If I remember rightly the 2nd funnel on the 'Reina del Pacifico' even had cabins in it

[j.sabourn]

On one war time built liberty ship I was on the funnel served two,purposes and one of them,it was the flag locker inside. Any one of the lady passengers of middling years who wanted showing round the ship, it was the first and sometimes the only place I showed them, it was all carpeted out inside as well at funnel deck level. The climb up to the funnel deck was enough climbing of vertical ladders for most of them. JS